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Members of the liberal wing of the Democratic party are staking claim that they won't be ignored this Presidential election season. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

Liane speaks with Oxford University Fellow Theodore Zeldin about his new book Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives. (Hidden Spring). Zeldin says it's time for a NEW conversation that includes all of society and all aspects of our lives.

Liane reads mail from listeners.

When we think of Hawaiian music, we think of hula dancing, Don Ho and Elvis' Blue Hawaii. Liane talks to HAPA, two "local" musicians who have created a new sound of contemporary island tunes. (For more information about HAPA visit their website at http://www.hapa.com)

Liane speaks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about presidential campaign activity in the wake of developments in the Middle East and on the eve of the final debate in St. Louis on Tuesday between Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks back at presidential debates in recent decades and detects a pattern about when telling moments happened in the past.

Weekend Edition Popular Culture Commentator Steven Stark looks at the media's trend to talk with ordinary voters for their opinions about political debates.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Chris Hoffman from Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.)

A new law restricting the number of years families can remain on welfare has taken effect in Ohio, where some 3,800 families will no longer receive monthly checks from the government. Another 1,900 will go off the rolls next month. Bill Cohen from Ohio Public Radio reports that welfare advocates are up in arms about it.

Liane reads copy on the return to the United States yesterday of the bodies of five sailors who died in the attack on the USS Cole last week. Sailors injured in the blast have been flown to a U-S military hospital in Germany, and about 100 investigators from the United States are expected to arrive in Yemen by the end of the weekend in an effort to determine the cause of the explosion.