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2: WU NINGKUN (WOO NING-kwun), author of a new personal and political memoir, A Single Tear, about surviving three decades of Communist rule in China. Wu was born in China and received his college education in the United States. He left a promising academic career in this country to return to China in 1951 with hopes that the new Communist regime would benefit his country. Instead, he was labeled counter-revolutionary for teaching works by Western authors and was sentenced to serve time at various labor camps and prisons. He now lives in the United States with his family. (Atlantic Monthly Press).

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD is back on his usual beat, after a stint of movie reviewing. He reviews three releases by alto saxophonist Lee Konitz: 1) Zounds (Soul Note); Lee Konitz and Chet Baker in Concert (India Navigation); Paul Motian on Broadway, Vol. III (JMT).

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BBC correspondent MISHA GLENNY. (MEE-shah GLEN-knee) He's covered the war in the former Yugoslavia and is the author of the book "The Fall of Yugoslavia." Terry will talk with him about why he thinks there should be no intervention in Bosnia. (Terry last talked to him in December when his book cam

KEMAL KURSPAHIC. ("Ke-MAL COURSE-pack-hitch") He was editor-in-chief of Sarajevo's only surviving daily newspaper, "Oslobodenje." ("Oslobodenje" means liberation in Serbo-Croatian.) Now he is Washington correspondent for the paper. It has been a trial to get out the paper each day. The staff braved sniper fire just to get to work. After the paper's high rise offices were gutted by mortar fire, publication was transferred to an underground bunker. Three staffers were killed covering the war and KURSPAHIC himself was wounded. KURSPAHIC offers his perspective on recent developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina and on post-war prospects there.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan on swell books for kids this holiday season.

Two poets, married to one another, coming to grips with illness and mortality: DONALD HALL and JANE KENYON. HALL's new memoir of life on his New Hamphire farm and his "absorbedness" with writing are the subject of his new book "Life Work" (Beacon . Halfway through its completion, HALL was diagnosed with liver cancer; the following surgery and recovery provided rich material for his work and KENYON's: a new book of poems entitled "Constance" (Graywolf

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN tells us about the short horror story that has haunted her through the years. (It''s "August Heat," by W.F. Harvey).(Rebroadcast from 8

V Critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews an unusual departure PBS'' Great Performances: a production of "PsychoDerelict", the new multi-media composition by the rock and roller, Pete Townsend.

Irish author, RODDY DOYLE, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize for his novel "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" (Viking). Doyle taught school in Dublin for fourteen years; during that time he wrote and self-published his first novel, "The Commitments" about a band of musicians who bring soul music to Dublin. (It was made into a popular film here). Doyle's other novels include "The Snapper" (soon to be a film) and "The Van", all fictions which take place in a rough and tumble neighborhood of Dublin, and whose slang-filled dialogue has been hailed for its authenticity