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April 1999
4/4 4/11 4/18 4/25

April 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

4/04/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-04-04-A SEARCHING FOR FAITH
Historical Jesus - Marcus Borg & Tom Wright
Spiritual Journey - Anne Lamott
Bible's Censored Stories - Jonathan Kirsch
Working on God - Winnifred Gallagher
Hour 2 99-04-04-B PHYSICS OF OUTER SPACE
Neutrinos and stuff - John Gribbin
Last Man on the Moon - Eugene Cernan
Superstring Theory - Brian Greene
Physics Chanteuse - Lynda Williams
What Remains to be Discovered - John Maddox
Hour 3 99-04-04-C REMARKABLE WOMEN
Queen of the Mist - Joan Murray
Cleopatra - Margaret George
Victoria Woodhull - Barbara Goldsmith
Black Woman Theologian - Katie Cannon
Julia Child - Noel Riley Fitch

4/11/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-04-11-A THE CLASS DIVIDE
Upper Class Blacks - Lawrence Otis Graham
The Cleaning Lady's Son - Oscar Hijuelos
Karl Marx & White Trash - Linda Stout
Working Class Country - Bill Malone
Hour 2 99-04-11-B GERMS
Hygiene Hypothesis - Anne Strainchamps
Threat from Microbes - Charles Gerba
Joys of Housework - Margaret Horsfield
New Germ Theory - Paul Ewald
Typhoid Mary - Judith Walzer Leavitt
Diptheria Epidemic Novel - Stewart O'Nan
Hour 3 98-03-08-C GREAT WRITERS & BESTSELLERS
Truman Capote's Celebrity - George Plimpton
Victor Hugo - Graham Robb
Bestselling Authors - Richard Joseph
Book-of-the-Month Club - Janice Radway

4/18/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-04-18-A WAR AND IDENTITY
Europe's Violent Century - Mark Mazower
Bosnian Identity - Aleksander Hemon
Hidden Jewish History - Helen Fremont
Cultural Impurity - Salman Rushdie
Hour 2 98-04-05-B BIRDS
Songbird Populations - Scott Robinson
Cranes in Korea's DMZ - George Archibald
Intelligence of Ravens - Bernd Heinrich
Birding on the Road - Kenn Kaufman
Bird Gardening - Bill Thompson
Hour 3 99-04-18-C SOUND AND SILENCE
The End of Silence - Mark Slouka
Sounds of Early England - Bruce Smith
Nature Sound Recording - Bernie Krause
Playing With The Voice - Joan La Barbara
Sounds of Poetry - Robert Pinsky

4/25/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-04-25-A CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE
Glen Ridge Rape - Bernard Lefkowitz
Children & Scary Movies/TV - Joanne Cantor
Allure of the Bogeyman - Marina Warner
Children Who Kill - Gitta Sereny
Hour 2 98-04-19-B NATIONAL PARKS
Reducing Park Traffic - Jon Margolis
Lechiguilla Cavern - Nevada Barr
History of Glacier Park - Louis Warren
African Parks - David Western
Hour 3 99-04-25-C FANTASY AND REALITY
Coney Island Fantasy - Kevin Baker
Fantasy City - John Hannigan
Cosmetic Illusions - Kathy Peiss
Hoaxing of Margaret Mead - Derek Freeman
Resurgence of the Real - Charlene Spretnak

April 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

May 1999
5/2 5/9 5/16 5/23 5/30

May 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

5/2/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-05-02-A EUROPE IN TRANSITION
Europe & the U.S. - Thomas Friedman
Europe Must Be Different - Daniel Singer
Political Satire - John Mortimer
Economic Union - Wolfgang Munchau
Norway & the E.U. - Bjorn Tore Godal
World War I - A Mistake - Niall Ferguson
Hour 2 99-05-02-B TECHNO-WORLD
Real-Time Technology - Regis McKenna
When Technology Bites Back - Edward Tenner
Cyberspace Spirituality - Margaret Wertheim
Nikola Tesla - Marc Seifer
Computer Games - Henry Jenkins
Hour 3 98-01-11-C THE QUEST FOR BEAUTY
Cosmetic Surgery - Elizabeth Haiken
History of Girls - Joan Jacob Brumberg
Beauty Shop Culture - Frida Kerner Furman
Big Hair - Grant McCracken

5/9/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-05-09-A PARENTING
Equally Shared Parenting - Francine Deutsch
Counter-Culture Childhood - Lisa Michaels
Nurturing Intuition - Sonia Choquette
Decline of Men - Lionel Tiger
A Good Marriage - Sue Miller
Hour 2 98-04-12-B EDUCATING SCIENTISTS
TIMMS (Math & Science Study) - William Schmidt
Teaching Math - Thomas Romberg
To the Young Scientist - Fred Bortz
Math of Truth & Beauty - K.C. Cole
Hour 3 99-05-09-C BEING GOOD
Evolution of Cooperation - Matt Ridley
Explaining Altruism
- Elliott Sober & David Sloan Wilson
The Good Citizen - Eduardo Mendieta
Respect - Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

