| JANUARY | FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE |
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| JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER |
| 1/5/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-01-05-A | FAMILY FARM Farm Crisis - Joel Dyer Family Farm - John Hildebrand Rural Economy - Daniel Kemmis Farm Memoir - Jane Brox |
| Hour 2 | 97-01-05-B | SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS Complexity - John Casti Anti-Chaoplexity - John Horgan Paradigm Shifting - Stan Temple Conjuring Science - Christopher Toumey |
| Hour 3 | 96-07-28-C | ETIQUETTE Miss Manners - Judith Martin Genteel Society - Richard Bushman Etiquette Books - Sarah Kortum Commentary - Cynthia Heimel The "F Word - Hesse Sheidlower "F" Word Song - Lou & Peter Berryman |
| 1/12/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-01-12-A | CHANGES IN CHINA Hong Kong - Ed Friedman Labor Camps - Harry Wu Cultural Revolution - Betty Bao Lord Pearl S. Buck - Peter Conn |
| Hour 2 | 97-01-12-B | CHEMICAL DANGERS Chemical Threat - Dianne Dumanoski Chemical Sensitivity - Jacob B. Berkson Pesticide Poisoning - John Wargo Chemo-Phobia - Alfred Bader |
| Hour 3 | 97-01-12-C | MUSIC AND POLITICS
Phil Ochs - Michael Schumacher Oral History of Punk - Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Combustible Edison - The Millionaire Beethoven & Politics - David B. Dennis |
| 1/19/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-01-19-A | DO-IT-YOURSELF POLITICS Extraordinary Politics - Charles Euchner Trickle-Up Politics - Eileen McDonagh Activist Mayor - Paul Soglin Riverwalk Activist - Rachel Fletcher |
| Hour 2 | 97-01-19-B | EVOLUTION Race & Evolution - Milford Wolpoff & Rachel Caspari Progress in Evolution - Stephen Jay Gould Darwin's Black Box - Michael Behe Privileged Hands - Geerat Vermeij |
| Hour 3 | 97-01-19-C | THE END OF ART Life of Picasso - John Richardson End of Art - Arthur Danto Images of Art - Richard Rapaport Art and Friendship - Barbara Ehrlich White |
| 1/26/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-01-26-A | CIVILITY Porn & 1st Amendment - Larry Flynt Commentary - Mark Montgomery Civility Crusade - Judith Rodin Elitist Civility - Benjamin DeMott Victorian Reticence - Rochelle Gurstein |
| Hour 2 | 97-01-26-B | THE BEAUTY OF MATH End of Calculus - David Berlinski Poetry of Math - Michael Guillen Fermat's Last Theorem - Amir Aczel Faith, Life and Math - Sue Woolfe |
| Hour 3 | 96-08-11-C | TRAVEL WRITING Travel Writing - Pico Iyer Around the World - Jeff Greenwald Been Here Before - Gillian Tindall Propelled from Provence - Peter Mayle |
| 2/2/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-02-02-A | ZIONISM Life in Israel Today - Linda Gradstein History of Zionism - Geoffrey Wheatcroft Creating the State of Israel - Chaim Herzog Israeli Rationalism - A.B. Yehoshua |
| Hour 2 | 96-08-11-B | AMAZON Rainforest Culture Shock - Joe Kane Visiting the Amazon - Diane Ackerman Amazon Floodplain - Michael Goulding Expedition to the Amazon - Jean Feraca Rainforest Medicine - Mark Plotkin |
| Hour 3 | 97-02-02-C | IMAGES OF BLACK AND WHITE Norton Anthology - Nellie McKay Sojourner Truth - Nell Irvin Painter Meaning of Whiteness - David Roediger White Writing Black - Scott Turow |
| 2/9/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-02-09-A | TEACHING VIRTUE Moral Intelligence - Robert Coles A Liberal's Moral Guide - Colin Greer Moral Quagmires - Tobias Wolff The Politics of Shame - Stuart Schneiderman |
| Hour 2 | 97-02-09-B | TRACKING VIRUSES Virus X - Frank Ryan Into the Hot Zone - Joseph McCormick & Susan Fisher-Hoch Plagues in History - Christopher Wills Memes (Thought Viruses) - Richard Dawkins |
| Hour 3 | 97-02-09-C | ADVICE MONGERS Pleasure Police - David Shaw Swearing off the Diet Craze - Richard Klein Ill-Advised Advice for Women - Harriet Lerner |
| 2/16/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-02-16-A | GLOBALISM World News - Barry Shelby Global Exchange - Medea Benjamin Chernobyl Fallout - Christian Narkiewicz-Laine & Serguei Martynov World Music - Timothy Taylor |
| Hour 2 | 97-02-16-B | POLAR SCIENCE Polar Life - Chris McKay Emperor Penguins - Jerry Kooyman Woman Polar Explorer - Anne Bancroft Scott's Last Expedition - Beryl Bainbridge |
