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There are 100 million landmines in place around the world, left over from wars and conflicts. They continue to kill and maim thousands of civilians each year. Human Rights groups are calling for the banning of landmines. Terry will talk with two individuals about this: ERIC STOVER, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights. He's one of the authors of "Land Mines: A Deadly Legacy," a study about the medical and social consequences of land mines in Cambodia. And with STEPHEN GOOSE, Washington director of the Arms Project, a division of Human Rights Watch

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Rameau''s Niece," the new novel by Cathleen Schine.

2: Interview with FLOYD COCHRAN, continues.

TED HAWKINS is a singer, a songwriter, and a guitarist who for almost 30 years was a street musician in L.A. His music isn't the blues though he's qualified to sing them: he grew up in poverty in Mississippi, his mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father. As a teenager, HAWKINS spent time in jail. His first two marriages ended quickly: one was annulled, his second wife died two months into the marriage. HAWKINS music is a blend of country, folk and soul; his songs have been described as cutting through, "the vapid conventions of pop music and offer as raw a slice of reality as you are likely to find." In 1971 he recorded a number of songs for producer Bruce Bromberg. In 1982 they were compiled on a Rounder Record "Watch Your Step." It received a five-star review in "The Rolling Stone Record Guide." That led to two more albums recorded in Nashville and interest from the BBC. He became a star in England where he lived for four years, though he was still virtually unknown in the U.S. Back in the U.S. he went back to street performing and was "discovered" again by a DGC record producer. HAWKINS has a new album "The Next Hundred Years," (DGC label).

inguist Geoffrey Nunberg. Dubious about "Estuary English", a new accent in London.

Ken Tucker reviews the new Pretenders album, "Last of the Independents".

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews Bill Moyers new series, "Healing and the Mind," on PBS about alternative medicines and medical treatments.

2: Actress JULIE KAVNER. In her first professional role, she played Brenda Morgenstern, the insecure younger sister of the title character, in the television series "Rhoda." She landed an Emmy award for that role. Also on television, she co-starred in "The Tracey Ullman Show" and now can be heard as the unforgettable voice of Marge on the animated sitcom, "The Simpsons," for which she also won an Emmy. She starred in the movie "This Is My Life," co-starred in "Awakenings," and appeared in 5 Woody Allen movies. She will talk with Terry Gross today about her role in the new movie "I'll Do Anything" as a brilliant Hollywood opinion researcher afflicted with a compulsion for telling the truth.

A rebroadcast of our first interview with JOHN UPDIKE from March, 17, 1988, following the publication of his novel "S" - a modern story drawn from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." UPDIKE talks with Terry about literature, life, and why he hates being interviewed.

Mary Previte, superintendent of the Camden County (NJ) Youth Center. Previte, the great granddaughter of missionary pioneer Hudson Taylor, grew up in China with her missionary parents. During World War II, she and her fellow students and teachers spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp. Previte credits the structure her teachers' created with making the horrific experience bearable. For the past twenty years, Previte has run the youth center, a holding center for boys and girls charged with serious crimes. She has applied the lessons of her teachers to the center, creating a place of structure and security for children used to violent, chaotic lives. Her new book, "Hungry Ghosts" (Zondervan), relates her experience as head of this acclaimed youth center and her own life story.

2: Adventure writer TIM CAHILL. CAHILL writes in a self-deprecating way about his death-defying experiences around the world. His accounts of adventures in caves, mountains, deserts, and rapids appear in his collections, "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg,"and "Jaguars Ripped My Flesh." He's also a columnist for "Outside Magazine." Last summer, CAHILL traveled to the North Pole on an old Soviet Ice-breaker, and currently he is working on a book describing his travels in the unexplored and uninhabited Ndoke Forest of the northern Congo. (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 4/5/89.)Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. THEROUX is no ordinary travel writer: his books are about exotic voyages, some by train, and others by foot. His work includes "The Great Railway Bazaar," "The Old Patagonian Express," and "The Kingdom By The Sea." He's also a novelist, perhaps best known for "The Mosquito Coast," which became a film starring Harrison Ford. THEROUX'S most recent book, published this past February, is a fictional work titled "Millroy the Magician" (Random House). (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 7

Part one of a two part interview with "Mr Horror": writer STEPHEN KING. He ushered in a whole new era of horror fiction with his first novel in 1974, "Carrie." In the ensuing twenty years he has penned novels, short stories, screenplays, comic books, and TV movies. His latest collection of short stories was "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" (Viking); KING has also written the adaption of his apocalyptic novel "The Stand" for a mini-series which airs next week on ABC. (This portion rebroadcast from 7