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2: Trumpeter and Singer, JACK SHELDON. For many years he was bandleader and sidekick for Merv Griffin's talkshow. SHELDON has been involved with some of the great names of jazz: he sang with Benny Goodman, was a childhood friend of Chet Baker's, and played burlesque with Lenny Bruce. He has a new record of standards: "On My Own" (Concord Records). (REBROADCAST from 6

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new Bob Dylan album, "World Gone Wrong." (Col

Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for around 80 films, including "Age of Innocence," "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," "The Ten Commandments," "The Grifters," and "Cape Fear." (rebroadcast from 3

2: Actor NATHAN LANE. He's currently starring in the new Neil Simon comedy on stage, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor." He played Nathan Detroit in the Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls." Playwright Terrance McNally has written roles for LANE and says, "I need an actor like Nathan to fully express myself. I can't do it with just the words. I need his faces and gestures to finish the sentence." LANE starred in McNally's "The Lisbon Traviata," and in "Lips Together, Teeth Apart." He also was in the films "Frankie and Johnny," (as Michelle Pfeiffer's neighbor -- a part McNally wrote for him), in "Life with Mikey," (co-starring with Michael J. Fox), and has a cameo in "Adams Family Values."

Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD fills in for our regular film reviewer STEPHEN SCHIFF who is in Cannes this week with the Film Festival. WHITEHEAD reviews "Posse" a new film by MARIO VAN PEEBLES.

and Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ tells us about his favorite recordings from 1993.

Creator and CEO of the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN), BRIAN LAMB. He launched the network in 1979 because he felt society was being unfairly treated by the television news. He wanted to broadcast information from beginning to end, so that audiences could get a full picture of what transpired, and not just pieces of it. The channel provides hours of footage of the U.S. Congress and its committees, party conventions, and provided sprawling coverage of the Presidential campaign -- all without commentary or editing. The network has no advertisers, no government or corporate funding, and has no concern for ratings. (It's funding comes from local cable companies).

Rock historian ED WARD remembers the year 1953, just before the coming rock and roll revolution.

From the relief and development organization CARE, PHILIP JOHNSTON, President and CEO. Marty talks with him about the organization's next efforts in Somali, helping farmers rehabilitate farms, and training village health workers to monitor the nutritional status of mothers and young children.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Body of Evidence," the new film starring Madonna and William DeFoe.

It was 33 years ago today a light plane crashed near the Iowa-Minnesota border, killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, better known as The Big Bopper. They had just finished playing the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "Nocturne Parisian," (Muse) by Graham Haynes, and "Overlays," by the Ned Rothenberg Double Band (Moers music).