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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

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.