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British mystery writer ANNE PERRY is the author of 19 crime novels based in Victorian England. It was recently discovered that forty years ago, PERRY took part in a murder. She was 15 and on medication for an illness she had at the time. She went to jail for five and a half years. Her newly released 20th book, "The Sins of the Wolf" (Fawcett Columbine), is about a nurse imprisioned for a crime she didn't commit.

TERRY ANDERSON and his wife MADELEINE BASSIL. ANDERSON was held hostage for seven years in Lebanon. Madeleine was pregnant when he was abducted and gave birth to their daughter, Sulome Theresa, while her husband was in captivity. In ANDERSON's new book, "Den of Lions: Memiors of Seven Years" (Crown Publishers), Terry and Madeleine describe the challenges they were forced to face until his release in December of 1991. (This interview continues into the second half of the show.

2: Journalist ARI L. GOLDMAN. He's the former religion correspondent for The New York Times. He's the author of "The Search for God At Harvard". It's about the year he took off from his job to attend the Harvard Divinity School and his experiences there and how they affected his own faith as an orthodox jew. (published by Random House). (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 5/28/91). GOLDMAN now teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism. .Tibetan buddhist master SOGYAL RINPOCHE ("soh-GYAL RIN-poh-chay," the ch as in chair). He was born in Tibet and raised by a master in the buddhist tradition. He also studied at Cambridge University in England. He has lived outside of Tibet, in exile, for 20 years. "Rinpoche" is a title usually given to incarnate Lamas, meaning "the Precious One." John Cleese of Monty Python fame once introduced one of Rinpoche's talks, by saying it was the first time he played warm-up man to an incarnate lama. Rinpoche is the incarnation of Terton Sogyal (1856-1926), a Tibetan mystic and the teacher of the last Dalai Lama. Rinpoche's book, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," combines Tibetan wisdom with modern research on death and dying. (HarperCollins) (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4/20/93) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC PROMO).

Documentary film makers ALAN and SUSAN RAYMOND. They made documentary history with "An American Family," living for seven months with the Loud family, to film the life of a "typical" American family. The 12-part series was broadcast over PBS in 1973, and it turned out to be a portrait of a not-so-typical family, and of a family disintegrating before our eyes. The RAYMONDS' documentary "The Police Tapes," was the inspiration for the TV series, "Hill Street Blues." They filmed life in a North Philadelphia inner-city elementary school for their latest film, "I am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School." They will be joined in Terry's interview with the principal of the school, DEANNA BURNEY. ("I am the Promise," premieres on HBO Monday, October 11, at 10pm

2: Alto Saxophonist VERNARD JOHNSON. He's best known for his Gospel playing, performing with preachers like, E.V. Hill, Billy Graham, and Bishop L. H. Ford. His saxophone was considered too raucous for the Gospel circuit when he began playing there in the mid-60's, but eventually he became a favorite on the evangelical circuit. Robert Palmer, in "The New York Times," writes, "The force and passion of the man's alto saxophone sounds are matched only by its creamy richness...listeners may think it sounds more like rhythm and blues, rock, or jazz than conventional Gospel music." Johnson's collection of performances called "I'm Alive" was released in 1991 on the Elektra Nonesuch label. (REBROADCAST/ Originally aired 8

MOVIE critic Stephen Schiff preivew the upscoming live action film, "The Flinstones".

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World Music commentator Milo Miles finds the ideal record to introduce Americans to Pakistani music: Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn and his "Devotional & Love Songs" (Real World).

Former First Lady, BARBARA BUSH. She's written her memoir, "Barbara Bush" (Charles Scribner's Sons). A story of a "life of privilege" she writes. The book chronicles her early life, her marriage to George Bush during World War Two at the age of 19, and the political path that took them to the White House. BARBARA BUSH also writes about a depression she fell into in the mid-1970s in which she wept each night in the arms of her husband, and had thoughts about crashing her car into a tree or oncoming auto. The depression finally lifted on its own. The memoir is based on her diaries. One reviewer writes that BUSH "casts herself mostly as enthralled bystander at her husband's ascent from local Texas politics to the White House." (CONTINUES INTO SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

In 1990, an American Association of American Women survey found that the self-esteem of young girls plummets during adolescence. A year later, journalist PEGGY ORENSTEIN was commissioned to do a follow-up study to this survey, which resulted in her new book, "SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap" (Doubleday). ORENSTEIN talked to girls in two junior high schools, and examined some of the factors that influnced their feelings about themselves, including schooling, family, and class.