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Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Emmylou Harris'' new album, "Wrecking Ball." (Elektra/A

2: Political and social comic, JIMMY TINGLE. He was featured on the album of political humor "Strange Bedfellows." He's also appeared on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson," "HBO's One Night Stand," and in Showtime's documentary "But Seriously" about American social satirists. TINGLE has a new one-man show, "Jimmy Tingle's Uncommon Sense," which had an off-Broadway run last year. It's just been held over through November 4th at the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge. TINGLE's show will be released on a new CD, "Jimmy Tingle's Uncommon Sense: Live from the Hasty Pudding Theatre" (Lyric Moon re

AGAIN WITH ROGER WILKINS OF GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY AND RON WALTERS OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WHO DISAGREED BEFOREHAND, ABOUT THIS WEEK'S MILLION MAN MARCH.

Journalist MARK BOWDON ("Bow" like "Cow") for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He's just concluded a three part series (September 10-12, 1995) of articles on police corruption in Philadelphia. Most of the corruption was centered at the 39th Police District, and involves potentially thousands of cases in which persons have been falsely arrested and imprisoned.

BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT BOLT HAS BEEN SOLELY CREDITED WITH WRITING THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE MOVIE "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA," WHICH WON SEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS IN 1962. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH DEL REISMAN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA ABOUT THE GUILD'S DECISION TO RE-INSTATE BLACKLISTED SCREENWRITER MICHAEL WILSON AND FORMALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE SCREENWRITING CREDIT WITH BOLT.

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.