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Fresh Air Rock Critic KEN TUCKER looks back at the music of DOC POMUS(PALM-us) and the new tribute album to him, "Till the Night Is Gone."

Host Liane Hansen talks with film historian Marsha cCreadie (mick-CREE-dee) about the role of women screenwriters in Hollywood rom the silent era to modern times. McCreadie is the author of "The Women Who rite The Movies: From Frances Marion to Nora Ephron" (Birch Lane Press).

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the fact that two out of three households cannot afford a computer. Experts say the technology gap between the haves and have nots is a growing problem for the nation's workforce.

Actor SAMUEL JACKSON was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction." Jackson's character is a partner in crime with Vincent Vega who is played by John Travolta. Jackson also stars in the new film "Losing Isaiah," and will be in two upcoming films "Kiss of Death" and "Die Hard With a Vengeance." Jackson won wide acclaim for his role in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever."REV : Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a five-cd set of all of the Oscar winning songs of the last 60 years.

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