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1) Songwriter STEPHEN SONDHEIM. (rebroadcast from 11/10/88).2) Writer, producer, and director ARTHUR LAURENTS. Laurents wrote the stories for the plays "Gypsy" and "West Side Story" and the screenplays for the movies "The Way We Were" and "The Turning Point." Laurents is currently directing the Broadway revival of "Gypsy," starring Tyne Daily. (rebroadcast from 1

Today it was announced that scientists had unearthed in Ethiopia the first nearly complete skull of the earliest recognized human ancestors. It's that of a male who lived three million years ago, giving a face to the species first identified in 1974 with the discovery of the skeleton named "Lucy." Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON discovered Lucy and was part of the team to make this new discovery. The discovery could settle the debate of whether various fossils from this time period were from a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, or from different species. It also completes the picture of what the species looked like and will help confirm Lucy's position in human lineage. DR. JOHANSON is the president and founder of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, and hosted a three-part Nova miniseries "Ancestors: In search of Human Origins." The companion book to the series is also called "Ancestors." (Villard

Journalist RAY BONNER cricises WWF for exaggerating the problem pay more attention to animals than people need to think about the economic needs of Africans and give them an economic reason for keeping the elephants alive.We also talk with Jinette Hemley, director of the Wildlife trade monitoring program of the World Wildlife Fund.

New York Times European diplomatic correspondent, CRAIG WHITNEY. WHITNEY is the author of a new book about espionage and spy swaps during the cold war in the two Germanies: "Spy Trader" (Times Books). Now living in Bonn, WHITNEY reports on the issues surrounding European unity: the rise of ethnic conflicts, and the crisis in Bosnia

2: PABLO MEDINA is a Cuban-born poet and essayist who has just written his first novel, "The Marks of Birth" (Farrar.Straus.Giroux). In the novel, MEDINA explores the experience of exile through the eyes of a young character whose family is forced to flee the political unrest of a Caribbean island-nation, and begin again in America. MEDINA has also written two collections of poems: "Pork Rind and Cuban Songs" and "Arching into the Afterlife," and a book of personal essays entitled "Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood." MEDINA currently teaches at the MFA writing program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.

2: 3) The late choreographer MICHAEL BENNETT, creator of "A Chorus Line." (rebroadcast from 7/3/87)4) Broadway Producer CY FEUER. He co-produced the original "Guys & Dolls" on Broadway, which is currently being revived on Broadway. FEUER produced 11 Broadway musicals with producer Ernest Martin, including "Can-Can," "The Boyfriend," and "Silk Stockings." They also produced the film versions of "Cabaret," and "A Chorus Line." (REBROADCAST FROM 8/5/92).

2: Film director WALTER HILL. His newest film, which he produced and directed is "Geronimo: An American Legend." He's best known for action-oriented films which include, "Hard Times," "The Long Riders," "48 HRS," "Streets of Fire," and others.

2: Journalist and author LAWRENCE WRIGHT. WRIGHT'S latest book is "Remembering Satan: A Case of Recovered Memory and the Shattering of an American Family" (Knopf) WRIGHT explores the nature of memory and the notions of recovered memory and repression. "Remembering Satan" is the story of Paul Ingram and his family. Ingram was a Washington state deputy sherrif. His two grown daughters accused him of sexually abusing them. They said that Ingram and other members of the sherriff's department had committed Satanic ritual atrocities. At first, Ingram said he had no memory of assaulting his daughters. But after hours of interrogation, Ingram was able to "remember" his crimes and he confessed. He is serving a 20 year prison sentence even though no physical evidence against him has ever been found. WRIGHT is a staff writer for the "New Yorker" where portions of "Remembering Satan" appeared last summer. He has written three previous books.

2: Novelist JAMES LEE BURKE. He's been writing for 35 years but he's best known for his more recent detective novels about Dave Robicheaux (ROW-bah-show), a recovering alcoholic, who is also a troubled Vietnam vet, and a New Orleans police lieutenant. His books include: "The Neon Rain," "Heaven's Prisoners," "Black Cherry Blues," "A Morning for Flamingos" and "A Stained White Radiance." BURKE's new book, his eighth Dave Robicheaux novel, is called "Dixie City Jam." (Hyperion) (REBROADCAST FROM 4/8/92)Int. 3: Mystery writer WALTER MOSLEY. He's written a new book in his series about gumshoe hero Easy Rawlins. It's called "Black Betty" (Norton). Betty's a shark of a woman who leaves dead men in her wake. Like the other books in the series, "Black Betty" has Easy in post-War, but pre-present South Central L.A.--this time the year is 1961. MOSLEY gained public attention when presidential candidate Bill Clinton said that MOSLEY was his favorite mystery writer. His next book,"RL's Dream" (Norton) comes out this August. (REBROADCAST FROM 5

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "The Pelican Brief", another film made from the works of John Grisham.