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NPR Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that several new polls show that Americans are alarmingly out of touch with their government and each other.

Commentator Reynolds Price compares the English tradition of filming great works of literature with Hollywood's neglect of America's great writers. The three new Austen movies filmed in England are just the latest example of a country taking pride in its literary heritage. America could do the same with works like Cather's "A lost Lady," or Robert Stone's "A flag for Sunrise."

NPR's Peter Overby reports that House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt today responded to an ethics complaint filed against him. He denied that he filed false financial disclosure statements and spent campaign funds for his personal use. That ethics complaint was filed a week ago by Republican Jennifer Dunn of Washington.

A concert with LOUDAN WAINWRIGHT III. he performs songs from his new album "Grown Man." by Virgin Records. This is his 15th album.Fresh Air's Rock Critic Ken Tucker conducts the interview.

an anthropologist at the University of Vienna, about what scientists have learned so far from a well-preserved 5000-year-old body of a man.

Commentator John Rosenthal is a photographer and at a wedding he was working at he befriended a little girl in a white dress and patent leather shoes who wanted to pose for a picture. She also wants to know why he is taking so many pictures if he doesn't know anyone at the wedding.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr talks about a proposal by a rivate, political task force which recommends the renewed use of journalists nd clergy as spies for the Central Intelligence Agency. Schorr says there's a ood reason NOT to.

of AFL/CIO leaders from around the country, where Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has been a big topic this week. They are trying to persuade rank-and-file members that Buchanan does not represent labor interests, despite his appeals to blue collar workers.

Robert and Linda read from another batch of listeners' comments.

With just over a week until the Iowa caucuses, organizers for various candidates are trying to make sure their troops will show up in force for one of the most important early contests for the presidential nomination. NPR's Laura Ziegler reports that for many people in Iowa, the up-close-and-personal nature of the caucus process offers them a chance to meet the candidates and for many, it is the closest encounter they have with representative democracy.

David Culhane reports from Paris on a shakeup in the French defense industry. The government offered the biggest overhaul and the most comprehensive review of French military strategy since World War II. President Chirac announced in an address to the nation today that over the next 6 years military conscription will be replaced by a professional army.

Alan Cheuse reviews Criminals by Scottish writer Margot Livesey. (LIV-see). It's a dark comedy about moral ambiguity in the life of a English business man. (Publisher:Knopf)