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from Wisconsin Public Radio
September 10, 1995 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Women
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Evolution
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Death
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Women
SEGMENT 1:
Mallicka Dutt, Associate Director of the Rutgers Univerity
Center for Women's Global Leadership, and a delegate to the
Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, tells Judith
Strasser why many international women's issues are
fundamentally human rights issues. Also, Mohini Malhotra
explains to Jim Fleming the use of micro-loans as a development
resource for women. Malhotra administers the Consultative
Group to Assist the Poorest, a project of the World Bank.
SEGMENT 2:
Judith Strasser speaks with two high shool seniors from Duluth,
Minnesota who are delegates to the U.N. conference in China.
Sarah Vokes and Alison Pflepson say they're impressed with the
global nature of the women's movement, and that the opinions of
young women matter, too. Also, Janet Nelson, who heads the
UNICEF section that handles non-governmental organizations,
tells Margaret Andreasen that the women's movement's efforts to
improve the livs of women are sabotaged by consistent
discrimination against girls.
SEGMENT 3:
Dympna Ugwu-Oju, an Ibo-American woman born in Nigeria, talks
with Steve Paulson about her efforts to balance the traditional
way she was raised with her modern ideas about women's rights.
Ugwu-Oju is the author of "What Will My Mother Say: A Tribal
African Girl Comes of Age in America."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
9-10-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Evolution
SEGMENT 1:
Forget the "missing link." Anhropologists have just found
fossil evidence of a new species of human ancestor which walked
upright four million years ago. Ian Tattersall, head of the
Anthropology Department at the American Museum of Natural
History, tells Margaret Andreasen about the new find and its
significance. Tattersall is the author of "The Fossil Trail:
How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution."
Also, Elaine Morgan, author of "The Acquatic Ape" tells Jim
Fleming about the theory that some of our ape-like ancestors
spent their days wading in the water.
SEGMENT 2:
According to James Shreeve, Neanderthals have for too long had
an unfairly bad reputation. Yes, they were big and strong, but
they weren't stupid. Shreeve tells Judith Strasser about
Neandertal (not Neanderthal) culture and why their way of being
human went extinct. James Shreeve's book is "The Neandertal
Enigma."
SEGMENT 3:
Science writer Virginia Morell has written a biography of the
most famous family of paleontologists in the world. It's
called "Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for
Humankind's Beginnings." Morell tells Steve Paulson that
patriarch Louis Leakey discovered his passion for paleontology
while still a child, and that his son Richard, while he may
look and sound English, is a true Kenyan.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
9-10-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Death
SEGMENT 1
Philosopher and animal rights activist Peter Singer tells Steve
Paulson why he thinks a new basis for medical ethics is needed.
He says we've already moved away from valuing the sanctity of
life and should focus instead on the quality of life. Singer's
new book is "Re-Thinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our
Traditional Ethics."
SEGMENT 2:
Science writer Natalie Angier tells Judith Strasser that human
cells seem to have a suicide program built into their DNA; the
only way to be immortal is to be a cancer cell. A collection of
Angier's New York Times stories has been published under the
title "The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views of the Nature of
Life." Also, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende tells Steve
Paulson about the death of her daughter Paula. Allende has
published a memoir of her daughter, also called "Paula."
SEGMENT 3:
Therese Schroeder Sheker tells Jim Fleming about her work in
music thanatology -- the practice of providing live music for
the dying based on Gregorian chant and other modal music
traditions. Schroder Sheker is based at St. Patrick's Hospital
in Missoula, Montana.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
9-10-C.
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