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Joyce Russell of member station WOI reports that preparations for the Iowa caucuses in anticipation of the 1996 presidential campaign are way ahead of schedule. With several Republican candidates having declared their candidacy...party leaders in Iowa are already chosing who they will back.

2: Australian film director, GILLIAN ARMSTRONG has made a new film, "Little Women," (Columbia Pictures) based on the popular nineteenth century novel. In 1978 Armstrong's career took off with the critically acclaimed film "My Brilliant Career." The movie also made her the first woman in Australia to direct a feature film. Armstrong has garnered many film awards since, including the Australian Film Institute Awards, U.S. National society of Film Critics Award and a best film at the Festival International de Creteil, France.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

BASEBALL: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JOSEPH NOCERA (no-SER-ah), A BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. MR. NOCERA SAYS THAT THE SIX-MONTH OLD BASEBALL STRIKE IS NOT A TRADITIONAL LABOR DISPUTE.

Daniel visits an exhibit of household items from Elizabethan England at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Curator Leena Cowan Orlin says that it's relatively easy to imagine what life was like back then because a detailed inventory was kept of every item in the home.

2: Clinical neurology professor and doctor OLIVER SACKS. He is the author of six books about his patients, people with autism, Parkinson's Disease, Tourette's Syndrome, and other neurological disorders. SACKS was portrayed by Robin Williams in the 1991 film version of his book "Awakenings." His other books include "A Leg to Stand On," and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." His newest is "An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales," which tells the stories of the disorders of seven of his subjects. (Alfred P.

JEFF MOSS was one of the original creators and writers of "Sesame Street." He created Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch, and wrote such songs as "Rubber Ducky" and "People in Your Neighborhood." He has won 13 Emmys, four Grammys, and an Oscar nomination for his work on "Sesame Street" and with the Muppets. Moss is also the author of four books for children, the newest of which is "Hieronymus White: A Bird Who Believed That He Always Was Right" (Ballantine Books). (REBROADCAST FROM 11

A powerful House subcommittee has voted to kill a program that helps poor people with AIDS pay for housing. NPR's Vicky Que examines the Republican rationale for the vote, as well as warnings from AIDS activists that the measure is likely to throw thousands of infected people into shelters, increasing the danger of tuberculosis in those facilities.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI REV.S "VR.5," the new series on Fox about virtual reality.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new solo album by slide guitarist Sonny Landreth, "South of I-10," (Zoo Entertai