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JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH 2006

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January 2006
01/01 01/08 01/15 01/22 01/29

01/01/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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06-01-01-A

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EVOLVING CITIES
A Billion Squatters - Robert Neuwirth
San Francisco Earthquake - Simon Winchester
Venetian Love Story- Andrea di Robilant
City of Falling Angels - John Berendt

Hour 2

 

06-01-01-B

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CALENDAR
Cosmological Time - Brian Swimme
Calendar Redesign - Chris Hardman
Aluna Moon Clock - Laura Williams
Lunar Tales - Carolyn McVickar Edwards
Eco-Logical Calendar - Chris Hardman
Biological Clocks - Russell Foster

01/08/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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06-01-08-A

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FACT OR FICTION
Magic in America - Christine Wicker
Skeptics - Michael Shermer
Urban Legends - Jan Harold Brunvand
Almanac of False Facts - John Hodgman
Kitchen-Sink Magical Realism - Kelly Link

Hour 2

 

06-01-08-B
(was 05-01-16-A)

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WRITING THE MIDDLE EAST
Novel about Israel - Pnina Moed Kass
Palestinian Memoir - Raja Shehadeh
Palestin 1924 - Jonathan Wilson
Israeli Memoir - Amos Oz
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

01/15/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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06-01-15-A

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BIG APES
Orangutans - Carel Van Schaik
Orangutans - Birute Galdikas
King Kong - Mark Cotta Vaz
Chimps & Bonobos - Frans De Waal
Neandertals - Erik Trinkaus

Hour 2

 

06-01-15-B
(was 05-01-23-A)

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THE DESERT
Life of Edward Abbey - Steve Paulson
Burning Man - Brian Doherty
Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
Music to Start a Cult To - Gram Rabbit
Poetry of the Desert - Terry Tempest Williams

01/22/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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06-01-22-A

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SNOW AND ICE
Avalanches - Jill Fredston
Animal Survival - Bernd Heinrich
Reindeer People - Piers Vitebsky
Ice - Mariana Gosnell
Living With the Inuit - Lawrence Millman

Hour 2

 

06-01-22-B

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INDIA MODERN
Bollywood - Sabrina Dhawan
Bombay - Suketu Mehta
India's Rise to Power - Clyde Prestowitz
The Beatles & India - Bob Spitz

01/29/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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06-01-29-A

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AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC
The American Ballad - Greil Marcus
Profile of Carlene Carter
Rednecks & Bluenecks - Chris Willman
Sam Cooke - Peter Guralnick

Hour 2

 

06-01-29-B
(was 05-01-09-A)

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BLAME CANADA?
Myth of Converging Values - Michael Adams
Making Fun of Canada - Kyle McCulloch
Alice Munro Profile - Steve Paulson
American in Canada - William Gibson
Canadian Cinema - Katherine Monk

February 2006
02/05 02/12 02/19 02/26

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06-02-05-A

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WARRIORS
Woman Soldier in Iraq - Kayla Williams
The Brooklyn Connection - Klaartje Quirijns
Killing Time in Iraq - Colby Buzzell
American Mercenary - Richard Marcinko

Hour 2

 

06-02-05-B
(was 05-01-30-B)

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LIVING LA VIDA SPANISH
Growing Up Latino in America - Victor Villasenor
Roots of Latin Jazz - John Santos
Memories of an Absent Father - Veronica Rueckert
Cantinflas - Herbert Siguenza
Spanglish Memoir - Susana Chavez-Silverman

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06-02-12-A

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CIVIL WAR STORIES
Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin
John Brown - Steve Paulson
Sherman's March - E.L. Doctorow
Racism Today - Tim Tyson

Hour 2

 

06-02-12-B

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SEX, LOVE & AUDIOTAPE
Sex Trade in Pakistan - Louise Brown
Tango - Robert Farris Thompson
Virginity - Paul Feig
Casanova's First Love - Arthur Japin
Writer of "O" - Pola Rappaport

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Hour 1

 

06-02-19-A
(was 05-03-13-A)

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FAKING IT
Philosophy of BS - Harry Frankfurt
My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey
The Making of Toro - Mark Sundeen
Air Guitar World Champion - Miri Park
Faking It - William Ian Miller

Hour 2

 

06-02-19-B
(was 05-01-02-B)

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COLLECTING
Record Collectors - Brett Milano
Great Collections - Maurice Sendak
History of Collectors - Philipp Blom
Collyer Brothers - Franz Lidz
Music & Sound Collection - Steve Nieve

02/26/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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06-02-26-A

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DESIGN LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN
Architecture for Humanity - Cameron Sinclair
The Very Small Home - Azby Brown
The Way of Vastu - Michael & Robin Mastro
"Green" Design - Ralph Knowles
Rethinking Your Home - Winifred Gallagher

Hour 2

 

06-02-26-B

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IDEAS
History of Thought - Peter Watson
Language History - Nicholas Ostler
History-Changing Movies - Joe Bob Briggs
Reinventing the Novel - Jonathan Coe

March 2006
03/05 03/12 03/19 03/26

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06-03-05-A

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LIVING YOUR DREAM
Becoming a Broadway Star - John Lloyd Young
Radical Simplicity - Dan Price
Poisonous Snakes - Dean Ripa
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
Resisting Apartheid - Hugh Masakela

Hour 2

 

06-03-05-B
(was 05-01-09-B)

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FAILURE
The Great Failure - Natalie Goldberg
Best Bad Movie Ever - David Schmader
History of American Failure - Scott Sandage
Personal Failure - David Denby
Rise from Failure - Mike Magnuson

03/12/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-03-12-A

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MEATAFICTION
Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story - Neda Ulaby
Tristram Shandy - John Wesley Harding
Jorge Luis Borges - Steve Paulson
Metafiction - Robert Coover
Hip Hop Poet - Saul Williams

Hour 2

 

06-03-12-B
(was 05-01-30-A)

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SPORTS AND SOCIETY
Soccer & Globalization - Franklin Foer
Meaning of Sports - Michael Mandelbaum
Racism in Basketball - Oscar Robertson
Bankrobbing Goalie - Julian Rubinstein

03/19/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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06-03-19-A

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AGAINST THE TIDE
Quest for Fulfillment - Elizabeth Gilbert
Western Yogi Profile - Matthew Remski
Chanting Nun - Choying Drolma
New Roles for Black Actors - Andre DeShields

Hour 2

 

06-03-19-B

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IDENTITY CRISIS
Immigrant Identity - Jorge Drexler
Art, Reality & Identity - Lynn Hershman Leeson
Online Role-Playing Games - Edward Castronova
Songwriter Profile - Robbie Fulks

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06-03-26-A

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BETWEEN BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
Faith in Jesus - Garry Wills
Historical Jesus - Karen King
Silly Bible Stories - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Science and Religion - E.O. Wilson

Hour 2

 

06-03-26-B
(was 05-01-02-A)

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BY CHANCE
The Shooting - Kemp Powers
The Math of Chance - Amir Aczel
The Lottery - Roy Kaplan
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Brian Turtle

The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan

 

     


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