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JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH 2007

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January 2007
01/07 01/14 01/21 01/28

01/07/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-01-07-A

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QUEER CULTURE
"US" - Tim Miller
Lesbian Crime Writer - Nicola Griffith
19th Century Gay History - Graham Robb
Growing Up Gay - Kevin Jennings

Hour 2

 

07-01-07-B
(was 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

01/14/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-01-14-A

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SCREENSHOTS
Iraq Documentary - Laura Poitras
Orson Welles - Simon Callow
Screenwriting - Zach Helm
Hitchcock's Music - Jack Sullivan

Hour 2

 

07-01-14-B
(was 05-10-02-B)

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DOUBLES & DOPPLEGANGERS
Bono's Doppleganger - Neil McCormick
Copy Culture - Hillel Schwartz
Conjoined Twins - Alice Dreger
Twins & Schizophrenia
- Carolyn Spiro & Pamela Spiro Wagner

01/21/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-01-21-A

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ANIMAL CROSSINGS
Rewilding - Dave Foreman
Pet Pig - Sy Montgomery
Training Dogs - Patricia McConnell
Origins of Religion - Barbara J. King

Hour 2

 

07-01-21-B
(was 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

01/28/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

07-01-28-A
(was 05-11-06-B)

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SEARCHING FOR SHANGRI-LA
Searching for Shangri-La - Michael Wood
Tsangpo Gorge - Ian Baker
Shangri-La in Burma - Amy Tan
Lost Paradise - Catilin Matthews
Kashmir & Political Novel - Salman Rushdie

Hour 2

07-01-28-B
(was 0
6-01-08-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

 

February 2007
02/04 02/11 02/18 02/25

02/04/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-02-04-A

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LOVE ME LIKE A ROCK
Oldest Obect on Earth - Joe Skulan, Roy Nathanson & Simon Wilde
Ocean Impacts - Dallas Abbott
On the Rocks Essay - Caryl Owen
Oracle at Delphi - William Broad
Reading the Rocks - Marcia Bjornerud

Hour 2

 

07-02-04-B

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BOREDOM: The Tedium is the Message
Philosophy of Boredom - Lars Svendsen
Ode to Boredom (Jon Winokur's "Ennui to Go")
A Case of Boredom - Ghita Schwarz
Fascination with Boredom - Augustin De la Pena

 

02/11/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-02-11-A

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CONSCIOUSNESS
Conciousness Debate - Andrew Newberg, Daniel Dennett, Ken Wilber, Roger Penrose, Deepak Chopra
Female Brain - Louann Brizendine
Buddhism & Consciousness - Alan Wallace
Autistic Savant - Daniel Tammet

Hour 2

 

07-02-11-B
(was 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

02/18/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-02-18-A
(was 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

 

07-02-18-B
(was 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

02/25/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-02-25-A
(was 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

Hour 2

 

07-02-25-B
(was 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

March 2007
03/04 03/11 03/18 03/25

03/04/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-03-04-A

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PLAGIARISM
Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem
Rhythm Science -Paul D. Miller (D.J. Spooky)
Plagiarism - Richard A. Posner
Owning Ideas - Malcolm Gladwell

Hour 2

 

07-03-04-B
(was 06-04-09-A)

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WAYS OF SEEING
Losing Sight, Gaining Vision - Susan Krieger
Fiction About Artists - Susan Vreeland
American Art - John Updike
Black & White Movies - Roger Ebert
Eadweard Muybridge - Rebecca Solnit

03/11/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-03-11-A

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IN THE PRESENCE OF EVIL
African Child-Soldier - Ishamel Beah
Kids at Risk Here, Too - Elizabeth George
Klemperer Diaries - George Bartenieff
Stalinist Russia - Martin Amis

Hour 2

 

07-03-11-B
(was 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

03/18/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-03-18-A

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MAKING MOVIES
Writing Screenplays - David Mamet
DVD Commentary Tracks - Chris Gore
Making a Movie - Patti DiVita
Commentary - Scott Topper
Making The Namesake - Mira Nair

Hour 2

 

07-03-18-B
(was 06-04-02-A)

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LAUGHING AT DEATH
Being Dead is No Excuse - Charlotte Hays
The Dead Beat - Marilyn Johnson
The Worlds of Herman Kahn
- Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
Losing Mom - Jim Fleming
Death Row Chef - Brian Price

03/25/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-03-25-A

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RETHINKING ISLAM
Muslims in Europe - Tariq Ramadan
Pakistani Band Junoon - Salman Ahmad
Turkish Writer - Elif Shafak
Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi

Hour 2

 

07-03-25-B

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THE DEBUT NOVEL
Lost City Radio - Daniel Alarcon
Water for Elephants - Sarah Gruen
A Sad Flower in the Sand - Jan Louter
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinman Iweala

     


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