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Congress has decided to conduct a study of the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the post-Cold War world. The agency suffered a shake-up following the discovery of the double agent Aldrich Ames. Pulitzer Prize winner TIM WEINER writes about the CIA for "The New York Times." He talks with Terry Gross today about what changes may take place in the agency as a result of the investigation.

Storyteller GARRISON KEILLOR. He's the host and writer of "A Prairie Home Companion" on National Public Radio--a show that "pokes at the heart of American sensibilities and sensitivities." His new book is called "The Book of Guys" (Viking). KEILLOR has written five other books including the best-seller "Lake Wobegon Days.

2: Journalist ROBERT CULLEN. He was Newsweek's Moscow bureau chief in the Soviet Union. He's also covered Russia for "The New Yorker," and "The Atlantic." He has a new book The Killer Department" (Pantheon). It's about one detective's eight year hunt for the man known as "the most savage serial killer in Russian history." CULLEN is also the author of, "Twilight of Empire: Inside the Crumbling Soviet Bloc," about the breakup of the Soviet Union.

World music commentator MILO MILES showcases guitarist Steve Tibbetts.

2: Photographer J.S. CARTIER. A native to France, CARTIER and his wife, ANNA, returned to Frace and Belguim to take photographs for their "Western Front Project." Seventy-five years after the end of the First World War, the remaining vestiges and veterans are few, and vanishing quickly. For two years the CARTIERS traveled "The Western Front," talking with villagers and veterans, and documenting the remaining traces of the war. REV.1 : T.V. critic David Bianculli reviews the seven-hour miniseries, "Return to Lonesome Dove" (CBS).

2: Writer WALTER MOSLEY. His first book, "Devil In A Blue Dress," (Norton) is a hard-boiled detective story starring a black gumshoe up against white prejudice. MOSLEY's mysteries are loosely based on stories his father told him about black culture the 1940's. His latest book is called "A Red Death" (Thorndike). (REBROADCAST FROM 6/8/90)Mystery writer SUE GRAFTON. Her heroine, Kinsey Millhone, is a new breed of hard-boiled detective: competent and self-reliant, thirty-two years old, twice married with no kids, and currently single. The Kinsey Millhone mystery series began with "A is for Alibi" , and continues through the alphabet. GRAFTON's latest mystery is "I is for Innocent" (Fawcett). (REBROADCAST FROM 5

Film Critic STEPHEN SCHIFF on "Guarding Tess", starring Shirley McClaine and Nicholas Cage.

2: Film director TED DEMME. His new movie is "The Ref," starring Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis. It's a dark comedy about a burglar stuck with two obnoxious hostages on Christmas Eve. Demme, who is 30, has also directed and produced for MTV; he's responsible for creating the popular hip-hop show "Yo! MTV Raps." His first feature film was "Who's The Man?" He is director Jonathan Demme's nephew.

DOCTOR MARCUS CONANT. In the early 1980's DR. CONANT was among the first doctors in San Francisco to treat AIDS cases. Now DR. CONANT heads the largest private AIDS medical practice in San Francisco. After his 1985 study on how condoms block transmission of the AIDS virus, condoms became a household word. DR. CONANT is the director of AIDS Clinical Research Center and the co-director of the Kaposi's Sarcoma Clinic at the University of California at San Francisco

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Good Advice," the new sitcom that stars Shelley Long, formerly of "Cheers."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Chaplin," the new film directed by Richard Attenborough, and starring Robert Downey Jr.

DR. DAVID SPIEGEL, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. His groundbreaking study of breast cancer patients showed that women who had psychosocial interventon lived twice as long, after diagnosis, as those without that intervention. His book, "Living Beyond Limits" (Times Books) covers current research on mind/body interactions, how to build sustaining support networks, control pain through self-hypnosis and detoxify fears of dying. Dr Spiegel says, "the fact we do not control death does not mean we cannot control how we live in the face of dying." (REBROADCAST FROM 9/22/93)REV 1: Rock historian ED WARD discusses how Ray Charles got his start. (REBROADCAST FROM 10