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2: Journalist MISHA GLENNY. GLENNY has been covering the war in former Yugoslavia--first as correspondent for the BBC and now as an independent journalist. He is the author of the book "The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War" (Penguin). He will talk about the decision of the U.S. to no longer participate in the enforcement of the arms embargo to Bosnia.

ED RYDER AND REVEREND JAMES McCLOSKEY. The story of one man's fight for freedom. Three days after RYDER arrived at Holmesburg prison to do time for theft, he was accused of murdering a prisoner in his cell block. For twenty years, RYDER fought to prove his innocence... the city of Philadelphia rallying behind him. REVEREND JAMES McCLOSKEY, who helps prisoners he believes are unjustly convicted get pardons, spearheaded the efforts for RYDER's release. Now RYDER is a free man. During the twenty years RYDER was a model prisoner, teaching himself how to play trumpet, and continuing his education through college level

Author LORENZO CARCATERRA (Car-CA-terra). He is managing editor of the CBS weekly series "Top Cops." He's written a memoir, "A Safe Place," (Villard Books) about growing up the son of a violent, loving, murderous, and generous father. They lived in New York's Hell's Kitchen during the 50s and 60s. Lorenzo found out at the age of 14 that his father had murdered his first wife when she threatened to leave him. REBROADCAST. ORIGINALLY AIRED 1/

A new performance piece by performance artist DAVID CALE.

2: DANIEL SCHORR is the Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. Previously, he was the CBS Chief Watergate Correspondent. After ending up on Nixon's "enemy list," SCHORR resigned from CBS in 1976, and wrote a book about the Watergate scandal called "Clearing the Air." Before joining CBS, SCHORR was a foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Recently he narrated a five-part BBC documentary on the Discovery channel, "Watergate." (REBROADCAST from 8

Maureen Corrigan reviews novelist E.L. Doctorow''s first book of essays, entitled "Jack London."

2:Singer and actress BARBARA COOK. Since the 1950's COOK has been in countless Broadway musicals--"Oklahoma", "The King and I", and Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" to name a few. She's been called a "no nonsense singer...able to thrust with gentility of tone." COOK has a new album--her first in five years--called "Dorothy Fields: Close as Pages in a Book." She won a Tony Award for her part as "Marian the librarian" which she originated in "The Music Man."

1: Playwright and actor WALLACE SHAWN and director/actor ANDRE GREGORY co-wrote and co-starred in the 1981 film, "My Dinner with Andre." They have since both worked on many other projects individually in television, theater, and film. They have now collaborated again in "Vanya on 42nd Street," (Sony Pictures) a film adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."

ook critic John Leonard reviews "Operation Shylock" (Simon & Schuster).

2: Musician ROBBIE ROBERTSON was a guitarist and songwriter for The Band until their break-up in 1976. Since then, he has put out solo albums and done film soundtracks for director Martin Scorsese. His newest work is "The Native Americans" (Capitol), inspired by his Native American heritage.

World Music critic MILO MILES reviews guitarist Ry Cooder''s two new collaborations: with Indian musician V.M. Bhatt ("A Meeting by the River" -- Water Lily Acoustics label), and with African Guitarist Ali Farka Toure ("Talking Timbuktu" -- on the Hannibal/World Circuit/Rykodisc label).

JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS and RUTHIE BOLTON. HUMPHREYS is a fiction writer, who won the Pen/Hemingway award in 1985 for "Dreams of Sleep." She recently transcribed and edited the life story of RUTHIE BOLTON, who grew up in the same area of Charleston, South Carolina, as HUMPHREYS did. The novel is called "Gal" (Harcourt, Brace amd Co.) and details the the stories of BOLTON's life growing up with an abusive grandfather in 1960's South Carolina. The interview will include both BOLTON and HUMPHREYS.