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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".

2: Author JERVEY TERVALON. He has written a first novel, titled "Understand This" (William Morrow and Company, Inc.). TERVALON set "Understand This" in today's South Central Los Angeles where he grew up and returned after college to teach in a public high school. He believes life is much more difficult in South Central L.A.--and everywhere in America--now. TERVALON's characters are faced with often overwhelming, life and death decisions. Their lives are complex--often intruded upon by guns and drugs, but also involved with the everyday struggle to raise families and live good lives. TERVALON is currently a Hollywood Pictures Screen Writing Fellow at Disney Studios and teaches fiction writing at U.C. Santa Barbara.

Astronomer DAVID LEVY. He's discovered 21 comets, both as an amateur and as part of a professional team. He discovered the comet that will crash into Jupiter on July 16th, and the comet is named after him. LEVY is a contributer to many astronomical magazines, and is the author of numerous books on astronomy. He has recently published "Quest for Comets: An Explosive Trail of beauty and Danger" (Plenum Press), and has another book "Skywatching" (Nature Company) forthcoming in July.(Originally broadcast 6

2: Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. In a new issue of the Conde Nast Traveler magazine --July 1993-- THEROUX recounts the abundant ailments and diseases he's contracted during his thirty years of world travel. Luckily, "Kuru" isn't one of them: a Papua New Guinea affliction of the nervous system where one goes mad, then dies trembling. The only way to catch it is after eating human brains.

4: Entomologist DAVE BRODY, curator of the entomology department of the Museum of Natural History in New York. Brody was the insect consultant -- a "bug wrangler"-- for films like "Creepshow" and "The Believers." (REBROADCAST from 7/9/87).

Commentator ANNIE LAMOTT reflects on life on the first anniversary of her best friend''s death.

Performer, comic and writer SANDRA BERNHARD. Some know her from her role in the ABC sitcom "Roseanne;" she also had a successful one-woman off-Broadway show called "Without You I'm Nothing," which was turned into a film and album of the same name. Her HBO special last year, "Sandra After Dark," satirized the old "Playboy After Dark" variety show. She appeared in Martin Scorsese's "King of Comedy," among other feature films. She was also linked as a possible love interest to Madonna. Her first book was "Confessions of a Pretty Lady." Her new book is called "Love Love and Love," a collection of short stories and essays. (both HarperCo