| Hour 3 | 97-02-16-C | AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION Ebonics - John Rickford Ebonics Holds Kids Back - Brent Staples Free Speech - Alan Dershowitz Truth in Writing - Albert French |
| 2/23/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-02-23-A | CAPITALISM & COMMERCE The Deng Ziaoping Era - Maurice Meisner The Global Economy - William Greider Renaissance Capitalism & Art - Lisa Jardine A World Without Money - Jerry Martien |
| Hour 2 | 97-02-23-B | PLANETARY SCIENCE Europa - Eugene Shoemaker Venus - David Grinspoon Mining Space - John S. Lewis The Artful Universe - John Barrow |
| Hour 3 | 97-02-23-C | CHILD'S PLAY Kinderculture - Shirley Steinberg & Joe Kincheloe How to Play With Your Child - Lawrence Cohen Mother Goose - Iona Opie Bear Games - Robert Fagan |
| Spring 1997 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-02-00-A | BEST OF BIG IDEAS Murrow's Boys - Stanley Cloud & Lynne Olson Questioning Free Speech - Ursula Owen Downsizing - Alan Downs |
| Hour 2 | 97-02-00-B | BEST OF SCIENCE Insects Are Fun - Tom Eisner Private Life of Plants - David Attenborough Volcano Thrills - Stanley Williams |
| Hour 3 | 97-02-00-C | BEST OF ARTS AND CULTURE Museum of Jurassic Technology - Lawrence Weschler Sahara - William Langewiesche Writing Your Life - Victor Villasenor |
| 3/2/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-03-02-A | SURVIVING WINTER Iditerod Musher - Brian O'Donoghue Winter Naturalist - Clare Walker Leslie Winter Gardener - Carl Klaus Video Rentals - Janet Wasko |
| Hour 2 | 97-03-02-B | ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks Island Biogeography - David Quammen Lemurs of Madagascar - Alison Jolly Phantom Islands of the Atlantic - Donald S. Johnson |
| Hour 3 | 96-10-13-C | PUBLISHING Bestsellerdom - Jacqueline Mitchard The Publishing Biz - Andre Schiffrin Mid-list Novelist - Jonathan Franzen Book Collecting - John Dunning |
| 3/9/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-03-09-A | SPORTS & RACE Myth of Sports and Race - John Hoberman The Athlete's Experience - Chet Walker The Poetry of Basketball - Dennis Trudell Black Heroes - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| Hour 2 | 97-03-09-B | MESSING WITH NATURE Tailor-Made Babies - Gina Maranto Forbidden Knowledge - Alta Charo Eating Rare Breeds - Lawrence Alderson The Science of the Cell - Boyce Rensberger |
| Hour 3 | 97-03-09-C | TELLING WOMEN'S LIVES Women's Memoirs - Jill Ker Conway Grace Marks: Canadian Scandal - Margaret Atwood Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Susan Cayleff Father and Self - Mary Gordon |
| 3/16/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-03-16-A | CONFRONTING AFRICA Out of America - Keith Richberg African Democracy - Crawford Young Post-Apartheid - Memphela Ramphele Story Telling - Dylan Pritchett |
| Hour 2 | 97-03-16-B | TRANSGENDER Transgender Research - Joy Schaeffer Transgender Psychology - Mildred Brown Gender Culture - Sabrina Ramet Transgender Mother - "Susan Hughes" |
| Hour 3 | 96-10-20-C | MORAL TALES Re-examining the Bible - Burton Visotzky Translating Genesis - Stephen Mitchell Family Stories - Clarissa Pinkola Estes Making Stories PC - James Finn Garner |
| 3/23/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-03-23-A | MEN, WOMEN & THE MOVIES Women in the Movies - Molly Haskell Becoming an Actress - Claire Bloom John Wayne - Gary Wills Humphrey Bogart - Eric Lax |
| Hour 2 | 97-03-23-B | THE SCIENCE OF SEX Evolution of Sex - Jared Diamond Prehistory of Sex - Timothy Taylor Female Sexuality - Bram Dojkstra Natural History of Parenting - Susan Allport |
| Hour 3 | 97-03-23-C | LEARNING TO PLAY Game Works - Corie Brown Playing by Heart - Fred Donaldson Work Without End - Benjamin Hunnicutt The Knitting Sutra - Susan Gordon Lydon |
| 3/30/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-03-30-A | IMAGES OF GOD Catholics Reconcile - Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb Lutherans Reconcile - Bishop George Anderson Bosch's Images of God - Joseph Koerner Ancient Images of God - Theodore Lewis Freethinking Women & God - Annie Laurie Gaylor |
