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Rock Critic Ken Tucker on a new direction in rap: PM Dawn''s new album: "The Bliss Album: Vibrations of Love & Anger & the Ponderance of Life & Existence".

2: Our classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ has a collection of poems, "Goodnight, Gracie," (published by Phoenix Poets). David Lehman calls this new collection, "a moving and inventive collection, his best and most ambitious to date." LLOYD is also music editor of The Boston Phoenix and is co-director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4/22/93).

2: Interview with ANDRES SERRANO continues.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews three new reissues on the Verve label: "Once Upon a Summertime," by Blossom Dearie, "Dream of You," by Helen Merrill, and "Ella Swings Lightly," by Ella Fitzgerald.

Rock guitarist ERIC CLAPTON. His latest album, "Unplugged," swept the Grammy Awards. The album was inspired, in part, by the death of his young son, who fell from a window ledge and died. CLAPTON is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, guitar player in rock history. Clapton started out playing blues with the Yardbirds (For Your Love) in the early 60s, then played with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers before forming Cream, one of the 60s most influental bands (Crossroads, White Room). In this interview from 1989, Terry talks with him about his life and work. (Originally aired 12

BILL LITTLEFIELD. He's a writer and regular sports commentator on NPR's "Morning Edition." LITTLEFIELD has a new book about baseball, "Baseball Days: From the Sandlots to the Show" (Bulfinch Press). LITTLEFIELD has been in love with the game since he was a kid, "Baseball Days" is a sentimental look at America's favorite pasetime

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "CBS Reports," the documentary series which is returning to the network.

Maureen Corrigan reviews the new Patricia Cornwell mystery, "Cruel and Unusual".

2: COKIE ROBERTS, Political Analyst for NPR and ABC. Her full name is Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts and she is perhaps the consummate "Washington Insider". The daughter of parents who shared a Congressional seat for a combined total of fifty years, Roberts' star in journalism is rising, covering the capital for NPR, and on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley", as well as substituting for Ted Koppel on "Nightline" In a conversation recorded live before an audience, Terry asks her about covering Congress and how her political upbringing affects her reporting (Recorded 5/21/93).

2: The hypenated American, with novelist DIANA ABU-JABER (pronounced "ABU-jabber"). Her first novel "Arabian Jazz" (Harcourt Brace) is now out; it explores the lives of two sisters in upstate New York, the children a Jordanian father and an American mother.