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WHO'S WHO/SUSAN SPEAKS WITH "MARQUIS WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA" EDITORIAL DIRECTOR PAUL CANNING ABOUT THAT PUBLICATION'S TOP FIFTY LIST OF CELEBRATED AMERICANS.

The citizens of Quebec vote tomorrow on whether to secede from Canada. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports from Montreal on the last weekend of the campaign that could split Canada apart.

STEVE VINEBERG reviews the new film "Jeffrey" based on the Paul Rudnick play about sex in the age of AIDS.

Writer WILLIAM MAXWELL has a collected his short stories in 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. (REBROADCAST from 3/

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

GARDENING: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION GARDENING EXPERT KETZEL LEVINE TALK ABOUT A DRY SUBJECT...DROUGHT...AND HOW TO COPE WITH IT IN YOUR GARDEN.

WE PLAY EXCERPTS FROM A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER IN WASHINGTON D.C. WHERE FOUR REPUBLICAN SENATORS SANG IN HARMONY. THEY CALL THEMSELVES THE SENATE BARBERSHOP QUARTET.

APOTHECARY. SUSAN VISITS ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S OLDEST APOTHECARY SHOPS IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, WHERE GEORGE WASHINGTON USED TO GET HIS MEDICATIONS. TALKS WITH SARAH BECKER OF THE APOTH. SHOP MUSEUM WHO IS CATALOGUING THE SHOP'S RECENTLY-DISCOVERED RECORDS, DATING TO THE 1700'S.

Derrick Ward of member station WAMU reports on WAshington D.C.'s preparation for the Million Man March. Public transporation schedules, police staffing, and businesses are all gearing up for a large infulx of visitors.

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