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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.

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