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Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "The Passion of Michel Foucault," by James Miller, a biography of the French philosopher.

Film director, SYDNEY POLLACK. He has been making movies for almost thirty years including "The Way We Were", "Three Days of the Condor" and "Tootsie". Pollack's new film is "The Firm". (REBROADCAST from December 11,

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Peerless Flats," the new novel by Esther Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud.

Writer EDWARD BUNKER. Bunker wrote the crime fiction classic "No Beast So Fierce," which first came out in 1973, about a former criminal trying to go straight. The book has been out of print since 1986, and has just been reissued. It was the basis of the film Straight Time, which starred Dustin Hoffman. Bunker spent almost 20 years in jail himself, and used his experiences as the basis of his book. He's also written 2 other novels, many essays, and screenplays for Straight Time and The Runaway Train

2: Regional Director of four women's clinics in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania, and Omaha, Nebraska, DIANE STRAUSS. Three of her clinics were the target of Operation Rescue's protests last week. Before that, STRAUSS has been harrassed at home by the group. In 1987, one of STRAUSS's clinics was the first clinic to be targeted by Operation Rescue outside of Binghamton, New York where the group is based.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Bone," the new first-novel by Fae Myenne Ng.

Austin singer/songwriter, performance artist, JO CAROL PIERCE. She won the "Songwriter of the Year" award at the 1993 Austin Music Awards. A tribute album of her songs performed by other singers, "Across the Great Divide," won the Album of the Year Award. She's originally from Lubbock, Texas -- where it seems anybody who wants to be somebody in the Texas music scene must be from. She's little known outside Texas, but has a cult following in Austin. PIERCE'S songs are quirky, and spiritual. Her song, "I Blame God," has been called, "a slice of metaphysical slapstick with the dark humor of a honky-tonk Dostoevski." PIERCE also wrote and performed the one-woman show, ""Bad Girls Upset About the Truth," told in story and song about her problems with men and Jesus.

2: Film director JIM SHERIDAN. An Academy Award nominee for Best Director of "My Left Foot," he directed, produced and co-authored the screenplay for the new film, "In the Name of the Father," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It's based on Gerry Conlon's memoir of the same name.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan on the legacy of Dashiell Hammett, who was born one hundred years ago today. Critic David Bianculli on the veteran British television writer, DENNIS POTTER, the author of "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies From Heaven"; POTTER is gravely ill, and yet he continues to compose a new mini-series. At New York''s Museum of Television & Radio, they are running his most recent miniseries, "Lipstick on Your Collar".

Film director MILOS FORMAN (ME-loash For-man). Originally from Czechoslovakia, FORMAN is the director of such American films as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Amadeus," "Hair," and "Ragtime." FORMAN began his film career in his native country, apprenticing with some of the country's best film makers for the Communist state-controlled film industry. He was part of the Czech New Wave cinema with films such as "Black Peter," "Loves of a Blonde," and "Fireman's Ball." FORMAN was orphaned during World War II; both his parents were seized by the Gestapo. Then he lived under Communism. FORMAN has a new memoir, "Turnaround," (written with Jan Novak, published by Villard) REBROADCAST from a 4/4/94 interview. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

A STEREO Concert and interview with singer/songwriter and musician DAVE ALVIN. He's best known for his guitar "firepower" with the Blasters (for which he was also primary composer and songwriter). He also had a short stint with the band X. ALVIN went solo a few years ago, and began honing his voice. He's just released his third solo album -- his first accoustic one -- "King of California" (HighTone Records). One reviewer wrote of ALVIN that he's "one of the few artists capable of drawing on the spirits of both Woody Guthrie and Johnny 'Guitar' Watson for a populist vision of storytelling in a bluesy setting." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

2: Actor JOE MANTEGNA. Mantegna plays a tough cop investigating a murder in the new David Mamet film, "Homicide." Mantegna's worked with Mamet many times before, starring in his movie, "House of Games," and in the Mamet play, "Glengarry, Glen Ross." (REBROADCAST from 11