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2:To get the bad taste of the previous segment out of our mouths, we play some great Christmas music, from previous Fresh Air concerts. The segment includes Susannah McCorkle, Charles Brown singing "Merry Christmas Baby," and composers Martin and Blane telling the story behind their song, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 12

Former Police Commissioner of Philadelphia, WILLIE WILLIAMS. He's gone on to head Los Angeles's police force, where he replaced the controversial chief Daryl Gates. WILLIAMS took over last summer and his challenge has been to improve the relationship between the police and the community, and to build-up morale within the force. WILLIAMS has also had to prepare the department for possible further disturbances in the community, in light of the April riots over the Rodney King verdict. Two court cases coming up could ignite more rioting: the Federal civil rights trial of the four white officers acquitted of beating Rodney King, and the trial of three black men accused of beating white truck driver Reginald Denny during the April riot. Yesterday jurors for the federal trial of the officers were sworn in. Opening statements in the trial are expected to take place tomorrow.

British religious scholar, KAREN ARMSTRONG. She wrote the bestseller, "A History of God" (Knopf), now in paperback. In that book Armstrong says "All religions have been designed to help us touch the God in each other" Her research traces 4000 years of Monotheism in the form of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The author, a Catholic nun for seven years in the 1960's, left the order to take a degree at Oxford, and now teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the study of Judaism. (REBROADCAST. Originally broadcast 12

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Comedian RICHARD BELZER. He talks with Terry about growing up Jewish. BELZER now stars in the TV series "Homicide." (Originally aired 12

Journalist STEVEN LEVY, author of "Hackers," is one of the premiere writers on technology. He writes The Iconoclast column for "Mac World" magazine, and is a contributor to "Wired," "The New Yorker," and the "New York Times Magazine." His new book is "Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, The Computer That Changed Everything" (Penguin Books). He talks with Terry today about e-money, the electronic money of the future. LEVY has an article in the December issue of "Wired" about the computerization of money.

2: Writer KEVIN CANTY. His stories have been published in "Esquire" and "Story" magazine. His first book is a collection of short stories, "A Stranger in This World" (Doubleday). The stories are about people feeling alien in their own world; CANTY says, "the moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange. . . where they are forced to confront how little they know about themselves and about the world around them."

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN tells us about her trip to the auto show.

World Music critic MILO MILES reviews "60 Horses in My Herd," (Shanchie) by the group Huun-Huur-Tu (HUN-HER-TOO), from the Tuva region in Mongolia.

2: Writer SHIRLEE TAYLOR HAIZLIP. Her book "The Sweeter the Juice: a Family Memoir in Black and White, (Simon & Schuster), chronicles her exploration of six generations of her multiracial family tree. HAIZLIP is a light-skinned African-American. Her father was a prominent black Baptist minister in Connecticut. Her mother was the descendant of an Irish immigrant and a mulatto slave. The lineage of HAIZLIP's mother's family was unclear because early in HAIZLIP's mother's life she was seperated from the rest of her family who "disappeared" into the white world.