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Singer/songwriter ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO. ESCOVEDO has just released his second solo album. It is called "Thirteen Years" (Watermelon Records). He was a founding member of San Francisco's '70's punk band the Nuns, the cowpunk band Rank & File and rock band True Believers. The title of the new album refers to a point during his marriage when all he had to offer his wife was song. After ESCOVEDO and his former wife separated, she committed suicide.

2: Professor MARC ROBERTS. Roberts is a professor of Political Economy and Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government. He'll discuss the economics of health care and health care reform in America.

2: Rock musician and producer NICK LOWE. Lowe was a main figure of the British pub-rock scene in the early 70s, then in the late 70s Lowe joined forces with Dave Edmunds to form the band "Rockpile." At the same time, Lowe was producing albums for artists such as Elvis Costello and Graham Parker. Lowe went solo in '78, and had hits with "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass," and "Cruel to be Kind." His production credits during that period included The Pretenders, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and John Hiatt. (Originally broadcast 3

2: MARTIN ESPADA, a poet, tenant's right attorney, and now Assistant Professor of English at University of Massachusettes at Amherst. Brooklyn born -in 1957- of Puerto Rican heritage, he calls his work, "poems of advocacy, based on the lives ...consigned to silence." ESPADA was lauded by PEN/Revson Award for Poetry for giving "dignity to the insulted and injured of the earth." Poet Carolyn Forche describes ESPADA as "that subversive someone we know." His new book of poems is "City of Coughing and Dead Radiators" (Norton).

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a reissue of "True Blue," by saxophonist Tina Brooks (Blue Note).

2: Interview with LAURIE GARRETT continues.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Good Advice," the new sitcom that stars Shelley Long, formerly of "Cheers."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Chaplin," the new film directed by Richard Attenborough, and starring Robert Downey Jr.

2: New York City transit police officer BRENDAN MCGARRY. He's been at the job for 21 years. MCGARRY wrote (also in a recent New York Times article, 10 Apr 94) about the homeless and the panhandlers on the subways, "for a transit cop, they are a tough, unpleasant, sometimes dangerous part of a sometimes thankless job." MCGARRY complains the public misunderstands them and accuses them of mistreatment. But he says they've worked hard at finding shelter and services for the subway's homeless, setting up a homeless outreach unit. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).INT 3: SISTER MARY SCULLION. She's worked with the homeless and the mentally ill for 16 years, as an advocate and a co-founder of: Women of Hope, a permanent residence and support services center for homeless mentally ill women; the Outreach Coordination Center, which coordinated the services of private and public agencies working with chronically homeless persons; and Project H.O.M.E. which provides residential and rehabilitative services to the chronically homeless. SISTER MARY was honored for her efforts with the 1992 Philadelphia Award.

Novelist BENJAMIN CHEEVER. He's written a second novel, "The Partisan," (Atheneum). It follows on the heels of his first novel, "The Plagiarist." Both books are funny novels. Of his first, one reviewer wrote, "Wit and pathos, so finely meshed they become inseparable, buoy the main events in this achingly funny first novel. . . This is a touching, entertaining debut." Ben is the son of the late writer John Cheever. In writing his novels Ben said he finally found his own voice, seperate from his father's. Ben was also the editor of "The Letters of John Cheever," published in 1988.