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2: From sight to blindness to sight again. ROBERT HINE is Professor of History at the University of California. He lost his sight 15 years ago, and just recently regained the use of one eye. He's written a new book about what it's like to lose one's sight and then to see again: "Second Sight." (University of California Press).

Actress MERCEDES MCCAMBRDGE who chilled audiences in the 1970's as the voice of the Devil in "The Exorcist". She won an Academy Award for her first film role -- in 1949 for "All the King's Men". She also starred with Joan Crawford in Nicholas Ray's western, "Johnny Guitar".

2: Actor JOHN LEGUIZAMO (pronounced "Leh-gwee-zamo"). Leguizamo created and starred in the hit one-man show "Mambo Mouth," based on his experiences as a Latino growing up in Jackson Heights, Queens. "Mambo" premiered on H-B-O and later was published as a book (Bantam). Leguizamo's second one-man show, "Spic-O-Rama," had long runs in Chicago and New York, and was also shown on HBO. As an actor, Leguizamo has appearred in "Whispers in the Dark" and "Super Mario Brothers." He now is on the big screen with Al Pacino in "Carlito's Way." (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 10

Poet, writer, and teacher NANCY MAIRS. She's a Catholic feminist, who started out Protestant, and who late in life became a feminist. She calls herself, "the connoisseur of catastrophe." She's known for writing honestly about her struggles with multiple sclerosis, depression, and the life-threatening illness of her husband, also about being a woman, a mother, and a wife. Her newest book of personal essays is "Ordinary Time," (Beacon). One revewier calls it, "a small miracle of honesty mediated by dignity and humor." (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7/19/93).

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a new recording of the opera "Lord Byron," (Koch International) by American composer Virgil Thomson. It's the first complete recording of the opera. The librettist is JACK LARSON (an interview with LARSON follows): Librettist, poet, playwright JACK LARSON. Though, he got his career start as an actor: Jimmy Olsen, the cub-reporter on the original "Superman" TV show. One of his poems "The Relativity of Icarus" was part of a Joffrey Ballet." He's also written a couple of versed plays, "The Candied House," and "Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul." He's also been a film producer.

2: Singer/Songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. In the late 1970s he burst out of Britian's pop-music scene with a sound and attitude never seen before. He was the angry young-man with a fresh sound. He's known for making connections between different musical communities. He's collaborated with Paul McCartney, Ruben Blades, Aimee Mann of "'til Tuesday," David Was of "Was (Not Was)," and T. Bone Burnett. On his new release, "The Juliet Letters," (Warner Bros.) he's working with the Brodsky Quartet (known for its interpretations of music by Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven and Bartok). The compositions on the new album are based on a correspondence addressed to Juliet Capulet of "Romeo and Juliet."

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald who turns 75 this Sunday. He uses music from: "The Harold Arlen Songbook," (Verve), "75th Birthday Celebration," (Decca/GRP), "First Lady of Song," (Verve). The Decca and Verve recordings are both new.

2: Actress and dramatist ANNA DEAVERE SMITH. She performs excerpts from her one-woman show, "Fires in the Mirror," which is currently played to sold out audiences at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York. It's about racial and ethnic tensions between African Americans and Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The show will air over PBS's "American Playhouse," this Wednesday (April 28). The interview is a rebroadcast from 7/28/92.

Rock critic Ed Ward on the troubles of shopping in Berlin.

DR. DEAN ORNISH. He, along with other researchers, has developed a "lifestyle" program for reversing heart disease. Working with a group of heart patients, ORNISH, has reversed the disease, thru diet, moderate exercise, and stress reduction. He recommends the program for everyone, not just those at risk for heart disease. ORNISH relies on data from seven years of study on this group of patients. Recently the "lifestyle" program qualified for reimbursement by a major insurance company. It's the first time such a program has qualified. ORNISH also has a new book, "Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly." (HarperCo

2: GERALD EARLY is Director of African American Studies at Washington University, and author of several books. His newest book is a memoir about raising his two daughters, "Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood," (Addison-Wesley). One reviewer wrote, "a powerful reminder of the complexity and mystery, and abiding love that exists in families. . . this narrative. . is also suffused with the glory and pain and generational patience of black culture in America."

2: Singer-songwriter-poet-performance artist MAGGIE ESTEP. ESTEP calls herself "an angry, sweaty girl." As a teenager, she settled in New York City, and she's been in rock bands since the age of 17. Her current back-up band is called "I love Everybody." She was the cover girl on the February 1994 issue of "High Times" magazine; the article inside called her "the leader of the spoken word pack." She recently had a sold-out one-woman show at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her debut album is called "No More Mr. Nice Girl." (NuYO Re