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Liane Hansen speaks with composer, guitarist and programmer Skip cDonald and English producer Adrian Sherwood about their collaboration on music or the group LITTLE AXE, and its debut album, "THE WOLF THAT HOUSE BUILT." The usic has been described as the first "ambient dub blues" project. (Epic/Okeh ecords; EK 64254)

2: In 1989, EVELYN LAU became a best-selling author with her first book: Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid (Harper Collins), a memoir of her years on the streets as a suicidal drug addicted teenage prostitute. She also wrote two books of her poetry: You Are Not Who You Claim and Oedipal Dreams. LAU's latest is a collection of short stories titled Fresh Girls and Other Stories. It's been released in the United States by Hyperion. It was released by Harper Collins in 1993 but its distribution was limited. The 23 year old writer lives in Vancouver, Canada.

critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman," which airs Wednesday on NBC.

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR REPORTS ON THREE BILLS PASSED THIS WEEK IN THE HOUSE THAT ARE INTENDED TO REFORM THE NATION'S CIVIL LAW SYSTEM.

BEVERLY AND DERECK JOUBERT (pronounce "Jo-Bear"), wildlife documentary producers. This husband and wife team lives in northern Botswana, seven hours from the nearest village. Working and living out of a four-wheel drive vehicle, they have captured the family relationships of the last free-roaming elephants left in Africa. Their wildlife film, "Reflections on Elephants," contains ground-breaking footage of lions attacking an elephant calf. Previously, such attacks were thought to be only mythical. (REBROADCAST FROM 2/2/94) The JOUBERTS have just won a Peabody award for the film.

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR ASSESSES THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE 104TH CONGRESS.

STAMBERG/CUOMO: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG "CHASTIZES" MARIO CUOMO, WHO IS NOW OUR COMPETITION! THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THAT HE WILL HOST HIS OWN TALK RADIO SHOW, WHICH WILL AIR SATURDAY MORNINGS.

A certain co-dependence has long driven the relationship etween lobbyists and politicans in the Nation's capital. Much influence and nformation is channeled through these contacts. NPR's Peter Overby visited the efferson Group, a professional lobbying office in Washington D.C., and reports n the current state of this relationship, as well as the influence community's esponse to the first one-hundred days of the Republican-led Congress.

2: Ethnobotanist MARK PLOTKIN. He wrote a book about what he learned about botany and medicine from the Medicine Men of the tropical rain forests. His book is Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest (Viking). The book was issued in paper back 8/94 by Penguin Books.(Aired 9

WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH SUSAN EISENHOWER, GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE LATE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER AND FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTER FOR POST SOVIET STUDIES, AND ROALD SAGDEEV (row-ALD zag-DAY-ev), DIRECTOR EMERITUS OF THE SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN MOSCOW, ABOUT THE CHANGES IN RUSSIA SINCE THEIR WEDDING, FIVE YEARS AGO.

NPR'S PETER KENYON REPORTS ON LAST NIGHT'S UNPRECEDENTED NATIONALLY BROADCAST ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH.

Jacki talks to Bernard McMahon about the relationship between the CIA and the Congressional committees created to oversee the spy agency. McMahon, who as worked for both the CIA and the Congress, says that in terms of budget and management, the CIA does not mind Congress looking over its shoulder, but when it comes to operations, relations can be tense.