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2: FRESH AIR producer AMY SALIT talks with PETER GARRETT, lead singer of the Australian rock band MIDNIGHT OIL...a band known for its environmental and political activisim. They have a new album, EARTH AND SUN AND MOON (Col

Rock critic Kevin Turner reviews the Breeders new album "Last Splash" (Elektra).

2: Israeli peace activist and novelist AMOS OZ (pronounced AH-mos not A-mos). He lived on a kibbutz for many years and is a veteran of the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973. OZ is a leading acivist for peace between the Arabs and the Israelis. His new book is called "Fima" (Harcourt Brace), he has written eleven novels in all. AMOS OZ received the German Publishers Peace Prize in 1992.

2: BETSEY LIEBERMAN, Executive Director of AIDS Housing of Washington which has built the country's first nursing home designed for people dying of AIDS. It's called the Bailey-Boushay House. The House also offers adult day-care services and activities for people with AIDS. The House has been in operation for a little over a year now. Since then more than 130 people have died there. A new book about the project has been published, "Breaking New Ground: Developing Innovative AIDS Care Residences." (published by AIDS Housing of Washington, Original Trade Paperback).

Record producer BOBBY ROBINSON. He recorded many classic blues and R&B sessions for his Red Robin, Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels, and has also produced rap. He recorded Elmore Jones, Buster Brown, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. A new boxed collection has come out, "The Fire/Fury Records Story." (Capricorn Records).

Professional New York house cleaner and NPR commentator, DAVID SEDARIS (seh-DAR-iss). Sedaris occasionally reads from his diaries on NPR; he started this year around Christmas time, when he recounted tales of being a Macy's elf named Crumpet during the holiday season. Other pieces have covered life with window hangers, the world of soap operas, and smoking on a bench in Central Park with a non-smoker. He's recently signed with Little, Brown for a book of short stories and a novel.

2: Creator and CEO of the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN), BRIAN LAMB. He launched the network in 1979 because he felt society was being treated unfairly by television news. He wanted to broadcast information from beginning to end, so that audiences could get a full picture of what transpired, and not just pieces of it. The channel provides hours of footage of the U.S. Congress and its committees, party conventions, and provided sprawling coverage of the Presidential campaign -- all without commentary or editing. The network has no advertisers, no government or corporate funding, and has no concern for ratings, because its funding comes from local cable companies. (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 1/

Nigerian writer WOLE SOYINKA. (Wo-lay Shaw-INKA) He was the first African to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature (in 1986), and he's been called Africa's "finest writers." He is a dramatist, poet, novelist, critic, and political writer. Some of his works have been banned by Nigerian regimes. He's gone into exile several times and has been imprisoned for political protests. He's written 21 books, including "Myth, Literature, and the African World," and his autobiography, "Ake': The Years of Childhood." (Ventura books). (THIS INTERVIEW WILL BE EXTENDED INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

2: Professor DEBORAH LIPSTADT examines a chilling new trend in historical revisionism: disavowing the deaths of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps. Her book, "Denying the Holocaust" (Free Press) traces the rise of this reversal: the change in influence of these practitioners as isolated pamphleteers and cranks forty years ago to the point today, where a poll found one fifth of the American public think it seems "possible" that the Holocaust never happened. (REBROADCAST FROM 7/14/93).

2: Documentary filmmaker JIM CHAMBERS, who put together the new film "112th and Central: Through the Eyes of the Children", a documentary about the effects of the Los Angeles riots on the young people who lived through them. The film is put together from interviews of friends and family filmed by the children themselves, including 12 year old CLEOPHAS JACKSON, (Clee-oh-fus) whom Marty also interviews.