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October 2001
10/07 10/14 10/21 10/28
October 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
10/7/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 2 00-04-30-B CRUNCHING NUMBERS
Hard-Wired for Math - Brian Butterworth
Math Obsessions - Apostolos Dioxiadis
Quantum Computers - George Johnson
Logic & Love - Joan Richards
History of Zero - Robert Kaplan
Hour 2 00-01-23-B NEW ART, OLD MASTERS
Rembrandt - Simon Schama
Sick Art - Linda Kauffman
Guitar & Weaving - Robert & Rebecca Bluestone
Walking and Place - Robert Stilgoe
Breughel & Collecting - Michael Frayn

10/14/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-10-14-A WORDS OF WISDOM
Writing About Disaster - T. Coraghessan Boyle
Creating Fictional Terrorist - Jennifer Egan
Religious Publishing after Disaster - Lynn Garrett
Comfort in Poetry - Robert Pinsky
Poetry and Life - Jimmy Santiago Baca
Hour 2 01-10-14-B SEEING STARS
Critique of Celebrity Culture - Cintra Wilson
Pop Culture Poetry - Jim Elledge
B-lst Celebrity - Bruce Campbell
Benefits of Fame - Tyler Cowen
Forgotten Celebrities - Paul Collins

10/21/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-10-21-A TERROR AND THE AFTERMATH
Militant Muslims - Cynthia Mahmood
Muslims in America - Michael Wolfe
Courage - William Miller
Building Memorials - Ed Linenthal
Hour 2 01-10-21-B TO TELL THE TRUTH?
Lies in Wartime - Jake Tapper
The Story of Lies - Evelin Sullivan
Radical Honesty - Brad Blanton
Clues to Lies - Paul Ekman
History of Lies - Jeremy Campbell

10/28/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-10-28-A DUST TO DUST
Creative Memorials - Ilana Harlow
Human Endurance - Peter Stark
Edgar Allan Poe - Norman George
Ghost Hunter - Katherine Ramsland
Freaky Stories - Hugh Lupton
Hour 2 00-11-12-B THE POWER OF WORDS
Conversation - Theodore Zeldin
Freedom Writers - Erin Gruwell, Sonia Pineda & Darius Garrett
Just Write! - Natalie Goldberg
Language of Politics - Anna Deveare Smith

October 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

November 2001
11/04 11/11 11/18 11/25
November 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
11/4/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-11-04-A TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Palestinian State - Uri Avnery
Egypt & British Colonialism
Secular Jew in Israel - Marc Maron
Murder of Archaeologist - Edward Fox
Correspondent & His Cat - Christopher Wren
Hour 2 01-11-04-B KNOWING HOME
History of Home Appliances - Merritt Ierley
Ecology of Southern Childhood - Janisse Ray
Honky - Dalton Conley
Texas Hill Country - David Syring
Jazz in Brooklyn & Paris - Paule Marshall

11/11/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-11-11-A MEMORY ON THE MIND
Alzheimer's Epidemic - David Shenk
Aging With Grace - David Snowdon
Stuck Song Syndrome - James Kellaris
Seven Sins of Memory - Daniel Schacter
Nostalgia - Svetlana Boym
Hour 2 00-01-09-A CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Children's Emotions - Katherine Paterson
Harry Potter Round-Up
- Children from Shorewood Elementary School, Madison, WI
- Lee Siegel - The New Republic
- Henry Jenkins - M.I.T.
- Alison Lurie - Cornell
- Donn Esmonde - The Buffalo News
Historical Fiction - Christopher Paul Curtis
Picture Books
- Kevin Henkes
- Uri Shulevitz
- Barbara Barstow

11/18/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-11-18-A FUNDAMENTALISTS OR FANATICS?
Religious War - Andrew Sullivan
Islam vs. Terrorism - Chandra Muzaffar
Hasidim in Iowa - Stephen Bloom
Fundamentalism in Iran & Appalachia - Gina Nahai
John Milton - Stanley Fish
Hour 2 01-11-18-B BOOK STORIES
Book Collecting - Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone
Commentary - Doug Gordon
Collecting Book's Stories - Jay Fliegelman
Plagiarism Novel - John Colapinto
Scott & Zelda - Kendall Taylor

11/25/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-11-25-A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS
Same Name Saga - Dave Gorman
Strange Characters - Arthur Bradford
They Might Be Giants - John Flansburgh & John Linnell
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Amy Wilensky
Hour 2 00-10-22-B INTO THE DEEP
Giant Squid - Clyde Roper
Coral Reef Devastation - Phil Dustan
Trilobytes - Richard Fortey
Ocean Sounds - Richard Ranft
Amazonian Pink Dolphins - Sy Montgomery

November 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

December 2001
12/02 12/09 12/16 12/23 12/30
December 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
12/2/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-12-02-A

 

MYTH MAKERS
J.R.R. Tolkien - Thom Shippey
Elvish Expert - Bill Welden
Myth in Everyday Life - Phil Cousineau
Bladesmith - Richard Furrer
Northern Lights - Lucy Jago
Hour 2 01-12-02-B

 

SEEKING SOLACE
Monastic Communities - William Claassen
Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton
Saint Augustine - Gary Wills
Her Garden - Diane Ackerman
Rilke and Roses - William Gass

12/9/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-12-09-A WAR STORIES
Afghan Women - Belquis Ahmadi & Sameena Nazir
War Letters - Andrew Carroll
Roosevelt's Secret War - Joseph Persico
Backyard Ballistics - William Gurstelle
Hour 2 00-07-09-B LURE OF THE EXOTIC
Ostrich Exotica - Rob Nixon
Western Romance with Tibet - Orville Schell
Tibetan Warrior Nun - Ani Pachen & Adelaide Donnelly
Bruce Chatwin - Nicholas Shakespeare

12/16/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-12-16-A A VERY SCARY CHRISTMAS
Christmas at the Movies - Mark Connelly
"A Blunder Filled Christmas" - Doug Gordon
WWI Christmas Truce - Stanley Weintraub
Recycled Christmas - Brian Smith
Christmas Traditions - Karl Ann Marling
Green Christmas - Stan Freberg
Hour 2 01-12-16-B WINDS OF CHANGE
Global Warming - Ross Gelbspan
Lifestyle Changes - Guy Dauncey
Strangewax (rock band) - Andrew Woodcock & Chris Strong
Weather Experiments - Janice Van Cleave
How Weather Changed History - Erik Durschmied

12/23/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-12-23-A OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Saudi Oil - Michael Klare
Ken Saro-Wiwa Memoir - Ken Wiwa
How Much Oil is Left? Two Views
- Ken Defeyyes & Bjorn Lomborg
Remaining Oil? - Doug Gordon
Renewable Energy - Daniel Kammen
Hour 2 01-12-23-B

IN THE BEGINNING
Birth Misconceptions - Naomi Wolf
Artificial Life - Steve Grand
Cloning Clowning - Doug Gordon
Science of Pregnancy - David Bainbridge
Crisis in the Life of God - Jack Miles

12/30/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-08-06-B

WRITING RACE
Indian Stereotypes - Sherman Alexie
Great American Creole Novel - Russell Banks
Young London Writer - Zadie Smith
Hank Aaron - Sandy Tolan
Hour 2 00-04-16-B

EATING OUT
Kitchen Secrets - Anthony Bourdain
Rise of Restaurant - Rebecca Spang
Imperial Herbal in Singapore - Nina Simonds
Food and Mood - Elizabeth Somer
Snack Food & Personality - Alan Hirsch

December 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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