SECOND QUARTER PROGRAMS

APRIL, MAY, JUNE 2002

To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio

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4/7/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-04-07-A

PERSONAL MEDICINE
Misdiagnosis - Gary Wolkstein
Pharmaco-genetics - Richard Weinshilboum
Music Therapy - Oliver Sacks
Medical Interpreters - Shiva Bidar-Sielaff

Hour 2

00-04-07-B

THE LAST LAUGH
Laughter Clubs - Dr. Madan Kataria
Science of Laughter - Robert Provine
Bill Hicks - Cynthia True
Wit and Humor - Jonathan Miller
Second City & 9/11 - Rachel Mason

4/14/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-04-14-A

STRONG FEELINGS
Emotional Revolution - Norman Rosenthal
Cancer Survival - Dan Shapiro
Biology of Emotions - Antonio Damasio
Surviving Brain Injury - Karen & Rachel Brennan
British Eccentrics - Benedict Le Vay
Hour 2

02-04-14-B

VIDEO GAMES: FROM PONG TO PAINSTATION
Video Game Image - Steven Poole
Video Games Propaganda - Wagner James Au
New Video Game Movie (?) - Doug Gordon
The Pain Station - Tilman Reiff
Killing Monsters - Gerard Jones

4/21/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-04-21-A

THE SCIENTIFIC MODEL
AIDS Denialist - Christine Maggiore
Chicago River Turnaround - Tim Samuelson
Science and Religion - Guy Consolmagno
Storm Control- Peter Cardoni
Amish - Donald Kraybill
Hour 2

02-04-21-B

MAKING MOVIES
Independent Movie - Arliss Howard & Debra Winger
Hollywood Studios - Peter Guber
Auditioning - Joanne Merlin
Documentary Film as Anthropology - Les Blank

4/28/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-04-28-A

REVENGE
Revenge & Hope - Laura Blumenfeld
Ending Cycles of Revenge - William Ury
Cultural Revenge - Peter French
RevengeLady.com - Christine Gallagher
A Night in Ireland - James Ridge
Hour 2

02-04-28-B

HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
300 Barber Shops - Vince Staten
Coen Brothers' Barber Film
Mme. C.J. Walker - A'Lelia Bundles
1000 Beards - Allen Peterkin
Baldness in History - Gersh Kuntzman

April 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

May 2002
5/5 5/12 5/19 5/26
May 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

5/5/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-05-05-A

SALT OF THE EARTH
History of Salt - Mark Kurlansky
Gourmet Salt - Corby Kummer
Chemistry of Salt - Pierre Laszlo
Lot's Wife - Jo Ann Brant
Journey in Burma - Alan Rabinowitz

Hour 2

01-02-18-B

DISABILITY AND THE ARTS
Disabled Cartoonist - John Callahan
Blind Tom, Black Pianist - Geneva Handy Southall
Artist with Cerebral Palsy - Lyle Victor Albert
Disability in Film - Martin Norden

5/12/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-05-12-A

MOTHER'S DAY
Artificial Womb - Scott Gelfland
Mother Power - Jacqueline Plumez
One Woman/Two Mother Play - Lauren Weedman
Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Baby Poetry - Gillian Ferguson

Hour 2

02-05-12-B

OPTIMISM AND WISHFUL THINKING
American Myth of Success - Richard Weiss
Positive Power of Negative Thinking - Julie Norem
The Eureka Effect - David Perkins
Original Blessing - Matthew Fox
The Case for Mars - Robert Zubrin

5/19/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)

Hour 1

 

02-05-19-A

CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Israeli Refusenik - Haggai Matar
Temple Mount - Gershom Gorenberg
Stand-Up Comics - Bob Alper & Ahmed Ahmed
Turkey - Stephen Kinzer
Medieval Spain - Maria Menocal 

Hour 2

 

01-03-04-A

RECLAIMING SUBURBIA
Defending Suburbia - Tom Martinson
Georgraphy of Cyberspace - Joel Kotkin
Shopping Malls - Eric Bogosian
East St. Louis - Ken Reardon

5/26/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)

Hour 1

 

02-05-26-A

RUSSIA AND CHINA
New Russia - Matthew Brzezinski
Russian-American Relations - Peter Greenberg
Chinese Dissidents - Ian Baruma
Gay Culture in Hong Kong - Shu Kei
Correspondent in China - Jimi FlorCruz

Hour 2

 

02-05-26-B

DINER AS MUSE
Diners in Film - Michael Witzel
Diner History - Andrew Hurley
The Denny's Project - Jason Pfaff
Edward Hopper - Mark Strand
Tom Waits - Greg Kot

June 2002
6/2 6/9 6/16 6/23 6/30
June 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

6/2/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)

Hour 1

 

02-06-02-A

THE SHOW BUSINESS
The Sideshow - Todd Robbins
P.T. Barnum's America - Benjamin Reiss
Circus Animal Rights - Janet Davis
Showman Dan Rice - David Carlyon

Hour 2

 

01-05-06-A

SEDUCED BY VIOLENCE
Excitement of War - Anthony Loyd
Cartoon Violence (skit) - Doug Gordon
Children's Violent Play - Jane Katch
Violent Movies - Jake Horsley
Grief - Dennis McFarland

6/9/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-06-09-A

CONSTRUCTING THE PAST
When I Was a Young Man - Senator Bob Kerrey
Past in Liberia - Museu Haddad
8-Track Nostalgia - Russell Forster
Future of the Past - Alexander Stille
Hour 2

02-06-09-B

TREASURE HUNTING
Hunting Antiques - Leigh and Leslie Keno
Armchair Treasure Hunting - Shaun Whitehead
Diamond Hunting - Kevin Krajick
Dinosaur Hunting - Michael Novacek
Spiritual Treasure - Thomas Moore

6/16/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-06-16-A

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS
Doing Time @ Amazon - Mike Daisey
Ebay - Adam Cohen
Advertising Life - Mary Wells Lawrence
Abolish Corporate Personhood - Jan Edwards
Meaningful Work - David Whyte

Hour 2

02-06-16-B

FATHERS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Father was a cross-dresser - Noelle Howey
Lummox - Mike Magnuson
Sailing Trip with Dad - Neil Steinberg
Dads and Daughters - Joe Kelly
Absent Father - Jamaica Kincaid

6/23/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-06-23-A

DISCOVERING JAPAN
Tales from the Dark Side - Alex Kerr
Tears in Japanese Popular Song - Christine Yano
"Parasite Singles" - Peggy Orenstein
Japanese-American Filmmaker - Steven Okazaki
Japanese Film - Douglas Richie

Hour 2

01-04-08-A

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
Living Long - Steven Austad
No Cure for Aging - Jay Olshansky
Spirituality in Middle Age - Scott Russell Sanders
Longevity Code - Zorba Paster
Cremation in America - Stephen Prothero

6/30/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-06-30-A

PASSAGE TO INDIA
India/Pakistan Politics - Tariq Ali
Bollywood Film Music - DJ Ritu
Indian Independence/Colonialism - Amitav Ghosh
Memoir of Kashmir - Sudha Koul
Tandoori Cuisine - Julie Sahni
Hour 2

02-06-30-B

EVOLUTION: OUR ANCESTORS, OUR CHILDREN
Redesigning Humans - Gregory Stock
Future Evolution - Peter Ward
Human Ancestors - Jean Auel
Alfred Russel Wallace - Jane Camerini

 

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