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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

2: YOKO ONO (REBROADCAST FROM 4/11/89). Before she met John Lennon, Ono was a sculptor. In act, Lennon met her at an exhibition of her work in London in the late 60s. An exhibit of her work since 1989 is currently on display at the Cranbrook Acadamy of of Art Museum, outside of Detroit.

2: Editor JUSTIN KAPLAN. He edited the new edition of Bartlett's book of quotations. Formerly in the publishing business, KAPLAN has written biographies of Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain, two of the most often quoted men in American history. His biography, "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967. Bartlett's last edition was published in 1980. (Little, Brown and Co.) REBROADCAST. Originally aired 11/11/92.

Rebroadcast of 1992 interview with DENNIS POTTER who died today at the age

Defensive lineman for the Atlanta Falcons, TIM GREEN. GREEN's written a novel, "Ruffians" (Turner), about a football star who's NFL experience is dominated by money and steroids. During football season, GREEN writes a weekly column for the "Syracuse Herald-Journal". Off season, GREEN attends law school. His sports commentaries can be heard occasionally on NPR