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01/04/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-01-04-A

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SPEAKING ENGLISH
Spoken Word Poetry - Paul Flores & Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
Dominance of English - Abram de Swaan
Writing Poetry - Billy Collins

Hour 2

 

04-01-04-B
(was 02-09-22-A)

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OCEAN CROSSINGS
Gray Whales - Brenda Peterson
1968 Sailing Race - Peter Nichols
Lobstering - Linda Greenlaw
Sharks - John Musick
Rowing the Arctic - Jill Fredston

01/11/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-01-11-A

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KID COOL
Rejuveniles - Christopher Noxon
Loss of Maturity? - Marcel Danesi
Music for Kids & Adults - Veronica Rueckert
Children's Artist - Maurice Sendak

Hour 2

 

04-01-11-B

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THE RED PLANET
NASA Mars Mission -
Ken Croswell
Colonizing Mars -
Robert Zubrin
Anti-Gravity -
Nick Cook
Mars: the God of War -
Mary Lefkowitz

01/18/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-01-18-A
(was 02-10-13-A)

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REVIVING POLITICS
Third Party Politics - Micah Sifry
Political Songs - Si Kahn
Political Humor - Dave Barry
Citizen Politics - Harry Boyte
Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris

Hour 2

 

04-01-18-B
(was 03-01-19-B)

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HAUTE CULTURE
Classical Music & Cartoons - Daniel Goldmark
American Snobbery - Joseph Epstein
Raymond Chandler - Jonathan Lethem & Pico Iyer
American Culture - Michael Kammen
High-brow/Low-Brow - Anthony Lane

01/25/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-01-25-A

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
War on Terror - Richard Perle
Robert McNamara - Errol Morris
Charlie Wilson's War - George Crile
Memoir - Madeleine Albright
Poet on War - Naomi Shihab Nye

Hour 2

 

04-01-25-B

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PASSIONATE READERS
Working Class Readers - Jonathan Rose
Book & Documentary - Dow Mossman & Mark Moskowitz
NY Times Book Critic - Michiko Kakutani
BookWorld Book Critic - Michael Dirda
Secret Spaces - Zibby Oneal & Elizabeth Goodenough

02/01/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

04-02-01-A

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DANGEROUS POLITICS
South African Music - Sherri Simpson
Genocide Survivors
- David Gewirtzman & Jacqueline Murekatete
Journalism in Dangerous Places - Mark Lee
Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
- Victoria Bruce & Karin Hayes

Hour 2

 

04-02-01-B

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SEARCHING FOR SERENITY
Slowness Movement - Carl Honore
Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach
Serenity Prayer - Elizabeth Sifton
Spirit of Creative Flow - Piri Thomas

02/08/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-02-08-A
(was 03-01-12-A)

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FIRE AND BRIMSTONE
The Next Christendom - Phillip Jenkins
Marketing Jesus as Cool - Hayley Morgan
Hell House - George Ratliffe
Speaking in Tongues - Harvey Cox
Christian Heavy Metal - Oz Fox of Stryper
Hour 2

 

04-02-08-B
(was 02-12-22-A)

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BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN
A Movie a Day - Kevin Murphy
Kino - Veronica Rueckert
Movie Therapy - Madelon Sprengnether
Conceptual Art for LOTR - Alan Lee
Film Editing - Michael Ondaatje

02/15/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-02-15-A
(was 03-02-09-A)

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APPETITE FOR LOVE
Candy - Tim Richardson
French Desserts - Dorie Greenspan
Candy Comment - Ann Shaffer
My Funny Valentine - Will Friedmann
Stories of True Love - listeners
Hour 2

 

04-02-15-B
(was 03-03-16-B)

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WHO OWNS WHAT?
White Stripes' Uninvited Bassist - Steven MacDonald
Copyrights & Copywrongs - Siva Vaidhyanathan
Who Owns Water? - Maude Barlow
Lost & Found Photos - Brian Dunn
All My Life for Sale - John Freyer

02/22/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-02-22-A

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GOD IN UNLIKELY PLACES
Jesus and Tupac - Rev. Alex Gee
American Jesus - Stephen Prothero
God in the Equation - Corey Powell
Laughing at Death - John Spalding
Killing the Buddha - Peter Manseau & Jeff Sharlet

Hour 2

 

04-02-22-B

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HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY
Happiness Studies - Dave Myers
History of the Smile - Angus Trumble
Progress Paradox - Gregg Easterbrook
21 Grams - Guillermo Arriaga
Coping with Death - Loren Ladner

02/29/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-02-29-A

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CITY AS MUSE
New York - Colson Whitehead
New York vs. St. Paul - Garrison Keillor
Hitchcock's San Francisco - Jeff Kraft & Aaron Leventhal
Memphis Music - Robert Gordon

Hour 2

04-02-29-B
(was 03-01-26-A)

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JOURNEYS GREAT & SMALL
Benefits of Travel - Jeff Greenwald
Looking for Lovedu - Ann Jones
Sailling like Cook - Tony Horwitz
Bridges - David Plowden
Art & Travel - Alain de Botton

03/07/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-03-07-A

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BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH
Friedrich Nietzsche - Alexander Nehamas
Sartre & Peanuts - Nathan Radke
Camus & Sartre - Ronald Aronson
Existential America - George Cotkin
Cornell Woolrich - Francis M. Nevins

Hour 2

 

04-03-07-B

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PAINTING LIFE
Artist Emily Carr - Susan Vreeland
Francisco Goya - Evan S. Connell
Lascaux Cave Art - Clayton Eshleman
Artist & Ethics - Larry Watson
Clement Greenberg - Michael Fried

03/14/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-03-14-A

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OLD IRISH
St. Patrick - Philip Freeman
Sean-Nos Singer - Mairin Ui Cheide
Saving the Irish Language - Meaiti Jo Sheamuis
Fairy Stories of Ireland - Eddie Lenihan

Hour 2

 

04-03-14-B

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THE PIANO
Blues Piano - Marcia Ball
Dr. Seuss' Piano Story - Philip Nel
The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
Playing Radiohead - Christopher O'Riley

03/21/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-03-21-A

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WHO OWNS NATIVE CULTURE?
Indian Identity - Sherman Alexie
Who owns native culture - Michael Brown
Cherokee storyteller - Gayle Ross
Native Species - Connie Barlow
Myth of Robert Johnson - Elijah Wald

Hour 2

 

04-03-21-B
(was 03-01-05-A)

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WORDS, WORDS
Weird Words - Erin McKean
Lenny Bruce - Ron Collins
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
Vow of Silence - John Francis

03/28/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-03-28-A

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CULT CULTURE
Join Me - Danny Wallace
Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
Leftist Aristocracy - Susan Braudy
Goat: a Memoir - Brad Land
Passing the Bar - Alex Wellen

Hour 2

 

04-03-28-B

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ALL THAT JAZZ
Jazz Trio - The Bad Plus
Charles Mingus - Sue Mingus
Novel of 1920's Jazz - Frederick Turner
Jazz Influence - Gene Santoro

 

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