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2:Pianist BUTCH THOMPSON. He and his trio, "the Butch Thompson Trio," were a regular on Garrison Keillor's "A Praire Home Companion." His specialty is classic jazz from 1890s to about 1940 including the music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, and others. He has a new series of solo CDs entitled "The 88s" (on Daring, a Boston label distributed by Rounder Records). It includes recordings of classic jazz.

ayle Pemberton reviews Black Women in White America, edited by GERDA LERNER.

COKIE ROBERTS, Political Analyst for NPR and ABC. Her full name is Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts and she is perhaps the consummate "Washington Insider". The daughter of parents who shared a Congressional seat for a combined total of fifty years, Roberts' star in journalism is rising, covering the capital for NPR, and on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley", as well as substituting for Ted Koppel on "Nightline" In a conversation recorded live before an audience, Terry asks her about covering Congress and how her political upbringing affects her reporting. (This interview continues into the second half of the show).

Regular STEPHEN SCHIFF is covering the final days of the Cannes Film Festival, and Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD fills in with a review of "Sliver".

2: A live interview with former Atlantic Records executive JERRY WEXLER. Wexler was the producer behind some of the greatest soul music of the 60s, including classic sessions with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding.

Critic Stephen Schiff reviews the cinema''s latest gender-bending foray: "The Ballad of Little Jo".

Journalist MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE. He writes regularly for "The Advocate," and "Out" magazine. He's also written for "The New York Times," "The Village Voice," and other publications. He has a new book, "Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power," (Random House). SIGNORILE is a proponent of "outing" -- that is revealing the homosexuality of someone in power or position whether that person wants it known or not. SIGNORILE caused a controversy by

Physicist STEVEN WEINBERG. He received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics. He's the author of "The First Three Minutes," about the 'Big Bang.' He's currently working on something known as the "final theory," the search for the ultimate laws of nature--for the final answer to our questions about why nature is the way it is. That search is tied up with work on the Superconducting Super Collider. His new book about that is "Dreams of the Final Theory," (Pantheon).

2:MICHAEL PALIN is best known for his comedy work with England's legendary Monty Python troupe. But Palin's new movie, "American Friends," is a romance based on the life of his great-grandfather. Edward Palin was a 35 year-old tutor at Oxford University when he met 17-year-old Brita, an American girl touring Europe. Oxford tutors in the Victorian era were sworn to chastity, so Edward Palin left his job to marry Brita. Michael Palin found the story in his great-grandfather's journal.

2: Interview with WOLE SOYINKA, continued.