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Actor and Theater Director, W. H. MACY. A member of Playwright David Mamet's circle of theater innovators, Macy recently starred in Mamet's play "Oleanna", and was featured in his film "Homocide". They co-founded the Atlantic Theater Company, an ensemble which performs mainly original works by American writers. Members of the company wrote "A Practical Handbook For The Actor", (Vintage Books) from notes taken during acting workshops led by Mr. Macy. One critic writes that the ensemble "has rescued theater from the mindless". (REBROADCAST from 5/

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Rosanne Cash''s latest album, "The Wheel," (Columbia).

2: Author/Attorney STEPHEN GODDARD. His new book is "Getting There: The Epic Stuggle between Road and Rail in the American Century" (Basic Books). GODDARD's interest in trains began as a boy in the 1940s. At that time the regulated railroads were fighting back against the subsidized highways by creating luxurious trains with fancy dining cars that boasted elegant crystal on the tables. "Getting There" documents how the highway lobby succceeded in convincing government to "feed the roads and starve the rails."In this context, Goddard addresses the resulting social and environmental ills and the future of American transportation.

HOWELL RAINES is editorial page editor of "The New York Times." He's written a new "fishing" memoir, one that's part sporting autobiography and part guide-book for the middle years of life. "Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis," (William Morrow & Company). RAINES also won the Pulitzer Prize for "Grady's Gift," a New York Times Magazine article about his friendship with a black woman in segregated Birmingham. (Rebroadcast from 9

FATHER 'GUS' DI NOIA (De-NOY-a) is a Dominican Priest and a theologian to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. On May 31, the Pope issued an Apostolic letter to bishops declaring that women could not be ordained as priests. Though not a formal statement of doctrine, the letter was strongly put, and meant to cut off discussion about the issue. In it the Pope writes that the church "has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women," and that "this judgement is to be definitively held by the all the church's faithful." The letter was timed to counter the Church of England's ordination of 1,000 women to the priesthood. Terry will talk with FATHER DI NOIA about his views on it as an official of the church and as a sociologist.

2: ROB NILSSON is a film maker and founder of the Tenderloin Action Group in San Francisco. NILSSON works with "drifters and dreamers who shared the same conundrums of heart and head that confront us all." He works with people living on the streets. They have a grass-roots theatre group and are putting together a film, "Chalk," a pool-hall drama, with material from the lives of the actors themselves. NILSSON began the project as a way to alleviate his own feelings concerning his younger brother who lives on the streets.

Rock historian ED WARD talks about the Million Dollar Quartet session released on RCA several years ago. The recording is of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and others playing in the Sun Records studios in 1956. INT. 2: Professor JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN. A native of Ireland, ordained as a priest in the U.S. (he left the Priesthood in 1969), CROSSAN now teaches biblical studies at DePaul University. CROSSAN is a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who meet to determine the authenticity of Jesus'' sayings in the Gospels. Earlier this year, CROSSAN wrote "Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography" (HarperCollins) which seeks to place Jesus in the context of his Jewish, Mediterranean and peasant roots; to see him as a Socratic philosopher and radical egalitarian. (REBROADCAST from 3/30/94) REV. 2: Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a reissue of "The Voice That Is!" (Impulse!), by baritone singer Johnny Hartman.

PETE TOWNSEND. In the 1960's he made waves as the lead guitarist in the British rock group The Who. He was world famous for smashing guitars during concerts. Now, years after The Who split up, TOWNSEND is busy with solo projects. "Tommy," the rock opera he wrote for The Who in 1969, is on Broadway. His latest album is called "White City.

Author and former field engineer, editor, actor, migrant farm worker, farmer, trapper, truck driver and sailor GARY PAULSEN. PAULSEN has authored books for adults, young adults and children. His latest book for adult readers is "Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod" (Harcourt Brace and Company). The Iditarod has been called "the last great race on earth." It is the grueling 1,180 mile dogsled race over the Arctic terrain from Anchorage to Nome. PAULSEN ran it twice. During training for the race, PAULSEN almost lost his dogs and his own life. Relying on a combination of luck and brute will, he saved himself and his team. After that, he understood he would never be able to stop running dogs of his own free will. He is driven to write too. He has said "I can't not write. . . . I love doing it, putting the bloody skins on and dancing around the fire."

In the first half, a performance from the archives from guitarist Marty Grosz. In the second, rock critic Ed Ward on the early days of Sam Phillips, the legendary founder of Sun Records, and discoverer of Elvis Presley.