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"Wall Street Journal" senior writer JANE MAYER is co-author of "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas" (Houghton Mifflin). MAYER and her co-author, Jill Abramson, investigated sexual harassment allegations against Thomas made by Anita Hill. They found other women who had had similar experiences with Thomas, but who were never called to testify. They wanted to write an objective account of the process, and they bring their harshest criticism on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

2: PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR ROBERT P. CASEY. June 14th will be the first anniversary of his "return from the dead." Last year when he was close to death from a fatal liver disease that was destroying his heart, CASEY received a heart and liver transplant. The donor was a young African American man who was savagely beaten by drug dealers. CASEY talks about his second chance at life. And he discusses his views--pre and post-surgery--on political issues of life and death such as abortion and the death penalty.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews "Stranger Than Fiction." It''s the new album from Bad Religion. REV. 2: Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the 25th anniversary edition of "Portnoy''s Complaint" by Philip Roth.

2: Rock and roll critic DAVE MARSH talks about the song "Louie, Louie". He's written a book about it called, "Louie, Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song: Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I., and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing, for the First Time Anywhere, the Actual Dirty Lyrics." (Hyperion) The song was written by Richard Berry in 1957...as a talke of a lovesick Jamaican sailor. When the Kingsmen recorded it in 1957, the lyrics were incomprehensible and mistaken for being dirty. It set off a series of events that Marsh details in his book.

FLOYD COCHRAN used to be a recruiter and public relations man for the racist, anti-Semitic Aryan Nations, based in Idaho. But about two years ago COCHRAN left the group and denounced it and it's racist views. Now he travels the country speaking out against the Aryan Nations. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

2: DR. KEVIN CAHILL. He specializes in tropical medicine, and he looks at the role of health in promoting world peace. He is President and Director of the Center for International Health and Cooperation in New york. His work looking at health amid natural disasters and wars has taken him all over the world, from Nicaragua in the 70s to Somalia today. He is the author or editor of 22 books. He edited the new book "A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters." It's a collection 20 essays by international experts looking for a new approach to foreign policy that takes health and human rights into account.

2: Biographer PETER MANSO. He's written "Brando: The Biography" (Hyperion), the result of seven years of research and over 700 interviews. It tells the story of Brando as a man with a hidden troubled life. MANSO is also the author of an oral biography of Norman Mailer.

Ken Tucker on the new George Clinton record, "Hey man, smell my finger".

2: Cuban-born saxophonist and composer, PAQUITO D'RIVERA. D'RIVERA defected to the United States in 1980 during a concert tour. Like his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, D'RIVERA is a tireless performer and purveyor of Latin jazz. His "REUNION" album (Messidor), recorded with trumpeter Arturo Sandoval was called a "high speed tour of the Pan-American musical map." For his newest record D'RIVERA gathered 23 of the top Cuban musicians from around the world: "Pasquito D'Rivera Presents 40 Years of Cuban Jam Session"

2: Actor and playwright CHAZZ PALMINTERI. He wrote the play, "A Bronx Tale," which was made into a movie directed by Robert DeNiro. He is now in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway," playing a gangster turned playwright.