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AILEEN (eye-LEAN) LeBLANC OF MEMBER STATION WHQR IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, REPORTS ON "VANISHING POINT," A SERIES OF VIRTUAL-REALITY RADIO PLAYS FOR THE MTV-GENERATION.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Last week the Republicans in Congress approved a 200 billion dollar tax cut over the next five years. But as NPR's Jon Greenberg some Republicans are questioning the wisdom of cutting taxes before the deficit is reduced.

NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on a House of Representatives subcommittee proposal to cut seven-point-two billion dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW CBS MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY "CYBILL," STARRING CYBILL SHEPARD.

2: Political satirist and impressionist JIM MORRIS. He's always done impressions. He began lampooning the Presidents at about the time Reagan was sworn in to office. Since then he's impersonated Bush, and Clinton, as well as presidental contenders, Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas, and Ross Perot. He's also impersonated some well known broadcasters. In 1989 he impersonated Bush at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, in front of the President himself. CBS's Mike Wallace described it as "Mean. Mean. Mean. Mean." Recently MORRIS was invited again to the White House, where he did his impersonations of Vice President Gore, and President Clinton in front of them. The New Yorker says of MORRIS, "Like an obsessive character actor, Mr. Morris doesn't just impersonate his subjects; he becomes them."

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S CHITRA RAGAVAN ABOUT REPUBLICAN PLANS FOR TORT REFORM.

Joe talks to Charles Walston, the bandleader of The Vidalias, about their new CD, "Melodyland." on Upstart Records telephone (617) 354-0700. He says that he isn't going to give up his day job yet... it is hard to make a living being in a bar band... but starting a band in your forties as part of a midlife crisis is better than playing golf.

2: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright DAVID MAMET (MAM-ette) has written a new book, Passover. (St. Martin's Hood) It details a conversation between a grandmother and granddaughter preparing a traditional Passover meal. Through their conversation the grandmother reveals the horrific family history of living through the Polish Pogroms. MAMET also wrote Glengary Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), Writing in Restaurants, and he wrote the screenplays for The Untouchables and Hoffa.

SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMAL IDENTIFICATION OF V-1 AND V-2 ROCKETS, OR BUZZ-BOMBS, THAT RAINED DOWN ON LONDON DURING WORLD WAR II.

George Fredrich Handel and Jimmy Hendrix didn't have a lot in common besides making music. However, had they lived at the same time, they would have been neighbors in London. Jacki talks with Stanley Sadie who represents the trust of George Fredrich Handel and Cathy Etchingham who lived with Jimmy Hendrix. The Handel Trust wants to take over the Hendrix house.

From the performance studios at National Public Radio, Liane ansen speaks with innovative percussionist Leon Parker. Parker plays a modified rum set, made up of just a snare drum, a kick drum and one cymbal. He's played ith saxophonist Joshua Redmon and is on tour with the Jacky Terrasson Trio. arker's debut album is called "ABOVE AND BELOW" (Epicure). Besides emonstrations of his approach to drumming, Leon performs his own unique style f "body percussion."