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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

2: Interview with JAMES CAMERON continues.

Writer JILL KER CONWAY. CONWAY grew up in a remote sheep station in the Australian outback, and later became the president of Smith College. Her girlhood memoir, "The Road from Coorain," was a bestseller, but it ended as CONWAY entered adulthood. In her new book, "True North," (Knopf) she continues her story, writing about organizing for women's rights on campus, and creating a marriage in which she and her husband are equal partners. CONWAY was the first female vice president of The University of Toronto, and from 1975 to 1985 was the president of Smith. Since then, she has been a visiting scholar and professor at M.I.T.'s Program in Science, Technology and Society

Jazz singer/songwriter, ABBY LINCOLN. Her new record is "Devil's Got Your Tounge" (Verve). Once married to legendary jazz drummer Max Roach, she's made her mark on jazz for almost 40 years, singing with giants like Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins. Lincoln has been hailed by one critic as the "Last Great Diva", and says herself that she sings in the tradition of Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.

Tom Chapman was in the trenches with the 101st Airborne Division, in the midst of the Battle of the Bulge. He says the Germans had captured the U.S. supply trucks, so he and his fellow soldiers had no coats, no gloves, no blankets, just their regular uniforms.

World music commentator MILO MILES looks at old and new releases by BADEN POWELL, a guitarist associated with Bossa Nova.

Author and museum director JAMES CAMERON. Sixty four years ago, an organized mob of more than 10,000 white men and women dragged CAMERON and two other black teenage men from a jail cell in Marion, Indiana. The mob mercilessly beat the three young men. They lynched two. CAMERON was spared. In 1984, he recounted this experience in his memoir "A Time of Terror" (Available now from Black Classic Press). Then in 1988, CAMERON founded the Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. The Museum houses photographs, books, articles and artifacts documenting the atrocities endured by blacks in this country. CAMERON modeled the Museum after the Jewish Holocaust museum in Israel. (THE INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CAMERON WILL CONTINUE INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW.) (Rebroadcast from 3