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Apple Computer is expected to announce that its i-Tunes music downloading service will become available for users of Windows-based personal computers. Analysts say Apple should expect intense competition from similar services. Jason Lopez reports.

Storyteller David Greenberger gathers the words of the elderly and sets them to music. At a Chattanooga, Tenn., senior center, Greenberger recorded "Hollywood" -- real name Albert Enzel -- pondering the insanity of killing. This story and others are on a CD, Mayor of the Tennessee River by David Greenberger and the Shaking Ray Levis on PelPel records.

Veteran BBC Radio host Charlie Gillett returns to Weekend Edition to talk with NPR's Scott Simon about his fourth world music compilation, World 2003. He discusses the artists, nations and trends reflected on the double CD, and how he chose the songs.

Martin Amis's Yellow Dog is a satirical take on contemporary British life, with a cast of characters described in the book as "high-IQ morons." Yellow Dog ruffled feathers this past summer in Great Britain; it is now widely available in the United States. Alan Cheuse has a review.

Neo, Trinity and Morpheus return to the nation's movie screens in The Matrix Revolutions, the final installment in the Matrix trilogy from the Wachowski brothers. The movie premieres Wednesday night. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

Doctor Sax and the Great World Snakeis an audio drama that recounts the sinister figures that populate the mind of an adolescent boy. Jack Kerouac wrote the original screenplay, based on vampires and witches he conjured up during his own childhood. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Kerouac's nephew Jim Sampas, who discovered the manuscript and produced a new version on CD.

A new documentary, Bus 174 tells the story of a Brazilian bus hijacking three years ago. The event, broadcast live, riveted South Americans to their televisions. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

The classic French horror film Eyes Without A Face is back in theaters after 45 years on the shelf. Los Angeles Times movie critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

The HBO documentary Born Rich offers an insider’s view of the world of the heirs to America’s great family fortunes. Jamie Johnson, the film's 23-year-old director -- and a Johnson & Johnson heir -- filmed his family and friends discussing the experience of possessing more money than most people make in a lifetime. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Johnson.

A Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left tells the story of a family that includes poet Jean Boudin, journalist I.F. Stone and political radical Kathy Boudin. Kathy Boudin was recently released from prison for her part in a 1981 armored truck heist organized by the Weathermen. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with author Susan Braudy.