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2: Concert Christmas record-spinning continues with BEN VAUGHN and three of his combo members.

Educator DEBBIE MEIER. She's a nationally known authority on education, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award. She developed and directed three alternative elementary schools in East Harlem and later a Seondary School. The schools accept students on a first-come, first-serve basis. Classes are small and personalized, and the emphasis is on academic learning and inquiry. MEIER wanted to create an atmosphere where students learn democratic values, where teachers can hold kids accountable, and parents can become involved. A new book about what happened in East Harlem, thanks to MEIER and others is, "Miracle in East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education," by Seymour Fliegel with James MacGuire (Times

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Clear and Present Danger," starring Harrison Ford, based on the Tom Clancy novel.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Dave" the new film starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver.

Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG on why books will never be osolete.

Crime writer JAMES ELLROY. He sets his novels in 1950's LA, where he grew up. His series of novels, "LA Quartet," was a bestseller. His latest novel is called "Hollywood Nocturnes." (Otto Penzler Books). When he was ten, his mother was murdered near their LA home. He wrote an article about returning to LA to go through the police files on his mother for this month's issue of "Gentleman's Quarterly" where he is a contributing editor. He'll talk today about how his mother's murder led to his crime writing

2: Writer, feminist, organizer, and the founder of Ms. Magazine, GLORIA STEINEM. She has a new book of essays, "Moving Beyond Words, (Simon & Schuster). In one of the essays she wonders -- what if Freud were female? -- and imagines what life would be like if one of the most "enduring, infuential, and fiercely defended thinkers" in Western civilization were Dr. Phyllis Freud. In her new book STEINEM also reflects on turning 60.

2: Novelist WILTON BARNHARDT. He's getting alot of press and praise for his new novel, "Gospel," (St. Martin's Press) an 800-page saga about a present-day search for a lost gospel. It's been described as an "intellectual detective novel. . . written on the grand scale." (Library Journal). And, author Tony Hillerman writes of the book, "every ten years comes a novel so delightful, so exciting, that you want to grab perfect strangers and tell 'em about it." BARNHARDT's first novel was "Emma Who Saved My Life."

Folk singer JOAN BAEZ. A leading figure in the heyday of the Greenwich Village folk scene, BAEZ has continued to use her music in the service of various political causes, including a number of human rights organizations. In 1987, she published an autobiography called "And a Voice to Sing with: A Memoir." (Summit Books) Most recently, BAEZ has performed at the Amnesty International's "Conspiracy of Hope" and "Human Rights Now!" concerts, and has been involved in human rights work for Bosnia . Her latest album, "Play Me Backwards," (Virgin Records) was released in 1992.

Elementary school principal MADELINE CARTWRIGHT took over the run-down Blaine Elementary School in a run-down, drug-infested neighborhood in North Philadelphia and turned it into a school that works. One of her first acts when she took over the school was to get down on her hands and knees and scrub the foul-smelling children's bathroom. CARTWRIGHT got parents involved in the school, made it a safe place for the children to learn, brought up test scores and attendance, and became the subject of a a 1990 New York Times Magazine cover story: "Hope in Hell's Classroom." Now she's written her own story of Blaine Elementary School: "For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal." (Doub