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World music commentator MILO MILES reviews some dancehall reggae by Jamaican-born New Yorker, Shaggy. His debut album is "Pure Pleasure," (V

John Leonard reviewed the new William Gibson novel, "Virtual Light" (Bantam).

In May of this year, we broadcast a live concert with singer-songwriter ARTHUR ALEXANDER, whose songs were recorded on early records by The Beatles ("Anna") and The Rolling Stones ("You Better Move On"). ALEXANDER had spent the past fifteen years driving a bus for a community center in Cleveland, but this year he returned to performing and released a new album, "Lonely Just Like Me" (Elektra Nonesuch), his first release in twenty years. This summer, just as he was starting a new tour and a new chapter of his life, ALEXANDER suffered a heart attack and died in Nashville. (Concert Rebroadcast from 5/7/93).

2: Writer and criminal defense lawyer, ALFREDO VEA, JR. He's just written his first book, a novel, "La Maravilla" (Dutton). It's based on his own life, growing up in the desert outside of Phoenix, where Mexican, Indian, Spanish, and Afro-American influences converged. The images of growing up there kept creeping up in VEA's work as a criminal lawyer, so he decided to write the book.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "The John Coltrane Anthology: The Last Giant" (Rhino/Atlantic).

On the occasion of end of the Superman comic, and the Superbowl, language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG considers the origin of the word "Superman," and how "super" began to be used in other ways.

2: Writer CARL HIAASEN (produced "hi-ah-sen"). Hiaasen's 1991 crime novel, "Native Tongue," (Knopf) has just come out in paperback and continues his tradition of poking fun at his native Florida. When he's not writing crime stories, Hiaasen is an investigative journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald. REBROADCAST. (Originally aired 9/

2: Conversation with Cokie Roberts continues.

Medical Examiner and "detective of death", MICHEAL BADEN, the former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. BADEN argues that there is a national crisis in forensic medicine. He writes that the search for scientific truth is often sullied by the pressures of expediency and politics. His new book is "Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner" (Ivy Books).

Authors SETH CAGIN and PHILIP DRAY. Their new book is "Between Earth and Sky: How CFCs Changed Our World and Endangered the Ozone Layer," (Pantheon Books). It's about how CFCs (or chlorofluorocarbons) went from being the "miracle compound" the the biggest threat to the ozone layer. CFCs came into being in 1928 and made possible the mass use of refrigerators and air conditioners. By the 1950s they were used in aerosol sprays and in the manufacture of Sytrofoam. But by 1974, scientists began to see the affects of CFCs on the ozone layer. SETH and CAGIN are also the authors of "We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi.