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Michael Radford is an English director whose film, Il Postino, made in Italy, has been nominated for five Academy Awards. Radford talks to Robert about directing a film in a foreign language, and the different approaches in making AIDS commericals in England and France.

Four years ago, Lead or Leave was founded as a poltical organization aimed at young Americans. Although the organization received a lot of press attention, commentator Michele Mitchell says the group, as well as Third Millenium, another organization aimed at the same generation, have both failed to attract many followers.

A cadre of the nation's top television executives met with President Clinton today at the White House and pledged to institute a violence ratings system that could be used along with the so-called violence or "V-chip" that, under the recently passed Telecommunications Act, manufacturers will be obliged to install in all new television sets. The TV execs, whom President Clinton called "the most powerful cultural force in the world", were under pressure to come up with their own voluntary system or else be forced to comply with an FCC-developed ratings system called for under the Act. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH LYLE LEVERICH, THE MAN WHOM TENNESSEE WILLIAMS CHOSE TO WRITE HIS BIOGRAPHY. LEVERICH'S FIRST VOLUME, ENTITLED "TOM, THE UNKNOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS" TAKES WILLIAMS FROM HIS BIRTH UP TO THE THEATRICAL RELEASE OF "THE GLASS MENAGERIE". (12:30) (Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams, by Lyle Leverich, Crown Publishers, New

between General Motors and striking members of the United Auto Workers. The two-week strike has halted production at 25 GM plants and resulted in more than 140,000 lost jobs.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Shirley Brown from nderson, South Carolina. (Her public radio station is WEPR, Greenville, SC.

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LIANE HANSEN

Host Liane Hansen discusses some of the topics in the news his past week with Carl Cannon of the Baltimore Sun and Doyle McManus of the os Angeles Times. Topics include Bob Dole's strength as a candidate against resident Clinton, the federal budget impasse and a new comet.