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THIRD QUARTER PROGRAMS

OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER2008

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December

October 2008
10/05 10/12 10/19 10/26

10/05/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-10-05-A
(was 07-10-07-A)

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FACING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
Working at Starbucks - Michael Gates Gill
Executive Physical - James McManus
Joys of Practicing - Glenn Kurtz
Empty Nesters - Joanna Trollope
Letters to Kate - Carl Klaus
Hour 1

 

08-10-05-B
(was 07-10-28-A)

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WOMEN IN WAR
1st Lt. Nicole Smith - First black woman Apache helicopter pilot in US Army.
Carolin Emcke - Journalist on her letters home from war.
Hilla Medalia - On her documentary To Die in Jerusalem about a 17 year-old female Palestinian suicide bomber and the 17 year-old Israeli girl that she killed.
Elizabeth Samet – On teaching literature at West Point.
Fredrick Whitehurst - A US Army Intelligence Officer during the Vietnam War who, against orders, smuggled out the diary of an enemy soldier. The diaries are now a bestseller in Vietnam.

10/12/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-10-12-A
(was 07-09-30-A)

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THE FINE ART OF AGING
Cycles of Creativity - David Galenson
Nick Lowe Profile - Doug Gordon
Aging Artfully - Amy Gorman
90 year old novelist - Millard Kaufman
Hour 2

 

08-10-12-B
(was 07-06-24-A)

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GETTING RELIGION
Religious Literacy - Stephen Prothero
Hip-Hop & Islam - Lupe Fiasco
Gospel of Judas - Elaine Pagels
Finding Grace - Anne Lamott

10/19/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-10-19-A

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THE SACRED & THE PROFANE
Al Green – The legend on his first secular album in nearly a decade.
Mamak Khadem – Iranian musician on singing sacred Muslim texts.
Li-Young Lee – Chinese poet on the sacredness of love.
Michael Reilly – Young, white music producer from NYC on recording gospel music/and finding God in Como, Alabama.
Hour 2

 

08-10-19-B

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DRINKING PLEASURE
Battle for Wine - Alice Feiring
"Bottle Shock" the movie - Randall Miller and Jody Savin
Drunken Girlhood - Koren Zailckas
Hard-Drinking Life - Neil Steinberg

10/26/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-10-26-A

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AFRICA AT THE CROSSROADS
AIDS Orphans - Melissa Fay Greene
African Spirit Healer - Mandeza Kandemwa
Rwanda Poems - Derrick Burleson
Nigerian Novelist - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
South Africa and Rugby - John Carlin
Hour 2

 

08-10-26-B
(was 07-11-04-B)

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VOICES
Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding) has written a novel about ventriloquism
Daniel Smith talks about auditory hallucinations
Jim Gaffigan is a comedian who uses the "inner voice" in his standup work
Anne Karpf tells us what the human voice says about who we are
Steve Nieve & Muriel Teodori talk about their opera "Welcome to the Voice"

November 2008
11/02 11/09 11/16 11/23 11/30

11/02/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-11-02-A

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DNA & DISCOVERY
Breast Cancer Gene - Jessica Queller
Patenting DNA - Michael Crichton
DNA Revolution - Sean Carroll
Advice for Young Scientists - James Watson
Science Girls - Sarah Waliany & Caroline Lang
Hour 2

 

08-11-02-B

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MODERN MUSIC
Listening to the 20th Century - Alex Ross
East Village Opera Company - Peter Kiesewalter & Tyley Ross
Jazz Conversations - Ben Ratliff
Indi Singer-Songwriter - Syd Straw

11/09/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-11-09-A

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POETRY INSTEAD
Poetry Slam Champion - Patricia Smith
Why Poetry Matters - Jay Parini
What Makes a Child Lucky? - Gioia Timpanelli
The Biplane Houses - Les Murray
Hour 2

08-11-09-B
(was 07-11-25-B)

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FOOD STORIES
Dan Barber is a New York Chef who talks about killing a hog
Judith Jones - the legendary cookbook editor has written a memoir
Ray Turner is a connoisseur of eels
The Kitchen Sisters offer an audio review of "hidden kitchens"
Jane Hamilton may be the only bestselling novelist who also lives in an apple orchard

11/16/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-11-16-A

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MEET THE PRESS
The Celebrity Interview - Chuck Klosterman
Election Satire - Joe Garden
Birth of the Tabloid - Jack Vitek
Literary Journalism - Gay Talese

