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2: Continuation of interview with writer EDWARD BUNKER.

2: Actor SIR Ian McKellan. Tommorrow Ian McKellen takes his one-man show, "Ian McKellen: A Knight Out" to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. Since coming out in 1988, Britain's highly acclaimed Shakespearean actor has become an international voice for the gay and lesbian community. His role in Peter Shafer's "Amadeus" earned him a Tony Award in 1981. He has appeared in the recent popular films, "Last Action Hero" and "Six Degrees of Seperation," and has plans for a film version of "Richard III." (THIS INTERVIEW EXTENDS THRU THE ARTS REV. SEGMENT).

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a 2-CD reissue of trumpeter Don Cherry''s albums recorded for Blue Note in the 1960''s.

2: JAMES RESTON, JR. has just written a biography of Galileo, called "Galileo: A Life." (HarperCollins) In it he explores how Galileo was publicly humiliated for supporting the theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. RESTON recently wrote a cover story for "Time Magazine," on the comet crash into Jupiter, before the crash became national news.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Bound by Honor," the new film directed Taylor Hackford.

Computer activist MITCH KAPOR (KAY-por). A new digital information hiway is in the formative stages that will carry voice, data, and video services to everyone. We'll talk with Mitch Kapor, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which wants to make sure everyone has access to the new hiway. Kapor also founded the lotus software company

The four-man comedy troupe, THE FIRESIGN THEATRE. The FIRESIGNS created satire out of the political and civil upsets of the late 1960's, drawing big underground radio and college campus audiences. Now, more than ten years since the last tour, THE FIRESIGN THEATRE is making a comeback. Known for their eclectic comedy routines, they're celebrating their 25th anniversary with a reunion tour. THE FIRESIGNS (Phil Proctor, Peter Bergman, Phil Austin, and David Ossman) got their start doing a late night radio talk show, "Radio Free Oz," with the host in the persona of the Wizard of Oz. Since then, the FIRESIGNS have done 13 comedy albums for CBS, including "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews E.L. Doctorow''s latest novel, "The Waterworks."

2: Independent film director, producer and writer ROSE TROCHE (Tro-SHAY). She and co-producer and co-writer Guinevere Turner have made the new lesbian comedy, "Go Fish." The movie is being hailed as the newest "crossover hit." The two say they wanted to make a film about the community they lived in: "young, urban, multicultural, out, and burning up the phone lines gossiping about who went home with who last night." (The film played at the New York Lesbian and Gay Film festival in May, and opens at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, June 9. It's commercial release is set for Jun

2: Health care reporter LAURIE KAYE ABRAHAM. For her new book, "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: the Failure of Health Care in Urban America" (U of Chigago), ABRAHAM spent three years with a poor African American family studying the problem of lack of access to medical care. ABRAHAM reveals how difficult it is for a poor family to make sense of Medicaid and Medicare, and the discrimination that blacks face in trying to find health care.

Medical Examiner and "detective of death", MICHEAL BADEN, the former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. BADEN argues that there is a national crisis in forensic medicine. He writes that the search for scientific truth is often sullied by the pressures of expediency and politics. His new book is "Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner" (Ivy Books). (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 1/12/94) DR. BADEN is now working on O.J. Simpson's defense team.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews this weekend''s HBO miniseries, "Laurel Avenue," about a large working class African American family in St. Paul, Minnesota.INT. 2: Baseball legend Mickey Mantle. We''ll hear a 1985 interview with the Yankees slugger, whose father had his career in pro baseball planned before he was born. Mantle played his entire 17-year career with one team, the New York Yankees.INT 3: A 1986 interview with former Yankees pitcher JIM BOUTON. In 1970, BOUTON''s memoir "Ball Four" was published. Those who wanted to maintain major league baseball''s image as the home of heroes were scandalized by the book; others thought it was about time someone revealed that baseball is full of real people and real problems. "Ball Four" made an enemy for Bouton of baseball legend Mickey Mantle by reminiscing about Mantle''s on- and off-field drunkenness.