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SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH SINGER FONTELLA BASS ABOUT HER NEW CD "NO WAYS TIRED" ON NONESUCH RECORDS (9-79357-2), HER FIRST RELEASE IN DECADES, AND ABOUT HER CAREER SINCE HER 1965 HIT "RESCUE ME."

NPR's John McChesney reviews the efforts to crack down on kiddie porn on the internet. The FBI and America on Line worked together to find pedophiles using the private networks to solicit sex with minors, resulting in arrests and further ongoing investigations.

Daniel talks with Singer Songwriter Christine Lavin. Ms. Lavin's latest release is based on her experiences is a 40-something.

Novelist and screenwriter RICHARD PRICE. His screenwriting credits include "the Color of Money," "Sea of Love," and Martin Scorcese's section of "New York Stories," and now, "Clockers." He co-wrote the screenplay with Spike Lee. His novel "Clockers" is a murder mystery set in the world of a crack dealer in New Jersey. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York times writes "the signal achievement of the book "Clockers" is to make us feel the enormous power of these giants that are drugs, alcoholism, poverty." (published by Houghton Mifflin). (REBROADCAST from

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT SPIKE LEE'S NEW MOVIE "CLOCKERS."

SIMON/SURVEY: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH JACKIE BIVANS, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AT WALKERGROUP/CNI, A RETAIL CONSULTING FIRM THAT RECENTLY FOUND THAT CERTAIN MOVIES...AND CERTAIN STARS...SELL SOME HARD-TO-EXPLAIN PRODUCTS IN MALLS WHERE THEY'RE SHOWING

AS THE FOURTH U.N.'S WOMEN'S CONFERENCE CONCLUDED, NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY REPORTS FROM BEIJING ON WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED AND WHAT THE RESULTING DRAFTED DOCUMENTS MEAN.

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

SIMON/CIRCUS: ACCIDENTS AND MISHAPS HAVE BEEN PLAGUING THE CLYDE BEATTY COLE BROTHERS CIRCUS, AND SCOTT SIMON TALKS, WITH THE HELP OF HIS TRANSLATOR PAPA PETROV, TO MEROSLAV PAMOUKOV (pah-MOO-kov), A BULGARIAN ACROBAT AND MEMBER OF THE PETROV TROUPE, WHO FELL 40 FEET FROM THE RUSSIAN SWING AND LANDED ON HIS HEAD.