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Commentator Daniel Pinkwater doesn't like selling his books. He shuns interviews, but he needs to get paid for the books. So he usually talks about anything but the book. He says he has a beatnik streak and that his liberal education is to blame. Other artists have PR firms to help out; he doesn't.

Epidemiologist DR. DONALD FRANCIS. In the mid 1970's he was in Sudan helping to contain the Ebola virus, which had then just been identified. FRANCIS was also on the forefront of research on AIDS and the HIV virus. He was director of the CDC's AIDS Laboratory Activities, and worked closely with the Institut Pasteur to prove that HIV was the cause of AIDS. FRANCIS is currently doing research to develop a vaccine for HIV. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

SUSAN INTERVIEWS SINGER/PIANIST MICHAEL FEINSTEIN (FINE-stine) ABOUT HIS BOOK "NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT" WHILE HE SITS AT THE NPR PIANO. ("NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: MY LIFE IN RHYTHM AND RHYME" BY MICHAEL FEINSTEIN --- HYPERION PUBLIS

Novelist and biographer PETER ACKROYD. He's written nine novels and and biographies of Charles Dickens and T.S. Eliot. His latest biography is of the 18th century poet, painter and engraver William Blake. It's "Blake: A Biography," (Alfred A. Knopf) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

Record producer NICK VENET. He has produced more than 300 albums in his career and has collected numerous Grammy nominations and awards. He is co-producer of a new Bobby Darin box set (Rhino). VENET was also Darin's producer and friend. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST 3/19/96) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

2: Mezzo-Soprano LORRAINE HUNT. She appeared in Peter Sellars' productions of Handel and Mozart. HUNT has been called the "reigning Handel diva of our day." HUNT's Handel recordings can be found on the Harmonia Mundi label. Her latest is "Handel: Ariodante." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

1:Host of ABC'S "Nightline" TED KOPPEL. He has a new memoir about his 16 years with the news show and his life before journalism. It's called "Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television" (Times Books, by Ted Koppel and Kyle Gibson). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Singer/songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. Previously with the band The Attractions, he later went solo. Since then he has performed and recorded with The Brodsky Quartet and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. He's written about 300 songs. His new release is "All This Useless Beauty" (Warner Bros) which he recorded with The Attractions. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Linda interviews New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, who moderated a panel discussion on race today .... at a meeting Senator Bradley called the "Unconvention," sponsored by the Human Relations Foundation of Chicago. In their conversation, Senator Bradley called for a new kind of engagement on questions of race; he said that confronting race as an issue in America must involve millions of individual acts. He was critical of politicians for not offering real leadership and real change.

Jackie talks to Zia Jaffrey about her new book The Invisibles, A Tale of the Eunuchs of India. The history of the Eunuchs or `hijras' as they are called in India, has never been documented. Jaffrey gives readers a glimpse into the culture of these castrated, cross-dressing men. She says even though she spent many months in India interviewing them and collecting information on this closed group of people, Jaffrey says much about the Hijras remains as mystery.