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October 1998
10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25
October 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
10/04/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-10-04-A Religion at the Crossroads Part Two:
THE STRUGGLE FOR FAITH
Gen X and Faith - Tom Beaudoin
Struggle for Faith - Kathleen Norris
Muslims in America - Laleh Bakhtiar
Jerusalem Syndrome - Robert Stone
Jews and Monotheism - Thomas Cahill
Hour 2 98-10-04-B THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC
Why Are We Fat?
- Claude Bouchard & Kelly Brownell
Pima Indians' Obesity Struggle - Eric Ravussin
Plus Size Fashions - Fern Bratten
Anti-Obesity Drugs - Arthur Campfield
Anorexia & Bulimia Memoir - Marya Hornbacher
Hour 3 98-10-04-C REENACTING THE CIVIL WAR
Civil War Reenactors - Tony Horwitz
Reenactor - Stephen Oreck
How to Teach the Civil War - Gary Gallagher
Civil War Lessons - Ryan Lester
Robert Beecham's Memoir - Michael Stevens
Women in the Civil War - Kaye Gibbons

10/11/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-10-11-A Religion at the Crossroads Part Three:
CHALLENGING THE CHURCH
Christianity Must Change - John Shelby Spong
Jewish Mysticism - Rodger Kamanetz
Personal God - Phyllis Tickle
Atheist's View of Jesus - Jim Crace
Hour 2 98-10-11-B ALTERNATIVE HEALTHCARE
Codex Alimentarius - Mitch Fleisher
St. John's Wort - Norman Rosenthal
Foods That Fight Pain - Neal Bernard
Midwife on Trial - Chris Bohjalian
Hour 3 98-10-11-C COME FLY WITH ME
Charles Lindburgh - Scott Berg
Flying Inside Storms - William Langewiesche
Air Freighters - Barry Lopez
Wind - Jan De Blieu

10/18/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-10-18-A Religion at the Crossroads Part Four:
COPING WITH SUFFERING
Forgiving a Rapist - Debbie Morris
Saint Jude - Liz Trotta
Fierce Compassion - China Galland
Storytelling & The Black Church
- Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
Hour 2 97-09-14-B COOL CARS
Sport Utility Craze - Keith Bradsher
Hypercar - Amory Lovins
Auto History - Jonathan Mantle
Motorcycle Mama - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Hour 3 98-10-18-C DISABILITY STUDIES
Disability Studies - Simi Linton
Life With MS - Nancy Mairs
Resisting Blindness - Stephen Kuusisto
Helen Keller - Dorthy Herrmann

10/25/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-10-25-A IS WASHINGTON OBSOLETE?
Washington is Out of Touch - Rick Bragg
More in Touch than Ever - David Canon
History of Anti-Washington - Stanley Kutler
A Washington Outsider - Sam Smith
Hour 2 98-10-25-B TRUSTING SCIENCE
NY Times Science Reporting Wrong
- Mark Dowie
Rock of Doom Story - Lee Hotz
David Baltimore Case - Daniel Kevles
Sybil a Fraud - Robert Rieber
Questionable Medical Devices - Robert McCoy
Hour 3 98-10-25-C TIBET
Saving Tibet - Robert Thurman
Visiting Tibet - Barbara Erickson
Fantasies of Tibet - Donald Lopez
Alexandra David-Neel - Barbara Foster

October 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

November 1998
11/1 11/8 11/15 11/22 11/29
November 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
11/1/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-11-01-A ANOTHER DEPRESSION?
Economic Status Report - Ellen Frank
Depression Memories - Robert & Arabel Murphy
Depression Then and Now - James Galbraith Depression Memories - Robert & Arabel Murphy
Financial Advice - Ed Celnicker Depression Memories - Robert & Arabel Murphy
Hour 2 98-11-01-B SUSTAINABILITY
Raising Chickens - Gene Logsdon
Natural Step - Terry Gips
Thoreau's Walden - Bill McKibben
Amazon Rain Forest - Geoffrey O'Connor
Hour 3 97-12-21-C ART AND EMOTION
Kinetic Art - Martin Kersels
Prison Art - Phyllis Kornfeld
Van Gogh - Frederic Tuten
An Unemotional Artist - Jane Urquhart

11/8/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-11-08-A WAS JOE McCARTHY RIGHT?
New Archival Material - Jonathan Brent
Commies Not Innocent - Ronald Radosh
Left Not All Bad - Ellen Schrecker
Parallels to Today - Ann Douglas
Communism at the Movies - Jim Hoberman
Hour 2 98-11-08-B ANCIENT WORLDS
Lost Tomb of Ramses II Sons - Kent Weeks
Indus Valley Civilization - Mark Kenoyer
Tattoos in Antiquity - Adrienne Mayor
Making the Classics Count - Victor Davis Hanson
Alexander the Great - Michael Wood
Hour 3 97-08-31-C NEW STORIES
Hamlet on the Holodeck - Janet Murray
Tales from the Brothers Grimm - Tom Davenport
Monster Imagination - Brian Edmiston
Cherokee Storyteller - Marilou Awiakta

