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Rock Critic Ken Tucker reviews Ill Communication, the new album by The Beastie Boys.

2: Film director ANDREW DAVIS. Davis' string of action-thriller hits include "Under Siege" with Steven Seagal and a Chuck Norris picture "Code of Silence". His last film was a remake of a TV series from the 1960's "The Fugitive" and starred Harrison Ford. It has been nominated for a "Best Picture" Acadamy Award. Davis' Hollywood credentials belie his journalistic background: he began his film career as an assistant cameraman to Haskell Wexler on "Medium Cool" which was filmed during and uses footage of the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention. Davis served as a PBS reporter and then moved to Los Angeles, where he was director of photography on 15 films before his debut as a director in 1979. (Rebroadcast from 8-19-93).

There will be no arts review. The interview with GOVERNOR ROBERT CASEY will continue.

It's the 25th anniversary of British broadcast debut of "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Therefore, we feature archive interviews with four members of the troupe:TERRY JONES, a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python. JONES did much of the writing for the troupe. He directed most of their movies, often appearing as one of the Python women. JONES now writes children's books in England. He's been involved with two recent films, "Nuns on the Run," and "Splitting Heirs." (REBROADCAST FROM 11

lassical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews pianist Leon Fleisher''s new album, "Piano Works for the Left Hand." (on Sony).

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.

2: Israeli author DAVID GROSSMAN has just written his third novel, "The Book of Intimate Grammar" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). It tells the story of a young Israeli boy struggling with his family and the world he lives in. GROSSMAN's hero has been compared to Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield, as a boy fighting against growing up.

In 1989, there was a small outbreak of an extremely contagious virus, the Ebola virus, in a lab in Reston, Virginia. The army was brought in to stop the spread of the disease. The disease essentially causes its victims to bleed to death. RICHARD RESTON has written a new book about the incident, "The Hot Zone" (Random

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Irrawaddy Tango," by Burmese novelist Wendy Law-Yone.

2: Drummer ARTHUR TAYLOR. He's played with Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk and he's put together a new expanded collection of interviews he's done with fellow musicians: "Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews," (Da Capo Press). It's one of the few books about black jazz musicians by a black man, and because of that TAYLOR's subjects were able to talk freely about the role of black artists in white society. It includes interviews with Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Thelonious Monk and others.