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Singer and songwriter CAROLE KING. In the 1960s, she wrote hit songs like "Up on the Roof" and "Will you still love me tomorrow?" But in the 70s, she achieved lasting fame with songs like "Natural Woman" and her album "Tapestry," which was the best-selling album of the decade. Carole King's latest album is titled "Color of Your Dreams" (Rebroadcast from June 19, 1989.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Natural Ingredients"(Grand Royal). It''s the first full-length collection by Lucious Jackson, a four-woman band from lower Manhattan, whose drummer was the original drummer for the Beastie Boys.

2: JONATHAN MANN, M.D. talks about the connection between health and human rights. MANN is the director and one of the founders of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud ("Fran-SWAH ZA-vee-yay bahn-YOU") Center For Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was the founding director of the World Health Organization's Global AIDS Program from 1986-1990. It was during his work with AIDS that he first noticed the connection between health and human rights. The Bagnoud Center is holding its first international conference on Health and Human Rights from September 22 to 24, 1994, at Harvard University.

2: Television correspondent ROBERT KRULWICH. In a FRONTLINE production (co-produced with the Center for Investigative Reporting) called "Public Lands, Private Profits" to be aired at 9 p.m. tonight on PBS (check local listings), KRULWICH examines today's gold mining industry--the impact of mining activities and the current political battle for control of mineral resources on public lands. The Mining Law of 1872 was passed to encourage settlement and development in the West. It's still on the books. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt thinks the law allows mining companies--even foreign ones--to legally rip off American taxpayers. The mining companies and western legislators like the status quo. The show's producer Stephen Talbot calls it "a fight over who will rule the West in the twenty-first century."

2: Interview with BARBARA BUSH continued.

Television critic David Bianculli on the season premier of "L.A. Law".

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the debut album by the hip-hop group, "Digable Planets." (Elektra).

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the "Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales," edited by Alison Lurie. It includes 40 fairy tales written during the last century and a half by British and American writers.(Oxford University Press).

Playwright, female impersonator, and now novelist CHARLES BUSCH. His play, the camp classic, "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," was the longest-running play in Off-Broadway history. His other plays include, "Psycho Beach Party," and "Red Scare on Sunset." His latest show parodies the variety shows of the 60s, "The Charles Busch Revue," in which he makes seven costume changes in an hour and 15 minutes. BUSCH's first novel, "Whores of Lost Atlantis," (Hyperion) came out in November. (Rebroadcast from 7/29/93) BUSCH can now be seen in the film, "Addams Family Values," playing Morticia's Countess cousin

2: Singer and actress BARBARA COOK. Since the 1950's COOK has been in countless Broadway musicals--"Oklahoma", "The King and I", and Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" to name a few. She's been called a "no nonsense singer...able to thrust with gentility of tone." COOK latest album--her first in five years-- is "Dorothy Fields: Close as Pages in a Book." She won a Tony Award for her part as "Marian the librarian" which she originated in "The Music Man." (REBROADCAST from 11