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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

2: Former Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy in the Bush Administration, CHARLES KOLB (pronounced COB). He's written a new memoir about what went wrong with the Bush administration, how they dropped the ball on "gains" made by the Reagan administration. It's called, "White House Daze: The Unmaking of Domestic Policy in the Bush Years." (The Free Press).

TV critic David Bianculli reviews "The Building", a new summer series co-produced by David Letterman.

2: Painter LARRY RIVERS. He has a new autobiography, "What Did I Do?" (HarperCollins Publishers). RIVERS is known by art historians as "a great figurative painter," "the father of Pop Art," and is recognized as the first American artist to use vulgar objects in an artistic context. The book centers on his experiences as part of a loosely knit association of poets and painters who were young, poor and ambitious in New York in the 50's. RIVERS also was a jazz saxophonist, he appeared on camera and stage, did heavy drugs, and had an unashamed interest in sexuality that went from unconventional entanglements with both sexes to conventional participation in marriage and family life -- all of which he details in his new book. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 10

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Sons of Soul," the new hip-hop album by Tony Toni Tone.

Linguist Jeffrey Nunberg talks about the bicentennial of the French revolution.

1: DR. PAUL MAYEWSKI, chief scientist with the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2. The project archives tubes of ice extracted from Greenland which chronicle 250,000 years of the earth's atmosphere, and changes in the climate. From the ice, scientists can pinpoint the start of the industrial revolution, or the end of the ice age. Scientists hope, by looking at the ice, they can better understand rapid changes in the earth's climate. (REBROADCAST from 9/9/93) INT. 2: Children's book illustrator TED LEWIN (LOO-in). Lewin paid his way through art school in the 50's as a professional wrestler. His new memoir, "I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler," (Orchard Books) includes Lewin's paintings of wrestlers. (REBROADCAST from 8/17/93).

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.