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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin Happy Halloween! Joy Cardin speaks to several guests this hour about different aspects of this spooky holiday-its ancient origins, what costumes are popular this year, some of the most haunted spots in Wisconsin, and what scary books will get you in the mood for Halloween. Guests: -Edmund Kern, Associate Professor of History at Lawrence University in Appleton, with expertise in the history of superstition, witchcraft, and religious culture -Mike Flint, owner of Mallatt's Pharmacy in Madison -Chad Lewis, a paranormal researcher, author, and lecturer -Becky Spratford, Readers' Advisory Librarian at the Berwyn Public Library in IL, Adjunct Faculty at Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and author of The Readers Advisory Guide to Horror 2nd Edition
7:00 AM Joy Cardin With election day less than a week away, Joy Cardin holds a special straw poll edition of this week's Big Question: Which candidates will be getting your vote for President and U.S. Senate? Online poll: www.wpr.org/joy
8:00 AM Joy Cardin These days, our eyes are so flooded with bright pictures and flashing text that we must re-learn how to see. That's according to Joy Cardin's guest this hour who says the fine arts are an essential, but forgotten piece of our culture that must be reinvigorated for the sake of our society. Guest: Camille Paglia (PAH-lee-uh), Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She's the author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars. Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt ...
9:00 AM Kathleen Dunn How do foreign journalists and international readers look at our election? This hour, Kathleen Dunn and her guest talk about the view from beyond the border. GUEST: Konrad Yakabuski - chief US political writer for The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's major newspapers
10:00 AM Kathleen Dunn This hour, the October edition of our Back-to-School Book Club. Right before we vote in another Presidential election, we examine the first close-to-free referendum in our nation's history. Kathleen Dunn and her guests dissect Federalist Papers 4, 9, 10 and 51, essays that advocated for the ratification of the Constitution. GUESTS: Russ Castronovo - Professor of English and American Studies at UW-Madison Richard Beeman - Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of the new Penguin Books series, "Civic Classics."
11:00 AM Larry Meiller Larry Meiller continues a series on the fortieth anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. Whooping cranes are an inspiring story of a return from the brink of extinction that was made possible by strong collaborations and education. Guests: - Davin Lopez, conservation biologist and whooping crane coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Joan Garland, outreach coordinator, International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI
11:45 AM Larry Meiller There are many possibilities for how to protect the environment, but which will have the largest impact? Larry Meiller talks with an author that says identifying and working with existing public attitudes toward the environment might be the most important conservation effort of all. Guest: Thomas Heberlein ("HEB-er-line"), Professor Emeritus, Community and Environmental Sociology, UW-Madison, author, "Navigating Environmental Attitudes."
12:30 PM Chapter A Day Norman Gilliland reads from "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes. A middle-aged man contends with a past he has largely forgotten until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance.
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation The first Tuesday in November is just around the corner, and the Frankenstorm has put a damper on last-minute electioneering. But as the water recedes and the lights come back on, the Obama and Romney campaigns are revving up for the home stretch. Political Junkie Ken Rudin joins host Neal Conan for the countdown to election day.
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation From Hurricane Katrina, to the election of Barack Obama, and Trayvon Martin, media critic Eric Deggans argues that cable news and talking heads feed on a steady diet of fear and prejudice. In his new book, he says it's up to the audience to get things under control. Stopping the media from race baiting.
3:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens Join Ben Merens and his guest on Halloween as they discuss paranormal activity around Wisconsin. Guest: Scott Rorek is a psychic medium. He encountered spirits when he was a young child and while attending college, he saw a full-body apparition. Rorek has traveled throughout the Midwest and southern states, speaking at conventions and giving spiritual readings.
4:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens With less than a week until the election, both presidential candidates are looking to stand out amid the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Ben Merens and his guest look at the latest political developments leading up to Election Day, and Sandy's impact during this last week of campaigning. Guest: Melissa Miller, Associate Professor of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: The winner of the newly-announced Giller Prize, one of Canada's biggest literary honours for English language fiction. Plus, novelist and screenwriter Salman Rushdie and director Deepa Mehta on their feature film version of Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
6:00 PM On Point Marijuana On The Ballot. For medical use. For recreational use. On Point looks at the country's changing take on pot.
7:00 PM On Point Is the desktop computer going the way of the typewriter as computing races mobile?
8:00 PM As It Happens Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin These days, our eyes are so flooded with bright pictures and flashing text that we must re-learn how to see. That's according to Joy Cardin's guest this hour who says the fine arts are an essential but forgotten piece of our culture that must be reinvigorated for the sake of our society. Guest: Camille Paglia (PAH-lee-uh), Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She's the author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars.
10:00 PM Kathleen Dunn This hour, the October edition of our Back-to-School Book Club. Right before we vote in another Presidential election, we examine the first close-to-free referendum in our nation's history. Kathleen Dunn and her guests dissect Federalist Papers 4, 9, 10 and 51, essays that advocated for the ratification of the Constitution. GUESTS: Russ Castronovo - Professor of English and American Studies at UW-Madison Richard Beeman - Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of the new Penguin Books series, "Civic Classics."
11:00 PM Chapter A Day Norman Gilliland reads from "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes. A middle-aged man contends with a past he has largely forgotten until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance.
11:30 PM BBC World Service Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012

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