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Scott speaks with David Prown of Red Bank, New Jersey, about what happened when Bruce Springsteen showed up unexpectedly at a local record store selling his new album.

Scott talks to Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about the career of violinist Jascha Heifetz. Naxos Records is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with a series of Heifetz's orchestral recordings from the 1930's and 40's. Heifetz died in 1987, but is still considered the greatest violinist of the 20th century.

Scott with some thoughts about tv's The West Wing.

Scott Simon talks with Laura Hillenbrand author of a new book about the race horse Sea Biscuit. (16:40) (Seabiscuit: An American Legend Random

Seven Americans were among those killed in a helicopter crash today in Vietnam. The aircraft was carrying a team searching for Americans missing in action during the Vietnam war. Lt. Col. Franklin Childress, of the Joint Task Force Full Accounting, speaks with host Lisa Simeone.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that American diplomats in China met for a third time today with the detained U.S. air crew, characterizing them as in "very high spirits." But it's not clear how much longer the crew and their downed airplane will be held, as China holds out for an official apology from the U.S. government.

In honor of their upcoming centennial, the town of Macclesfield, NC has passed a temporary town ordinance requiring all men to grow beards. Scott talks with Ed Drew, chairman of the Beard Growing Commission.

Lisa speaks with former State Department Ambassador-at-Large Robert Gallucci about how negotiators use language to manoeuvre through tense conflicts. Galluci is now Dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

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