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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 12/19A A report on the Internet's impact on adoption shows positive, negative, and complicated changes as a result of the world wide web. Joy Cardin's guest breaks down these changes and discusses how the Internet is changing adoption as we know it. Guest: Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of "Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families - and America." He blogs at www.adampertman.com. You can find information about adoption at www.adoptioninstitute.org. Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Tran...
7:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 12/19B Calls for changing the nation's gun laws have emerged since last week's deadly shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School. Some are pushing for banning assault weapons and closing gun show loopholes, while others are advocating for arming teachers. Joy Cardin's guest discusses this week's Big Question: What changes to gun laws should be implemented to prevent similar tragedies at our nation's schools? Online poll: www.wpr.org/joy Guest: Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of the Political Science Department, State University of New York College at Cortland; author, "The Politics of Gun Control." The Politics of Gun Control
8:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 12/19C Wine has been a part of civilized culture for 8000 years, constantly evolving alongside the people who enjoy it. This hour, Joy Cardin and her guest talk about the social history of wine. Guest: Paul Lukacs, author of "Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures;" professor of English at Loyola University in Maryland http://inventingwine.com/ Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's ...
9:00 AM Kathleen Dunn  - 12/19D In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, there is renewed talk about gun control legislation in Washington. This hour, U.S. Representative Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett talk about what she would like to see proposed, and then a public health expert discusses the effects of various firearm policies. Guests: 9:06: Tom Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee 9:30: Matthew Miller, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health
10:00 AM Kathleen Dunn  - 12/19E This hour: the December edition of our Back-to-School Book Club. We tackle Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, which was adapted from lectures he gave after serving a night in jail for not paying his Massachusetts taxes. Thoreau argues that individuals should not allow injustices to be perpetrated in their names by their governments, and the ideas in the piece famously inspired Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Guests: Russ Castronovo - Professor of English and American Studies at UW-Madison Alex Zakaras - Political philosopher and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont
11:00 AM Larry Meiller  - 12/19F Phenology ("fehn-AHL-o-gee") is the study of when events in nature happen each year. Larry Meiller visits with the publisher of a calendar that tracks those seasonal changes in Wisconsin. He shares what he has learned about the cycles of nature in our state. Guest: Dennis Prusik, publisher of the Wisconsin Nature calendar for nearly 35 years
11:45 AM Larry Meiller  - 12/19G Jens Jensen was an influential landscape architect who left his mark on the Midwest. Larry Meiller talks with the editor of a new collection of Jensen's writing. Guest: William Tishler,emeritus professor of landscape architecture, UW -Madison, editor, "Jens Jensen: Writings Inspired by Nature"
12:30 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads from "The Complete Shorter Fiction of Anthony Trollope." The extraordinary novelist unveils English society in four short tales: "Christmas at Thompson Hall," "Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage," "An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids," and "Father Giles of Ballymoy."
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation Governor Nikki Haley appoints Representative Tim Scott to the US senate. Now Hawaii's governor will name a replacement for Daniel Inouye, who died on Monday. Political Junkie Ken Rudin returns as President Obama and speaker John Boehner edge closer to a deal on taxes and spending cuts.
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Eric James and his partner hope to adopt a child. So they signed up with an agency, but they also made a website. As more hopeful families and pregnant women head online to connect, a new report warns of risks. Adoption and the Internet.
3:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens  - 12/19K Fiscal cliff, Gangnam Style, YOLO, Frankenstorm, malarkey...these are just a few of the words and phrases we've picked up during the last year. In this hour, Ben Merens and his guest "double down" and look at the top words of 2012. Guest: Ben Zimmer, executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com and Vocabulary.com. He writes a biweekly language column for The Boston Globe and is the former "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine.
4:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens  - 12/19L If a disaster were to strike tomorrow, how prepared would our state be? According to a new study, Wisconsin would do quite well...but many other states wouldn't make the cut. Ben Merens and his guest discuss the latest research on disaster preparedness across the nation. Guest: Rich Hamburg, deputy director at the Trust for America's Health. The 10th annual "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism" report is at http://healthyamericans.org/report/101/
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: U.K. filmmaker Michael Apted on his latest film, 56 UP, part of his popular and long-running series following a group of people through their lives in England, from age 7 onwards, revisiting them every 7 years. Plus, a conversation with Andrea Siegal who believes that we can take important life lessons from even the cheesiest reality TV.
6:00 PM On Point The political power of the NRA after Newtown. Will a massacre of children break the grip of the NRA?
7:00 PM On Point Putting off pregnancy. What a generation of older parents means for family life and American society.
8:00 PM As It Happens Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin  - 12/19C Wine has been a part of civilized culture for 8000 years, constantly evolving alongside the people who enjoy it. This hour, Joy Cardin and her guest talk about the social history of wine. Guest: Paul Lukacs, author of "Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures;" professor of English at Loyola University in Maryland
10:00 PM Kathleen Dunn  - 12/19E This hour: the December edition of our Back-to-School Book Club. We tackle Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, which was adapted from lectures he gave after serving a night in jail for not paying his Massachusetts taxes. Thoreau argues that individuals should not allow injustices to be perpetrated in their names by their governments, and the ideas in the piece famously inspired Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Guests: Russ Castronovo - Professor of English and American Studies at UW-Madison Alex Zakaras - Political philosopher and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont
11:00 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads from "The Complete Shorter Fiction of Anthony Trollope." The extraordinary novelist unveils English society in four short tales: "Christmas at Thompson Hall," "Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage," "An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids," and "Father Giles of Ballymoy."
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, DECEMBER 19, 2012

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