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2: MIKE HUDSON is a contributing editor for "Southern Exposure," a public policy magazine. This past fall, HUDSON wrote a series of stories on the "poverty industry"-- how pawn shops, finance companies, and rent-to-own stores charge high interest rates, sometimes as high as 35%, to people who can almost never pay them back. His articles placed "Southern Exposure" as a finalist for this year's National Magazine Award for Public Interest reporting.

2: REBROADCAST of an interview with singer/songwriter Carole King. In the 60s, she wrote hit songs like "Up on the Roof" and "Will you still love me tomorrow?" But in the 70s, she achieved lasting fame with songs like "Natural Woman" and her album "Tapestry," Best-selling album of the decade. Carole King has a new album, "Colour of Your Dreams," (King's X Records) (Originally aired 6

A snapshot of positive coronavirus cases and full immunizations for Colorado and La Plata County.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "True North," (Knopf) a sequel to Jill Kerr Conway''s autobiography, "The Road from Coorain."

3: MICHAEL DENNENEY is currently an editor at Crown Publishers. He worked with many gay authors in his 17 years at St. Martins Press, where he had his own imprint, Stonewall Editions. INTERVIEW FOURPoet DAVID TRINIDAD. His latest book is "Answer Song" (High Risk). He and Dennis Cooper are co-editing a volume of selected poems by Tim Dlugos called "Powerless" (High Risk, Fall 1995).INTERVIEW FIVEPlaywright TONY KUSHNER. He's the author of "Angels in America," for which he won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for Best Play. The play is a two-part "seven hour epic about gays, AIDS and Reaganism" (New York "Newsday"). KUSHNER is also the author of "A Bright Room Called Day," an adaptation of Pierre Corneille's "The Illusion," and "Slavs!"

A live concert with New Orleans songwriter, pianist and singer ALLEN TOUSSAINT. Tousaint has worked in different capacities-- as wither a session pianist, producer, or songwriter, with such artists as Paul Simon, Ringo Starr, and Elvis Costello. This year, Toussaint recorded "The Ultimate Session" with the New Orleans group Crescent City Gold, and "Rhythm Country and Blues," which received a Grammy Nomination.Currently. Toussaint is currently working on a project with songwriter/guitarist Michelle Shocked. (REBROADCAST FROM 1

Legendary musician and band-leader SUN RA died Sunday at the age 79; we pay tribute to his otherworldly brand of jazz with an excerpt from a concert he performed six years ago in Philadelphia.

Actor MICHAEL J FOX. He got his start on the hit TV show "Family Ties." He went on to star in a number of films, including the "Back to the Future" series. He's also starred in "Casualties of War," and "Doc Hollywood." His latest project is called "For Love or Money," a comedy about a concierge who's trying to raise money to run his own luxury hotel

2: EVAN MCKENZIE is the author of "Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government", (Yale University Press.) He is an assistant professor of political science at Albright College in Reading , Pa, and has represented homeowner associations as an attorney in California.

We feature a performance by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris. He charms us with the complete "Santaland Diaries." This piece first ran on NPR's Morning Edition a few days before Christmas 1992. Even though Sedaris has achieved national fame and movie contracts for his humor writing, he still cleans apartments during the day, because, he says, he can only write at night.