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Singer, Songwriter, guitarist FREEDY JOHNSTON. (yes, it's "Freedy") He has five albums to his credit. His latest album is called "This Perfect World." His previous albums have garnered him much acclaim among music critics. One critic wrote, "the strongest album by a new male singer-songwriter in at least a decade." What's he sound like? His songs have been described as "post-punk honky-tonk. . . performed by a lonely, heartbroken wiseass." (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 6/

2: FRED "CHICO" LAGER, former CEO of the Ben & Jerry's ice cream company. He joined the company in 1982, and together with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, built the company from a small ice cream parlor to a $100 million publicly held company. LAGER just wrote a book, "Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop (Crown Publishers, Inc.)," about his experiences building a successful business while upholding Ben and Jerry's original philosophy of business as a catalyst for social change.

2: Terry talks with character actor STANLEY TUCCI. In the new movie, "Undercover Blues," TUCCI plays an hilariously incompetent, yet vicious mugger named "Muerte." (MWARE-tay). He's also appeared in the movies "Prelude to a Kiss," "Beethoven" and "Billy Bathgate." TUCCI's well-known for his role as crime boss Ricky Penzola in the tv series, Wiseguy" and has also appeared on television in "Equal Justice," "Thirtysomething," and "The Equalizer."

Bosnian Journalist ZLATO DIZDAREVIC, (pronounced: ZLOTKO DIZ DAR A VICH) an editor of the only daily newspaper in Sarajevo which has continued to publish during the war, and the author of "Sarajevo Under Seige: A War Journal," (Fromm International). He read last night at the PEN American Center's benefit, "An Evening For Sarajevo"

2: Interview with MISHA GLENNY continues.

2: STEVEN PINKER, a psycholinguist at MIT and director of its Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, has a new book on how language works: "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language" (Morrow). He argues that language is not simply a cultural invention taught by parents and schools, but a biological system, --an instinct-- partly learned, and partly innate. To Pinker, a three year old toddler is a "grammatical genius", capable of obeying adult rites of language, similar to web-spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. His book also takes on "langauge mavens" like William Safire and Richard Lederer, accusing them of underestimating the average person's language skills.

2: LEonard FEather, one of the world's most prominent jazz critics died of pneumonia, yesterday at the age of 80. Jazz critic Francis DAvis once wrote of him, No other critic has fought the good fight longer, on as many fronts, or communicated the joys of jazz to as many generations of readers. Leonard Feather grew up in England and moved to America in 1940. Feather's LA Times column was syndicated around the world. His most important writing was his encylopedia of jazz, an essential reference work of musician bios. He had spent his final months editing a new edition, which is scheduled for publication next year. Feather also produced about 200 recording sessions, composed for many of the musicians he worked with, and even played piano on some of their sessions. Throughout his career he campaigned on behalf of women in jazz, and worked for racial equality in field.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Witness Agianst the Beast" by the late British writer E.P. Thompson.

2: Reporter PATRICE GAINES was a teen-age mother with a drug rap when she spent the summer of 1970 in jail. She is now a regular reporter for the "Washington Post," and has written a book about how she turned her life around. It's called "Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color-A Journey from Prison to Power" (Crown Publishers). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC

2: Folklorist ALAN LOMAX. He's spent more than a half century recording the folk music and customs of the world. Here in America, he's responsible for priceless recordings of Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, and many others. (REBROADCAST from 7/9/90). LOMAX won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his non-fiction book, "The Land Where the Blues Began."