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Composer and saxophonist MANU DIBANGO. He is considered one of the founders of world music. His first album, "Soul Makossa," was a big hit in 1973. His latest album is called "Wakafrika"(Giant Records) and blends traditionally African music with European pop. This album features such artists as Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'Connor. His new autobiography is "Three Kilos of Coffee" (The University of Chicago Press).

A concert with playwright VERNEL BAGNERIS (ver-NEL BAHN-er-eese), pianist MORTEN GUNNAR LARSEN. BAGNERIS has just rewritten his and LARSEN's 1992 nightclub revue "Jelly Roll Morton: A Me-morial," and expanded it into an Off-Broadway musical, called "Jelly Roll!" The show is about the legendary New Orleans pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton, who boasted that he was the inventor of jazz. BAGNERIS also wrote, directed, and performed in the off-Broadway shows "One Mo'Time," and it's sequel, "Further Mo'." He also wrote the musical fable "Staggerlee," with Allen Toussaint. (CONCERT REBROADCAST FROM 11/12/92) REV.: Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Natural Born Killers," starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis.

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2: Producer Amy Salit interviews singer/songwriter, guitarist JOE ELY. He's been called the "underappreciated American rock 'n' roll legend." This country rocker hails from Lubbock, Texas and has been recording and playing music for about 20 years, and has released nine albums. He began his career playing more traditional country but now leans more toward the country-rockin' blues that has become a distinctive Texas sound. His latest album is "Love and Danger," (MCA/Nashville). Another reviewer says of ELY's music, "it's got the dynamic locomotion of rock, the righteous sassiness of blues, the narrative twang of country, and the hook-filled melodic sheen of pop."

Academy Award winning writer-producer-director JAMES BROOKS. BROOKS will discuss his new movie, "I'll Do Anything," a romantic comedy about a struggling but talented Hollywood character actor, played by Nick Nolte. BROOKS directed the movies "Terms of Endearment" and "Broadcast News." In television, his credits include "Room 222," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant," "Rhoda," "Taxi," "The Tracey Ullman Show," "The Associates," "The Simpsons" and the new animated series, "The Critic.

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI previews the premiere of "I''ll Fly Away," the drama series set in the south at the time of the civil rights movement. It used to air on NBC; PBS has just picked it up and added tonights episode to it.

2: MARY PREVITE (pronounced prev-eh-tee). She's the administrator of the Camden County Youth Center. Over the 19 years she's been at the CCYC, PREVITE has witnessed the increase of violence in our society, and its effect on America's young. PREVITE says that most of the kids she sees live in terror, knowing violence as the only way to express their emotions. Fourteen years ago PREVITE started a student newspaper called "What's Happening", establishing a dialogue between herself, the kids, and the community. (REBROADCAST from 12

2: KRISTIN CLARK TAYLOR was President Bush's White House director of media relations. In so doing she was the first African-American woman in history to hold that post. She's written a new book about it, "The First to Speak: A Woman of Color inside the White House." (Doubleday).

Poet, writer, and teacher NANCY MAIRS. She's Catholic, but started out Protestant; late in life she became a feminist. She calls herself, "the connoisseur of catastrophe." She's known for writing honestly about her struggles with multiple sclerosis, depression, and the life-threatening illness of her husband. MAIRS also writes about being a woman, a mother, and a wife. Her newest book of personal essays is "Ordinary Time," (Beacon). One revewier calls it, "a small miracle of honesty mediated by dignity and humor." (REBROADCAST FROM 7/19/93).

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Remember Laughter," Neil Grauer''s biography of James Thurber (University of Nebraska Press).