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Daniel talks with Deborah Hoffman, director of a new documentary "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." In the film, Hoffman documents her mother's struggle with Alzheimers disease. And though the topic is a tragic one, Hoffman says she was actually able to find humor in the experience.

Daniel talks with Lois Underhill, the author of the book "The Woman Who Ran For President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull." She was the first woman to run for President in the U.S. and to address a Congressional committee. She was also the first to have a brokerage firm on Wall Street in New York City. The book chronicles Woodhull's life in the late 1800's.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK SHARES SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PRICE AN UNWANTED KIND OF FAME FOR HUGH GRANT.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH HOWARD LIEB, WHO PUT TOGETHER "THE AMERICAN COMEDY BOX SET - 1915-1994" ON RHINO RECORDS (R2-71617), A COMPILATION OF SOME OF THIS CENTURY'S GREAT RECORDED COMEDY.

SIMON/PLANT: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH TIMOTHY WALKER, DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANICAL GARDENS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND WHERE, A RARE TROPICAL PLANT RECENTLY BLOOMED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS.

SCOTT SIMON COMMENTS ON HOW 200 CONGRESSPEOPLE, WHO USUALLY ARE BIG ON DEFICIT REDUCTION, ASKED THE BI-PARTISAN COMMISSION ON THE FATE OF U.S MILITARY BASES TO SPARE MILITARY INSTALLATION IN THEIR STATES.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND RON RAPOPORT, WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR, TALK ABOUT THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE'S STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF FINAL WHICH BEGINS TONIGHT.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on an old idea that is coming back to the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. Community policing is the current way of referring to the cop on the beat...policeman who walks his precinct instead of driving through...as a way to get to know residents and help prevent crime. The one-year old experiment so far has yielded positive results.

SARAJEVO: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE O'CONNOR IN SARAJEVO ABOUT THE LATEST BOSNIAN SERB ATTACKS ON U.N. "SAFE" AREAS.

ON THIS DAY IN 1979, PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER DELIVERED HIS FAMOUS "MALAISE" SPEECH. TODAY, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH HENDRIK HERTZBERG, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, WHO WAS MR. CARTER'S PRINCIPAL SPEECHWRITER IN 1979 AND DRAFTED THAT SPEECH AND WHO NOW CONFIRMS A MISQUOTATION.