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July 1999
7/4 7/11 7/18 7/25

July 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

7/04/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-06-14-A REJECTING CONSUMERISM
Overspent America - Juliet Schor
Inconspicuous Consumption - Paul Lukas
Liviing Simply - Eustace Conway
Advertising Culture - Thomas Frank
Hour 2 98-05-03-B BLOODSUCKING BUGS
Malaria and Mosquitoes - Kent Campbell
People vs. Pests - Mark Winston
Black Widow Spider - Gordon Grice
Flea Circus - Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Forensic Entomology - Neal Haskell
Hour 3 98-06-14-C FROM DRILL TO DANCE
Popular Rhythms - Jim Sutton
Muscular Bonding - William McNeill
Marching Bands - Mike Leckrone
Women & Dance - Sally Banes
Boy & Ballet - Jane Hamilton

7/11/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-07-11-A WOMEN'S BODIES
Women's Brains - Helen Fisher
Women's Wombs - Germaine Greer
The Story of Jane - Laura Kaplan
Recovering from Rape - Patricia Francisco
Hour 2 99-07-11-B FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS
Life of Birds - David Attenborough
Towerkill - Bill Evans
Bird Migration - Scott Weidensaul
Pink Flamingoes - Jennifer Price
Birding Record - Harry Howard
Hour 3 99-07-11-C MEAT & VEGGIES
Meat Eating & Evolution - Craig Stanford
Cooking Meat - Bruce Aidells
Eating Bugs - Faith D'Alusio & Peter Menzel
Vegan Diet - Erik Markus
Vegetarian Cooking - Anna Thomas

7/18/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-07-18-A BUYING STUFF
You Are What You Buy - James Twitchell
Hidden Persuaders - Douglas Rushkoff
Selling Nature - Jennifer Price
Making Money, Literally
- J.S.G. Boggs & Lawrence Weschler
Overspent American - Vince Passaro
Hour 2 99-07-18-B BYWAYS TO WELLNESS
Food as Medicine - Nina Simonds
Homeopathy - Chris Bohjalian
Mona Lisa Schulz - Medical Intuitive
Doctors & Drug Addiction - Abraham Verghese
Navajo Woman Surgeon - Lori Arviso Alvord
Hour 3 99-07-18-C READING AT CENTURY'S END
TeleRead - David Rothman
Go On Girls! Book Club - Monique Greenwood
How to Read a Poem - Molly Peacock
Poems of the 20th Century - Joan Murray
Medieval Woman Writers - Laurie Finke

7/25/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-07-25-A PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
Training Public Intellectuals - Theresa Brennan
Edmund Wilson - Jeffrey Meyers
Public Intellectuals - Carlin Romano
New York Intellectuals - Norman Podhoretz
Penguin Lives Biographies - James Atlas
Hour 2 98-08-09-B LOST WORLDS
Recovering the Ship of Gold - Gary Kinder
Myth of Atlantis - Richard Ellis
Archaeology of the Mind - Brian Fagan
Smelly Old History - Mary Dobson
Hour 3 98-07-26-C STUDIOS AND INDIES
Great 70's Directors - Peter Biskind
Being an Independent - James Schamus
John Ford's "The Searchers" - Stanley Crouch
The Searchers in Space - Jonathan Lethem

July 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

August 1999
8/1 8/8 8/15 8/22 8/29

August 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

8/1/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-08-01-A EGYPT ACROSS THE MILLENNIUM
Islamic Revolution in Egypty - Mary Anne Weaver
Ancient Egypt - Brian Fagan
Memories of Egypt - Leila Ahmed
Foods of Egypt - Colette Rossant
Cairo - Max Rodenbeck
Hour 2 99-08-01-B EVOLUTION IN ACTION
Evolving Humans - Christopher Wills
Playing God With Bacteria - Michael Travisano
Evolution of Sex - Lin Chao
Frog Calls - Michael Ryan
Hour 3 99-08-01-C GOING SOLO
Sailing Solo - Derek Lundy
Solo Poem - Judith Strasser
Dining Alone - Jane Doerfer
Hermits - Susan Phelps
Single Moms - Melissa Ludtke

8/8/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-08-30-A SURVIVING TREACHERY
Helping the Hmong - Jane Hamilton-Merritt
Revisiting Auschwitz with Mother
- Julie Salamon
The Stasi Were Everywhere - Timothy Garton Ash
Surviving a Daughter's Murder - Robert Hellenga
Hour 2 99-08-08-B RIVERS AND DAMS
Dam Debate - William Graf
Reading from Edward Abbey
Baraboo Dam Removal Report - Emily Stanley
Mississippi - Andrew Malcolm
Whitewater Kayaker - Corran Addison
Hour 3 99-08-08-C NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES
Playing Indian - Philip Deloria
Chippewa Land - Wayne Johnson
Trickster Stories - Lewis Hyde
Native Storyteller - Joseph Bruchac

8/15/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-08-15-A COMFORTS OF HOME
Not-So-Big-House - Sarah Susanka
A Hut of One's Own - Ann Cline
Squeeze Chairs - Wendy Jacob
Danger of Chairs - Galen Cranz
George Washington, Architect - Allan Greenberg
Hour 2 98-08-23-B ROBOTICS
Cog the Humanoid Robot - Rodney Brooks
Lego Mindstorms - Anthony Fudd
Robots on Mars - David Miller
Science Fiction Influence on Culture
- Thomas Disch
Hour 3 99-08-15-C BUSTING LOOSE
Deep Play - Diane Ackerman
Rock Climbing - David Breashears
Heightening Sensory Experience - Michael Gelb
Sweet Life in Tuscany - Frances Mayes
Returning to Provence - Peter Mayle

