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English professor and author GREG SARRIS is part American Indian, Filipino, and Jewish, and was raised in both Indian and white families. He has just written two books related to his experiences growing up. "Grand Avenue" (Hyperion) is a collection of short stories about whites and Native Americans tied by a common ancestor; "Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream" (University of California Press) is a biography of SARRIS' aunt, a world-renowned basket weaver. SARRIS teaches at UCLA. REV.: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI has just gotten a satellite dish. He reflects on seeing network feeds of programs before they're actually aired.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a 2-CD reissue of trumpeter Don Cherry''s albums recorded for Blue Note in the 1960''s.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the recent body of work by British actor Hugh Grant. Grant appears in three new movies: "Bitter Moon," "Sirens" and the very popular "Four Weddings and a Funeral."

2: JAMES RESTON, JR. has just written a biography of Galileo, called "Galileo: A Life." (HarperCollins) In it he explores how Galileo was publicly humiliated for supporting the theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. RESTON recently wrote a cover story for "Time Magazine," on the comet crash into Jupiter, before the crash became national news.

2: Sporswriter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, JIM MURRAY. He's just written his autobiography (Macmillan) about his five decades in journalism: as a young reporter for Time magazine following the 1952 presidential campaign and the rise of Richard Nixon's political career; working as one of the original writers for Sports Illustrated; and beginning in 1961, as sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His syndicated column once reached 200 newspapers a day and he has won the Sportswriter of the Year award a record 14 times.

New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will be the state's first woman chief executive after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would be stepping down effective Aug. 24.

MARIA FOSCARINIS is founder and executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. FOSCARINIS has been active in legal issues affecting the homeless since 1983. In 1985, she established the office of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington. She calls anti-panhandling laws inhumane and possibly unconstitutional, and works to prevent cities from passing laws which attempt to sweep people off the streets. She has litigated several federal laws which enforce the individual rights of homeless people. REV.: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new "CBS Reports" documentary "When America Trembled -- Murrow/McCarthy."

Journalist MISHA GLENNY. GLENNY has been covering the war in former Yugoslavia--first as correspondent for the BBC and now as an independent journalist. He is the author of the book "The Fall of Yugoslavia." He will talk about the recent morter attack on the market in Sarajevo and the effects of the recent downing by NATO forces of four Serbian warplanes. (Interview with MISHA GLENNY continues into the second part of the show.

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews Stephen Sondheim''s "Passion."

Songwriter and Producer, ELLIE GREENWICH. She co-wrote some of the most popular songs of the early 1960's, for the girl groups produced by Phil Spector: songs like "Leader of the Pack" and "River Deep, Mountain High". She got her start out of the Brill Building with the songwriting team of Lieber and Stoller. In the 1980's, when she was writing songs for Cyndi Lauper and Irene Cara, she performed some of her hits in a Broadway Review called "Leader of the Pack". (Rebroadcast from 1986).