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Television anchor and author ROBERT MACNEIL. He steps down tonight as co-anchor of the PBS news show The MacNEIL/Lehrer NewsHour. Terry talked with him this week. We'll hear that interview and one from 1985. His books include, Wordstruck, a memoir that explores the roots of MacNeil's fascination with language and the best-selling The Story of English.

Poet DONALD HALL. A year ago, his wife, poet Jane Kenyon died of leukemia. There's a new collection of her work, "Otherwise: New & Selected Poems" (Graywolf Press). HALL will read from the book, including the last poems she wrote, and discuss their life together. HALL also has a forthcoming book of poetry, "The Old Life," (Houghton Mifflin) to be published in June. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

In the second part of Robert's interviews with religious Jews about their political leanings for the upcoming elections, he visits the West Bank settlement of Betar (beh-TAR). The residents of Betar are mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews who look to their religious leaders for guidance in choosing candidates. He talks to the Greenwalts, a couple with four children, who say that they will probably vote for one of the religious political parties.

Nigerian journalist DAPO OLORUNYOMI... He is the editor of five of the country's leading opposition publications. His work uncovering corruption in the Nigerian Government helped him win the World Press Review 1995 Editor-of-the-Year Award. Olorunyomi is now in exile in the United States. It's the third anniversary of the democratic elections annulled by the military. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

- Harriet Baskas reports on the origin of the Soap Opera. These daytime serial dramas date back to the 1930's and the early days of radio. Most of the advertisers on these programs manufactured household products - so the shows were dubbed "soaps." We'll hear excerpts from many radio soaps,including TODAY'S CHILDREN, THE GUIDING LIGHT, and JOYCE JORDAN,M.D. - and we'll hear interviews with some of the actors who performed in them.

His film The Bourne Identity is being released on DVD next week. The Bourne Identity is a thriller about a man with amnesia who is plucked from the Mediterranean Sea, riddled with bullet holes. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck. This interview first aired June 19, 2002.

He wrote the screenplay for the film Undercover Brother, which began life as a Web site animation. The film, now out on DVD, is an action comedy [that] pokes fun at black action films of the 1970s and racial stereotypes. Ridley's latest novel is A Conversation with the Mann, about a black comic in the civil rights era of the early 1960s. This interview first aired January 10, 2002.

In Oberlin, Ohio, young children have found a public voice -- over the airwaves of WOBC, the local college radio station. Two college seniors produce I'm on the Stereo, a program featuring interviews with -- and sometimes hosted by -- kids ages 4 to 18. Linda Wertheimer speaks with the producers of the show, and some of their young radio stars. (8:00) I'm on the Stereo's Web site.

Lisa interviews author Diane McWhorter about her new book Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama; the Climactic Battle of the Civil rights Movement. McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, the child of a privileged white family. When the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing happened in 1963, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement, McWhorter recalls that she and her family were barely aware of it.

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic interviews. In this segment: German jazz artist Marty Grosz plays the music of Fats Waller. Rebroadcast from June 26, 1987.