| Hour 2 | 97-03-30-B | THE VALUE OF NATURE Earth's True Value - Jane Lubchenko Nature's Dollar Value - Geoffrey Heal Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken Fighting Brownlash - Paul Ehrlich |
| Hour 3 | 97-03-30-C | PIANO VARIATIONS Keyboard Conversations - Jeffrey Siegel Fortepiano - Melvyn Tan Composition - William Bolcom Music and Healing - Linda Katherine Cutting |
| 4/6/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-04-06-A | KILLERS AND SAVIORS Killer Profiles - John Douglas Learning to Kill - Lt. Col. David Grossman Killer Novel - A.M. Homes Altruism - Kristen Monroe |
| Hour 2 | 96-10-20-B | STRESS AND TRAUMA Effects of Chronic Stress - Robert Sapolsky Laughing Clubs - Mary Roach Benefits of Total Honesty - Brad Blanton Overcoming Childhood Stress - Lillian Rubin |
| Hour 3 | 97-04-06-C | MYSTICS Modern Mystic - Andrew Harvey Spiritual Journeys to Nowhere - Gita Mehta Putting the Buddha on CD-ROM - Michael Roach St. Francis & Human Rights - Calvin Normore |
| 4/13/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-04-13-A | INFO GLUT Enough Already! - David Shenk Bring on the Technology! - John Katz The HDTV Revolution - Joel Brinkley My Life on Line - John Seabrook |
| Hour 2 | 96-09-22-B | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS New American Archaeology - Sharman Apt Russell MayaQuest - Dan Buettner Lost Culture of the Aymara - Alan Kolata Schliemann and Troy - David A. Traill |
| Hour 3 | 97-04-13-C | LIBRARIES Silence is Golden! - Sallie Tisdale Library Memories - Frank McCourt Used and Rare - Lawrency & Nancy Goldstone A Gentle Madness - Nicholas Basbanes |
| 4/20/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-04-20-A | STOCK MARKET Market Dangers - William Greider Human Capital - Gary Becker Small Investors - Ron Chernow History of Risk - Peter Bernstein |
| Hour 2 | 97-04-20-B | MEMORY Mouse Memory - Matthew Wilson False Memories - Elizabeth Loftus Un-recovered Memories - Brooks Brenneis Memoir and Memory - Mary Karr |
| Hour 3 | 97-04-20-C | CYCLES OF HISTORY Historical Turnings - Neil Howe Dogma of Decline - Arthur Herman The X-Files - Mary Kaye Schilling Conqueror's Luck - Jared Diamond |
| 4/27/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-04-27-A | DIASPORA AND IDENTITY Palestinian Diaspora - Rashid Khalidi Russian Jewish Identity - Michael Stanislawski Vanishing American Jews - Alan Dershowitz Hasidism - Pearl Abraham |
| Hour 2 | 97-04-27-B | SMART COMPUTER Deeper Blue - C.J. Tan Smarter Computers - Michael Dertouzos Master Hacker - Johnathan Littman Silicon Valley - Po Bronson |
| Hour 3 | 97-04-27-C | LOVE AND MARRIAGE Romantic Daydreams - Charlotte Mayerson Romantic Love - Marilyn French Single Father - John Thorndike A Lover's Death - Mark Doty |
| 5/4/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-05-04-A | TYRANNY Justice vs. Reconciliation - John Comaroff Modern Tyrants - Daniel Chirot A Woman in Amber - Agate Nesaule Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-04-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 1 - INTELLIGENCE The Growth of the Mind - Stanley Greenspan Primate Intelligence - Richard Byrne History of Intelligence - Donald Johanson Prehistoric Fiction - Joan Dahr Lambert Prehistoric Fiction - John Darnton |
| Hour 3 | 97-05-04-C | HEALING THE MIND Hysteria - Elaine Showalter EMDR Therapy - Francine Shapiro Male Depression - Terrance Real |
| 5/11/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-05-11-A | NEW UNIVERSE Life in the Universe - Richard Zare The Case for Mars - Robert Zubrin Mining the Moon - Harrison Schmitt The Whole Shebang - Timothy Ferris |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-11-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 2 - VIOLENCE Men More Violent Than Women - Deborah Blum Evolution of Human Violence - Richard Wrangham Violence Among Hunter-Gatherers - Herb Maschner Women as Hunters - Mary Zeiss Stange |
| Hour 3 | 97-05-11-C | THE MIDWEST Mississippi Flood - John Barry Creating the Midwest - Jon Gjerde Midwesterner in the East - Ruth Conniff North Enough - Jan Grover |
