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Rock historian ED WARD traces the musical influences of a young John Lennon. (rebroadcast from 10/91).

An expert on Central Asia and Afghanistan, BARNETT RUBIN, Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and a former Peace Fellow with the United States Institute of Peace. He's just returned from three former soviet republics which have large Muslim populations. RUBIN said the republics are now run by ex-communists. While there, he did some reporting for Human Rights Watch. RUBIN will also discuss the aftermath of the Afghan War, how many of the radical Arabs who went to Afghan to help the rebels, are now taking their "holy war" elsewhere.

Kevin Whitehead on the new film "Sleepless in Seattle"; Rock critic Ed Ward on the enduring legacy of Roxy Music.

Morning Edition host BOB EDWARDS. He's written a new book about his weekly conversations with the former sportscaster Red Barber. EDWARDS talked with Barber each Friday for 12 years. Barber died a year ago. Terry talks with EDWARDS about Red Barber and Morning Edition. EDWARDS's book is "Fridays with Red: A Radio Friendship" (Simon & Schuster). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF

2: Professor of African-American studies, GERALD EARLY. He'll talk with Terry about the dilemma of being a middle-class African American intellectual. His new book is "Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation." (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press).

Actress and Stanford Theater Professor, ANNA DEAVERE SMITH. She performs solo, multi-casted pieces, the scripts of which are transcripts of interviews with real participants of events. "Fires in the Mirrors" (aired on PBS) gave voice to the many facets of the Crown Heights riots. Her new show is "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992", which condenses 170 interviews Smith conducted herself into a two hour show ranging through the lives of 21 Los Angelinos: Darryl Gates, Reginald Denny, Rodney King's aunt, and a Korean shopkeeper (whose lines are spoken in perfect Korean and translated overhead).

On her latest recording, Devil's Got Your Tongue, jazz singer Abbey Lincoln includes two songs about her parents -- both of whom are now dead. Lincoln says she composed the songs because there were a few things she still needed to write down and to say.

2: Playwright LANFORD WILSON. Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for his play, "Talley's Folly." His most recent play, "Redwood Curtain," is the story of a Amerasian girl in the Pacific Northwest, looking for her father, a Vietnam Vet. REBROADCAST. (Originally aired 3/13/92).

Writer EDMUND WHITE. He has been called "unquestionably the foremost American gay novelist." WHITE's novels draw significantly from his own experiences in a style he calls "auto-fiction." In his newest book, "Genet: A Biography" (Knopf), WHITE documents the life of controversial French writer, Jean Genet. Genet had a reputation as a dandy, a thief, a vagabond --- a "thug of genius." WHITE calls him "one of France's most original and forceful novelists of the twentieth century." WHITE has also written "Forgetting Elena," "A Boy's Own Story," and six other books of fiction and non-fiction

2: Shanghai-born author, ANCHEE MIN (AHN-chee MIN). She grew up in China during the last years of Mao's Cultural Revolution. In her memoir, "Red Azalea" (Pantheon), MIN recounts her experiences as an 11-year old leader in her school's Little Red Guard, then as a laborer at a work camp where she became the secret lover of her female commander. When Madam Mao began her reform of China's film industry, MIN was chosen from 20,000 candidates to become a screen actress because she had a face that was thought to represent the working class. MIN was also cast to star in a film about Madam Mao's life, but before the film was finished Chairman Mao died, Madam Mao was denounced and MIN was punished. In 1984, with the help of actress Joan Chen, MIN emigrated to the United States, where she works as a writer and photographer.