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WORD - NPR's Walter Watson profiles stand-up comic Paul Mooney. Mooney's routines are rife with use of the "N-word." Mooney believes that if he uses the word as many times as he can, it's power will be diminished.

Former press secretary for Reagan and Bush, MARLIN FITZWATER. He spent 17 years as a government flak before being appointed to his position in the Reagan White House. In his new memoir, Call the Briefing! Reagan and Bush, Sam and Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press (Times Books). FITZWATER writes about the relationship between the press secretary, the White House, and the press.

LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Music director and conductor MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS. This month he took over the San Francisco Symphony. He's been conducting for 25 years. At the age of 24 years old he was appointed assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony, and began filling in regularly as conductor when the musical director's health began to fail. THOMAS was mentored by Leonard Bernstein. However, THOMAS's roots are in the theater: His grandparents were Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, who founded the Yiddish theater in New York. There's a new book about him, Michael Tilson Thomas: Viva Voce. Conversations with Edward Seckerson. (Faber and

2: San Antonio Police officer ROGER MANGUM. In 1982, he shot and killed a man in the line of duty. Recently he and other officers set up a support group for officers involved in "critical incidents." The group is called, Police Officer Support Team (P.O.S.T.). In 1992 MANGUM left the police force, and began teaching at the San Antonio Police Academy.

This documentary by Peabody award winning producer David Isay is an oral history of Iolene Catalano, a woman who lived with drug abuse and prostitution, and who died last year of AIDS. Isay recorded more than 30 hours worth of interviews with Iolene, who wanted, before her death, to let the world know that she was something more than an addict or criminal, that she was a poet and singer. Please note the content and language advisory at the top of this DACS.

Eileen Farrell

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH CARROLL JAMES, A FORMER DJ FROM WWDC IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WHO IS CREDITED WITH BEING THE FIRST AMERICAN DJ TO PLAY A SONG BY THE BEATLES. HE IS WAITING TO HEAR IF HIS SUBMISSION OF AN EARLY INTERVIEW WITH THE BEATLES WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE ROCK N' ROLL HALL OF FAME.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH POET, TEACHER AND ONE OF NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED COMMENTATORS...ANDRE CODRESCU, ABOUT HIS NEW NOVEL "THE BLOOD COUNTESS," WHICH DEALS WITH THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COUNTESS ELIZABETH BATHORY IN 16TH CENTURY HUNGARY. (PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER)

Jim Crogan