| 5/18/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-05-18-A | RACIAL ALLIANCES Racial Kinship - Randall Kennedy Elijah Muhammad - Claude Andrew Clegg Nation of Islam - Sonsyrea Tate Multi-Racial Organizing - Itabari Njeri |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-18-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 3 - LANGUAGE Grooming to Language - Robin Dunbar Evolution of Language - Terry Deacon Apes and Monkey Language - Robert Seyfarth Origins of Poetry - Robert Pinsky |
| Hour 3 | 97-05-18-C | AMERICA MAXED OUT Our Indebted Society - James Medoff Credit Card Debt - Connie Kilmark Malling of America - Karal Anne Marling History of Money - Jack Weatherford |
| 5/25/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-05-25-A | RACE AND CLASS Black Wealth/White Wealth - Thomas Shapiro White Trash - Annalee Newitz and Matt Wray Working Class Arab-American - Joanna Kadi Working Class Black Southerner - Deborah McDowell Re-defining Class - Gerda Lerner |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-25-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 4 - CULTURE Cultural Big Bang - Steven Mithen Art in Archaeology - Meg Conkey Food and Culture - Paul Rozin Forbidden Knowledge - Roger Shattuck |
| Hour 3 | 97-05-25-C | FINDING FAITH Anything We Love Can Be Saved - Alice Walker The God We Never Knew - Marcus J. Borg Stranger in the Midst - Nan Fink The Soul of Cyberspace - Jeff Zaleski |
| 6/1/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-06-01-A | LIBERTARIANS Why I'm a Libertarian - Charles Murray Libertarians are Naive - Jean Bethke Elshtain Techno-Libertarians - Paulina Borsook Community Responsibility - Frances Moore Lappe |
| Hour 2 | 97-01-12-B | CHEMICAL DANGERS Chemical Threat - Dianne Dumanoski Chemical Sensitivity - Jacob B. Berkson Pesticide Poisoning - John Wargo Chemo-Phobia - Alfred Bader |
| Hour 3 | 97-06-01-C | VISUAL CULTURE Television is Trash - George Trow Television is a Scapegoat - John Leonard Animation Art - Stefan Kanfer Art in America - Robert Hughes |
| 6/8/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-11-17-A | DOWNSIZING Corporate Executions - Alan Downs Etiquette of Downsizing - Michael Moore Business' Ethical Imperative - Michael Novak Workplace Humor - David Sedaris |
| Hour 2 | 96-10-06-B | DESERTS Sahara - William Langewiesche A Woman in the Desert - Julia Blackburn Mojave - David Darlington Desert Erotics - Terry Tempest Williams |
| Hour 3 | 96-07-14-C | USES OF RADIO Public Radio Research - David Giovanonni LineBreak Radio Poetry - Charles Bernstein Paul Lazarsfeld/Market Research - Susan Douglas Rebel Radio - Mark Fried Major Bowes - Roland Marchand |
| 6/15/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 96-09-29-C | CENSORSHIP Banned Books Week - Candace Morgan Czech Censorship - Ivan Klima Egyptian Censorship - Ahdaf Soueif Honduran Censorship - Roberto Sosa Questioning Free Speech - Ursula Owen |
| Hour 2 | 96-11-10-B | SCIENCE OF PERSONALITY Birth Order - Frank Sulloway Heredity and Personality - Winifred Gallagher Biology and Personality - Peter Kramer Searching for Character - James Hillman |
| Hour 3 | 96-10-13-A | FAMILY VALUES Myth and Ritual - John R. Gillis Without a Father - David Popenoe Rethinking Family - Judith Stacey Remembering Father - Calvin Trillin |
| 6/22/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 96-07-14-A | SOUTHERN IDENTITY Confederate Flag - Tony Horwitz Confederate Flag History - John Koski Flag as Racist Symbol - Ervin Jordan Black Return to the South - Carol Stack An Unlikely Friendship - Osha Gray Davidson |
| Hour 2 | 96-12-01-B | DEEP OCEAN Eco-Engineering - Russell Seitz Light in Ocean Depths - Joe Cann Life in Ocean Depths - Richard Ellis Hunting for Shipwrecks - Clive Cussler Titanic and Legend - Steven Biel |
| Hour 3 | 96-10-06-C | BASEBALL ('96) The National Pastime - G. Edward White Race and Baseball - Buck O'Neil Mexican League 1946 - Mark Winegardner .400 Hitter - Stephen Jay Gould |
| 6/29/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 96-07-21-A | ALCOHOLISM Alcoholic Daughter - George McGovern Science of Alcohol - Stephen Braun Treatment Programs - Stanton Peele Pleasures of Alcohol - Carolyn See |
| Hour 2 | 96-12-08-B | EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN It's Nobody's Fault - Harold Koplewicz Don't Drug Kids - Peter Breggin Gifted Children: Myths and Realities - Ellen Winner Life As We Know It - Michael Berube Letters for Our Children - Gwendolyn Williams |
