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Liane Hansen talks with NPR reporter Eric Weiner, who is in New elhi, India monitoring First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to five south sian countries, including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Mrs. linton is scheduled to meet with Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on er trip.

Pollster STANLEY B. GREENBERG. He was pollster and senior advisor to Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, and is currently pollster to the president and advisor to the Democratic National Committee. GREENBERG is credited with recognizing, nearly ten years ago, the dissatisfaction among middle class voters with the two political parties. GREENBERG has a new book about the historic forces that put Bill Clinton in the White House, and (consequently) led to 1994's midterm Republican landslide. It is, Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority. (Times Books).

Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Losing Isaiah."

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR REPORTS ON YESTERDAY'S PASSAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN-DRAFTED WELFARE REFORM PACKAGE.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MEMBERS OF THE SAVAGE AURAL HOTBED, A MINNEAPOLIS-BASED INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH BAND THAT RECYCLES FOUND OBJECTS AND TURNS THEM INTO INSTRUMENTS. THE NEW CD IS OUT THIS WEEK - "COLD IS THE ABSENCE OF HEAT," MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PROSPECTIVE RECORDS - P.O. BOX 6425 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55406 (ULDC616 - E-MAIL: SAVAGEAURA@AOL.COM).

NPR's Laura Knoy reports on another presidential hopeful. Alan Keyes, a former top state department and United Nations official will be the first Black to run as a Republican presidential candidate. Knoy reports that Keyes is a real long-shot.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: MICHAEL LELAND & NORA RAUM

Fresh Air TV critic David Bianculli reviews to new sitcoms premiering on NBC tonight, "News Radio" and "Hope and Gloria."

Jacki talks with country music's Cleve Francis who until recently was the industry's only African American with a major Nashville label recording contarct. He gave up a successful career as a cardiologist in order to pursue his dream of becoming a country and western singer. His latest cd is called "You've Got Me Now" and is on the Liberty label.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr thinks there is indeed a New orld Order, but not the one former President Bush hoped for. Organized crime as taken hold, and may be taking over, in a number of countries that were ormerly communist.

Mary Jo Draper (DRAY-per) of member station CUR in Kansas City reports on the recommendaton of the Midwest Bioethics Center oncerning the extent to which children should be involved in decisions nvolving their medical treatment.