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2: Playwright, NPR commentator, housecleaner and former elf to Santa, DAVID SEDARIS. He launched his radio commentator career with his "SantaLand Diaries," broadcast during NPR's "Morning Edition" in 1992. His humor has been described as a "caustic mix of J. D. Salinger and John Waters." Along with his sister, Amy Sedaris, he wrote the play "Stitches," which was described as a "macabre and hilarious social satire." Now he's making his literary debut, with a new collection of stories and essays, "Barrel Fever." (Little, Brown and Company) (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 6

Reporter Elizabeth Kaye writes for "The New York Times." Recently she wrote a column on the new birth control device known as the female condom. That''s what her commentary is about too. This is her first commentary with Fresh Air.

Speech Therapist SAM CHWAT. Chwat's "New York Speech Improvement Services" attracts 200 to 250 clients a week. He taught Robert DeNiro how to gain an Appalachian accent for his role in "Cape Fear." Julia Roberts sought him out to relearn her southern drawl for "Steel Magnolias." He helped another southerner, Andie McDowell, after her lines for "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan" were dubbed by Glenn Close. In addition to the stars, Chwat assists people in business, politics, and communications to lose their accents and or to learn Standard American English. (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 6/27/94.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the new recording of ballads by trombonist J.J. Johnson. It''s "Vivian" on the Concord Jazz label.

2: Journalist YOUSEFF IBRAHIM, reporter at "The New York Times" since 1977. He has been the regional Middle East correspondent for the paper for seven years. IBRAHIM has won a George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and the International Energy Economists Association Award for best coverage of energy affairs. He talks about the current situation in the Middle East.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the sequel to "Prime Suspect," the miniseries on PBS a year ago about a woman who becomes chief inspector, played by Helen Mirren. "Prime Suspect 2" begins tonight. Rev.: Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews a new album by Guy Clark, "Boats to Build." Clark is a songwriter whose songs have been recorded by many other country artists, but hasn''t had so much success doing them himself.

Psychiatrist PETER D. KRAMER. Kramer has written "Listening to Prozac" (Viking Books): an examination of the larger issues behind drugs that reshape temperament. Prozac is the most widely prescribed antidepressant today, with some four and a half million users since its introduction in 1987. Kramer raises serious questions about this "miracle mood enhancer": are we headed into an age of cosmetic pharmacology? If a pill is not used to alter an illness, but rather personality, what then is "the self"? And what are the social ramifications for women, in light of the Valium and Lithium use of the 1960's

Journalist ERIK LARSON of the Wall Street Journal. LARSON has been on the show before to talk about polling, privacy and direct marketing and about how a gun goes from the manufacturer to the hands of a teenager. In fact he's written a new book, "Lethal Passage: How the Travels of a Single Handgun Expose the Roots of America's Gun Crisis," (Crown Publishers). Today Terry will talk again with LARSON about guns, about gun control laws, the NRA, etc. LARSON is also the author of "The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities."

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Don''t Drink the Water," Woody Allen''s made-for-TV movie, which airs Sunday on ABC. REV. 2: Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Speechless," which stars Geena Davis and Michael Keaton in a story much like that of James Carville and Mary Matalin, though the movie script was written before the real life story.

Political satirist and impressionist JIM MORRIS. He's always done impressions. He began lampooning the Presidents at about the time Reagan was sworn in to office. Since then he's impersonated Bush, and Clinton, as well as presidental contenders, Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas, and Ross Perot. He's also impersonated some well known broadcasters. He impersonated Bush at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, in front of the President himself in 1989. CBS's Mike Wallace described it as "Mean. Mean. Mean. Mean." And The New Yorker says of MORRIS, "Like an obsessive character actor, Mr. Morris doesn't just impersonate his subjects; he becomes them.