| Hour 3 | 96-11-10-C | READING Great Books - David Denby History of Reading - Albert Manguel Closing the Books - Arthur Krystal Dreams and Wishes - Susan Cooper |
| 7/6/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 96-09-29-A | WEAPONS OF WAR High-Tech Weapons - David Shukman Poor Man's Atom Bomb - Leonard Cole Weapons the Won't Die - Donavan Webster War and Memory - Paul Fussell |
| Hour 2 | 96-07-07-B | SCIENCE THRILLS Tornado Thrills - Joshua Wurman Volcano Thrills - Stanley Williams Killer Asteroids - Eleanor Helin Sci-Fi Thrills - Norman Spinrad |
| Hour 3 | 96-12-08-C | RETHINKING THE SIXTIES A New Look - Tom Sugrue McNamara and Vietnam - Paul Hendrickson Handling Student Protests - Robben Fleming Comparisons with French Revolution - A.S. Byatt |
| 7/13/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-07-13-A | END OF EMPIRE (in E. Asia) Hong Kong and Empire - John Keay Indonesian Human Rights - Carmel Budiardjo Terror in East Timor - Constancio Pinto and Matthew Jardine Indonesia, U.S. Ally - Don Emmerson |
| Hour 2 | 97-07-13-B | RELIGION IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE The Bible Code - Michael Drosnin The Bible Code Skeptic - Michael Shermer Religion in Ace of Science - James Gilbert Christian Scientist - Barbara Wilson |
| Hour 3 | 97-07-13-C | RACE AND IDENTITY Coming Race War - Carl T. Rowan Latino Diversity - Juan Flores Mixed-Race Heritage - Scott Minerbrook Asian-American Identity - David Mura Chinese American Jew - Gish Jen |
| 7/20/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-07-20-C | CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM The Power of Money - Elizabeth Drew Political Hope - Michael Lewis Political Language - Charles Baxter Political Fable - Brad Leithauser |
| Hour 2 | 97-07-20-B | FISHED OUT Deep Sea Fishing - William Broad Cod - Mark Kulansky Lost at Sea - Sebastian Junger Women Fly Fishers - Lyla Foggia |
| Hour 3 | 97-07-20-C | ENDS OF THE EARTH Mount Everest - Jon Krakauer Caving - Michael Ray Taylor Submarine Volcanoes - Robert Ballard End of the Tourist - Peter Greenberg |
| 7/27/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-07-27-A | THE NEW EUROPE NATO and Europe - Tony Judt Europe vs. America - Paul Fussell Discovering Eastern Europe - Ted Simon Turkey and Europe - Orhan Pamuk |
| Hour 2 | 97-07-27-B | MANAGED CARE Managed Mental Health - Karen Shore The Market and Managed Care - Regina Herzlinger Managing Women's Health Care - Karen Hein Do We Still Need Doctors? - John Lantos |
| Hour 3 | 97-07-27-C | WOMEN AND VIOLENCE The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker Tales of an Expert Tracker - Hannah Nyala An Abused Woman - Paula Sharp |
August 1997
8/3
8/10
8/17
8/24
8/31
| 8/3/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-08-03-A | MILITARY MENTALITY Military Gap - Tom Ricks Women in the Military - Linda Bird Francke Racial Equality - Charles Moskos War Mentality - Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Hour 2 | 97-08-03-B | DINOSAURS Dinosaur Demise - Richard Norris Dinosaurs became Birds - Philip Currie Birds are not Dinosaurs - Alan Feduccia America's Dinosaur Obsession - Tom Mitchell |
| Hour 3 | 97-08-03-C | GAMES Computer Games - Johnny Wilson Mid-Level Pro Tennis - David Foster Wallace Cheating at Tennis - Annie Lamott A Pool Hustler's Journey - David McCumber |
| 8/10/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-08-10-A | INDIA AT FIFTY The Shadow of the Raj - Gita Mehta New Indian Fiction - Bill Buford A Bombay Fiction - Rohinton Mistry Fourth World Journalism - Palagummi Sainath |
| Hour 2 | 97-08-10-B | POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENT Environmental Politics - Tom Athanasiou Art of Compromise - Charles Mann Environmental Refugees - Norman Myers Backyard Radical - Sara Stein |
| Hour 3 | 97-08-10-C | EXOTIC TRAVEL Pass the Butterworms - Tim Cahill No Mercy - Redmond O'Hanlon Primitive Passions - Marianna Torgovnick Been Gone Too Long - Monique Borgerhoff Mulder |
| 8/17/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-08-17-A | MEXICO AND THE BORDER Contemporary Mexico - Andres Oppenheimer Immigration - George Sanchez Slave Labor - Francisco Goldman Novel of Modern Mexico - Angeles Mastretta |
