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Journalist Peter Bergen visited bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, before it was demolished. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, draws on materials seized in the raid.

2: Educator BOB MOSES. He was a leader in the Civil Rights struggle, helping to register black voters in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. He's still a civil rights activist, though his weapon now is Math. He's the director and creator of the innovative Algebra Project which opens up educational opportunities for young African-Americans. MOSES established the project in Cambridge, Mass in 1982. Since then it's been implimented across the country, and has reached 9,000 inner city youths. (REBROADCAST from 3

2: Author HENRY ALFORD. Newsday reviewer Adam Begley mused about what to call ALFORD. "New York prankster?" Manhattan Monkeyshine Maven?" "Gotham Caparist?" His publisher calls him an investigative humorist. ALFORD has chronicled his offbeat investigations in his new book "Municipal Bondage: One Man's Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City." (Random House.) ALFORD writes of his efforts to enter professions for which he was completely untutored--cosmetologist, snack food creator, dog groomer, earlobe model. He includes essays about city life and ventures into the realm of the hypothetical in sections beginning with the phrase "Whatif . . .?"

2: PARNELL HALL has been an actor, a private detective and a screenwriter -- he wrote the screenplay for the horror movie C.H.U.D. Now he is a novelist, writing mysteries featuring Stanley Hastings, a failed actor and

RUSS RYMER is a journalist who has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has just written his first book, "Genie," (Harper Collins) which began as a couple of New Yorker articles last year. It's about the discovery in 1970 of a "wild-child," a thirteen year old girl who had lived her entire life locked in a room of her parent's house. Genie had no language or social skills. Her discovery coincided with a raging debate among scientists about the origin of language. Michael Dorris writes about the book, "At once a scientific detective story and an examination of professional ethics. . . disturbing, enlightening, and impossible to forget."

FLOYD COCHRAN used to be a recruiter and public relations man for the racist, anti-Semitic Aryan Nations, based in Idaho. But about two years ago COCHRAN left the group and denounced it and it's racist views. Now he travels the country speaking out against the Aryan Nations. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Medical ethicist DANIEL CALLAHAN. His new book is "The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality." (Simon & Schuster). In it he looks at how our society views death: If death is a "part of life," why do we have such trouble accepting it? And how do our attitudes about death affect medical and social policy? CALLAHAN calls for a new understanding of death, so that it could be, "tolerable and familiar, affirmative of the bonds of community and social solidarity, expected with certainty and accepted without crippling fear."

Writer LAWRENCE BLOCK with a reading from his new novel, "A Long Line of Dead Men" (William Morrow). It''s the newest in his series about his detective hero, Matthew Scudder.

Ken Tucker on the new George Clinton record, "Hey man, smell my finger".

2: Psychologist MARY PIPHER has worked mostly with teenage girls for over ten years. She's witnessed the "oppression" of teenage girls today, more pronounced than that of their mothers because of the "more dangerous, sexualized and media saturated culture." She argues also that something happens to girls when they reach adolescence, that they lose their "assertive, energetic and 'tomboyish' personalities" to become "more deferential, self-critical and depressed." PIPHER has found greater incidents of eating disorders, self-mutiliation, underachievement and depression among her clients. PIPHER's new book is "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." (Putnam) (REBROADCAST from 25 April

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new Donald Fagen solo record "Kamakiriad" (Reprise), which was produced by Fagen''s longtime Steely Dan cohort, Walter Becker.

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the latest of MTV''s "Unplugged" concert series, featuring Tony Bennett.