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July 2001
7/1 7/08 7/15 7/22 7/29
July 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

7/1/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-07-1-A TALKIN' ABOUT REVOLUTION
A Revisionist's American Revolution - Paul Lussier
Political Song - Janey Buchan
Student Protester - Roni Krouzman
Joan Baez & Bob Dylan - David Hadju
Hour 2 01-07-01-B NOTHING MORE THAN FEELINGS
Depression - Andrew Solomon
Blame the Brain
- Ned Kalin and Richard Davidson
You CAN buy Happiness - Andrew Oswald
Elevation - Jonathan Haidt
History of Tears - Tom Lutz

7/8/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-07-08-A SOUTHERN COMFORTS
Southern pastimes - Burkhard Bilger
Southern bread - Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
Appalachia - Noah Adams
Civil War Memory - David Blight
Texas singer/wongwriter - Steve Earle
Hour 2 01-07-08-B SUMMERTIME
Disney World & America - Stephen Fjellman
Rollercoasters - Mike Schafer
The Beach - Gideon Bosker & Lena Lencek
Shark Attacks - Michael Capuzzo

7/15/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-07-15-A OLD TALES, NEW TRUTHS
Sri Lanka Civil War - Michael Ondaatje
Complicity in Vichy France - Sebastian Faulks
Digging Out the Whole Truth - Ron Rosenbaum
Chinese Immigration Stories - Leslie Chang
Being Chinese/Norwegian/American - Paisley Rekdal
Hour 2 00-03-19-B MODERN LOVE
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Matchsticks - Michelle McDonald
SpeedDating - Antony Beilinsohn
Arranged Marriages - Chitra Divakaruni
love - bell hooks
General Theory of Love - Thomas Lewis

7/22/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-07-22-A LEARNING TO SEE
Not Seeing - Daniel Simons
Ecopsychologist - Laura Sewall
Going Blind - Edward Hoagland
Using Your Eyes - James Elkins
Wildlife Photography - Frans Lanting
Hour 2 01-07-22-B WORD PLAY
Midwestern "Standard" English - Dennis Preston
Fast-Talking Dames - Maria DiBattista
Competitive Scrabble - Stefan Fatsis
History of Alphabet - John Man

7/29/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
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
Hour 3 99-08-15-C BUSTING LOOSE
Deep Play - Diane Ackerman
Rock Climbing - David Breashears
Heightening Sensory Experience - Michael Gelb
Sweet Life in Tuscany - Frances Mayes
Returning to Provence - Peter Mayle

July 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

August 2001
8/5 8/12 8/19 8/26
August 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

8/5/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-01-16-B THE SPORTING LIFE
Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss
Lombardi One-Man Show - John Pinero
Sports Writing - David Halberstam
Black Planet - David Shields
Life on the Edge - Pam Houston
Hour 2 00-02-20-B MEMOIR AND MEMORY
Lost Memories - Jill Robinson
Early Memories - Jo Ann Beard
Memoir Popularity - Judith Strasser
Critical of Memoirs - William Zinsser
Value of Memoirs - Walter Kirn
Memoir and Truth - Patricia Hample
World War II Story - Fred Rochlin

8/12/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-07-08-A EVERYDAY NATURE
Urban Wildlife - Anne Matthews
Urban Nature Poetry - Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Night Walk - Marion Moran/Veronica Rueckert
Zoo Evolution - David Hancocks
Bluefin Tuna Catch - Theresa Maggio
Hour 2 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

8/19/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-08-19-A EMBRACING INNOVATION
Digital Movie Making - Bart Cheever
Scripts Still Matter - John Greenwald
Adapting Literary Classics - Andrew Davies
Corning & Innovation - Meg Graham
Genetically Modified Food - Richard Manning & Robert Goodman
Building Wooden Boats - Michael Ruhlman
Hour 2 01-08-19-B THINKING LIKE A SCIENTIST
Teenage Math Whiz - Sarah Flannery
Aldo Leopold - Nina, Carl & Estella Leopold
Send in the Clones - Doug Gordon
Voodoo Science - Robert Park
Consciousness - David Lodge

8/26/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-08-26-A GETTING HOOKED
Modern Marijuana - Michael Pollan
Ecstasy - Matthew Klam
Rave Scene - Benson Garner
Writing on Drugs - Sadie Plant
Black Tar Heroin - Jason Cohen
Hour 2 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

August 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

September 2001
9/2 9/9 9/16 9/23 9/30
September 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

9/02/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-09-02-A LABOR'S LOVE'S LOST
Free Agent Nation - Daniel Pink
Temporary Work Film - Josh & Jacob Kornbluth
Labor Background - Cheri Register
Minimum Wage Jobs - Barbara Ehrenreich
Loafing - Bob Jacobson
Hour 2 01-09-02-B FOOD FIGHTS
Organic Food Snobs - Greg Critser
Suburban Homesteader - Joan Dye Gussow
Science of French Fries - Russ Parsons
Confessions of a Waitress - Debra Ginsberg
Saffron - Pat Willard

9/09/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-09-09-A CURTAIN CALLS
Theater for Kids - Wendy Wasserstein
Lark Theatre - John Eisner & Daphne Greaves
Musicals and Divorce - Frank Rich
Samuel Beckett - Billie Whitelaw
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

9/16/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-09-16-A OFF THE BEATEN PATH
Fury & New York - Salman Rushdie
Commentary on Terrorist Acts - Naomi Shihab Nye
Drawbacks of Global Tourism - Patricia Goldstone
Dangerous Beauty - Mark C. Ross
Hitching with a Fridge - Tony Hawks
Hour 2 00-02-13-B CHOOSING YOUR LIFE
Vocation and Depression - Parker Palmer
Suicide - Kay Redfield Jamison
Reasons to Live - Various
Bold Poetry - Sapphire
Life of Colette - Judith Thurman

9/23/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-09-23-A THE OTHER ISLAM
Afghanistan - Jason Elliot
Rumi - Coleman Barks
Rabbis for Human Rights - Arik Asherman
Secular Islam - Tariq Ali
Hour 2 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

9/30/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-09-30-A TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
Geisha & The Tale of Genji - Liza Dalby
Faithless Love - Joyce Carol Oates
Sex Slave & Aftermath - Rupert Thomson
Race & Sex & Love - Thomas Glave
Appeal of Detective Fiction - P.D. James
Hour 2 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

September 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin



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