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July 14, 1996 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Southern Identity
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Alternative Medicine
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Uses of Radio
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Southern Identity
SEGMENT 1:
In this segment, three takes on the Confederate flag. Tony
Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prine winning reporter for the Wall Street
Journal, tells Steve Paulson about an incident in Kentucky
where a young white man was killed by a group of young African-
Americans for flying the Confederate flag from his truck. Also,
historian John Koski of Richmond's Museum of the Confederacy,
tells Steve Paulson about the history and later uses of the
Confederate battle flag and explains why it remains meaningful
for some white Southerners. Finally, historian Ervin Jordan -
one of the few African American scholars who specialize in the
Confederacy - explains to Steve Paulson why the rebel flag is a
provocative, racist symbol for most American Blacks. Jordan is
a curator at the University of Virginia Library.
SEGMENT 2:
Anthropologist Carol Stack talks with Judith Strasser about the
reverse migration of African-Americans back to the rural South.
Stack teaches Women's Studies and Education at the University
of California at Berkeley and is the author of "A Call to Home:
African Americans Reclaim the Rural South."
SEGMENT 3:
Osha Gray Davidson tells the story of an unusual friendship
between CP Ellis, a poor white Ku Klux Klan member, and Ann
Atwater, a poor black woman in his book "The Best of Enemies"
and in this conversation with Jim Fleming.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
07-14-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Alternative Medicine
SEGMENT 1:
James Gordon - a psychiatrist at the Georgetown University
School of Medicine, author of "Manifesto for A New Medicine"
and a leading advocate of mind/body healing - tells Steve
Paulson how he got interested in alternative therapies and how
the field has grown. Squaring off against poeple like Dr.
Gordon is Robert Park, a physicist at the University of
Maryland. Park tells Jim Fleming what he thinks is wrong with
NIH's Office of Alternative Medicine -- he questions both the
validity of what they're studying and the way they're going
about it.
SEGMENT 2:
Anne Harrington is a historian of science at Harvard
University. She talks with Steve Paulson about the debate over
mind/body healing and the significance of the placebo effect.
SEGMENT 3:
Caryle Hirshberg is co-founder of the Remission Project at the
Institute of Noetic Sciences and the co-author (with Marc
Barasch) of "Remarkable Recoveries." She tells Judith Strasser
about some of the people whose stories she tells in the book
and the importance of living your life to the fullest for as
long as you can.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
07-14-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Uses of Radio
SEGMENT 1
David Giovanonni tells Judith Strasser
that public radio has to make choices about how to best serve
its audience and that those choices should be guided by
audience research. Giovanonni is
President of Audience Research Analysis. Also, Charles
Bernstein believes that a single listener justifies the
presence of important programming on public radio. Bernstein's
passion is radio poetry. He teaches English at SUNY Buffalo
and hosts "linebreak" - a new public radio program. He talks
with fellow poet Judith Strasser.
SEGMENT 2:
Susan Douglas teaches communications studies at the University
of Michigan and is working on a history of radio. She talks
with Steve Paulson about Paul Lazarsfeld, a Viennese socialist
who founded market research in America in an effort to bring
high culture to a mass audience. Also, Mark Fried tells Judith
Strasser about Radio Venceremos - the clandestine broadcast
service operated by guerilla fighters during El Salvador's
protracted civil war. The full story is told in a book called
"Rebel Radio" by Jose Ignacio Lopez Vigil, translated by Mark
Fried.
SEGMENT 3:
Rolland Marchand teaches history at the University of
California at Davis. He tells Jim Fleming about the most
popular American radio program of the 1930s - The Major Bowes
Original Amateur Hour - which entertained Americans during the
Depression and helped form a sense of national identity. We
also hear archival excerpts from the show. Rolland Marchand is
the author of "Advertising the American Dream," and the
forthcoming "Creating the Corporate Soul."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
07-14-C.
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