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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber about his endorsement of Secretary Hillary Clinton after polls close in Mississippi.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Tony Travers of the London School of Economics about the drama surrounding Brexit.

As their parents engage in a bitter real-estate dispute, the friendship between two adolescent boys deepens in Ira Sach's new film. Critic David Edelstein calls Little Men "quietly devastating."

Saoirse Ronan plays a homesick Irish immigrant forced to choose between two suitors – and two countries — in the new film, Brooklyn. Critic David Edelstein says the movie "plays like a dream."

2: Actor JASON ALEXANDER. He's best known as George Costanza on the NBC series "Seinfeld", where he plays Jerry Seinfeld's best friend. Alexander won a Tony Award in 1989 for his performance in "Jerome Robbin's Broadway." (REBROADCAST FROM 6/23/92).

Legendary Broadway dancer GWEN VERDON. She starred in "Damn Yankees," "Sweet Charity." "Redhead," and "Chicago." VERDON won four Tony awards and she's about to receive a lifetime achievement award from the New Dramatists playwrights workshop.

An extra shot of political turbulence hit Washington D.C. his past week when the Republican Party's balanced budget amendment was efeated in the Senate. Host Liane Hansen speaks with political commentators red Barnes and Tony Snow about this and other current topics recently in the ews.

Robert talks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb in London about the elections in Great Britain today. Voters are choosing between Prime Minister John Major and his Conservative Party...and Tony Blair and his Labor Party. Polls indicate a win by Labor that will end 18-years of Conservative government.

President Bush is meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David today. Defense policy is on the agenda, including the allied stance toward Iraq and U.S. plans to develop an anti-missile defense system. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Pam Fessler about the meeting.

Herb Gardner, a playwright known for smart, witty comedies such as A Thousand Clowns and the Tony award-winning I'm Not Rappaport, died this week of lung disease. He was 68. NPR's Michele Norris has a remembrance.