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Ethnobotanist MARK PLOTKIN. He has a new book about what he learned about botany and medicine from the Medicine Men of the tropical rain forests. His new book is "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice," published by VIKING

2: Co-founder of the working women's advocacy group, "9 to 5," KAREN NUSSBAUM. She helped found the group 20 years ago. Marty will talk with her about the the changing role of women in the workplace in the last twenty years, and about the concerns of women in the workplace, like childcare.

2: Interview with Psychiatrist Peter Kramer continues.

2: Rebroadcast of interview with BILL FRISSELL.

Actor and Theater Director, W. H. MACY. A member of Playwright David Mamet's circle of theater innovators, Macy has most recently starred in Mamet's new play "Oleanna", and was featured in his film "Homocide". They co-founded the Atlantic Theater Company, an ensemble which performs mainly original works by American writers. Members of the company wrote "A Practical Handbook For The Actor", (Vintage Books) from notes taken during acting workshops led by Mr. Macy. One critic writes that the ensemble "has rescued theater from the mindless"

Professor UWE REINHARDT (OOH-vuh). He is a professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. He is also President of the American Association of Health Services Research. Reinhardt has written widely about reforming the U-S healthcare system in such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has argued for a universal plan for years now, saying it will control spiralling costs.

Film Critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "The Joy Luck Club," the movie adaptation of the Amy Tan novel.

She really can talk to the animals. Or at least the chimps. JANE GOODALL reflects on over 30 years in the company of one community of chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania. Goodall has co-written the new book, "Visions of Caliban" (Houghton Mifflin). REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4

Journalist ROBERT KAPLAN. He's been a foreign correspondent for "The Atlantic," and "The New Republic." In the 1980s and early 1990s he was the first American writer to warn of the coming crisis in the Balkans. His latest book is about that region, "Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History," (St. Martin's Press) a political travel book that took him through southern Austria and Croatia, Old Serbia and Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. One reviewer wrote of the book, it "provides a road map through the centuries-old ethnic hatreds and anti-Semitism that continue to erupt in Eastern Europe."

2: Novelist FRANK CONROY. At 57, he's just published his first novel, "Body & Soul" (Houghton & Mifflin). He is currently the director of the prestigous Iowa Writers Program, and this novel has been long awaited by fans of his 1967 autobiography "Stop Time". Conroy has one other book, a collection of short stories called "Midair"; he's worked as a jazz pianist in Greenwich Village and Nantucket for many years.