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Executive producer and writer, TOM FONTANA. He was writer and producer for the TV show, "St. Elsewhere." He's currently executive producer along with filmmaker Barry Levinson, of "Homicide: Life on the Street," a new cop drama on NBC, that reviewers say goes beyond the usual formula offering, a "more complex psychological portrait." It's set in Baltimore. FONTANA is also the creator and executive producer of a new show to be aired this fall, "Philly Heat," on ABC.

Poet JAMES MERRILL. The son of the founder of the Merrill Lynch brokerage house, Merrill took to Europe at age 24, a newly published poet "meaning to stay as long as possible". That was in 1950. His new memoir "A Different Person" (Knopf) details his two and a half years there, and features encounters with psychoanalysts, new and old lovers, and Alice Toklas. MERRILL is the author of eleven books of poems, the winner of two National Book Awards, the Bolligen Prize for Poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize. Also in this half, writer WILLIE MORRIS. As editor-in-chief of Harper's in the 1960's, MORRIS wined and dined with the biggest names of the decade. MORRIS recounts his experiences of fast paced living in his new book "New York Days." He is the author of several other books including "North Toward Home.

Annie Lamott on her son''s first asthma attack

Ken Tucker reviews Garth Brook''s new album, "In Pieces"REV. : Kevin Whitehead reviews saxophonist EVAN PARKER''s new release, "Conic Sections" on the Ah Um label.

RONNIE SPECTOR, who in the 1960s was a member of the girl group The Ronettes. She left the music business for several years, but the late Eighties, recorded a new album. Here she talks about her hit song, "Be My Baby". (Rebroadcast from August 31. 1987).

2: Medical writer ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG. She's a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Mirabella, and Vogue. Her new book, "A Dancing Matrix: Voyages Along the Viral Frontier," (Knopf) is about the work being done to understand viruses. The field has taken on new urgency since the AIDS virus emerged. HENIG says in the book that scientists have realized that emergence of a new virus is not as rare as they thought it was, and that it's caused mostly by human error rather than genetic mutation. They add that stresses on the ecological system can alter the balance between man and microbes, and can lead to the outbreak of a virus.

2: Columnist, commentator and "mad economist" JULIANNE MALVEAUX. Her new book "Sex Lies and Stereotypes: Perspectives of a Mad Economist" (Pines One Publishing) is a compilation of her newspaper columns. She's also a commentator on PBS and CNN. MALVEAUX says everything is economic from gender relations to job applications to toxic waste. The issues, she says, are issues of "who has and who doesn't, who will and who won't." MALVEAUX likes to incite, inspire and make people think.

Singer, Songwriter, guitarist FREEDY JOHNSTON. (yes, it's "Freedy") He has four albums to his credit. The latest is, "Unlucky," (Bar None Records). His previous album, "Can You Fly," brought him to attention of many critics and garnered him much acclaim. 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.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews, "The Morning After," by Katie Roiphe. (Little, Brown).

2: ROBERT SHOPE, Co-chair of the Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health. Shope is also a physician and professor of epidemiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. SHOPE was part of the team that identifyied the virus that caused Lyme disease, and the rabies-related virus. Terry will talk with him about the on-going threat to our health by emerging viruses. SHOPE was also one of the editors of the book, "Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States." (National Academy Press