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CYNTHIA LENNON, JOHN LENNON's first wife (REBROADCAST FROM 8

2: Journalist, professor, historian CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON. He teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. Last month the U.N. Security Council voted to create a new international tribunal to try those accused of war crimes in the Balkan conflict. SIMPSON has written a new book about the use of mass murder as an instrument of state power, beginning with World War I, "The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century," (Grove Press). SIMPSON shows how those who commit such crimes are rarely punished, like high-ranking SS killers from World War II, who were allowed to escape the country with the help of CIA chief Allen Dulles.

Novelist MARY GORDON. Her most recent book, "The Rest of Life" (Viking), is a compilation of three novellas. She explores the delicate love affairs that shape the lives of three women. Gordon's a feminist and a Catholic and often explores those themes in her writing. She has written four other novels as well as a collection of short stories. GORDON teaches at Barnard College.

A CONCERT with the McGarrigle sisters, Kate and Anna. There's a new CD of their first two albums, released in the late 70s: "Kate & Anna McGarrigle" and "Dancer with Bruised Knees." The McGarrigles are known for their close and "subtle harmony." Their music is considered hard to categorize, although it sounds folky. The sisters absorbed an eclectic blend of music when they were growing up in Canada: Victorian ballads, blues, jazz, French-Canadian folk songs, Broadway tunes, and country music. They may be best known for their song, "Heart Like a Wheel," which was the title track on Linda Ronstadt's most successful album.

Writer and filmmaker STEPHEN TROMBLEY. His latest project is a book and documentary, "The Execution Protocol: Inside America's Capital Punishment Industry." (Crown Publishers). The book has little to do with the morality of taking a life. It's more about practical business of causing someone to die. The book is about the workings of the Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri where the staff makes "compulsively fastidious preparations" making sure that everything from the phone lines (incase of a last-minute pardon) to the execution equipment works properly. TROMBLEY also focuses on the work of Fred Leuchter, a specialist in the design and construction of execution devices.

Writer DOROTHY ALLISON. Her most recent novel is called "Bastard Out of Carolina," about a poor South Carolina family's violence and incest, and it's largely autobiographical. She says that she doesn't like most abuse literature because it tends to eroticize abuse. Allison has also written a book of short stories called "Trash" and a book of poems called "The Women Who Hate Me." The idea for her novel came from a poem in "The Women Who Hate Me," called "To The Bone." ("Bastard" is published by Dutton.) REBROADCAST. (originally broadcast 9

First half a performance from Doctor John from the archives. Second half, Ed Ward doing a Blues Revival.

COLIN ESCOTT talks about his new book, "Hank Williams, The Biography"(Little Brown.) He's also the author of "Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records & The Birth of Rock & Roll", and he produced and annotated the CD Collection "Hank Williams: The Original Singles Collection...Plus" (a1990 Polygram Records release).

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Love Affair," the remake of "An Affair to Remember," starring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.

GIOCONDA BELLI's first novel, "The Inhabited Woman," (Curbstone Press) is about a young architect whose body becomes inhabited by the soul of an Indian woman from the time of the Conquistadors. The soul urges the young woman to abandon her privileged lifestyle and join an underground movement against the dictatorship. BELLI is from an affluent Nicaraguan family. She studied English and advertising abroad, before returning to Nicaragua and joining the Sandinistas and playing a role in the overthrow of Nicaragua's dictator Somoza. Her book of poetry, "Line of Fire" won the Casa de las Americas Prize for poetry in 1979. "The Inhabited Woman" has been published in the US. Latin America, and Europe