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FOURTH QUARTER PROGRAMS

OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2003

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10/05/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-10-05-A

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RACE RELATIONS
Interracial Adoption - Randall Kennedy
Zora Neale Hurston - Valerie Boyd
Lynching - Philip Dray
Stax Records - Rob Bowman

Hour 2

 

03-10-05-B
(was 02-09-22-B)

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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

10/12/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

03-10-12-A
(was 02-08-11-A)

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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

 

03-10-12-B
(was 02-05-26-B)

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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

10/19/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-10-19-A
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BASEBALL: THE DREAM VS. THE MONEY
Taking on the Yankees - Henry Fetter
Field of Dreams - Charles Monroe-Kane
Fastpitch: the real baseball - Jeremy Spear
Globalization of Baseball - Artur J. Marcana Guevara
Brooklyn Dodgers to L.A. - Michael Shapiro

Hour 2

03-10-19-B
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WORD UP!
Language Degradation - John McWhorter

Songs Inspired by Literature - Deborah Paydes
Juvenile Creative Writing - Mark Salzman
The Great Books - The Reduced Shakespeare Company

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03-10-26-A
(was 02-09-01-A)
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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

03-10-26-B
(was 02-10-27-A)
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RETURN OF THE SPIRITS
History of Halloween -
Nicholas Rogers
Witchcraft -
Phyllis Curott
Novel about Spirits -
Will Self
History of Supernatural -
Victoria Nelson
Vampire Novels -
Laurell Hamilton

 

11/02/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-11-02-A
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WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL LIVE SHOW
Vietnam Generation - David Maraniss & Tim O'Brien
Peace Activism -
Grace Paley

Following the Wright Brothers - Noah Adams
Writing Literate Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

Hour 2

03-11-02-B
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WILD THINGS
Man-Eaters - David Quammen
Animals in our Midst - Charles Siebert
Nature Poet - Robert Wrigley
Field Biologists - Elizabeth Royte
Moth Man - Dan Janzen

11/09/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-11-09-A

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DEMOCRACY
Future of Democracy - Fareed Zakaria
Democracy - Sherman Alexie
Three Questions - Karen Michel
Democracy - Alice Walker
Instant Run-off Voting - Rob Richie
Democracy - Isabel Allende
Children & Democracy - Dennis Donovan
Democracy - Margaret Atwood

Hour 2

 

03-11-09-B

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CLASSICAL HORIZONS
Classical Composer - Ned Rorem
Cellist - Matt Haimovitz
Growing up with Music - Jamie Bernstein Thomas
Clara Schumann - Janice Galloway

11/16/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-11-16-A

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CULTURES OF DESIRE
Accidental Playboy - Leif Ueland
Sex Products fund Family Planning - Phil Harvey
Stripper Ethnography - Katherine Frank
Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice - Olivia Judson

Hour 2

 

03-11-16-B
(was 02-11-24-A)

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MUSIC PART ONE:
ROOTS MUSIC TODAY

Cape Breton Island Fiddle Music - Natalie MacMaster
Authentic Country Music - Bill Malone
Life & Music of Wood Guthrie - Elizabeth Partridge & Nora Guthrie
Fat Possum Records - Matthew Johnson

11/23/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-11-23-A
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DEATH
Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
The Body Farm - Dr. Bill Bass
Cultural Meaning of Suicide - Lisa Lieberman
Death is Funny - Eric Idle
Life After Death - Jonathan Carroll

Hour 2

 

03-11-23-B
(was 02-12-01-A)

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MUSIC PART TWO:
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Chinese Opera Singer - Hao Jiang Tian
Telesymphony - Golan Levin
Calabrian Mafia Music - Francesco Sbano
Life & Times of Janis Joplin
- Aimee McCormick & Andra Mitrovich
Women's Movement & Song Lyrics - Dorothy Marcic

11/30/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-11-30-A

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BEYOND EINSTEIN
Finite Universe & Black Holes - Janna Levin
Quantum Gravity - Marcia Bartusiak
Space Age Medical Technology - Robert Fischell
Space Photos - Michael Benson & Lawrence Weschler
Isaac Newton, Alchemist - James Gleick

Hour 2

 

03-11-30-B
(was 02-12-08-A)

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MUSIC PART THREE:
GROWING UP MUSICAL

Growing Up Musical - Christopher O'Riley
Piano Lesson - Jane Hamilton
They Might Be Giants
Muddy Waters - Robert Gordon
Holocaust and Music - Mona Golabek

 

12/07/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-12-07-A

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PRIZE-WINNING WRITERS
Booker Prize Winner - DBC Pierre
Profile - Ian McEwan
Judging National Book Award - Jackie Mitchard
Nobel Laureate - Toni Morrison

Hour 2

 

03-12-07-B
(was 02-12-15-A)

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MUSIC PART FOUR:
THE MUSIC FAN

Bruce Springsteen Fans - Daniel Cavicchi
Rock Critic as Fan - Jane Scott
Fan of Father - Rufus Wainwright
Obsessed Fan - Lisa Germano
A Love Supreme - Ashley Kahn & Bishop King

12/14/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-12-14-A
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SHOPPING
I Want That - Thomas Hine
The Call of the Mall - Paco Underhill
What Would Jesus Drive? - Rev. Jim Ball
Save Karyn - Karyn Bosnak
Church of Stop Shopping - Rev. Billy (Bill Talen)

Hour 2

03-12-14-B
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MEAT AND MORALITY
Ethics of Meat-Eating - Matthew Scully & Michael Pollan
Joy of Meat - Mr. Cutlets
Vegetarian Cooking - Celia Brooks Brown
Emotional Lives of Farm Animals - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

12/21/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-12-21-A
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HOME COOKING
Made from Scratch - Jean Zimmerman
Scandinavian Cuisine - Andreas Viestad
Bread Historian - Steve Kaplan
Shakespearean Feast - Francine Segan
Slow Mediterranean Cooking - Paula Wolfert

Hour 2

03-12-21-B
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COUNTRY MUSIC
Country Singing - Patty Loveless
Johnny Cash - Michael Streissguth
Bluegrass Music - Earl Scruggs
Hillbilly Music - Anthony Harkins

12/28/2003 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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03-12-28-A
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DRINKERS AND DRUNKS
A Bartender's Life - Toby Cecchini
Drinking for Pleasure - Sheila Shigley & Alan Ng
Addiction - James Frey
Road Trip with Dad - Michael Keith
Lush Life - Will Friedwald

Hour 2

03-12-28-B
(was 02-11-10-B)

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BREAD
Spirit of Bread -
Peter Reinhart
Beckman Mill -
Charles Monroe-Kane
The Little Red Hen -
Arlo Guthrie
Wonder Bread -
Carolyn Wyman
History of Bread -
Darra Goldstein
The Bialy Eaters -
Mimi Sheraton

 

 

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