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2: MARTIN ESPADA, a poet, tenant's right attorney, and now Assistant Professor of English at University of Massachusettes at Amherst. Brooklyn born -in 1957- of Puerto Rican heritage, he calls his work, "poems of advocacy, based on the lives ...consigned to silence." ESPADA was lauded by PEN/Revson Award for Poetry for giving "dignity to the insulted and injured of the earth." Poet Carolyn Forche describes ESPADA as "that subversive someone we know." His new book of poems is "City of Coughing and Dead Radiators" (Norton).

New York Times Reporter CHRIS HEDGES. He's based in Cairo, Egypt where he covers the Middle East. Terry will talk with him about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in countries like Sudan, Algeria, Egypt, and Jordan. She'll also talk with HEDGES about being held captive at the end of the Gulf War by Saddam's Republican Guard. He was held along with NPR's Neil Conan. Before HEDGES covered the MidEast for The New York Times, he was reporting out of Central America.

2: Singer/Actress DONNA MURPHY. In 1986, Donna Murphy was a woman in drag in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." In 1991, she was introduced as "a girl who will steal your heart and then forget where she put it," playing the amnesiac songstress in "Song of Singapore." Having become one of Broadway's most sought-after actresses, MURPHY is now playing the lead in Stephen Sondheim's latest musical, "Passion." Of the role, which has her playing an ugly, hysterical woman obsessively pursuing a handsome army captain, MURPHY says, "I love transformation of any kind...I want to look in the mirror and not see Donna looking back at me."

2: From the new movie documentary "Hoop Dreams" (Fine Line Features), young basketball player ARTHUR AGEE and film director STEVE JAMES The film traces the lives of AGEE and his friend William Gates for five years as they try to follow their dreams of rising from inner city Chicago to play in the NBA. James is the director, producer and co-editor of the film.

2: We feature interviews with two individuals involved in the film, "Heavenly Creatures." New Zealand film director and writer PETER JACKSON and co-screenwriter FRANCES WALSH. They have collaborated on two other films, "Dead Alive" a horror-movie spoof which developed a cult following in New Zealand, and "Meet The Feebles," a zombie film which was also a hit in that country.

JUAN GARCIA ESQUIVEL produced innovative recordings of pop music in the fifties and sixties. His work has been re-issued on CD. It's called "ESQUIVEL!: SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD MUSIC"(Bar/None). Terry Gross also speaks with IRWIN CHUSID, the producer of "ESQUIVEL!", and YVONNE DE BOURBON, one of Esquivel's ex-wives, and a former performer in his live show.

Colonel MARGARETHE CAMMERMEYER was was named Nurse of the Year by the Veterans Administration and was Chief Nurse of the Washington State National Guard. She was discharged from the service in 1992 because she revealed that she is a lesbian, becoming the highest-ranking officer to be discharged solely for homosexuality. She challenged the ruling, and was reinstated in July. "Serving in Silence" (Viking) is her new book about her experiences.

JOHN HELYAR'S new book, "Lords of the Realm" (Villard Books) looks at the corporate world of baseball. Instead of tracing the history of the game through its players, HELYAR focuses on the behind the scenes people-- the agents,owners, and general managers-- who shaped baseball. HELYAR is a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal," and co-author of the "New York Times" bestseller, "Barbarians at the Gate.

Parish Priest JOHN MCNAMEE. For twenty five years he's lived and worked the poorer neighborhoods of Philadelphia. His book, "Diary of a City Priest" (Sheed & Ward) documents his struggle to keep faith, when surrounded by poverty and despair.

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2: Television executive and first time novelist, EUGENE STEIN. STEIN's novel is "Straightjacket & Tie" (Ticknor & Fields) a coming of age story about a teenager beginning to understand his sexuality and his newly schizophrenic older brother. He is helped along by a family of wisecracking space aliens visible only to a small segment of the population, including "Jewish lefties with a family history of mental illness". STEIN is a Vice President for Comedy at ABC Productions, and a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.

2: DAVID RUSSELL is the writer and director of movie "Spanking the Monkey," (Fine Line Features). The film is about Raymond, who returns after his freshman year at MIT to find he has to spend the summer caring for his mother, who's broken her leg. His loneliness combined with his mother's depression results in a dark comedy about mother-son incest. "Spanking the Monkey" won the Audience Award for the most popular dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival in January. DAVID RUSSELL has also written and directed two short narrative films, "Bingo Inferno" and "Hairway to the Stars," which were also shown at the Sundance Film Festival.