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Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews, "A Philosophical Investigation," a new science-fiction book by British writer Philip Kerr.

2: Documentary filmmaker JIM CHAMBERS, who put together the new film "112th and Central: Through the Eyes of the Children", a documentary about the effects of the Los Angeles riots on the young people who lived through them. The film is put together from interviews of friends and family filmed by the children themselves, including 12 year old CLEOPHAS JACKSON, (Clee-oh-fus) whom Marty also interviews.

2: Professor DEBORAH LIPSTADT examines a chilling new trend in historical revisionism: disavowing the deaths of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps. Her book, "Denying the Holocaust" (Free Press) traces the rise of this reversal: the change in influence of these practitioners as isolated pamphleteers and cranks forty years ago to the point today, where a poll found one fifth of the American public think it seems "possible" that the Holocaust never happened. (REBROADCAST FROM 7/14/93).

Terry has a discussion about the politics of identity, the strengths and limitations of social and political movements that define themselves by ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. She talks with: 1) ELLEN WILLIS, professor of Journalism at NYU, and a former senior editor of The Village Voice. She's written extensively on feminist issues. Her new book of essays is "No More Nice Girls." (Wesleyan Press) 2) EDWARD SAID ("sigh-eed"), professor of literature at Columbia. He is a Palestinian American and has seen himself as someone who interprets the west for the middle east, and vice versa. His new book is "Culture and Imperialism," (Knopf) 3) GAYLE PEMBERTON, associate director of African American studies at Princeton. She's the author of "The Hottest Water in Chicago," a collection of autobiographical essays. (Faber & Faber).

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Paramount Pictures).

2: Actor and film Director BILL DUKE. He's directed several 0ff-Broadway plays, and lots of television, including PBS's award winning teleplays, "The Meeting," and "Raisin in the Sun." He directed the movies, "A Rage in Harlem," and "Deep Cover." His latest film is "The Cemetary Club," about three Jewish widows, who meet up with an charming widower. (REBROADCAST from 2

2: Poet, essayist and screenwriter JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA. He co-wrote the screenplay for the new movie BOUND BY HONOR." It's about three young Chicano men from East Los Angeles and the different paths they take as they grow into adulthood. BACA is a Chicano who grew up in an orphanage in New Mexico and ended up in prison at the age of 20. He taught himself to read and write there. His collections of poetry include Black Mesa Poems, and Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. (New Direc

DAVID MILCH, creator and a producer of ABC's police drama, "NYPD Blue". Teaming up again with Steven Bochco (who hired MILCH as a writer on "Hill Street Blues"), "NYPD Blue" has come under fire for the show's panorama of moral ambiguity, violence, partial nudity and profanity. The show's eccentric criminality may be traced to MILCH's fondness for horse racing and gambling (he owns "about a dozen" thoroughbreds), and the time he spent in a Mexican jail. CHARLES DUTTON, star of the T-V comedy series "Roc." Dutton came to acting in a very roundabout way: while serving a manslaughter sentence in the Maryland State Penitentiary, he organized the performance of a play, and realized he loved acting. A future episode of "Roc" concerns guns in the schools, and how a single act of violence can escalate tragically.

Legendary Broadway dancer GWEN VERDON. She starred in "Damn Yankees," "Sweet Charity." "Redhead," and "Chicago." VERDON won four Tony awards and she's about to receive a lifetime achievement award from the New Dramatists playwrights workshop.

British religious scholar, KAREN ARMSTRONG. Her new book, a bestseller in England, is "A History of God" (Knopf). "All religions have been designed to help us touch the God in each other" ARMSTRONG says of her research, which traces 4000 years of Monotheism in the form of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The author, a Catholic nun for seven years in the 1960's, left the order to take a degree at Oxford, and now teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the study of Judaism.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews the new book of verse by Vikram Seth, "A Suitable Boy."

A conversation with singer/songwriter ARTHUR ALEXANDER, whose songs were recorded on early records by The Beatles ("Anna") and The Rolling Stones ("You Better Move On"). He was slated to tour with Otis Redding the week Redding died in a plane crash. Alexander's new album, "Lonely Just Like Me" (Elektra Nonesuch), is his first release in twenty years