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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Bengal Nights," and "It Does Not Die," two autobiographical novels about the same romantic affair. They''ve just been rebublished. "Bengal Nights" is by Mircea Eliade, "It Does Not Die," is by Maitreyi Devi. (Both University of Chicago Press).

Reporter for The Washington Post NATHAN MCCALL. He's written a new autobiography, "Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America." (Random House). When MCCALL was twenty years old he was sent to prison for armed robbery. In his new book, MCCALL writes about growing up in a suburban neighborhood, and the anger he felt toward white's that made him and his friends go after and beat up white guys because it made them "feel good inside." After MCCALL was released from jail, he studied journalism and reported for the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. His book has been compared to Richard Wright's "Black Boy," and been described as "more than a coming of age story: it's a story of an America that should never have come to be.

2: THOMAS BLANTON, of the National Security Archive, a group that declassifies government documents, using the freedom of information act. Recently his group accessed documents indicating that the Reagan administration was aware of human rights abuses in El Salvador in the 1980s. During that time, the administration was required to report to Congress about conditions in El Salvador, with the understanding that if the Salvadorian military did not improve it's human rights record, the U.S. would no longer send aid there. Last week, the U.N.'s Commission on the Truth issued it's report (based on these declassified documents) on abuses by the Salvadorian military, implicating them in the murders of Archbishop Romero, four American churchworkers, and six Jesuit priests. Congress is soon to begin hearings on U.S. policy in El Salvador during the civil war.

2: DAVE ALVIN continued.

Jazz vibraphonist, GARY BURTON. He invented a four-mallet grip for the instrument that is used by many contemporary players. BURTON left Stan Getz's quartet in the mid 60's (at the age of 24) to form his own combo; a few years later he hired a young guitarist named Pat Metheny, giving Metheny his first taste of big time jazz. BURTON has been teaching percussion and improvisation classes at the Berklee School of Music in Boston; in 1985 he was named Dean of Curriculum there. BURTON has over fifty albums to his credit and three Grammy award. His new album is "It's Another Day.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews, "A Map of the World," by Jane Hamilton.

2: Writer, performer and activist NICOLE PANTER. She is well known in the punk-rock scene, and was a founding member and writer of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse." She is a member of the punk band Honk if Yer Horny. In 1992, PANTER co-founded The Bohemian Women's Political Alliance, a feminist organization of "...the teenagers who dressed in black, the bad girls who climbed out of bedroom windows at dark and caught taxis home at dawn."

South African journalist JOHN MATISONN. MATISONN is white and grew up in the suburbs in Johannesburg. (His grandparents emigrated to South Africa at the turn of the century). To N-P-R listeners he's best known for his coverage from South Africa from 1986 to 1991. MATISONN also worked in Washington, D.C. He's now the head of elections for the South Africa Broadcasting Company, S-A-B-C, (which before the end of apartheid, broadcast purely government propoganda). He also co-founded the P-B-I, Public Broadcasting Initiative, to train and recruit South African journalists for the SABC to teach them about balance and fairness in the media.

Actor and singer HARRY BELAFONTE. He was born in Harlem and raised in the hills of Jamaica where he absorbed the song and music of the island life around him. BELAFONTE's first love was theater, however: he wasn't convinced that popular singing would take him as far emotionally as Shakespeare did. But by embracing the calpyso music of his childhood he introduced it to America. This week, he performs his first public concert in New York City in over thirty years.