Hour 2

 

08-11-16-B
(was 07-12-02-B)

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TRANSGENDER IDENTITY
Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz are the co-authors of a collaborative memoir about Raz Link's surgical transformation from female to transsexual male.
Kelley Eskridge is the author of gender-bending speculative fiction
Jason Goodwin has written two novels about a eunuch detective in the Ottoman Empire
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English performer, musician, writer and artist

11/23/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-11-23-A

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THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE FICTION
Literature of Ideas? - George R.R. Martin
Literature of Ideas! - Ursula K. Le Guin
H.P. Lovecraft - S.T. Joshi
Beauties of Sci-Fi - Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.
Hour 2

 

08-11-23-B
(was 07-12-16-A)

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THIS SADNESS
Jerome Wakefield asks "is sadness the same as depression?"
Joshua Shenk believes Lincoln's depression fueled his greatness?
Eric Steel spent a year filming the Golden Gate Bridge, and the people who jumped from it
Michael Nye took photographs of San Antonio's homeless, and asked them for their stories.

11/30/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-11-30-A

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GOING GOING GONE GREEN
No-Impact Living Blogger - Colin Beaven
Scrounging - Jeff Ferrell
Edward Abbey - Steve Paulson
Peak Oil - Bryandt Urstadt
Peak Oil Game - Ken Eklund
Hope from Kids - Anne Strainchamps
Hour 2

 

08-11-30-B
(was 07-12-09-B)

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CULTURAL TOUCHSTONES
David Michaelis explores the extraordinary cartoonist Charles Schulz
Ashley Kahn loves Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue"
Historian William R. Drennan & Novelist Nancy Horan are both fascinated by the story of the murders at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin
Nick Abadzis has written a graphic novel about a dog on board Sputnik II

December2008
09/07 09/14 09/21 09/28

12/07/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-12-07-A

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GREEN DESIGN
Architects for Humanity - Cameron Sinclair
Small Japanese Houses - Azby Brown
S.F. Earthquake 1806 - Simon Winchester
Green Design - Ralph Knowles
Rearranging Furniture - Winifred Gallagher
Hour 1

 

08-12-07-B
(was 07-12-09-A)

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WHAT BOYS ARE MADE OF
Conn Iggulden wrote A Dangerous Book for Boys with his brother Hal
Michael Thompson is a psychologist who specializes in boys
John Van de Ruit has written a hilarious novel about a South African boys' school
Veronica Rueckert discovered wanting a girl and getting a boy has its own pleasures
Teddy Atlas trained boxers after a rough adolescence

12/14/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-12-14-A

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RE-CONSIDERING CRAFTS
New Craftsman - Richard Sennett
Handmade Nation - Betsy Greer
Scrapbooking - Jessica Helfand
Hands & Mind - Kelly Lambert
Slave Potter Dave - Leonard Todd
Hour 1

 

08-12-14-B
(was 07-12-30-A)

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WALKING THE WALK
Satish Kumar is a former Jainus monk and environmental activist
A.J. Jacobs decided to follow the Bible for year as literally as possible
Geoff Gilpin lived inside the Maharishi's movement for five years in the Seventies
Slam Poet Alix Olson is a word warrior

12/21/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-12-21-A
( was 08-02-03-B)

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TO SPRAWL OR NOT TO SPRAWL
Danger of Sprawl - Joel Hirschhorn
Sprawl is Good - Robert Bruegmann
Chinese Sprawl - Jennifer Baichwal
Suburban Novel - Tom Perotta is a novelist who writes about suburbia

Hour 2

 

08-12-21-B
(was 08-01-27-B)

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MUSICAL TASTE
Carl Wilson - Celine Dion
Terre Roche - The Roches
Jeff Price - Digital Distribution
Robert Scotto - Moondog

12/28/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-12-28-A
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THE BEAUTY BIZ
Alex Kuszynski - Beauty Junkies
J. Ruth Gendler - On Beauty
Robert Leleux - Beauty Obsessed Mother
Umberto Eco - Ugliness
Hour 2

 

08-12-28-B
(was 08-01-20-A)

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APOCALYPTIC FICTION
Justin Taylor is the editor of The Apocalypse Reader
Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead & Scott Westerfeld, Uglies - have written apocalypse fiction
Lydia Millet's book is How the Dead Dream, about the extinction of species