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World Music critic MILO MILES reviews guitarist Ry Cooder''s two new collaborations: with Indian musician V.M. Bhatt ("A Meeting by the River" -- Water Lily Acoustics label), and with African Guitarist Ali Farka Toure ("Talking Timbuktu" -- on the Hannibal/World Circuit/Rykodisc label).

ED RYDER AND REVEREND JAMES McCLOSKEY. The story of one man's fight for freedom. Three days after RYDER arrived at Holmesburg prison to do time for theft, he was accused of murdering a prisoner in his cell block. For twenty years, RYDER fought to prove his innocence... the city of Philadelphia rallying behind him. REVEREND JAMES McCLOSKEY, who helps prisoners he believes are unjustly convicted get pardons, spearheaded the efforts for RYDER's release. Now RYDER is a free man. During the twenty years RYDER was a model prisoner, teaching himself how to play trumpet, and continuing his education through college level

Author LORENZO CARCATERRA (Car-CA-terra). He is managing editor of the CBS weekly series "Top Cops." He's written a memoir, "A Safe Place," (Villard Books) about growing up the son of a violent, loving, murderous, and generous father. They lived in New York's Hell's Kitchen during the 50s and 60s. Lorenzo found out at the age of 14 that his father had murdered his first wife when she threatened to leave him. REBROADCAST. ORIGINALLY AIRED 1/

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY has just written a new political satire, "Thank you for Smoking" (Random), which pokes fun at everything and everyone associated with the tobacco industry-- from anti-smoking advocates to tobacco company executives. BUCKLEY was George Bush's speechwriter from 1981-1983 when Bush served as Vice President. The son of William F. Buckley, he is the author of other political and social satires, including "The White House Mess" and "Wet Work." He is the editor of "Forbes FYI" magazine.

2: The "Orphans of Jonestown," JIM JONES JR AND STEPHEN JONES. They are the surviving sons of Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple in Guyana. Fifteen years ago Jim Jones orchestrated the mass suicide of over 900 people after a California Representative visited the temple, charging Jones with holding people against their will. Now, after the Waco tradgedy, JIM JR AND STEPEN JONES remember their loss. Their were 85 survivors from Jonestown--260 children died.

2: Anthropologist ELLIOT LIEBOW (LEE-bow). He is the author of the classic 1967 study "Tally's Corner," a look at African-American street corner life. The bestseller was Liebow's doctoral dissertation, and it's still used by many college students. His new work, the first he's published in over twenty years, is called "Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women."(Free Press/Macmillan). He investigates the patterns and routines of homeless women around Washington, DC. LIEBOW is a guest researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and a professor at Catholic University in Washington, DC.

1: Playwright and actor WALLACE SHAWN and director/actor ANDRE GREGORY co-wrote and co-starred in the 1981 film, "My Dinner with Andre." They have since both worked on many other projects individually in television, theater, and film. They have now collaborated again in "Vanya on 42nd Street," (Sony Pictures) a film adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."

elevision critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews Aaron Spelling''s newest Fox network show, "Models Inc.," about a woman who runs a modelling agency. Spelling is the executive producer of the successful shows "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place."

JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS and RUTHIE BOLTON. HUMPHREYS is a fiction writer, who won the Pen/Hemingway award in 1985 for "Dreams of Sleep." She recently transcribed and edited the life story of RUTHIE BOLTON, who grew up in the same area of Charleston, South Carolina, as HUMPHREYS did. The novel is called "Gal" (Harcourt, Brace amd Co.) and details the the stories of BOLTON's life growing up with an abusive grandfather in 1960's South Carolina. The interview will include both BOLTON and HUMPHREYS.

DR.IRA RUTKOW is a surgeon and the author of the new book, "Surgery: An Illustrated History," (Mosby). The book has 386 illustrations including documents, photographs, cartoons, drawings and paintings related to surgery, taken from museums throughout the world. RUTKOW has also written a two-volume history of surgery in the U.S. and has written studies on Civil War surgery. He's also consulting editor for surgical history for the Archives of Surgery. RUTKOW is founder and surgical director of The Hernia Center in Freehold, N.J. and is clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.