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Spy novelist JOHN LE CARRE. His novels, almost every one of which is considered a masterpiece of the genre, include "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold," "A Small Town in Germany," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Little Drummer Girl." To many critics, Le Carre is not simply the finest spy novelist of his era, but perhaps the finest all-around novelist. Several of his works have been made into movies, most notably "Spy Who Came In From the Cold," which starred Richard Burton and Claire Bloom. His new best-seller is called "The Night Manager." (Knopf) (REBROADCAST FROM 5

JERROLD LADD is a 24-year-old writer, who has just published an autobiography, "Out of the Madness." (Warner Books) In his book, he writes about growing up in the Dallas housing projects, with his mother who was a heroin addict. He describes how he struggled to educate himself and eventually became a writer. His book started out as an article, written when he was 20, and published in "Dallas Life." This article won him the prestigious "Sunday Magazine Editors Association National Essay of the Year Award." LADD currently writes for the "Dallas Morning News," and attends college.

2: Two winners of the P.E.N./Freedom to Write Awards: Serbian dissident writer SVETLANA SLAPSAK (Svet-LAUNA SLAP-sack) and Bosnian writer ZORAN MUTIC (zoe-RON MOO-tick). Both fled Sarajevo and Belgrade respectively to avoid repercussions because of their outspokenness and are living in exile in Slovenia. MUTIC is of Serb/Muslim background and is a translator who translated Rushdie's "Midnight Children," into Serbian. After the death sentence against Rushdie, MUTIC became a staunch supporter of him in the Sarajevo community. SLAPSAK wrote the widely acclaimed essay, "When Words Kill." In 1968 she was beaten by police because of her editing of the magazine "Frontisterion." She is president of the Committee for the Liberty of Expression.

ook critic John Leonard reviews "Operation Shylock" (Simon & Schuster).

Maureen Corrigan reviews novelist E.L. Doctorow''s first book of essays, entitled "Jack London."

2: Musician ROBBIE ROBERTSON was a guitarist and songwriter for The Band until their break-up in 1976. Since then, he has put out solo albums and done film soundtracks for director Martin Scorsese. His newest work is "The Native Americans" (Capitol), inspired by his Native American heritage.

2:Singer and actress BARBARA COOK. Since the 1950's COOK has been in countless Broadway musicals--"Oklahoma", "The King and I", and Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" to name a few. She's been called a "no nonsense singer...able to thrust with gentility of tone." COOK has a new album--her first in five years--called "Dorothy Fields: Close as Pages in a Book." She won a Tony Award for her part as "Marian the librarian" which she originated in "The Music Man."

2: Journalist MISHA GLENNY. GLENNY has been covering the war in former Yugoslavia--first as correspondent for the BBC and now as an independent journalist. He is the author of the book "The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War" (Penguin). He will talk about the decision of the U.S. to no longer participate in the enforcement of the arms embargo to Bosnia.

2: DANIEL SCHORR is the Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. Previously, he was the CBS Chief Watergate Correspondent. After ending up on Nixon's "enemy list," SCHORR resigned from CBS in 1976, and wrote a book about the Watergate scandal called "Clearing the Air." Before joining CBS, SCHORR was a foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Recently he narrated a five-part BBC documentary on the Discovery channel, "Watergate." (REBROADCAST from 8

A new performance piece by performance artist DAVID CALE.