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Writer TRACY JOHNSTON. She's written a new book, "Shooting the Boh: a Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo," (Vintage Books). The book is not only an account of her adventure going down the river dealing with leeches, waterfalls, foot rot, and moldy clothes, but about her own realization that the hot flashes she was feeling in the middle of the night weren't the steamy jungle but the onset of menopause. One reviewer writes, "A powerful adventure of the head as well as the body: not to be missed," (Kirkus Reviews).

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