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04/03/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-04-03-A

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FICTIONAL FUN
New Yorker Stories - Deborah Treisman & George Saunders
Narrative Ambiguity - Elliot Perlman
Chick Lit - Jennifer Weiner
Hip Lit - David Foster Wallace

Hour 2

 

05-04-03-B

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KEEPIN' IT CREOLE
New Orleans Rambles - Roy Blount, Jr.
New Orleans Music - Chuck Taggart
Voodoo Visions - Sallie Ann Glassman
Bayou Farewell - Mike Tidwell

 

04/10/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-04-10-A

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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS
Radio, News & Community - Bill Siemering
How to Say It - Douglas Maynard
Legless Mountain Climber - Warren MacDonald
News in 18th Century Paris - Robert Darnton

Hour 2

 

05-04-10-B
(was 04-05-30-A)

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SCANDINAVIAN CHIC
Popular Music from Vittula - Mikael Niemi
IKEA - John Leland
Commentary on Christiana - Rick Steves
Norwegian Food - Andreas Viestad
Finnish Music - Varttina
Iceland off the Grid - Joseph Romm

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05-04-17-A
(was 04-05-23-A)


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EXPECTATIONS OF FREEDOM
Bayard Rustin -
John D'Emilio
Stokely Carmichael -
Michael Thelwell
Women of Gee's Bend -
Anne Strainchamps
Integration -
James Hood

End of Blackness - Debra Dickerson

Hour 2

 

05-04-17-B
(was 04-06-20-A)

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TOUGH WOMEN
Women Stunt Doubles - Amanda Micheli
Midlife Crisis at 30 - Lia Macko
Swimming Antarctica - Lynne Cox
Women for Women International - Zainab Salbi

04/24/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-04-24-A

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KEEPIN' IT CEREBRAL
Thinking without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
Future of the Brain - Steven Rose
Second Brain - Michael Gershon
Perpetual Headache - Paula Kamen
The Lobotomist - Jack El-Hai

Hour 2

 

05-04-24-B
(was 04-06-27-A)

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OUTSIDERS
Nelson Algren - Studs Terkel
Las Vegas - Marc Cooper
Gay Outsiders - Angie Blake
Dharma Punx - Noah Levine
Outsider Opera - Diamanda Galas

 

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05-05-01-A

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MYTHS & MAKEOVERS
Myths & Makeovers - Camille Paglia
MacBeth Makeover - Ted Cowan
MacHomer - Rick Miller
Marilyn Monroe - Sarah Churchwell

Hour 2

 

05-05-01-B

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WISDOM OF THE BODY
A Body Story - Jane Fonda
In Touch with the Body - Jon Kabat-Zinn
Psychosomatic Wellness - Candace Pert
History of Blood - Bill Hayes
Dancing to Health - Robert Rand

 

05/08/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-05-08-A
(was 04-06-13-B)

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SHADES OF COLOR
Color & Poetry - Molly Peacock
History of Pigments - Philip Ball
Dewey Color System - Doug Gordon
Shades of Black - Marita Golden
Brown - Richard Rodriguez
Hour 2

05-05-08-B
(was 04-05-16-B)

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WRITER'S BLOCK
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Ideas to Jumpstart Your Imagination - Jason Rukulak
Hypergraphia - Alice Flaherty
Writer's Block - Garrison Keillor
Writer's Block & Movies - Molly Haskell
Aloft - Chang-Rae Lee

05/15/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-05-15-A

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BEHIND CLOSED BOOKS
Rap "Canterbury Tales" - Baba Brinkman
Who Murdered Chaucer? - Terry Jones
The Bronte Sisters - Lucasta Miller
Henry James - Colm Toibin

Hour 2

 

05-05-15-B

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KEEPIN' IT REEL TO REEL: THE FUTURE OF MUSIC
Yodeling Around the World - Bart Plantenga
Digitual Future of Music - David Kusek
Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze
Songwriter/Novelist - John Wesley Harding/Wesley Stace

05/22/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-05-22-A

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U.S. v. THEM
Mondovino - Jonathon Nossiter
Foreign Babes in Beijing - Rachel DeWoskin
Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
Hip Hop in Johannesburg - Patrick Neate
Jazz & the Cold War - Penny Von Eschen

Hour 2

 

05-05-22-B

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CONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE
Great Beginnings - Tom Wolfe
What is a Narrative? - David Freudberg
Cork Boat - John Pollack
Great Beginnings - Amy Tan
Silent Film Scores - Vivek Maddala
Great Endings - Jane Hamilton

05/29/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-05-29-A

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SPEECH RULES!
Instant Messaging - Lauren Myracle
Grammar Rules - Patricia O'Connor
Untranslatable Words - Christopher Moore
Speaking American - Robert MacNeil
Sounds of Slavery - Shane White

Hour 2

 

05-05-29-B

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THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
Why Birds Sing - David Rothenberg
Chuck's Ravens - Charles Monroe-Kane
Nature Deficit Disorder - Richard Louv
Robbing the Bees - Holley Bishop
Birds & Bees - John Pederson
Pine Island - Kathleen Dean Moore

 

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05-06-05-A

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PRO WRESTLING
Pro Wrestling Writer - Ed Ferrara
Wrestler "Mankind" - Mick Foley
Female Professional Wrestling - Ruth Leitman
Wrestling Memories - Georgeous George
Dylan on Wrestling - read by Sean Penn
Mucha Lucha - Lili Chin & Eddie Mort

Hour 2

 

05-06-05-B
(was04-08-08-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

 

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05-06-12-A
(was 04-01-11-A)

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KID COOL
Rejuveniles - Christopher Noxon
Loss of Maturity? - Marcel Danesi
Music for Kids & Adults - Veronica Rueckert
Children's Artist - Maurice Sendak

Hour 2

 

05-06-12-B
(was 04-05-23-B)

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SCENE OF THE CRIME
Real Edinburgh - Ian Rankin
Restorative Justice - Howard Zehr
Hitchcock's Leading Men - Patrick McGilligan
Chicago & Serial Killer - Erik Larson
18th Century Justice - David Liss

06/19/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-06-19-A
(was 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

 

05-06-19-B
(was 02-11-03-A)

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J.D. SALINGER and BEYOND
Letters to Salinger - Chris Kubica
Salinger & American Culture - John Wenke
"Saul & Patsy" excerpt - Charles Baxter
Life with Salinger - Margaret Salinger
Coming of Age Novel - Garrison Keillor

06/26/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-06-26-A

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THE POST MODERN IRONIC WINK
Irony - Jedediah Purdy
Commentary - Veronica Rueckert
Commentary - Alan Olifson
Tale of a Deaf D.J. - Michael Dowse
We Need Irony - David Foster Wallace
"Getting" Irony - Douglas Coupland

Hour 2

 

05-06-26-B
(was 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

 

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