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Storyteller GARRISON KEILLOR. He's the host and writer of "A Prairie Home Companion" on National Public Radio--a show that "pokes at the heart of American sensibilities and sensitivities." His new book is called "The Book of Guys" (Viking). KEILLOR has written five other books including the best-seller "Lake Wobegon Days.

Journalists NICHOLAS KRISTOF and SHERYL WUDUNN were Beijing correspondents of "The New York Times" from 1988 to 1993. They won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. They have just written a book, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" (Times Books). It explores the contradiction in China of a booming economy paired with terrible human rights abuses, as China struggles to be a new world power.

2: Journalist ROBERT CULLEN. He was Newsweek's Moscow bureau chief in the Soviet Union. He's also covered Russia for "The New Yorker," and "The Atlantic." He has a new book The Killer Department" (Pantheon). It's about one detective's eight year hunt for the man known as "the most savage serial killer in Russian history." CULLEN is also the author of, "Twilight of Empire: Inside the Crumbling Soviet Bloc," about the breakup of the Soviet Union.

World music commentator MILO MILES showcases guitarist Steve Tibbetts.

2: Activist and preacher JIM WALLIS is the editor of "Sojourners" magazine, and the author of the new book, "The Soul of Politics" (The New Press/Orbis Books). In his book, he asserts that "the world isn't working," and neither the liberal left or the conservative right know how to fix it. WALLIS says the solution will come from a new morality that combines social justice and personal responsibility.

DR. DAVID SPIEGEL, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. His groundbreaking study of breast cancer patients showed that women who had psychosocial interventon lived twice as long, after diagnosis, as those without that intervention. His book, "Living Beyond Limits" (Times Books) covers current research on mind/body interactions, how to build sustaining support networks, control pain through self-hypnosis and detoxify fears of dying. Dr Spiegel says, "the fact we do not control death does not mean we cannot control how we live in the face of dying." (REBROADCAST FROM 9/22/93)REV 1: Rock historian ED WARD discusses how Ray Charles got his start. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

Rapper and actor ICE-T...one of the most popular of the "gansta" rappers. Although he does not often get his songs played on the radio, all five of his albums have gone gold. Greg Knot of The Chicago Tribune has written that "ICE-T is that rare gangster rapper who leads with his brain instead of his gun or his crotch." ICE-T's 1992 song "Cop Killer," landed him at the center of a controversy about gansta rap--is it a legitimate form of expression or is it incendiary hate-mongering. ICE-T has also starred in films "New Jack City," "Trespass," and "Ricochet." He's written a new book called "The Ice Opinion" (St. Martin's Press). In it he offers his opinions on such topics as racism, drugs, poverty, the L.A. riots.

NORMA MCCORVEY. She was the plaintiff in Roe vs. Wade. In the lawsuit she was called Jane Roe to shield her privacy. In her new book "I Am Roe" (Harper Collins), she tells her story. She was poor, alone and pregnant. Her case became a landmark Supreme Court decision--it gave women the right to choose abortion. But MCCORVEY ended up giving birth to the child because the Supreme Court decision came too late.

Congress has decided to conduct a study of the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the post-Cold War world. The agency suffered a shake-up following the discovery of the double agent Aldrich Ames. Pulitzer Prize winner TIM WEINER writes about the CIA for "The New York Times." He talks with Terry Gross today about what changes may take place in the agency as a result of the investigation.

Movie critic Stephen Schiff reviews Brian De Palma''s new movie "Carlito''s Way", starring Al Pacino.