| Hour 2 | 97-08-17-B | NEW PRIMATE PARADIGM Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape - Frans de Waal Brazil's Muriqui Monkey - Karen Streir Infanticide and Evolution - Sarah Hrdy Bio-Politics - Russell Mittermeier |
| Hour 3 | 97-08-17-C | PURSUIT OF PLEASURE Finding Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Pursuit of Pleasure - Lionel Tiger The Perfect Wave - Dan Duane "Pleasure" Cruise - David Foster Wallace |
| 8/24/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-08-24-A | LIVING ON WELFARE Welfare Queens - David Zucchino Welfare Activism - Cheri Honkala Attitude Adjustment - David Sykes |
| Hour 2 | 97-08-24-B | WILDNESS Managing Nature - Stephen Budiansky Meaning of Wildness - Gary Snyder Amazon Paradise - John Terborgh Zoos - Vicki Croke |
| Hour 3 | 97-08-24-C | CLASSICAL WORLD Reconstructing Ancients - John Prag A Roman Maiden's Story - Joyce Salisbury A New Iliad - Stanley Lombardo The Olive - Mort Rosenblum |
| 8/31/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-08-31-A | HOME/WORK The Time Bind - Arlie Hochschild Taylorism - Robert Kanigel Simone Weil's Vision - Richard Bell Working Fathers - James Levine |
| Hour 2 | 97-08-31-B | TOXIC ENVIRONMENT Food Contamination - Nicols Fox Toxic Environment - Sandra Steingraber Immunotherapy - Stephen Hall Wisdom of the Body - Sherwin Nuland |
| Hour 3 | 97-08-31-C | NEW STORIES Hamlet on the Holodeck - Janet Murray Tales from the Brothers Grimm - Tom Davenport Monster Imagination - Brian Edmiston Cherokee Storyteller - Marilou Awiakta |
September 1997
9/7
9/14
9/21
9/28
| 9/7/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-09-07-A | CELEBRITY AND THE MEDIA Fame and History - Leo Braudy Celebrity Journalism - Robert McChesney Media Mogul - Michael Bloomberg Paris in the Fifties - Art Buchwald |
| Hour 2 | 96-09-29-B | BUGS ARE FUN Insects are Fun - Tom Eisner Lost Pollinators - Stephen Buchmann, Gary Paul Nabhan How Insects Fly - James Marden Bugs That Live On You - Roger Knutson |
| Hour 3 | 97-09-07-C | FARM AND CITY Farmland Preservation - Ralph Grossi Community Supported Agriculture - Linda Halley and Richard DeWild Farmworker History - Ricardo Sandoval and Susan Ferriss International Agriculture - Francois Dagenais |
| 9/14/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-09-14-A | CIA Do We Need the CIA? - Tim Weiner and Loch Johnson Cold War Secrets - Sergei Kondrashev and David Murphy Journalism and Espionage - David Ignatius CIA Cookbook - "Susan" and "Barbara" |
| Hour 2 | 97-09-14-B | COOL CARS Sport Utility Craze - Keith Bradsher Hypercar - Amory Lovins Auto History - Jonathan Mantle Motorcycle Mama - Melissa Holbrook Pierson |
| Hour 3 | 97-09-14-C | YOUNG WRITERS Purple America - Rick Moody Last of the Savages - Jay McInerney Diary of an Emotional Idiot - Maggie Estep Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat |
| 9/21/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-09-21-A | MAKING PEACE International Criminal Court - Malvina Halberstam Arab-Jewish Schools - Lee Gordon The Peace Council - Daniel Gomez-Ibanez Peace in Vietnam - Gabriel Kolko |
| Hour 2 | 97-09-21-B | EUREKA! (scientific discovery) The End of Science - Robert Hazen Bad Science - A.K. Dewdney Discovery Biography - Alan Guth Folk Remedies - Robert Root-Bernstein |
| Hour 3 | 97-09-21-C | FAULKNER AND SOUTHERN LITERATURE Faulkner Centennial - Bill Ferris Southern Writers - Cleanth Brooks Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier Southern Literature - Caroliese Frink Reed |
| 9/28/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-09-28-A | DEATH AND DYING Physician Assisted Suicide - Norman Fost Being With Death - Joan Halifax Death Rituals - Nigel Barley Poetry of Death - Thomas Lynch |
| Hour 2 | 97-03-02-B | ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks Island Biogeography - David Quammen Lemurs of Madagascar - Alison Jolly Phantom Islands of the Atlantic - Donald S. Johnson |
| Hour 3 | 97-09-28-C | BIBLE HISTORY The Curse of Cain - Regina Schwartz Forbidden Tales - Jonathan Kirsch Children's Bibles - Ruth Bottigheimer Apostle Paul - A.N. Wilson |
