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2: "All Things Considered" host ROBERT SIEGEL. He has co-anchored the show since 1987. He opened NPR's London Bureau in 1979, and was appointed as director of the News and Information Department in 1983. SIEGEL has just edited "The NPR Interviews, 1994" (Houghton Mifflin). This interview was recorded last Thursday in front of an audience at the WHYY studios.

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new Watergate documentary that premieres Sunday on the Discovery channel.

Filmmaker HAILE GERIMA ("Highly Guh-REE-ma"). He was born in Ethiopia and now lives in America. His latest movie, "Sankofa," ("San-KOH-fah") which he wrote and directed, is an epic about African-American slavery, from Africans' 18th century journey to America to their struggles for liberation, told for the first time from an African viewpoint. Gerima is a professor of film at Howard University in Washington, DC. Along with "Sankofa," two of his past features, "Harvest: 3,000 Years" and "Ashes and Embers" have won international awards. Recently, the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art showcased his career with a seven-film retrospective. "Sankofa" means "returning to one's roots, recuperating your losses, and moving on," in the Akan language of Ghana.

SONNY ROLLINS, tenor saxophonist, is one of the jazz world's greatest improvisational artists. At the tender age of 23, he played with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. In the early 1950s, he joined the Clifford Brown-Max Roach quintet. He also began a critically-acclaimed solo career. Now in his sixties, he feels obligated to carry on the vision of his own mentors to today's rising stars. His latest album, "Old Flames" (Milestone), focuses on jazz standards and features Sonny backed by a brass section. ROLLINS will be the guest of honor at the JazzTimes Convention in November 16-19, in New York. (REBROADCAST from 2

Classical music critc LLOYD SCHWARTZ is also a poet. Today, an autobiographical poem called "She Forgets."

World music critic MILO MILES discusses how gnawa music has been "discovered" by mainstream groups.

Filmmaker JOHN WATERS. We replay one of his earlier conversations with Terry, shortly after he made the cult film "Polyester," starring Divine and Edith Massey. "Polyester" was Waters' first studio film, and the first of his movies that didn't carry a self imposed X-rating. Prior to this July 1985 Fresh Air interview, Waters also wrote, produced and directed other sleaze classics such as "Multiple Maniacs," "Pink Flamingoes," "Mondo Trasho," "Female Trouble" and "Desperate Living." Waters made all his trashy films on location in his hometown of Baltimore

Actor JOHN TURTURRO. He co-starred in Spike Lee's film, "Do the Right Thing." He's a favorite of the Coen brothers, who wrote parts specifically for him: he was Bernie the Schmatta in "Miller's Crossing," and the writer Barton Fink in the movie of the same name. He's just written, directed, and starred in the new movie, "Mac," based on his father. (REBROADCAST FROM 2/