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07/04/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-07-04-A

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THE FOUNDERS
The Founders - Gore Vidal
Jefferson the "Negro President" - Gary Wills
Age of Homespun - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
History of America - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Hour 2

 

04-07-04-B
(was 03-04-13-A)

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THE AMERICAN DREAM
Arab-Americans since 9/11 -
Sarah Eltantawi
History of the American Dream -
Jim Cullen
Jewish Contribution to American Music - Ben Sidran
Living the American Dream - Mawi Asgedom

07/11/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-07-11-A

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LOST AND FOUND BOOKS
Book Burnings - Nicholas Basbanes
Saving Newspapers - Nicholson Baker
Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
Codex - Lev Grossman
Handmade Books - Walter Hamady

Hour 2

 

04-07-11-B
(was 03-05-25-B)

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STUPID & STUPIDER
Film on Stupidity - Albert Nerenberg
Ethics of Stupidity - Avital Ronell
Academic Bloopers - Anders Henriksson
Encyclopedia of Stupidity - Matthijs van Boxsel

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04-07-18-A
(was 03-07-13-B)

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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Dysfunctional Family Vacation -
Mark & Rae Jacobson
Comic Travelogues -
Ross Noble
Roman Holidays -
Tony Perrottet
Train Hopping -
Jack Cahill & David Eberhardt

Hour 2

 

04-07-18-B
(was 03-07-20-A)

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THE DEVIL
Church of Satan - Blanche Barton
A Date with the Devil - Samuel Ramey
Running from the Devil - Steve Kissing
Dante's "Inferno" - Mark Palma
The Crossroads - Adam Gussow

07/25/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-07-25-A

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UNIVERSAL THOUGHT
Astrobiology - David Grinspoon
Founder of SETI - Frank Drake
Comet Hunter - Chiori Miyagawa & Jim Lattis
A Physicist Looks at Time - Brian Greene

Hour 2

 

04-07-25-B
(was 03-09-28-B)

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STORYTELLING
Children's Books - Amanda Craig
The Moth - Matt Lieber
Radio Stories - Ira Glass
Afghan Stories - Saira Shah

08/1/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-08-01-A
(was 03-09-28-A)

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A MAN'S WORLD
The Man Show - Doug Stanhope
Chauvinism in Pop Culture - Richard Goldstein
Violence & Masculinity - Benjamin Cavell
The Y Chromosome - Steve Jones
Football Obsession - Kenneth Carlson

Hour 2

 

04-08-01-B
(was 03-07-20-B)


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TALES FROM BOOKWORLD
Bookselling Town in Wales - Paul Collins
Literary Detective - Jasper Fforde
Literary Forger - Simon Worrall
Writing Columns & Novels - Anna Quindlen
Writing as Therapy - Julia Glass

08/08/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-08-08-A

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GREECE
Ancient Greece - Thomas Cahill
Archaeology of Troy - William Aylward
Greek Gods - Mary Lefkowitz
Modern Athens - George Sarrinikolaou
Crete - Barry Unsworth
Greek Cooking - Francine Segan

Hour 2

 

04-08-08-B

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ROAD TRIPS FOR THE SOUL
Holy Visions - Randall Sullivan
Tantra - Asra Nomani
Civil Rights Tour Guide - Jim Carrier
American Dream Safari - Tad Pierson

08/15/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-08-15-A

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SONGS, COPS AND KINGS
Sonata for Jukebox - Geoffrey O'Brien
International Mysteries - Peter Handel
Updating King Arthur - Jane Yolen
Wrestling, Retiring & Writing - Mick Foley

Hour 2

 

04-08-15-B
(was 03-06-22-A)

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THE SCIENCE OF DISCOVERY
Great Discoveries - Bill Bryson
the Play Oxygen - Carl Djerassi
Ig-Nobel Prize - Marc Abrahams
Variable Speed of Light Theory - Joao Magueijo
Discovering Beauty in Math - Robert & Ellen Kaplan

08/22/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-08-22-A
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AUTISM
Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
Increase in Autism - Catherine Lord
"Refrigerator Mothers" - Maria Mombille & JJ Hanley
Unlocking the Inner Savant - Allan Snyder
Autism Novel - Mark Haddon

Hour 2

 

04-08-22-B
(was 03-08-03-A)

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LOST AND FOUND
Found Magazine - Davy Rothbart
Tasaday Tribe - Robin Hemley
Beatles Drummer - Pete Best
Hana's Suitcase - Karen Levine

08/29/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-08-29-A

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HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO ARE?
Mirrors - Mark Pendergrast
Brain & Neuroscience - Steven Johnson
Brain & Human Nature - Steven Pinker
Buddhism & Infinite Life - Robert Thurman

Hour 2

 

04-08-29-B
(was 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

09/5/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-09-05-A

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COMIX
Comic about 9/11 - Art Spiegelman
Comic of Daily Life - Julius Knipl
Comics Lit - Charles McGrath
Art of Comics - Chris Ware
Artist Profile - Neil Gaiman

Hour 2

 

04-09-05-B

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FACING DEATH
A Good Death - Lucille Marchand
Opera & the Art of Dying - Linda & Michael Hutcheon
Terror Management Theory - Tom Pyszczynski
Woodlawn Cemetery - Fred Goodman

09/12/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-09-12-A

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UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIPS
Lucy Greeley - Ann Patchett
Deep Sea Divers - Robert Kurson
Solo Buddies Form Group - The Flatlanders
Literary Influences - Rachel Cohen

Hour 2

 

04-09-12-B
(was 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

09/19/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-09-19-A

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SOCIAL STUDIES
Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
Father & Son from Prison - Nick Flynn
American Poverty - Mark Robert Rank
Social Class in Fiction - Lisa Tucker
Rankism - Robert W. Fuller

Hour 2

 

04-09-19-B

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ACTORS AND ACTING
The Lunts - Margot Peters
Ten Chimneys - Sean Malone
John Barrymore - Lee Ernst
What Made Shakespeare - Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare the Man - Grace Tiffany

09/26/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-09-26-A

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PERCHANCE TO DREAM
Science of Dreams - Andrea Rock
Somniloquist Dion McGregor - Steve Venwright
Lucid Dreaming - Stphen LaBerge
Dream Telling Novel - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Science of Sleep - Paul Martin

Hour 2

 

04-09-26-B

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THE GAMES WE PLAY
World Series of Poker - James McManus
Our Own Game Show - Doug Gordon
Masters of Doom - David Kushner
Ping Pong - Jerome Charyn
Dice Man - Luke Rinehart

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