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NPR'S ANTHONY BROOKS REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE 1986 BLAST AT THE THEN-SOVIET UNION'S CHERNOBYL ATOMIC STATION--NOW THOUGHT TO BE MUCH MORE DIRE THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH BILL MOYERS ABOUT HIS SPECIAL PROGRAM NEXT WEEK ON PUBLIC TELEVISION TITLED "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT VIOLENCE?" ITS FOCUS IS ON VIOLENCE AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND WHAT SOME COMMUNITIES ARE DOING TO CURB IT.

From the Beach Boys, BRIAN WILSON. We feature a segment from a 1988 interview with WILSON. This ties in with the next interview:Editor in Chief of Billboard Magazine TIMOTHY WHITE. He has written a new book that traces the evolution of the "myth" of Southern California. WHITE uses the history of the Wilson family and it's migration to California in the 1920s. The Wilson family is that of Brian Wilson, one of the Beach Boys, the band the helped put Southern California on the map as the place of sun and fun. WHITE's new book is "The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience" (Henry

ingust GEOFFREY NUNBERG reflects on the adverb.

Television critic David Bianculli reviews tonight''s debut of Warner Bros'' "WB Network."

Health care analyst and substance abuse expert JOSEPH CALIFANO. He was LBJ's assistant for domestic affairs from 1959-65 and Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter from 1977-79. JOSEPH CALIFANO has written a book about health care reform called "Radical Surgery" (Random House) and is president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a research and experimental care facility at Columbia University. Terry will be talking to him about health care reform, welfare reform and substance abuse.

2: Biologist EDWARD GOLUB, whose book "The Limits of Medicine" (Random House) explores the history of medical advances and argues that medicine's new goal should be to extend health, not life span. There will be no "magic bullet" for today's major illnesses (cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's) like there was for earlier scourges like polio, smallpox and diphtheria, he says. EDWARD GOLUB was a professor of biology at Purdue University for twenty years and a director of research in the pharmaceutical industry for five years. He is president of the Pacific Center for Ethics and Applied Biology, a nonprofit group exploring the relationship between basic and applied biology.

2: Film and T-V director EDWARD ZWICK. He directed the film's "About Last Night. . ." "Glory" and "Leaving Normal." He collaborated with producer Marshall Herskovitz on the creation of the Emmy Award-winning series, "thirtysomething" and the new highly-acclaimed, but underwatched T-V drama series, "My So-Called Life. The two have also collaborated on the new film, "The Legends of the Fall," starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn. ZWICK directed the film.

Daniel talks to Charles Hughes of the Univeristy of Utah School of Medicine about a new appendix to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference work on psychiatric conditions. The addition to the appendix deals with culture bound syndromes, which are pathologies specific to certian cultures.

SIMON/LAGAZIO: SCOTT TALKS WITH ITALIAN BARON CARLO LAGAZIO. HE'S A LITTLE SHORT OF FUNDS, SO HE'S PUTTING HIS TITLE ON THE MARKET. ASKING PRICE: $61,000.