October 1997
10/5
10/12
10/19
10/26
| 10/05/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-04-06-A | KILLERS AND SAVIORS Killer Profiles - John Douglas Learning to Kill - Lt. Col. David Grossman Killer Novel - A.M. Homes Altruism - Kristen Monroe |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-04-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 1 - INTELLIGENCE The Growth of the Mind - Stanley Greenspan Primate Intelligence - Richard Byrne History of Intelligence - Donald Johanson Prehistoric Fiction - Joan Dahr Lambert Prehistoric Fiction - John Darnton |
| Hour 2 | 97-03-16-B | TRANSGENDER Transgender Research - Joy Schaeffer Transgender Psychology - Mildred Brown Gender Culture - Sabrina Ramet Transgender Mother - "Susan Hughes" |
| 10/12/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-03-09-A | SPORTS & RACE Myth of Sports and Race - John Hoberman The Athlete's Experience - Chet Walker The Poetry of Basketball - Dennis Trudell Black Heroes - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-11-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 2 - VIOLENCE Men More Violent Than Women - Deborah Blum Evolution of Human Violence - Richard Wrangham Violence Among Hunter-Gatherers - Herb Maschner Women as Hunters - Mary Zeiss Stange |
| Hour 3 | 97-03-23-C | LEARNING TO PLAY Game Works - Corie Brown Playing by Heart - Fred Donaldson Work Without End - Benjamin Hunnicutt The Knitting Sutra - Susan Gordon Lydon |
| 10/19/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-10-19-A | PSYCHOLOGY OF POLICING Racist Cops - Michael Eric Dyson What It Takes to Be a Cop - Aaron Rosenthal Community Policing - George Kelling Tracking 19th Century Killers - Caleb Carr |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-18-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 3 - LANGUAGE Grooming to Language - Robin Dunbar Evolution of Language - Terry Deacon Apes and Monkey Language - Robert Seyfarth Origins of Poetry - Robert Pinsky |
| Hour 3 | 97-10-19-C | WOMEN AND WRITING The Hidden Writer - Alexandra Johnson May Sarton - Margot Peters Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women - Joan Drury Indian Woman Writer - Arundhati Roy |
| 10/26/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-10-26-A | WORLD HUNGER North Korean Famine - Andrew Natsios Mao's Secret Famine - Jasper Becker The Green Revolution - Norman Borlaug Recycling Food - Robert Egger & Yolanda Way |
| Hour 2 | 97-05-25-B | HUMAN ORIGINS 4 - CULTURE Cultural Big Bang - Steven Mithen Art in Archaeology - Meg Conkey Food and Culture - Paul Rozin Forbidden Knowledge - Roger Shattuck |
| Hour 3 | 97-10-26-C | BECOMING WOMEN Promiscuity - Naomi Wolf Unwed Mothers - Melissa Ludtke Raising Resisters - Janie Victoria Ward New Menopause Theory - Kristen Hawkes |
November 1997
11/2
11/9
11/16
11/23
11/30
| 11/02/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-11-02-A | PROTECTING CHILDREN Juvenile Court - William Ayers & Alex Correa Risk Taking - Lynn Ponton Programs that Work - Lisbeth Schorr Surrendering to Motherhood - Iris Krasnow |
| Hour 2 | 97-01-26-B | THE BEAUTY OF MATH End of Calculus - David Berlinski Poetry of Math - Michael Guillen Fermat's Last Theorem - Amir Aczel Faith, Life and Math - Sue Woolfe |
| Hour 3 | 97-11-02-C | WRITERS' LIVES Samuel Clemens & Mark Twain - Andrew Hoffman Interpreting Robert Frost - Jeffrey Meyers Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee History of Reading - Albert Manguel |
| 11/09/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-11-09-A | SURVIVING GENOCIDE The Myth of Rescue - William Rubenstein Jews in Eastern Europe - Jonathan Kaufman German Post-War Generation - Bernhard Schlink Armenian Genocide - Richard Kalinowski |
| Hour 2 | 97-11-09-B | MICROBIAL MAYHEM Microbe Threat - Charles Gerba Spanish Flu - Malcolm Gladwell Biological Terrorism - Richard Preston Inside Our Bodies - David Bodanis |
| Hour 3 | 97-11-09-C | END OF TENURE Tenure Obsolete - Jonathan Gilligan Tenure Needed - Stanley Aronowitz Life Without Tenure - Don Snyder Academic Satire - Richard Russo |
| 11/16/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-11-16-A | MILWAUKEE BLACK & WHITE Milwaukee - Jonathan Coleman Black Women and the Law - Barbara Arnwine Liberal Racism - Jim Sleeper Jackie Robinson - Arnold Rampersad |
