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Weekend Edition's entertainment critic, Elvis Mitchell, reviews the BBC television suspense series "Prime Suspect."

Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Linda talks with Chip Toma (TOH-muh), the grounds supervisor for the National Football League. They discuss the grounds crew's race against time at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The staff at Lambeau Field has decided to tear out all the old sod on the football field and install new turf. The problem is that they want to get the field installed in time for the NFC Championship game there on Sunday.

NPR's John McChesney reports Intel, the world's largest computer-chip maker, is unveling a new generation of its popular pentium processor. The MMX chip will improve the way a computer handles video, audio and graphics, according to Intel officials. The new chip is said to be fully compatible with earlier chip designs and operating systems.

Linda talks with Joe Jackson, a pop music correspondent for the Irish Times. They discuss the new CD collection of old Irish hymns called "Faith of our Fathers," which has hit the top of the pop charts in Ireland. (STATIONS: "Faith of Our Fathers," featuring Frank Patterson, Regina Nathan, the Monks of Glenstal Abbey and the Irish Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, is not yet available in the United States. It is expected to be released in March of this year, on the RTE label, catalogue number RTE CD198.) (8:00) ((ST

A year after the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 went into effect, regional phone companies are applying to offer long distance service, television stations are preparing to broadcast digital images, and the industry has been swept by an unprecedented wave of enormous mergers. But as NPR's Phillip Davis reports, much of the law is under court challenge -- and it's still not clear how these changes will affect consumers.

This year is the 50th anniversary of Dior's "New Look", the post-war fashion which was anything but new. The couture, padded and cinched and unsexy, was first snapped up by the wives of wealthy Parisian 'egg and butter men' - black marketeers -- then it swept the world. A retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, a new Dior biography, and of course, Madonna's Evita prompt another look at the silhouette Dior designed with his mother in mind from NPR Correspondent Susan Stamberg.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports that Ford Motor Company has been forced to close three assembly plants, idling some 6,800 workers. The plant closings were made necessary because of a UAW strike at a key parts-manufacturer, Johnson Controls, Inc. The company makes seats for Ford's popular Expedition model. The UAW and Johnson Control are still negotiating, but there were no reports of progress.

Scott talks to David George Gordon about his book "The Compleat Cockroach." Mr. Gordon is a big fan of the speedy insect.

Storyteller Jay O'Callahan tells a tale about love, dancing and miracles. At a young age, Max was told he would never dance again--and he got braces on his legs. His grandmother wasn't willing to accept this and pushed Max to strengthen his legs and mind--she said if you are in love and have a song you can do anything. As a teenager he learned that both these things were true.