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October 2005
10/02 10/09 10/16 10/23 10/30

10/02/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-10-02-A

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GETTING THE WORD OUT
"Howl" - Jonah Raskin
Pop Poetry - Charles Harper Webb
Best Poems in the World - Camille Paglia
Performance Poetry - Jem Rolls

Hour 2

 

05-10-02-B

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DOUBLES & DOPPLEGANGERS
Bono's Doppleganger - Neil McCormick
Copy Culture - Hillel Schwartz
Conjoined Twins - Alice Dreger
Twins & Schizophrenia
- Carolyn Spiro & Pamela Spiro Wagner

10/09/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-10-09-A
(was 04-10-24-A)

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THE FOURTH ESTATE
Investigative Reporting - Seymour Hersh
New York Time Columnist - Maureen Dowd
Journalism in Russia - Jennifer Cohen
World of Ideas - Bill Moyers

Hour 2

 

05-10-09-B
(was 04-08-15-A)

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SONGS, COPS AND KINGS
Sonata for Jukebox - Geoffrey O'Brien
International Mysteries - Peter Handel
Updating King Arthur - Jane Yolen
Wrestling, Retiring & Writing - Mick Foley

10/16/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-10-16-A
(was 04-06-13-A)

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FAT OR FICTION
SuperSize Me! - Morgan Spurlock
But Not Me - Soso Whaley
The Obesity Myth - Paul Campos
Fat Girl's Guide - Wendy Shanker

Hour 2

 

05-10-16-B
(was 04-09-05-A)

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COMIX
Comic about 9/11 - Art Spiegelman
Comic of Daily Life - Julius Knipl
Comics Lit - Charles McGrath
Art of Comics - Chris Ware
Artist Profile - Neil Gaiman

10/23/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-10-23-A

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FUTURE PERFECT
Germline Genetic Engineering - Bill McKibben
Transhumans - James Hughes
Cloning Novel - Kazuo Ishiguro
Robot Uprising - Daniel Wilson
Novel of Survival - Margaret Atwood

Hour 2

 

05-10-23-B

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WORD!
God's Dictionary - Susan Corso
Political Rhetoric - George Lakoff
Words of Rap - Lyrics Born (Tom Shimura)
Chinese Characters - Ed Young
Untranslatable Words - Christopher Moore

10/30/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-10-30-A

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BRAZEN WOMEN
Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy
Chicago May - Nuala O'Faolain
Nancy Drew - Melanie Rehak
Nancy Drew Parody - Chelsea Cain
Civil War Spy - Ann Blackman

Hour 2

 

05-10-30-B

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REINVENTING YOURSELF
Self-Help Authors' Conference - Jessica Lamb-Shapiro
Makeover Culture - Micki McGee
Musical Reinvention - Al Anderson
Reinventing a Lost Self - Jonathan Cott

11/06/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-11-06-A

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WAR IN IRAQ
History of Iraq War- George Packer
Conservative Debate - Gary Rosen
"Get Your War On" Comic - David Rees
Embedded Journalist in Iraq- Chris Ayres
Anti-War & Food for Oil - George Galloway

Hour 2

 

05-11-06-B

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SEARCHING FOR SHANGRI-LA
Searching for Shangri-La - Michael Wood

Tsangpo Gorge - Ian Baker
Shangri-La in Burma - Amy Tan
Lost Paradise - Catilin Matthews
Kashmir & Political Novel - Salman Rushdie

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05-11-13-A

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WHAT MAKES A CLASSIC?
Like a Rolling Stone - Greil Marcus
Psycho - Doug Gordon
Walt Whitman - Michael Cunningham
Lolita - Steve Paulson
Rereadings - Anne Fadiman

Hour 2

 

05-11-13-B

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THE INNER VOICE
Discovering the Voice - Renee Fleming
Sonic Meditation - The Sound Accord
Sound Healer - Jonathan Goldman
Recording Sound Cells - James Gimzewski
Folk/Roots Trio - The Wailin' Jennys

11/20/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-11-20-A

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THE MEANING OF LIFE: IN THE BEGINNING
Creation Stories - Stephen Mitchell
Multiverse Theory - Michio Kaku
Memories of Previous Lives - Jim Tucker
Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin

Hour 2

 

05-11-20-B
(was 04-12-19-A)

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DRUGS
Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser
Kid's Book on Drugs- Clark Taylor
Essay on Kurt Cobain - Scott Jennings
CIA & Heroin Trade - Alfred McCoy
Heroin A to Z - Ann Marlowe

11/27/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-11-27-A

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THE MEANING OF LIFE: WHY BOTHER?
Sartre and Peanuts - Nathan Radke
Three Questions - Karen Michel
What Makes Life Worth Living? - Parker Palmer
Finding a Spiritual Path - Karen Armstrong
Cinema Nirvana - Dean Sluyter

Hour 2

 

05-11-27-B
(was 03-12-14-A)

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SHOPPING
I Want That - Thomas Hine
The Call of the Mall - Paco Underhill
What Would Jesus Drive? - Rev. Jim Ball
Save Karyn - Karyn Bosnak
Church of Stop Shopping - Rev. Billy (Bill Talen)

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05-12-04-A

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THE MEANING OF LIFE: ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
Chocolate Tour of Paris - David Lebovitz
Dancing Therapy - Robert Rand
Legless Mountaineer - Warren MacDonald
Music with Birds - David Lee Rothenberg
Poem - Billy Collins
Purpose of Art - Michael Kimmelman

Hour 2

 

05-12-04-B

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CREATIVITY
Classical & Jazz Ideas- Gunther Schuller
Famous Unknown Brion Gysin- John Geiger
Science & Art - Roald Hoffmann
Transcendental Meditation - David Lynch

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05-12-11-A

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THE MEANING OF LIFE: REGRETS
Slavery's Past - Cary Sudler
Beatles' First Drummer - Pete Best
Two Hands - Leon Fleisher
Hana's Suitcase - Karen Levine

Hour 2

 

05-12-11-B

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SEARCHING FOR SALVATION
C.S. Lewis - Tom Key
St. Francis - Steve Paulson
Angels & Saints - Robert Orsi
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

12/18/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-12-18-A

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THE MEANING OF LIFE: THE END
Role of Fate - Amy Tan
Being Dead - Jim Crace
Funny Side of Death - Eric Idle
Cancer Survivor - Pet Daly
The Gift of Serious Illness - Rachel Naomi Reven
Cemetery Tour - Sarah Stewart Taylor
Poetry of Life & Death - Dennis O'Driscoll

Hour 2

 

05-12-18-B

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GETTING TOGETHER
Christmas in Milwaukee - John McGivern
What I Like About Jew - Rob Tannenbaum & Sean Altman
Disastrous Holiday Tales - Laurie Notaro
Family Stories - Po Bronson

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05-12-25-A
(was 04-12-26-B)

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ANGELS
Angel Stories - Sophie Burnham
Angel Movies - David Edelstein
The God Gene - Dean Hamer
Talking with Angels - Shelly Mitchell
Tree of Souls - Howard Schwartz

Hour 2

 

05-12-25-B
(was 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

 

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