8/22/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-07-26-A STRADDLING CULTURES
Bilingual Journey - Ariel Dorfman
Growing Up Hawaiian - Carolyn Lei-lanilau
Asian-American Women - Claire Chow
Belgian Immigrant - Luc Sante
Hour 2 98-09-06-B MATHEMATICAL WONDERS
Stacking Oranges - Ian Stewart
Math's Popularity - Keith Devlin
Paul Erdos - Paul Hoffman
Math in Nature - Ian Stewart
John Nash - Sylvia Nasar
Hour 3 98-10-04-C REENACTING THE CIVIL WAR
Civil War Reenactors - Tony Horwitz
Reenactor - Stephen Oreck
How to Teach the Civil War - Gary Gallagher
Civil War Lessons - Ryan Lester
Robert Beecham's Memoir - Michael Stevens
Women in the Civil War - Kaye Gibbons

8/29/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-08-29-A MODEL CITIES
Northampton MA - Tracy Kidder
Celebration FL - Andrew Ross
Problems with Federal Money - John Norquist
Philadelphia Mayor - Buzz Bissinger
Chicago IL - Donald Miller
Hour 2 99-08-29-B STORMY WEATHER
History of Global Warming - Gale Christianson
Weather Junkie - Patricia Barnes-Svarney
Fulgurites - Martin Uman
Cloud Seeding - Thomas Henderson
El Nino & Civilization - Brian Fagan
Hour 3 99-08-29-C OUTSIDERS
Discovering Black America - Randall Kenan
Black Conservatives - Shelby Steele
Diversity Exercise - Mariamne Whatley
The Chicago Anarchist - Walter Roth
Bi-Racial Sisters - Danzy Senna

August 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

September 1999
9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27

September 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

9/5/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-09-05-A LABOR PAINS
Living Wage Movement - Lawrence Glickman
Working Poor - Katherine Newman
Organizing Labor in the Post-Industrial Economy
- Rand Wilson
Future of Organized Labor - Stanley Aronowitz
Women on the Railroad - Linda Niemann
Hour 2 98-10-04-B THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC
Why Are We Fat?
- Claude Bouchard & Kelly Brownell
Pima Indians' Obesity Struggle - Eric Ravussin
Plus Size Fashions - Fern Bratten
Anti-Obesity Drugs - Arthur Campfield
Anorexia & Bulimia Memoir - Marya Hornbacher
Hour 3 98-09-20-C EATING ETHNIC
How Ethnic Food Shaped America - Donna Gabaccia
Weird Food Festivals - Coleman Andrews
Authentic Italian Cooking - Marcella Hazan
Basmati Rice Patent - Vandana Shiva
African Food Memories - Dorinda Hafner

9/12/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-09-12-A JEWISH IDENTITY
Generation J - Lisa Schmiffman
Jews as Chosen People - Arthur Hertzberg
Fiction about Orthodox Jews - Nathan Englander
Quakers and Jews - Claire Gorfinkel
Miriam's Kitchen - Elizabeth Ehrlich
Hour 2 99-09-12-B WOMEN DOING SCIENCE
How Feminism Changed Science - Londa Schiebinger
Women as Career Scientists - Sandra Witelson
Women Field Biologists
Canopy Researcher - Margaret Lowman
Female Contributions to Evolution
- Alison Jolly
Hour 3 99-09-12-C TV & REAL LIFE
C-Span & Popular Taste - Brian Lamb
Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner
Owning Your Life Story - James Schamus
Sixties TV Shows - Curtis White
Drive-In Stories - Larry Baker

9/19/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-09-19-A THE MINDS OF CHILDREN
Babies' Brains - Alison Gopnik
Mozart Effect - Steven Pinker
Kindness of Children - Vivian Paley
Picture Books - Ellen Spitz
Dr. Seuss - Henry Jenkins
Hour 2 98-11-01-B SUSTAINABILITY
Raising Chickens - Gene Logsdon
Natural Step - Terry Gips
Thoreau's Walden - Bill McKibben
Amazon Rain Forest - Geoffrey O'Connor
Hour 3 98-10-11-C COME FLY WITH ME
Charles Lindburgh - Scott Berg
Flying Inside Storms - William Langewiesche
Air Freighters - Barry Lopez
Wind - Jan De Blieu

9/27/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 3 98-10-18-C DISABILITY STUDIES
Disability Studies - Simi Linton
Life With MS - Nancy Mairs
Resisting Blindness - Stephen Kuusisto
Helen Keller - Dorthy Herrmann
Hour 2 98-11-08-B ANCIENT WORLDS
Lost Tomb of Ramses II Sons - Kent Weeks
Indus Valley Civilization - Mark Kenoyer
Tattoos in Antiquity - Adrienne Mayor
Making the Classics Count - Victor Davis Hanson
Alexander the Great - Michael Wood
Hour 3 98-09-13-C ART OF TRAVEL
Off the Beaten Track - Hilary Bradt
Ethics of Travel - Barry Lopez
Kidnapping Threat - Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
In the Footsteps of D.H. Lawrence - Geoff Dyer
Hiking the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson

September 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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