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Rock critic ken Tucker reviews a new album by Liz Phair, "Exile in Guyville" (Matador records).

Film Critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new film "The Ref".

ock Critic Ken Tucker has a review of the latest compilation album, this one pairing country and soul singers, called "Rhythm Country & Blues".

2: Writer LEWIS PULLER. His book, "Fortunate Son," is now out in paperback. His father, Chesty Puller, was a famous Marine. Lewis also joined the marines in 1967, and he was badly wounded in Vietnam.

Gospel singer MARION WILLIAMS. Her trademark, a long-lasting high A-flat "whooo," has been adopted by most gospel singers and soul singers like Little Richard and Aretha Franklin. A self- proclaimed "Holy Roller", WILLIAMS received the Kennedy Center Honars Award last night in Washington for her lifetime achievement in the arts. When she's not performing, WILLIAMS sings traditional gospel at the African-Methodist-Episcopal church in Philadelphia--the first black church formed in America. Her new album is "Can't Keep It To Myself" (San

2: Journalist STEVE ROBERTS. He's the senior writer for "U.S. News & World Report." Before that he covered Congress for "The New York Times." He'll talk about Tuesday's election.

2: In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon, we speak with:1) GENERAL CHUCK YEAGER, test pilot, war hero, and the first man to break the sound barrier.(Originally broadcast 9/13/88)2) Retired Astronaut and former test pilot ALAN SHEPARD. He was America's first man in space in 1961. Ten years later with Apollo 14, he made it to the moon, playing golf on the moon's surface. (In 1969, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon). SHEPARD has co-written a new book: "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon." (Turner Publishing).(Originally broadcast 6

1: Violence prevention expert DEBORAH PROTHROW-STITH. She's encouraged America to look at violence as a public health emergency. STITH says that instead of stitching up bullet wounds and returning people to the streets, we should teach violence prevention. STITH, assistant dean at Harvard School of Public Health, received the World Health Day Award in 1993. STITH co-wrote a book on violence called "Deadly Consequences" (Harper Collins) and a health textbook, "Health Skills for Wellness".INT 2:Writer GLORIA WADE-GAYLES. Growing up in Memphis in the 1940's WADE-GAYLES experienced Jim Crow discrimination first hand. In her new book of autobiographical essays, "Pushed Back To Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home" (Beacon), she reflects on her childhood, the civil-rights movements, abortion in the African-American community, and the death of her mother. WADE-GAYLES is a professor of English and women's studies at Spelman College. She also wrote "No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women's Fiction" (Pilgrim Press).

PAUL RUDNICK is a essayist, novelist, and playwright. His latest play on off-Broadway is a comedy about AIDS, "Jeffrey," about a man who swears off love and sex. Frank Rich of The New York Times writes, "Instead of writing about the bleak absurdity of meaningless death, Mr. Rudnick. . . focuses on the far more manic, at times bizarrely festive absurdity of those who survive." RUDNICK also wrote the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet," about John Barrymore's ghost. And he writes a column in "Premiere, "If You Ask Me," in which he writes in the voice of a quintessential Jewish mother who critiques movie stars' personal lives more than their acting.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF has a review of the new Michael Keaton film, "The Paper".