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April 2000
4/2 4/9 4/16 4/23 4/30
April 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

4/2/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-04-02-A CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
"Mr. Death" - Errol Morris
Strange Murders - Sparkle Hayter
Why They Kill - Richard Rhodes
Actual Innocence - Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer
Prison & Nature - Ken Lamberton
Hour 2 99-04-04-B PHYSICS OF OUTER SPACE
Neutrinos and stuff - John Gribbin
Last Man on the Moon - Eugene Cernan
Superstring Theory - Brian Greene
Physics Chanteuse - Lynda Williams
What Remains to be Discovered - John Maddox

4/9/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-04-09-A OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM
Plain Life - Scott Savage
Geeks - Jon Katz
Modern Bohemians - Ann Powers
On the Rez - Ian Frazier
Indian Student - Casey Brown
Hour 2 99-01-31-C ART EVERYDAY
NEA & Art Everyday - Bill Ivey
Art & Everyday Science - Landa Townsend
Art for Everyone - Claes Oldenburg
Big Wooden Spoons & Bowls
- Ursula von Rydingsvard
Disney's Everyday Business of Art
- Christopher Finch

4/16/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-04-16-A THE AFTERLIFE
New View of Heaven & Hell - Thomas Groome
Afterlife in Siberia - Colin Thubron
Boyfriend's Messages from Beyond - Mary Allen
Polly's Ghost - Abby Frucht
Re-Born Children - Tom Shroder
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

4/23/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-04-23-A FAITH AND MYSTERY
Bishop's Autobiography - John Shelby Spong
Psalms - Kathleen Norris
Good Friday - Richard John Neuhaus
Jazz Singer - Kurt Elling
Jubilee - Arthur Waskow
Hour 2 00-04-23-B CELEBRATING SPRING
Spring Rituals - Meg Cox
Spring Flowers - Anna Pavord
Spring Ramps - Rick Bishop
Spring Poetry - Molly Peacock
Celtic Story of Bride - Mara Freeman
History of Walking - Rebecca Solnit

4/30/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-04-30-A BOBOS AND BRAND NAMES
Bobos - David Brooks
Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Brand Names - Naomi Klein
Smells Like Teen Sweatshops - Vic Teakwood & the Brand Band
England as Theme Park - Julian Barnes
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
April 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

May 2000
5/7 5/14 5/21 2/28
May 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
5/7/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-05-07-A RUSSIA AND BEYOND
New Russia - Mark Ames & Matt Taibbi
Siberia - Colin Thubron
Tuvan Throat Singers - Adrian Belic
Genghis Khan - Jack Weatherford
Hour 2 00-05-07-B EVERYBODY'S POETRY
Mass Appeal of Poetry - Bill Moyers
Homeless Poetry - Robert Wolf
Poet as Social Activist - Adrienne Rich
Multi-Cultural Poetry - Naomi Shihab Nye
Remembering Miles - Quincy Troupe

5/14/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-04-11-A THE CLASS DIVIDE
Upper Class Blacks - Lawrence Otis Graham
The Cleaning Lady's Son - Oscar Hijuelos
Karl Marx & White Trash - Linda Stout
Working Class Country - Bill Malone
Hour 2 99-04-18-C SOUND AND SILENCE
The End of Silence - Mark Slouka
Sounds of Early England - Bruce Smith
Nature Sound Recording - Bernie Krause
Playing With The Voice - Joan La Barbara
Sounds of Poetry - Robert Pinsky

5/21/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-01-17-B DESPERATE FOR BABIES
Reproductive Ethics - Lori Andrews
Accepting Infertility - Paulette Bates Alden
Sperm Sorting for Sex - Richard Rawlins
Chinese Sex Ratio - Susan Greenhalgh
The Orphan Train - Andrea Warren
Orphan Train Rider - Howar Heard
Hour 2 99-01-24-C ON THE ROAD
Being a Foreign Correspondent - Jackie Lyden
Sportswriter's Road Trip - Steve Rushin
Kerouac & Road Literature - Doug Brinkley
Cross-Country Bicycle Trip - Brian Newhouse

5/28/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-05-23-A RE-THINKING SCHOOLS
Abolish High School - Leon Botstein
Computers in the Classroom - Jane Healy
Wonders of Computers - David Bennahum
Truth, Beauty & Goodness - Howard Gardner
Hour 2 00-05-28-B GREAT DISCOVERIES
Greatest Inventions - contributors
Darwin's Origins - Steve Jones
Mad Scientist Experiments - Joey Green
Legacy of the Bomb - Mary Palevsky
Women's Inventions - Catherine Thimmesh

May 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

June 2000
6/4 6/11 6/18 6/25
June 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
6/04/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-06-04-A BECOMING AMERICAN
U.S. Asylum - Shari Robertson & Michael Camerini
Canada & America - Doug Gordon
Korean American Memoir - Elizabeth Kim
Immigration Novel - Susan Sontag
American Popular Music - Peter Guralnick
Hour 2 00-06-04-B WOMEN'S CULTURE
Transgender Activist - Kate Bornstein
Feminist History - Ruth Rosen
Women's Web - Anne Marie Dobos
Women's Web - Geoffrey Darby
Adventure Divas - Holly Morris
Marilyn Monroe - Joyce Carol Oates

6/11/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-06-11-A WAR AND PEACE
Perils of Peace - Robert Kaplan
NATO's Crimes - Robert Fisk
Comic Book Bosnia - Joe Sacco
Mogadishu Nightmare - Mark Bowden
Hour 2 00-06-11-B SEA CREATURES
The Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
Nicaragua's Bull Shark - Edward Marriot
Genetically Engineered Salmon - Anne Kapuscinski
Pacific Salmon - Joseph Taylor
Coelacanth - Samantha Weinberg

6/18/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-06-18-A FATHERS AND HEROES
Being Kingsley's Son - Martin Amis
Army Incest Trial - Louise Barnett
Brother with AIDS & Dad - Kerry O. Burns
Dad at Iwo Jima - James Bradley
Remembering Dad - Mary Lou Finnegan
Hour 2 00-06-18-B INSIDE SPORTS
Sports and Race - Jon Entine
Old-Time Baseball - Troy Soos
Sports Fan - Scott Simon
Marathon Runner - Rod DeHaven
Horse Racing - Jane Smiley

6/25/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 2 99-05-30-B ANIMALS IN PERIL
Disappearing Frogs - Andrew Blaustein
Extinction & Recovery - David Wilcove
Orangutans - Birute Galdikas
Birute Galdikas - Linda Spalding
Biologist in New Guinea - Tim Flannery
Hour 2 99-07-18-B BYWAYS TO WELLNESS
Food as Medicine - Nina Simonds
Homeopathy - Chris Bohjalian
Mona Lisa Schulz - Medical Intuitive
Doctors & Drug Addiction - Abraham Verghese
Navajo Woman Surgeon - Lori Arviso Alvord

June 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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