Terry Gross

Peter Wagg, Executive Producer and co-creator of the "Max Headroom" television series. He first developed the character of Max in 1985 as a host between rock video segments on Britain's Channel 4.

Ron Koslow, creator of "Beauty and the Beast," the new CBS television series that modernizes the fable and sets it in the tunnels of the New York City subway system.

Guest Film Critic Michael Sragow, film critic for "The San Francisco Examiner," will review "Tough Guys Don't Dance," starring Isabella Rossellini and Ryan O'Neal. The film is directed by writer Norman Mailer and based on a Mailer novel.

Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Joshua Then and Now, both of which were adapted into films.

Dave Harrington, founder of first violinist of the Kronos Quartet, the avant-garde chamber group that's meeting with mainstream success.

Tip O'Neill, former Congressman from Massachusetts and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Crime writer Elmore Leonard. His new novel is titled Touch and follows two successful novels, Glitz and Bandits.

Anti-Apartheid activist Randall Robinson, founder and director of Trans Africa, a lobbying group that focuses on Africa and the Caribbean.

Indian writer Ved Mehta. He's written several books of autobiography, most all of which have been serialized in "The New Yorker" magazine. His autobiographies are poignant accounts of his blindness, his education in England, and the role that language came to play in his life.

Writer Michael Ignatieff. His new book, Russian Album, recalls, through diaries, photographs and a few mementoes, his forebearers, aristocrats at the time of the Russian Revolution. While most of the upper class was killed in the Revolution, Ignatieff's family fled to Canada.