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July 2002
7/7 7/14 7/21 7/28
July 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
7/7/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

01-07-01-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

01-03-18-B

MIGHTY MOUTHS: VENTRILOQUISM AND OTHER VOICES
Voice of Bart Simpson - Nancy Cartwright
Cultural History of Ventriloquism - Steven Connor
Ventriloquism Documentary - Sandra Luckow
Literary Ventriloquism - Peter Carey

7/14/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-07-14-A

ROAD TRIPS
Hybrid Cars - Bill McKibben
Fantasy Cars - Bruce McCall
Car Crash Culture - Mikita Brottman
Henry Ford & the Jews - Neil Baldwin
Hobos - Eddy Joe Cotton
Hour 2

02-07-14-B

BEING COOL
Dogtown and Zboys - Stacey Peralta
White Boy Being Black - Adam Mansbach
Girls and Popularity - Rachael Simmons
Danger of Cool - Ron Powers

7/21/2002 Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-07-21-A

GOOD AND EVIL: YOU CHOOSE
Language of Evil - Charles Matthewes
Donner Party Novel - James Houston
Why People Torture - John Conroy
Power of Chicago Mob - Gus Russo
Gang Life in L.A. - Luis Rodriguez
Hour 2

01-08-12-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

7/28/2002 Program # 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

01-07-01-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

July 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

August 2002
8/4 8/11 8/18 8/25
August 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

8/4/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-08-04-A

THE HEART OF THE WILD
Animal Emotions - Marc Bekoff
Endangered Animal Sounds - Elizabeth Von Muggenthaler
Tigers and Cranes - Peter Matthiessen
The Pet Psychic - Sonya Fitzpatrick
Hour 2

01-05-27-B

PLEASURE OF WORDS
Song Lyrics - Robert Gottlieb & Robert Kimball
Literary Sleuth - Don Foster
Shakespeare's Language - Frank Kermode
The Reduced Shakespeare Company

8/11/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-08-11-A

MY CHEMICAL LIFE
Chemical Boyhood - Oliver Sacks
Nature's Building Blocks - John Emsley
Bhopal Disaster - Dominique LaPierre
Life of Primo Levi - Carole Angier
Hour 2

02-08-11-B

LITERARY LIVES
World's Worst Parents - Paula Fox
Charles Dickens - Jane Smiley
Young Writers on Love
- Emma Richler, Thisbe Nissen, Matthew Klamm
Writing On-Line - Robert Olen Butler
Duende and Artists - Edward Hirsch

8/18/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-08-18-A

IT'S A PLUNDERFUL LIFE
The Real Captain Kidd - Richard Zacks
Talk like a pirate - Doug Gordon
Modern Piracy - Jack Gottschalk
Pirate-hunting - John Dalby
Girl Pirates - Sara Lorimer
Music Piracy - John Alderman

Hour 2

01-04-08-B

GROWING GREEN
Gardening for Kids - Sharon Lovejoy
The Great American Lawn - Michael Pollan
Frederick Law Olmstead & The Fens - Anne Whiston Spirn
Her Garden - Jamaica Kincaid
Women on Plants - Brenda Peterson

8/25/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-08-25-A

THE POET
Virtual Muse - Charles Hartman
Poetry in Somalia - Alexander Stille
Nature Poetry - Pattiann Rogers
How to Speak Shakespeare - Louis Colaianni
Life of Rimbaud - Graham Robb
Hour 2

01-05-20-A

MOTHERS, FATHERS, SONS & DAUGHTERS
Prize Winning Mom - Terry Ryan
Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
Son of a Grifter - Kent Walker
Amy's Mom - Amy Borkowsky

August 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

September 2002
9/1 9/8 9/15 9/22 9/29
September 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
9/1/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-09-01-A

CYBORGS, COMPUTERS & THE SOUL
Living The Matrix - Nick Bostrom
Virtue in the Internet Age - Quentin Schultze
Computers of Star Trek - Robert Weinberg
Cyborg Poilitics - Chris Gray
History of Mechanical Life - Gaby Wood
Hour 2

01-04-15-A

MARRIAGE AND MEANING
Marriage Sabbatical - Cheryl Jarvis
Lost Meaning of Marriage - Daniel Cere
"The Rules" for Marriage - Carina Chocano
Adultery Novel - Nuala O'Faolain
Gertrude & Alice
- Lola Pashalinski & Linda Chapman

9/8/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-09-08-A

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
American Empire - Max Boot
Against Empire - Tariq Ali
Rudyard Kipling - David Gilmour
James Bond - Jeremy Black
William Sheppard - Pagan Kennedy
Hour 2

02-09-08-B

EVERYONE'S A CRITIC!
Blurb Writing - Elinor Lipman
Blurbing Blurbs - Ben Greenman
Literary Critic - Sven Birkerts
Amateur DVD Commentary - Andy Ross & Sean Weitner
Amazon Critic - Henry Raddick
Coles Notes - Doug Gordon

9/15/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-09-15-A

CAPITALISM REDUX
CEO of SweatX - Pierre Ferrari
Corporate Sponsorship - Mark Rectanus
Siberia Bound - Alexander Blakely
Financing the American Dream - Lendol Calder
Hour 2

02-09-15-B

RETURN TO PLEASURE
Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman
Daily Afflictions - Andrew Boyd
Birth of Pleasure - Carol Gilligan
Kamasutra - Wendy Doniger

9/22/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-09-22-A

OCEAN CROSSINGS
Gray Whales - Brenda Peterson
1968 Sailing Race - Peter Nichols
Lobstering - Linda Greenlaw
Sharks - John Musick
Rowing the Arctic - Jill Fredston

Hour 2

02-09-22-B

PROOF BY NUMBERS
Japanese Temple Geometry - Tony Rothman
Children's Brains & Math - Michael Gurian
Hilbert Solvers - Benjamin Yandell
Magic Squares - Clifford Pickover
"Proof" - Erika Kreutz & Robert Quinlan

9/29/2002 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

02-09-29-A

WAR AND THE MEDIA
Hour 2

02-09-29-B

CALL OF THE WILD

September 2002 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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