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July 2000
7/2 7/9 7/16 7/23 7/30
July 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

7/2/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-07-18-A BUYING STUFF
You Are What You Buy - James Twitchell
Hidden Persuaders - Douglas Rushkoff
Selling Nature - Jennifer Price
Making Money, Literally
- J.S.G. Boggs & Lawrence Weschler
Overspent American - Vince Passaro
Hour 3 99-07-11-C MEAT & VEGGIES
Meat Eating & Evolution - Craig Stanford
Cooking Meat - Bruce Aidells
Eating Bugs - Faith D'Alusio & Peter Menzel
Vegan Diet - Erik Markus
Vegetarian Cooking - Anna Thomas

7/9/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-07-09-A BABY BABBLE & MOTHER TONGUES
Sound Hunter - Peter Ladefoged
Baby Babble - Janna Iverson
Frederic Cassidy
Secret Lives of Words - Paul West
Bosnia in English - Aleksandar Hemon
Hour 2 00-07-09-B LURE OF THE EXOTIC
Ostrich Exotica - Rob Nixon
Western Romance with Tibet - Orville Schell
Tibetan Warrior Nun - Ani Pachen & Adelaide Donnelly
Bruce Chatwin - Nicholas Shakespeare

7/16/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-07-16-A GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRITICS
Initiative Movements - David Broder
Alexander Hamilton - Richard Brookhiser
Cyber-Selfishness - Paulina Boorsook
Ayn Rand - Tibor Machan
Grassroots Activism - Jim Wallis
Hour 2 00-07-16-B MAKING SAINTS
Making Saints - Garry Wills
Teresa of Avila - Cathleen Medwich
Joan of Arc - Carolyn Gage
Buddha from Brooklyn - Martha Sherrill

7/23/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-07-23-A FOR THE LOVE OF BUGS
Robo-fly - Michael Dickinson
Ant Colonies - Deborah Gordon
Praying Mantis - Gordon Grice
Invading Insects - Mark Hunter
Nabokov's Butterflies - Robert Pyle
Hour 2 00-07-23-B HIDDEN HISTORY
The Alamo - Stephen Harrigan
Nat King Cole - Daniel Mark Epstein
Women in the Gold Rush - Susan Lee Johnson
Civil War Quilt Code - Raymond Dobard

7/30/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-07-11-A WOMEN'S BODIES
Women's Brains - Helen Fisher
Women's Wombs - Germaine Greer
The Story of Jane - Laura Kaplan
Recovering from Rape - Patricia Francisco
Hour 2 99-05-23-C BECOMING MEN
Boys' Inner Lives - Michael Thompson
Men, Mazes & Role Models - Carol Shields
The Cosmo Guy - Liza Featherstone
Buff Action Figures
- Harrison Pope & Roberto Olivardia
Middle Class Black Men - Jake Lamar
July 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

August 2000
8/6 8/13 8/20 8/27
August 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
8/6/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-08-06-A IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Einstein's Brain - Michael Paterniti
Seat of Intelligence - John Duncan
Smart Pills - Tim Tully
Animal Minds - Mark Hauser
Pursuit of Happiness - Mark Kingwell
Hour 2 00-08-06-B WRITING RACE
Indian Stereotypes - Sherman Alexie
Great American Creole Novel - Russell Banks
Young London Writer - Zadie Smith
Hank Aaron - Sandy Tolan

8/13/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-08-13-A TOP MARX
Groucho Marx - Stefan Kanfer
Groucho Marx - Michael Feldman
Karl Marx - Francis Wheen
Play about Karl Marx - Brian Jones
Socialism's Failure - Seymour Martin Lipset
Hour 2 00-08-13-B GENRE WRITING AND BEYOND!
Experimental Novel - Mark Danielewski
Issues & Fantasy - Terry Brooks
Victorian Crime Stories - Anne Perry
Icelandic Sagas - Jane Smiley
Mysteries & Real Death - P.D. James

8/20/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-08-20-A PLAGUES AND PARASITES
Public Health Collapse - Laurie Garrett
Parasites - Carl Zimmer
Fat Virus - Richard Atkinson
Anthrax Outbreak - Jeanne Guillemin
Amazon Medicines - Mark Plotkin
Hour 2 00-08-20-B BOOK BATTLES
E-Book Futures - Wade Roush
B-Books - Doug Gordon
Stephen King - Stephen Dubner
Many Books - John Hamilton
Reading - Harold Bloom

8/27/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-04-25-A CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE
Glen Ridge Rape - Bernard Lefkowitz
Children & Scary Movies/TV - Joanne Cantor
Allure of the Bogeyman - Marina Warner
Children Who Kill - Gitta Sereny
Hour 2 00-08-27-B PASSPORTS AND HOLIDAYS
Travel and Writing - Paul Theroux
Travel Tips for Couples - Allen Noren
History of Vacation - Cindy Aron
American in Paris - David Sedaris
Farming in Andalucia - Chris Stewart

August 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

September 2000
9/3 9/10 9/17 9/24
September 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
9/03/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-09-03-A THE GROWING GAP
White Working Class - Joel Rogers
Household Managers - Mary Starkey
Street Vendors - Mitch Dunier & Ishmael Walker
How the Rich got Rich - Cynthia Crossen
Robin Hood Was Right - Chuck Collins & Pam Rogers
Hour 2 00-09-03-B OLD BONES, ANCIENT TALES
Extinct Humans - Ian Tattersall
Ancient Myths & Fossils - Adrienne Mayor
Greek & Roman Witchcraft - Peter Green
Viking Exploration - Elizabeth Ward
Beowulf - Richard Ringler

9/10/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-09-10-A DEATH RITES, LIVING RIGHT
Funeral Fundamentals - Thomas Lynch
Godless Death - Jim Crace
How to Grieve - Nancy Cobb
Immortality & Jung - Timothy Findley
Ruth Ellis at 100 - Yvonne Welbon
Hour 2 00-09-10-B THE FLAMES AND THE FURY
Smokejumper - Murry Taylor
Fire Policy & the Fire of 1910 - Stephen Pyne
A Poet on the Weather - Billy Collins
Revisiting Mt. St. Helens - Christina Colasurdo
1900 Galveston Hurricane - Erik Larson

9/17/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-09-17-A AUSTRALIA
Australian Tour - Bill Bryson
Australian Identity - John Higley
Going Hollywood - Mark Juddery
Australian Wildlife - Edward Kanze
Rewriting Dickens - Peter Carey
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

9/24/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-09-24-A MARRIAGE, DIVORCE & CELIBACY
Children of Divorce - Judith Wallerstein
Infidelity - Jane Hamilton
19th Century Marriage - Hendrik Hartog
Celibacy - Elizabeth Abbot
Hour 2 00-09-24-B HOLY POLITICS!
Prigs in Politics - Ron Rosenbaum
God's Always Been There - Stephen Carter
Conservative Coalition - Nina Easton
A Hippie's Conversion - Frederica Matthewes-Green
Hidden Faith - Daniel Asa Rose

September 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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