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Fresh Air Rock Critic KEN TUCKER looks back at the music of DOC POMUS(PALM-us) and the new tribute album to him, "Till the Night Is Gone."

Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Losing Isaiah."

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MEMBERS OF THE SAVAGE AURAL HOTBED, A MINNEAPOLIS-BASED INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH BAND THAT RECYCLES FOUND OBJECTS AND TURNS THEM INTO INSTRUMENTS. THE NEW CD IS OUT THIS WEEK - "COLD IS THE ABSENCE OF HEAT," MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PROSPECTIVE RECORDS - P.O. BOX 6425 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55406 (ULDC616 - E-MAIL: SAVAGEAURA@AOL.COM).

Actor SAMUEL JACKSON was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction." Jackson's character is a partner in crime with Vincent Vega who is played by John Travolta. Jackson also stars in the new film "Losing Isaiah," and will be in two upcoming films "Kiss of Death" and "Die Hard With a Vengeance." Jackson won wide acclaim for his role in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever."REV : Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a five-cd set of all of the Oscar winning songs of the last 60 years.

Writer WILLIAM MAXWELL has a new collection of short stories All the Days and Nights (Knopf) MAXWELL was fiction editor of the New Yorker from 1936-1976. He worked with such authors as J.D. Salinger, Jon Cheever, Jon Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of others. Jon Updike has said Maxwell's voice is "one of the wisest in American fiction. It is, as well, one of the kindest.

Jacki talks with country music's Cleve Francis who until recently was the industry's only African American with a major Nashville label recording contarct. He gave up a successful career as a cardiologist in order to pursue his dream of becoming a country and western singer. His latest cd is called "You've Got Me Now" and is on the Liberty label.

Karen Michel reports from New York on the stage adaptation of neurologist Oliver Sacks' book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat."

SIMON/RUBE GOLDBERG: THE 8TH ANNUAL NATIONAL RUBE GOLDBERG CONTEST WAS HELD LAST SATURDAY, AND WON BY A TEAM OF EIGHT PURDUE STUDENTS FOR DESIGNING AND BUILDING A GADGET THAT CAN TURN ON A RADIO IN THE MOST ELABORATE MANNER. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH CHARLES KROUSGRILL (krowse-grill), PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, AND A JUDGE IN THE CONTEST.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

NPR's Laura Knoy reports on another presidential hopeful. Alan Keyes, a former top state department and United Nations official will be the first Black to run as a Republican presidential candidate. Knoy reports that Keyes is a real long-shot.