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Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews the release of a recently discovered Cole Porter home recording. It''s called "Cole Sings Porter: Rare and Unreleased Songs from ''Can-Can'' and ''Jubilee.''" (Koch Internat

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Actor MORGAN FREEMAN. He's one of stage and screen's most acclaimed actors, for his ability to emerse himself in different roles. He's originated the role of the chauffeur in the Broadway production of "Driving Miss Daisy." Later he revived the role in the movie version, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. FREEMAN's other movies include, "Glory," "Clean and Sober," "Lean on Me," and "The Bonfire of the Vanities." FREEMAN is making his directing debut with the new film, "Bopha," based on a South African play

DR. SHERWIN NULAND is a surgeon, and he also teaches surgery and the history of medicine at Yale. In his recent book, "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter" (Knopf), he writes that few of us have an understanding of the way people die because 80 percent of Americans die in the hospital, and, for the most part their deaths are concealed. NULAND's new book is an attempt to de-mythologize the process of dying and he presents death in its biological and clinical reality. Oliver Sacks writes of the book, "A series of portraits or analyses, as powerful and sensitive, and unsparing and unsentimental, as anything I have ever read." (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 2/

Talk with STEPHEN SONDHEIM continues.

TRACY ULLMAN, who prefers being called a "social satirist" than an actress or a comedian. She was the star of "The Tracy Ullman Show," where she played characters including "girls half her age and matrons twice her age; ... a psychologist and a postal worker, a bitter Beverly Hills divorcei and a suicidal chorine." ("The New York TImes Magazine") Her film debut was "Plenty," with Meryl Streep, and she recently appeared in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway." Her latest movie is "Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter)," Robert Altman's film about the fashion industry.

2: Actor GRAHAM PAYN has written "My Life with Noel Coward" (Applause Books) with Barry Day. Theater legend Coward is the author of "Hay Fever," "Private Lives," and "Blithe Spirit." PAYN met him as a child, when he acted in Coward's "Words and Music" in 1932. The two were friends for thirty years until Coward's death in 1973.

2: Journalist YOUSEFF IBRAHIM, reporter at "The New York Times" since 1977. He has been the regional Middle East correspondent for the paper for seven years. IBRAHIM has won a George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and the International Energy Economists Association Award for best coverage of energy affairs. He talks about the current situation in the Middle East.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Ordinary Time: Cycles in Faith, Marriage, and Renewal" the new autobiography by Nancy Mairs, who is dying of the progressive disease, multiple sclerosis.

2: Author MICHAEL DORRIS. His work is wide-ranging in topic and emotional impact. In his earlier book "The Broken Cord" he wrote of his struggle to understand the severe health and behavior problems of an adopted son, Abel, who had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Abel, a Native American, died in an accident after a difficult life. DORRIS himself is part Modoc Indian. He founded the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College where he now teaches Anthropology. DORRIS'S new book is called "Paper Trail." It's a collection of some of his previously published writings. It includes essays on the problems facing Native Americans today, DORRIS'S own childhood, and his experiences as adoptive father of three children, all diagonosed with varying degrees of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

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. The last time COSTELLO was on the show, he had been working with the Brodsky Quartet (known for its interpretations of music by Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven and Bartok) on the release, "The Juliet Letters," (Warner Bros.) Now COSTELLO is back with his original band, "The Attractions," and with producer Nick Lowe. Their latest release is "Brutal Youth," (Warner Bros).