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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 |
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6:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
- 01/30A

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More and more people are adopting gluten-free diets, whether it's for a food allergy or general health reasons. Joy Cardin speaks to an advocate for celiac disease awareness about what the disease is, how to adopt a gluten-free diet, and what some of the potential health benefits are.
Guest: Alice Bast, Founder and President of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diagnoses of celiac disease and other gluten-related disorders and improving quality of life for those on a lifelong gluten-free diet.
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7:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
- 01/30B

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President Obama has released his plans calling for a pathway to citizenship for those already in the country illegally. A day earlier, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators unveiled their proposal to tackle comprehensive immigration reform. Joy Cardin's guests discuss this week's Big Question: which approach is better to handle the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants? Online poll: www.wpr.org/joy
Guests:
- Raul Reyes, an attorney and columnist in New York City. www.raulareyes.com
- William Gheen, president and spokesperson for Americans for Legal Immigration PAC www.alipac.us.
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8:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
- 01/30C

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Every day we drive to work, school, or the grocery store and we recognize familiar landmarks along the way. But according to Joy Cardin's guest this hour, we're missing a whole lot more because we're not really paying attention to the world around us.
Guest: Alexandra Horowitz, teaches psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition at Barnard College at Columbia University; author of "On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes"
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
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9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
- 01/30D

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To reduce inequality in America, a good place to start is the language-arts classroom. That is the argument of Kathleen Dunn's guest this hour.
Guest: E. D. Hirsch, Jr., professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. Founder, Core Knowledge Foundation.
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10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
- 01/30E

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The January edition of our Back-to-School Book Club. Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" received harsh reviews from male critics when it was released in 1899. Chopin wrote overt descriptions of female sensuality, and the main character, Edna Pontellier, disdains the role of wife and mother that is prescribed for her in turn-of-the-19th-century New Orleans. Russ Castronovo and Chopin biographer Emily Toth join Kathleen to talk about why this novella helped to awaken the nation to female voices.
Guests:
Russ Castronovo - Professor of English and American Studies at UW-Madison
Emily Toth - Kate Chopin biographer and Professor of English at Louisiana State University
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11:00 AM
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Larry Meiller
- 01/30F

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What could could be better than combining birdwatching and a murder mystery? Larry Meiller visits with the author of a new book that ties in both of those threads. Guest: Jan Dunlap, author, "A Murder of Crows: A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery"
A Murder of Crows: A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery
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11:45 AM
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Larry Meiller
- 01/30G

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Larry Meiller talks with staffers from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) to find out what the opportunities and challenges are of nitrogen fertilizer use with the cultivation of bionergy crops. Guests: -John Greenler, Director of Education and Outreach, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) - Brianna Laube ("LOB-bee"), graduate student in Environment and Resources, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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12:30 PM
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Chapter A Day

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Jim Fleming reads from "The Bartender's Tale," a novel by Ivan Doig that takes us once again to Montana. It's a coming of age story and much more.
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1:00 PM
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Talk of the Nation

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John Kerry's move to the State Department leaves a Senate seat to be filled
temporarily right now, and then a special election in June. Saxby Chambliss
and Tom Harkin will leave two more-- for November 2014. Plus, Ray LaHood's
departure opens another cabinet job at the Department of Transportation and
Sarah Palin exits Fox News.
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2:00 PM
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Talk of the Nation

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Living with severe mental illness can be a full time job. Sufferers may endure
overwhelming delusions and hallucinations. Hospitalizations, treatment and
medications can put careers out of reach. But still, some of the mentally ill
make it work, and live remarkably successful lives.
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3:00 PM
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At Issue with Ben Merens
- 01/30K

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Despite an increase in the labor force, the percentage of workers belonging to a union dropped to 11.3% last year...the lowest rate in nearly 80 years. Ben Merens and his guest discuss the reasons behind decline, the role of unions in the 21st century, and where organized labor goes from here.
Guest: Bob Bruno, Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and the Director of Labor Education Programs at the University of Illinois
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4:00 PM
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At Issue with Ben Merens
- 01/30L

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The only constant in life is change...in our lives, careers or communities. But too many of us just like the way things are, and are reluctant to shake things up. Today after four on At Issue, Ben Merens and his guest discuss change. Guest: Richard Thieme (THEME), insight specialist, public speaker, author of "Mind Games" and "Islands in the Quickstream." His op-ed on the lack of change in Milwaukee is at http://wpr.org/r/?1011
Mind Games
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5:00 PM
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Q with Jian Ghomeshi

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On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Sadeq Saba, the head of the BBC's Persian service, talks about the press crackdown occurring in Iran that's seen more than a dozen Iranian journalists arrested for their alleged connection to foreign news outlets operating in Farsi, such as the BBC. Canadian hip hop artist K-os on his new double album of collaborations, "BLack on BLonde". New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum on the end of NBC's "30 Rock" and the legacy of Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon.
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6:00 PM
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On Point

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Gay in America, now. On Point talks with gay Americans from across the country about changing attitudes and their lives.
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7:00 PM
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On Point

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New alarms about the risk of cyber attack as the Pentagon calls for more cyber warriors.
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8:00 PM
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As It Happens

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Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
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9:00 PM
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Joy Cardin
- 01/30C

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Every day we drive to work, school, or the grocery store and we recognize familiar landmarks along the way. But according to Joy Cardin's guest this hour, we're missing a whole lot more because we're not really paying attention to the world around us.
Guest: Alexandra Horowitz, teaches psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition at Barnard College at Columbia University; author of "On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes"
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10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
- 01/30E

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This hour: the January edition of our Back-to-School Book Club. Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" received harsh reviews from male critics when it was released in 1899. Chopin wrote overt descriptions of female sensuality, and the main character, Edna Pontellier, disdains the role of wife and mother that is prescribed for her in turn-of-the-19th-century New Orleans. Russ Castronovo and Chopin biographer Emily Toth join Kathleen to talk about why this novella helped to awaken the nation to female voices.
Guests:
Russ Castronovo - Professor of English and American Studies at UW-Madison
Emily Toth - Kate Chopin biographer and Professor of English at Louisiana State University
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11:00 PM
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Chapter A Day

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Jim Fleming reads from "The Bartender's Tale," a novel by Ivan Doig that takes us once again to Montana. It's a coming of age story and much more.
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11:30 PM
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BBC World Service

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Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 |
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