5/16/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-05-16-A GLOBALIZATION
Globalization - Thomas Friedman
Star Trek's Global Reach - Jeff Greenwald
Modern Slavery - Kevin Bales
Cuban Web Site
- David Mericle & Jacob Kitzman
Gobal Citizens - Anthony Appiah
Hour 2 98-04-19-A THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE
Fairlure of HMO's - Ronald Glasser
History of Medicine - Roy Porter
Hmong & Western Medicine - Anne Fadiman
Pet Love - Cynthia Heimel
Pet Health Care - Bernard Rollin
Hour 3 98-04-05-C PEOPLE AND PLACE
John Steuart Curry's Midwest - Patricia Junker
Albany, NY - William Kennedy
Montana - Larry Watson
Oregon - Craig Lesley

5/23/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-05-23-A RE-THINKING SCHOOLS
Abolish High School - Leon Botstein
Computers in the Classroom - Jane Healy
Wonders of Computers - David Bennahum
Truth, Beauty & Goodness - Howard Gardner
Hour 2 99-05-23-B ORIGINS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Genetics of Homosexuality - Kenneth Kendler
Revisiting Freud - Andrew Sullivan
Animal Homosexuality - Bruce Bagemihl
Lesbian Mystery - Joan Drury
AIDS Bike Rider - Joe Karaszewski
Hour 3 99-05-23-C BECOMING MEN
Boys' Inner Lives - Michael Thompson
Men, Mazes & Role Models - Carol Shields
The Cosmo Guy - Liza Featherstone
Buff Action Figures
- Harrison Pope & Roberto Olivardia
Middle Class Black Men - Jake Lamar

5/30/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-05-30-A RECKONING WITH HISTORY
South Africa - David Goodman
Art & the Holocaust - Joseph Skibell
Our Dumb Century - Scott Dikkers
Reassessing the Vietnam War - Robert McNamara
Vietnamese Family - Duong Van Mai Elliot
Hour 2 99-05-30-B ANIMALS IN PERIL
Disappearing Frogs - Andrew Blaustein
Extinction & Recovery - David Wilcove
Orangutans - Birute Galdikas
Birute Galdikas - Linda Spalding
Biologist in New Guinea - Tim Flannery
Hour 3 99-05-30-C PHILOSOPHY'S COMEBACK
Philosophy Cafes - Bernard Roy
Art of Living - Alexander Nehamas
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Philosophical Counselor - Lou Marinoff
Flying Philosopher - Sam Keen

May 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

June 1999
6/6 6/13 6/20 6/27

June 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

6/6/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-09-27-A Religion at the Crossroads Part One:
DOES GOD EXIST?
God Exists - William Lane Craig
Miracle of Science - Chet Raymo
Brain Imaging & Meditation - Andrew Newberg
Touched by God - Doris Grumbach
Jews & Buddhists - Sylvia Boorstein
Hour 3 98-03-15-C ANXIETY & DEPRESSION
Chronic Worry - Edward Hallowell
One Man's Depression - Joel Smith
Crisis Hotline - Diane Ackerman
Suicide Novel - Martin Amis
Hour 1 98-05-17-A MADE BY HAND
Factory Closing - Cathy Davidson
Toys By Hand - John Linck
Working Construction - Susan Eisenberg
Joys of Housework - Margaret Horsfield
Self Sufficiency - Wendell Berry

6/13/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-10-04-A Religion at the Crossroads Part Two:
THE STRUGGLE FOR FAITH
Gen X and Faith - Tom Beaudoin
Struggle for Faith - Kathleen Norris
Muslims in America - Laleh Bakhtiar
Jerusalem Syndrome - Robert Stone
Jews and Monotheism - Thomas Cahill
Hour 2 98-06-14-B PRIMORDIAL LIFE
Burgess Shale Fossils - Simon Conway Morris
Macroevolution - Carl Zimmer
Prehistoric Art - Ian Tattersall
Alfred Wallace & the Spice Islands
- Tim Severin
Hour 3 98-05-17-C JAZZ LEGENDS
The Swing Movement - V. Vale
Swing Band
- Levay Smith & Chris Siebert
Duke Ellington - Stanley Crouch
Chet Baker Novel - Bart Schneider
Blues Women as Feminists - Angela Davis

6/20/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-10-11-A Religion at the Crossroads Part Three:
CHALLENGING THE CHURCH
Christianity Must Change - John Shelby Spong
Jewish Mysticism - Rodger Kamanetz
Personal God - Phyllis Tickle
Atheist's View of Jesus - Jim Crace
Hour 2 98-07-26-B BIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
Emotional Selves - Candace Pert
About Face - Jonathan Cole
Detecting Lies - Deborah Blum
Darwin & Emotions - Paul Ekman
Emotional Computers - Rosalind Picard
Hour 1 98-06-07-A CREATIVE HEALING
Intimacy & Healing - Dean Ornish
Talk Radio & Healing
- Joe Marshall & Margaret Norris
Humor & Stress - Loretta LaRoche
Drumming Power - Arthur Hull

6/27/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-10-18-A Religion at the Crossroads Part Four:
COPING WITH SUFFERING
Forgiving a Rapist - Debbie Morris
Saint Jude - Liz Trotta
Fierce Compassion - China Galland
Storytelling & The Black Church
- Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
Hour 2 98-08-02-B POPULATION CRISIS
Population Decline - Nicholas Eberstadt
Census Count - Ellen Waltersheid
Population & Global Warming - Bill McKibben
From Butterflies to People - Paul Ehrlich
Gaviotas - Alan Weisman
Hour 3 98-06-07-C SMOOTH TALKERS
Argument Culture - Deborah Tannen
Eloquence - Ian Edwards
Silent on Sunday - James Otis
Auctioneering - Larry Howe
Rapping - Craig Werner

June 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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