| Hour 2 | 96-12-22-B | AFRICAN WILDLIFE Bushmeat Trade - Tony Rose Mountain Gorilla Project - Amy Vedder & Bill Weber Elephant Conservation - Joyce Poole Living With Lions - Gareth Patterson |
| Hour 3 | 97-05-11-C | THE MIDWEST Mississippi Flood - John Barry Creating the Midwest - Jon Gjerde Midwesterner in the East - Ruth Conniff North Enough - Jan Grover |
| 11/23/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-11-23-A | POLITICS AND SCANDAL Dark Side of Camelot - Seymour Hersh Remembering Watergate - Archibald Cox Ethics in Politics - Glenn Reynolds Political Satire - Christopher Buckley |
| Hour 2 | 97-11-23-B | BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR Right Brain, Left Brain - Robert Ornstein Evolution of the Brain - Steven Pinker Violence and Brain Damage - Jonathan Pincus A Manic Mom - Jackie Lyden |
| Hour 3 | 97-11-23-C | UNDERSTANDING HORSES Training Horses - Monty Roberts Race Horses - Stephen Budiansky Horse Vet - John McCormack Saving Horses - Cleveland Amory |
| 11/30/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-02-09-C | ADVICE MONGERS Pleasure Police - David Shaw Swearing off the Diet Craze - Richard Klein Ill-Advised Advice for Women - Harriet Lerner |
| Hour 2 | 97-11-30-B | ANIMALS AND PEOPLE Deer and People - Richard Nelson Dogs and People - Jeffrey Masson Chimps and People - Roger Fouts The Animal Inside - Will Self |
| Hour 3 | 97-11-30-C | SEX IN AMERICA Alfred Kinsey - James Jones Gay Promiscuity - Edmund White Sex and Soul - Thomas Moore The Breast - Marilyn Yalom |
December 1997
12/7
12/14
12/21
12/28
| 12/07/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-12-07-A | MORMONS The Mormon Trail - William Slaughter Mormon Nature - Terry Tempest Williams Religious History - Jan Shippes Polygamy - Elizabeth Joseph Desert Legends - Alex Shoumatoff |
| Hour 2 | 97-12-07-B | GLOBAL WARMING Global Warming - Michael Oppenheimer Economic Caution - Gail McDonald Eco-Pioneers - Steve Lerner History of American Weather - David Laskin |
| Hour 3 | 97-01-12-C | MUSIC AND POLITICS
Phil Ochs - Michael Schumacher Oral History of Punk - Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Combustible Edison - The Millionaire Beethoven & Politics - David B. Dennis |
| 12/14/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-12-14-A | CONTEMPORARY CUBA Castro's Mystique - Patrick Symmes Cuban Life Today - Pico Iyer Timba Music - David Penalosa Che Guevara - Jon Lee Anderson |
| Hour 2 | 97-12-14-B | SCIENCE EDUCATION Fast Plants - Paul Williams Nobel Teacher - Dudley Hershbach The Number Sense - Stanislas Dehaene Science 2020 - Michio Kaku |
| Hour 3 | 97-12-14-C | IMAGINING CHILDHOOD Toy History - Gary Cross How Children Learn - Penelope Leach Children's Author - Kevin Henkes Poetry for Kids & Adults - Nancy Willard |
| 12/21/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-12-07-A | LEGACY OF SLAVERY Time for Amends - John Powell Slave Trade - Hugh Thomas Artifacts of Slavery - Velma Maia Thomas Honor Among Gentlemen - Kenneth Greenberg |
| Hour 2 | 97-12-21-B | COSMOLOGY Evolving Physics - Lee Smolin Alien Solar Systems - Ken Croswell Comets - Sara Schechner Genuth Gravity - Joseph Lanza |
| Hour 3 | 97-12-21-C | ART AND EMOTION Kinetic Art - Martin Kersels Prison Art - Phyllis Kornfeld Van Gogh - Frederic Tuten An Unemotional Artist - Jane Urquhart |
| 12/28/97 | Program # | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hour 1 | 97-03-30-A | IMAGES OF GOD Catholics Reconcile - Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb Lutherans Reconcile - Bishop George Anderson Bosch's Images of God - Joseph Koerner Ancient Images of God - Theodore Lewis Freethinking Women & God - Annie Laurie Gaylor |
| Hour 2 | 97-02-16-B | POLAR SCIENCE Polar Life - Chris McKay Emperor Penguins - Jerry Kooyman Woman Polar Explorer - Anne Bancroft Scott's Last Expedition - Beryl Bainbridge |
| Hour 3 | 97-03-30-C | PIANO VARIATIONS Keyboard Conversations - Jeffrey Siegel Fortepiano - Melvyn Tan Composition - William Bolcom Music and Healing - Linda Katherine Cutting |
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