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PROGRAM NOTES FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009
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	6:00 AM rwf	Joy Cardin  - 10/27A	Listen
		After six, Joy Cardin’s guest says Wisconsin's fresh water is threatened by industrial pollutants...with The Wisconsin River the hardest hit. He says new protections are needed under the Clean Water Act. Guest: Dan Kohler, Director, Wisconsin Environment.
	7:00 AM rwf	Joy Cardin  - 10/27B	Listen
		Barbara Lawton is out, and the White House wants Tom Barrett in. After seven, join Joy Cardin and her guests for a look at what's shaking in the race for governor, including results from the W-P-R / Saint Norbert survey. Guest: Scott Milfred, Editorial Page Editor, Wisconsin State Journal. Guest: Chuck Quirmbach, WPR reporter. Guest: Wendy Scattergood, St. Norbert College Professor, will present survey results at 7:30.
	8:00 AM CS	Joy Cardin  - 10/27C	Listen
		After eight, retirement expert Jane White is in for Kevin McKinley On Your Money. Jane has great suggestions for saving for retirement despite the down economy...and takes a look at why we need 401(k) (four-oh-one-KAY) reform now. Guest: Jane White, Founder and President of Retirement Solutions, LLC, which promotes 401(k) reform.
	9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 10/27D	Listen
		After nine, Kathleen Dunn continues her series on Health Care Reform in America by looking at the role of nurse practitioners and nurse-managed health centers. Guest: Katharyn A. May, Dean and Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing.
	10:00 AM RF	Kathleen Dunn  - 10/27E	Listen
		After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest examines selected presidential administrations through the eyes of the women and men who pledged to protect them...the Secret Service. Guest: Ronald Kessler, journalist. Author, “In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.”
	11:00 AM jp	Larry Meiller  - 10/27F	Listen
		After eleven, it's another in a series of programs about the first residents of Wisconsin, the Mississippian culture of Native Americans. Larry Meiller's guest is Tom Pleger, Dean and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at UW-Baraboo/Sauk County. Thomas.plager@uwc.edu
	11:45 AM jp	Larry Meiller  - 10/27G	Listen
		After eleven-forty five, Larry Meiller talks with advocates of locally-produced foods. They are Lisa Kivirist of Browntown, owner of the Inn Serendipity, and environmental nutrition consultant Angie Tagtow of Elkhart, Iowa. www.innserendipity.com www.foodandsocietyfellows.org/about/fellow/angela-tagtow
	12:30 PM	Chapter A Day
		On Chapter A Day, Jim Fleming reads from, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet," a novel by Jamie Ford.
	1:00 PM	Talk of the Nation
		Three years after Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," a new survey finds that concern about Global Warming is waning. After one, on TALK OF THE NATION, making people care about climate change.
	2:00 PM	Talk of the Nation
		Two pilots who overflew their destination by more than 150 miles reportedly said they were in an argument, and then they were on their laptops. Bill Voss, who heads the Flight Safety Foundation in Virginia says it's bad either way. After two, on TALK OF THE NATION, the safety concerns of distracted flying. Plus, how to catch that world series foul ball.
	3:00 PM CJ	Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders  - 10/27K	Listen
		After three, on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss how and why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience. Guest: Harvey Cox, Professor of Divinity, Harvard University. Author, "The Future of Faith" (HarperOne).
	4:00 PM mn	At Issue with Glen Moberg in for Ben Merens  - 10/27L	Listen
		After four, Glen Moberg and his guest discuss the controversy over the Obama’s administration’s war of words with Fox News, and what it says about conservative media and the presidency. GUEST: Dave Berkman is a media critic and retired Professor of Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
	5:00 PM mn	At Issue with Glen Moberg in for Ben Merens  - 10/27M	Listen
		The discovery of "Ardi," a hominid who walked on Earth 4.4-million years ago, has changed scientists' theories on the timeline of human development. After five, join Glen Moberg and his guest in a conversation on which came first...larger brain development...or walking upright. Guest: C. Owen Lovejoy, Professor of Anthropology, Kent State University.
	6:00 PM	On Point
		After six, On Point: Legalized Marijuana. The Justice Department says it won't go after legal users of Medical Marijuana. Now the country must decide how to live with legalized pot.
	7:00 PM	On Point
		After seven, On Point: A new biography takes us into the life and enigmatic music of jazz giant Thelonius Monk.
	8:00 PM	As It Happens
		At eight, it's As It Happens from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
	9:00 PM CJ	Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders  - 10/27K	Listen
		After nine, on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss how and why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience. Guest: Harvey Cox, Professor of Divinity, Harvard University. Author, "The Future of Faith" (HarperOne).
	10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 10/27E	Listen
		After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest examines selected presidential administrations through the eyes of the women and men who pledged to protect them...the Secret Service. Guest: Ronald Kessler, journalist. Author, “In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.”
	11:00 PM	Chapter A Day
		On Chapter A Day, Jim Fleming reads from, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet," a novel by Jamie Ford.
	11:30 PM	BBC World Service
		World news and features are heard overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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