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Actress and Stanford Theater Professor, ANNA DEAVERE SMITH. She performs solo, multi-casted pieces, the scripts of which are created from interviews she did with people who lived thru events of social upheaval. "Fires in the Mirrors" (aired on PBS) gave voice to the many facets of the Crown Heights riots. Her new show "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992", condenses 170 interviews Smith conducted with 21 Los Angelinos, including: Darryl Gates, Reginald Denny, Rodney King's aunt, and a Korean shopkeeper (whose lines are spoken in perfect Korean and translated overhead). "Twilight" begins a run at New York's Public Theater. SMITH also has a cameo role in "Philadelphia" as a key witness. (Rebroadcast from 4-26-93).

British actress JOAN PLOWRIGHT. She's one of her nation's leading actresses, having appeared on the London stage since the mid 50s. She's also been on Broadway, had numerous role on British television, and appeared in the films "The Dressmaker," "I Love You To Death," and "Avalon." She was also married to actor Sir Lawrence Oliver. She's stars in the new movie "Widow's Peak." (REBROADCAST from 4

ALLEN SPLET, the sound designer for the David Lynch films, "Blue Velvet," "The Elephant Man" and "Eraserhead." (REBROADCAST from 11/26/87).

MEL WHITE is the ghost-writer of biographies for such Religious Right leaders as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robinson and Billy Graham. That was before he came out as a gay man, after a long struggle accepting it. WHITE tried aversion therapy and exorcism to purge himself of his homosexual feelings. Now WHITE is the Dean of the largest gay church in the world, Dallas's Cathedral of Hope and the author of "Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America," (Simon & Schuster).

2: Director of the human rights group, Middle East Watch, ANDREW WHITLEY. On Tuesday the Mideast Peace Talks start up again. Terry talks with WHITLEY about the human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

Classical Music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a new recording of Leonard Bernstein''s "On the Town" (Deutsche Grammophon).

Science fiction writer OCTAVIA BUTLER. Because she is black and female, she's considered an atypical science fiction writer. She's won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, science fiction's two most prestigious awards. Butler often describes her work as "speculative fiction" rather than science fiction. She says, "Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce." Her main characters are usually black women, and the fictional world they inhabit are racially diverse. BUTLER has written nine novels. Her tenth one is the new "Parable of the Sower," (Four Walls Eight Windows).

2: Colombian journalist MARIA JIMENA DUZAN helped expose the connection between Colombia's drug traffickers and the nation's military in 1988. DUZAN and her paper, El Espectador, were the targets of death threats and attacks. By 1990 all of the members of the paper's former investigative unit were either dead or in exile. DUZAN went into exile, but her sister, a documentary film maker, was murdered. DUZAN returned to Columbia in 1992. She has a new book, "Death Beat: A Colombian Journalist's Life Inside the Cocaine Wars." (HarperCo

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews the original cast recording for Roger & Hammerstein''s "South Pacific." (on Sony).

DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new "Bonanza" telemovie.