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SUSAN TALKS WITH NPR'S LINDA WERTHEIMER ABOUT THE WEEK'S POLITICAL NEWS AND SYNDICATED COLUMNIST GEORGIE ANN GEYER ABOUT THE REST OF THE WEEK'S NEWS.

Noah talks with Joel and Ethan Coen. the brothers behind the film, "Fargo." The characters and a certain time are important for their movies. In this case, it's 1987 in the upper Midwest, in the dead of winter, when businessmen wear goofy hats and big down parkas over their otherwise elegant suits and have to waste time scrapping ice off their cars. The Coen brother grew up in St. Louis, a Minneapolis suburb.

2:Broadway composer CHARLES STROUSE. His hits include, "Bye Bye Birdie," "Applause," and "Annie." He's also written the film scores for "Bonnie and Clyde," and "The Night They Raided Minskys," and others. In 1993, STROUSE mounted a sequel to "Annie," -- "Annie Warbucks." There's a new show of his songs "A Lot of Living!" performed by Linda Lavin, at the Rainbow Room in New York City. From March 5 - 30.(REBROADCAST FROM 1

SUSAN SPEAKS WITH JOHN HAYNES, A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HISTORIAN, ABOUT RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT SHOW HOW WIDESPREAD SOVIET SPYING WAS IN THE U.S. DURING WORLD WAR TWO.

MAUREEN CORRIGAN reveiws a new novel entitled "Criminals" (Knopf) by the Scottish writer Margot Livesey.

Following news that the mayors of Athens and Sparta today signed a symbolic peace agreement ending the Peloponnesian War, NPR's Neal Conan speaks with some modern scholars of classical times to find out why this conflict is still studied some 2,500 years after it ended.

For the third time since last fall, much of the federal government faces a shut-down on Friday. Legislation to appropriate funding for the rest of the year is on the Senate floor today, and the House has already passed its own bill. But President Clinton, who wants more spending for social programs, is threatening a veto. Senate Republicans say they will probably extend funding for two weeks while both sides work out a compromise. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

A gunman opened fire on tiny school children in the small Socttish town of Dunblane. Sixteen children and a teacher will killed before the gunmen took his own life. We'll hear how the news was given on the BBC at 5 o'clock in England.

Vincent Thompson of member station WHYY reports on the major dispruption on Interstate-95, five miles north of Philadelphia. Arsonists set a huge pile of illegally dumped tires on fire, and that, in turn, damaged a section of the highway that carries about 150-thousand cars each day.

Robert talks with David Filipov (FIL-i-pov), Moscow correspondent for the Boston Globe, about the Russian parliament's vote to annul the breakup of the former Soviet Union. Filipov says the vote has angered President Boris Yeltsin, who has accused his political opponents in parliament of trying to block Russia's presidential elections in June.

Robert Siegel speaks with Robert Merry, author of "Taking On The World," a biography of Joseph and Stewart Alsop. Both were political columnists who had great influence in the United States of the post-World War II era. (8:00) (Publisher: V