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October 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

10/03/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-10-03-A	BECOMING YOUR OWN PERSON Character and Age - James Hillman Risk-Taking and Character - Frank Farley Self-Discovery at the end of Life - David Guterson Self-Discovery in Structure - Jeanette Haien Maverick Politicians - Mason Drukman
Hour 2	99-10-03-B	ANIMAL TALK A Dog's Novel - Paul Auster Legal Rights for Animals - Steven Wise Bullfighting - Adrian Shubert An Elephant's Novel - Barbara Gowdy Monarch Butterflies - Robert Pyle

10/10/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-10-10-A	MIND CONTROL Music Therapy - Mitchell Gaynor Melancholia - Jeffrey Smith Brainwashing - Janja Lalich Mesmerism - Alison Winter
Hour 2	99-10-10-B	FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS Memoir - Neil Simon Crisis in Publishing - Pat Holt History of the Bookshelf - Henry Petroski Self-Published Book - Lillian Moats Bad Writing - Robert Chappell Becoming a Writer - Joyce Carol Oates

10/17/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-10-17-A	THE EIGHTIES Hip Hop Culture - Nelson George AIDS Plague - Larry Kramer Ronald Reagan - Edmund Morris An Eighties Quiz Eighties Writer - Brett Easton Ellis
Hour 2	99-10-17-B	THE MUSIC WITHIN Improvisation Lesson - Joan Wildman Amateur Cellist - Wayne Booth Playing Like Chopin - Russell Sherman Writing About Music - Vikram Seth Life of Mozart - Peter Gay

10/24/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
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	99-10-24-B	FOOD IN THE MODERN KITCHEN Future Kitchen Project - Michael Hawley History of Tupperware - Alison Clarke History of Trash - Susan Strasser Shel Silverstein Poem Edible Schoolyard Project - Alice Waters Singing Food Safety - Carl Winter

10/31/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-10-31-A	MONSTERS, VAMPIRES, & THE GOTHIC Halloween History - Lesley Bannatyne Ghost Story - Hugh Lupton Why We Like to Be Scared - Joyce Carol Oates The Vampire Vogue - Laurence Rickels Mad Scientists & Monster Movies - David Skal
Hour 2	99-10-31-B	LETTERS Preserving Letters - Andrew Carroll Friends Writing - Kate Montgomery & Hilary Lifton E-Mail - Robert Thompson Letters & Literature - Isabel Allende Letters from Alger Hiss - Tony Hiss

October 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

November 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

11/07/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-11-07-A	STRANGE BELIEFS Saints & Madmen - Russell Shorto Commentary - Jean Feraca Rise of Irrationalism - Wendy Kaminer Psychic Power of Animals - Rupert Sheldrake Commentary - Mary Lou Finnegan Yeats & Automatic Writing - Brenda Maddox
Hour 2	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

11/14/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-11-14-A	SPACE TRAVELS Colonizing Space - Robert Zubrin Space Tourism - Eric Anderson Mars Microphone - Louis Friedman Sci-Fi Book on First Contact - Mary Doria Russell Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel
Hour 2	99-11-14-B	CALIFORNIA STORIES Jim Clark & Silicon Valley - Michael Lewis Aerospace Memoir - David Beers Lost California - Gray Brechin & Robert Dawson Celebrating the Gold Rush - J.S. Holliday Racism & the Gold Rush - Isabel Allende

11/21/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-11-21-A	MEN, WOMEN & IDENTITY Animal Fathers - Jefrrey Masson Why Men Feel Stiffed - Susan Faludi Working Class Men - Elwood Reid Women-Only Classes - Mary Daly Reaction to Mary Daly - Katha Pollitt
Hour 2	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

11/28/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	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
Hour 2	99-11-28-B	CRAVING BEAUTY Beautiful Women - Annie Leibovitz Lipstick - Jessica Pallingston Beauty and Justice - Elaine Scarry Road Kill Art - Scott Lesh Art as Refuge - Mark Doty

November 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

December 1999
12/5 12/12 12/19 12/26

December 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

12/05/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-12-05-A	THE GOOD DOCTOR Power of Consciousness - Larry Dossey 16th Century Italian Sex Advice - Rudolph Bell HMO's and Attitude - Haavi Morreim Living With Diabetes - Lisa Roney Being a Doctor/Writer - Abraham Verghese
Hour 2	99-12-05-B	MIGRATION IN THE AMERICAS Who Came First? - Dennis Stanford Native American Migration Story - Harold Scheub Flintknapping - Michael Stafford Immigrant Son's Search for His Past - Alan Weisman Ancient Mummies - Elizabeth Barber

12/12/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-12-12-A	REVIVING POLITICS Seattle Protests - John Nichols Collective Ecstasy - Barbara Ehrenreich Political Gossip - Gail Collins Great Speeches - Robert Torricelli Defending Government - Garry Wills
Hour 2	99-12-12-B	KEEPING HOUSE Science of Keeping House - Cheryl Mendelson Martha Stewart Industry - Shirley Wajda The 1900 House - Leeann Klein How Things Work - David Macauley House Guest from Hell - Miranda Seymour

12/19/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1	99-12-19-A	FINDING RELIGION Jesus - Thomas Cahill Spiritual Autobiography - Dan Wakefield Readings from Thomas Merton's Journals Zen Rabbi - Alan Lew Cyber Rosary - Loretta Skeddle Death of God - A.N. Wilson
Hour 2	99-12-19-B	BRAIN PUZZLES Explaining the Brain - John Horgan Head Transplants - Robert White Brainy Games - John Kovalic & Lory Aitken Detective Novel - Jonathan Lethem Iris Murdoch & Alzheimer's - John Bayley

12/26/99	Program #	TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 3	99-03-28-C	KEEPING TIME Apocalypse Cultures - Alex Heard Life in the Year 1000 - Robert Lacey Millennium Clock - Stewart Brand Geography of Time - Robert Levine History of the Calendar - David Duncan
Hour 2	99-12-26-B	FISH STORIES Bass Fishing - Shaw Grigsby Swordfish Boat Captain - Linda Greenlaw Inside Passage Indian Culture - Jonathan Raban Mrs. Ahab - Sena Jeter Naslund A Life Fishing - Thomas McGuane