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Singer BARBARA LEA with a musical tribute to Cole Porter. She had her start singing in the 1950s in Boston and then moved to New York where she recorded her first album in 1955 to critical acclaim. She's been compared to the late Lee Wiley. Her other influences are Mildred Bailey and Billie Holiday. She dropped out of singing for a while but made a comeback during the 70s in New York's cabaret world. LEA is accompanied by pianist TONY TAMBURELLO. He was Sinatra's rehearsal pianist, and he was on the road accompanying Tony Bennett for 21 years. (REBROADCAST FROM 6

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on Eurocentric Culture.

2: Author and activist MAHNAZ AFKHAMI lobbied for many years for women's rights in her native Iran. For the past fifteen years, she has been in exile from her country for this work. In coming to terms with her exile in the United States, she talked with other women in exile from all over the world. Twelve of these women's stories are recorded in her new book, "Women in Exile" (University Press of Virginia).

2: Comedian and film maker MEL BROOKS. Brooks has made some of the funniest films in movie history, including "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein," and "Blazing Saddles." (REBROADCAST from July 30,

Commentator DAGOBERTO GILB on a Wyoming coyote hunt, sponsored by the state''s sheep ranchers.

Actor, writer, and Monthy Python member JOHN CLEESE. Post-Python, CLEESE is best known for "Fawlty Towers," and a number of movies, including his 1988 comedy, "A Fish Called Wanda." He's also written a book called "Families and How to Survive Them" with therapist Robyn Skinner, and he makes training films for corporations. (REBROADCAST FROM 6

4: Comic GRAHMAN CHAPMAN. He was the straight man in the Monty Python troupe who would come in and break up the skits. A physician by training, he was a writer and activist for gay rights. He died in 1989. (REBROADCAST FROM 7

World music critic MILO MILES reviews two new box sets of The Temptations, and War (Avenue Records).

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "Morning Song," (Enja) the new release by tenor and soprano saxophonist John Stubblefield.

Actor LESLIE NIELSEN. Perhaps best known for his comic roles in Airplane! and the Naked Gun films, Nielsen has been acting since the late forties, after he was taught radio broadcasting by Lorne Greene. He's just written a "fictional autobiography" called "The Naked Truth" (Simon & Schuster) a pun-encrusted look at nearly fifty years of showbusiness