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CURTIS MAYFIELD. He's been called "the thinking man's soul man." He's known for his floating falsetto voice, gospel sound, and social commentary. He was with the group, "The Impressions" for 12 years recording such classics as "Gypsy Woman," "I'm so Proud," and "People Get Ready." After that he went solo. His score for "Superfly," was considered a musical breakthrough, and has inspired many of today's hip-hop performers. MAYFIELD was preparing for a comeback, with the release of "Return of Superfly," in 1990, when a freak stage accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.

JOHN DARNTON, former New York Times reporter. He was based in Poland from 1979-1982 during the rise of the Solidarity movement and martial law. DARTON has just returned to Poland and wrote about it for the New York Times (Wed., March 17, 1993). He'll talk with Terry about what he found there.

2:Pianist BUTCH THOMPSON. He and his trio, "the Butch Thompson Trio," were a regular on Garrison Keillor's "A Praire Home Companion." His specialty is classic jazz from 1890s to about 1940 including the music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, and others. He has a new series of solo CDs entitled "The 88s" (on Daring, a Boston label distributed by Rounder Records). It includes recordings of classic jazz.

ayle Pemberton reviews Black Women in White America, edited by GERDA LERNER.

COKIE ROBERTS, Political Analyst for NPR and ABC. Her full name is Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts and she is perhaps the consummate "Washington Insider". The daughter of parents who shared a Congressional seat for a combined total of fifty years, Roberts' star in journalism is rising, covering the capital for NPR, and on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley", as well as substituting for Ted Koppel on "Nightline" In a conversation recorded live before an audience, Terry asks her about covering Congress and how her political upbringing affects her reporting. (This interview continues into the second half of the show).

Regular STEPHEN SCHIFF is covering the final days of the Cannes Film Festival, and Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD fills in with a review of "Sliver".

2: A live interview with former Atlantic Records executive JERRY WEXLER. Wexler was the producer behind some of the greatest soul music of the 60s, including classic sessions with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding.

Critic Stephen Schiff reviews the cinema''s latest gender-bending foray: "The Ballad of Little Jo".

Journalist MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE. He writes regularly for "The Advocate," and "Out" magazine. He's also written for "The New York Times," "The Village Voice," and other publications. He has a new book, "Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power," (Random House). SIGNORILE is a proponent of "outing" -- that is revealing the homosexuality of someone in power or position whether that person wants it known or not. SIGNORILE caused a controversy by

Physicist STEVEN WEINBERG. He received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics. He's the author of "The First Three Minutes," about the 'Big Bang.' He's currently working on something known as the "final theory," the search for the ultimate laws of nature--for the final answer to our questions about why nature is the way it is. That search is tied up with work on the Superconducting Super Collider. His new book about that is "Dreams of the Final Theory," (Pantheon).