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Journalist GERALDINE BROOKS, author of "Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Woman" (Anchor Books). While BROOKS was Middle East correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," she investigated the role of women in the Islamic societies where she lived and worked.

SCOTT TALKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT ABOUT TOMORROW'S SUPERBOWL BETWEEN THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS AND THE SAN DIEGO CHARGERS. THE NINERS ARE HEAVILY FAVORED...RON DOESN'T DISAGREE.

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

Daniel talks with freelance journalist Shane Cave who covers business and economics in New Zealand. Cave compares analyzes what's happend in New Zealand in the 10 years since a new political party was voted in and radically changed the way the government there did business. He also talks of how the political changes there are similar to what the Republican Party here wants to do.

Jacki Lyden visits several arts organizations in Baltimore and discusses the relationship between private and public funding. As politicans speak of defunding the National Endowment for the Arts, agencies which receive that money say they are responsibile to public tastes and make that money go further than ever before. But, without it, art in America will be damaged, they claim...even if the amounts they receive are really quite small.

This past week talk show hosts from around the country ave been broadcasting live from Capitol Hill. NPR's Chitra Ragavan poke to several of them about the role their programs play in today's olitical arena.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this ast week's news, including an excerpt from President Clinton's State f the Union Address, New Jersey Governor Christina Whitman's epublican response, O.J. Simpson from the audio companion to his book, rosecutor Marcia Clark, Defense Attorney Johnnie Cochran, and House ajority Leader Dick Armey and Congressman Barney Frank.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new biography "Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom," by Jack Fruchtman Jr.

Chris Arnold (f) reports that flood waters have cut off the Monterey Peninsula 100 miles south of San Francisco. Thousands of people were forced from their homes as the Salinas and Pajara rivers flooded some of the nations richest farmlands.

Canadian author ROBERTSON DAVIES has a new novel, "The Cunning Man."(Viking) The novel surrounds the life of a Toronto based doctor during World War 2 who witnesses the death of a Father at the High Altar. The Washington Post has called it "one of author's most entertaining and satisfying novels." DAVIES, 81, has had three successive careers. He began as an actor, then was a journalist and newspaper publisher, and in 1981 retired as professor of the Massy college at the University of Toronto. DAVIES has more than thirty books to his credit.

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE NOW BEING SOLD MORE IN OFFICES AND FACTORIES BY PARENT, RATHER THAN DOOR-TO-DOOR BY THE GIRL SCOUTS, BECAUSE PARENTS ARE FEARFUL OF HAVING THEIR CHILDREN ON THE STREET.

Jacki Lyden talks to college undergraduates enjoying their annual Spring break in Florida. The students are partying at the Baja Beachclub in Fort Lauderdale..all of whom are, of course, having a rather loud and boisterous time.