11/15/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-11-15-A DOES RACE MATTER?
Forget Race - Ward Connerly
Forming Racial Identity - Beverly Tatum
Racial Categories - Michael Omi
Mixed Race Story - Catherine Young
Thurgood Marshall - Juan Williams
Hour 2 98-11-15-B BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Deep Biosphere - Chris Chyba
Belief in E.T. Life - Jill Tarter
History & Astronomy - Russell Doescher
Seeing is Believing - Richard Panek
Rocket Boys - Homer Hickam
Hour 3 97-08-10-C EXOTIC TRAVEL
Pass the Butterworms - Tim Cahill
No Mercy - Redmond O'Hanlon
Primitive Passions - Marianna Torgovnick
Been Gone Too Long - Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

11/22/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-11-22-A APPROACHING AFRICA
National Summit on Africa
- Sunni Khalid & Randall Strickland
King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
Villagization in Tanzania - JimScott
In Search of Africa - Manthia Diawara
Hour 2 98-11-22-B MYSTERIES OF THE MIND
Literacy and Patriarchy - Leonard Shlain
Mysteries of the Mind - V.S. Ramachandran
Brain Plasticity - Lee Hotz
Professor and Madman - Simon Winchester
Hour 3 98-11-22-C FEASTING
Slow Food Movement - Corby Kummer
History of Feasting - Barbara Wheaton
Competitive Feasting - Michael Dietler
The Decadent Restaurant
- Medlar Lucan & Durian Gray
Life of a Restaurateur - George Lang

11/29/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-12-07-A LEGACY OF SLAVERY
Time for Amends - John Powell
Slave Trade - Hugh Thomas
Artifacts of Slavery - Velma Maia Thomas
Honor Among Gentlemen - Kenneth Greenberg
Hour 2 97-11-30-B ANIMALS AND PEOPLE
Deer and People - Richard Nelson
Dogs and People - Jeffrey Masson
Chimps and People - Roger Fouts
The Animal Inside - Will Self
Hour 3 98-11-29-C MAKING MUSIC
Breaking in to the Music scene
- Noe Venable & Lee Townsend
Writing Songs - Jimmy Webb
Grade-school Music
- Lyle Davidson & Larry Scrip
- Karen Tordera
Most Wanted/Unwanted Music - Dave Soldier

November 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

December 1998
12/6 12/13 12/20 12/27
December 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
12/6/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-01-04-A CATHOLIC IDENTITY
American Catholics - Charles Morris
Catholic Memoir - William F. Buckley
Catholic Novel - Edna O'Brien
Catholic Poet - Kathleen Norris
Hour 2 98-12-06-B FOOD AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Biotechnology Critique - Marc Lappe
Biotechnology Defense - Rob Horsch
Japanese-American Farmer - David Mas Masumoto
Heirloom Seeds - Ken Whealy
Hour 3 98-12-06-C FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL
Friendship, Betrayal & Linda Tripp - Cathleen Schine
Women's Friendships - Ruthellen Josselson
V.S. Naipul - Paul Theroux
Nature of Friendship - Andrew Sullivan

12/13/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-12-13-A HITLER'S LEGACY
Anne Frank - Melissa Muller
Victor Klemperer's Diary - excerpts
Explaining Hitler - Ron Rosenbaum
Plundered Art - Hector Feliciano
Reckoning with Wagner - William Berger
Hour 2 98-12-13-B THE ANIMAL WITHIN
Human/Cow Hybrid - Jeremy Rifkin
Baboon Marrow Transplant - Jeff Getty
Fish Antibiotics - Bob Hancock
Animal/Human Connection - Richard Conniff
Commentary - Mary Lou Finnegan
Animals Have Souls - Susan McElroy
Hour 3 98-12-13-C POLAR ADVENTURES
Shackleton's Adventure - Caroline Alexander
The Amazing Nematode - Diana Wall
Polar Hoaxes - Keith Pickering
Arctic Novel - Andrea Barrett
Snow in America - Bernard Mergen

12/20/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-12-20-A HOLIDAYS WITH A TWIST
Hundred Dollar Holiday - Bill McKibben
Physics of Christmas - Roger Highfield
Solstice Celebration - Judith Strasser
Interfaith Celebrations - Gabrielle Glaser
Neo-Pagan Holiday - Camille Paglia
Christmas Carol Twist - Mark O'Donnell
Hour 2 98-01-11-B TECHNOLOGY
Science & Religion - David Noble
Artificial Intelligence - Astro Teller
Computer Culture - Ellen Ullman
Starship Titanic -
Douglas Adams and Terry Jones
Hour 3 98-12-20-C POETRY, PUBLIC & PRIVATE
Emily Dickinson's Passion - Martha Nell Smith
Mrs. Dumpty - Chana Bloch
Poetry in Manuscript - Rodney Phillips
Arab-American Poetry - Naomi Shihab Nye

12/27/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-12-27-A SPORTS AND VIOLENCE
Felons in the NFL - Jeff Benedict
Culture of Violence - Elwood Reid
Year-Round Coaching - Bill Miller
Muhammad Ali - David Remnick
Long Distance Runner - Leslie Heywood
Hour 2 98-02-15-B SCIENCE OF SMALL THINGS
Micro-Air Vehicles - Ribert Michelson
Cockroaches & Robots - Fred Delcomyn
Movie Monsters - Michael LeBarbera
Size & Evolution - David Jablonski
History of the Transistor - Michael Riordan
Hour 3 98-12-27-C ON THE ROCKS
Women Binge Drinkers - Sharon Wilsnack
A Father's Alcoholism - Christopher Dickey
Inside the Beer Business - Philip Van Munching
Classic American Cocktail - Lowell Edmunds
Maverick Vintner - Randall Grahm

December 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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