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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 12/27A Joy Cardin's guest talks about the wage gap between men and women. And she has advice for women in the workforce on how to get better pay. Guest: Annie Houle, National Director of Campus and Community Initiatives for The Wage Project http://www.wageproject.org/
7:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 12/27B The new year often means working toward new goals and renewed interests. Looking to be healthier but can't decide where to begin? Want to know more about global politics but don't know where to turn for the best information? Let us help. This hour we host an open line and ask, "What is your new year's resolution for 2013, and how can this program help?"
8:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 12/27C Joy Cardin's guest says that when his son came out of the closet at home, it was a non-event. But when he did so at school, it was a much worse experience. This hour, hear from the father of a gay child who hopes his story will help other parents face the struggles that come along with a teen's journey toward self-acceptance. Guest: John Schwartz, national correspondent with "The New York Times," author of, "Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle To Help Their Teenage Son Come To Terms With His Sexuality."
9:00 AM Kathleen Dunn  - 12/27D This week we rebroadcast Kathleen Dunn's Best Conversations of 2012. This hour, the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Guest: Steven Naifeh, Pulitzer Prize winning co-author, "Jackson Pollock: An American Saga." Co-author, "Van Gogh: The Life."
10:00 AM Kathleen Dunn  - 12/27E This week we rebroadcast Kathleen Dunn's Best Conversations of 2012. This hour, legendary blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy discusses his life. He was born into a Louisiana sharecropper's family in 1936, pioneered Chicago's fabled West Side sound, won six Grammys, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guest: Buddy Guy, Grammy Award winning blues musician. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee in 2005. His albums include, "Living Proof," "Hoodoo Man Blues," and "Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues." His recent memoir, "When I left Home."
11:00 AM Judith Siers-Poisson in for Larry Meiller  - 12/27F It's the end of December, and that means tax returns are due in less than four months. Judith Siers-Poisson finds out what we need to do by December 31st, and what can be done later but still count for the 2012 tax year. We'll also learn what we can start gathering now to make filing those returns less painful. Guest: Dale Kunin ("CUE-nin"), CPA.CITP, Partner, Wegner LLP, CPAs & Consultants, Madison
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 The family has for centuries been the foundation of human society. But in the modern world, that's starting to change, especially in the wealthiest nations. Joel Kotkin on the family-less life. Plus, in a bold move, one author goes out on a limb in praise of the cliche, "Better late than never."
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation When Baratunde (bara-TUNE-day)Thurston decided to write a book about race, he was very careful about choosing the title, "How To Be Black." He talks with guest host Celeste Headlee about how to be black when you can't really BE black.
3:00 PM Gene Purcell in for Ben Merens  - 12/27K According to Gene Purcell's guest, America is in trouble. And only a nationwide movement of volunteerism and civic action will reverse the nation's course. www.stephenpkiernan.com Guest: Stephen P. Kiernan is the author of "Authentic Patriotism: Restoring America's Founding Ideals Through Selfless Action." He has written for the Boston Globe and other publications, and for fourteen years wrote for the Burlington Free Press.
4:00 PM Gene Purcell in for Ben Merens  - 12/27L From the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act to the re-election of President Barack Obama, Gene Purcell and his guest discuss the big political stories that gripped our nation this year. Guest: David Redlawsk, professor of political science at Rutgers University, and director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling.
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi The best of Q continues as Jian speaks with Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia (ny-RA-bee-uh) who discusses his three-week ordeal in a Syrian prison. Then, Mortician Caitlin Doughty on her online video series, Ask a Mortician. Plus, a talk with rising classical pianist Nicholas McCarthy, the first one-handed graduate of London's Royal College of Music.
6:00 PM On Point Best Books Of 2012 (rebroadcast): From deep oceans, to the Tudor age, to a life in North Korea, On Point looks at the best books of the year.
7:00 PM On Point Yuck! The Science Of Disgust (rebroadcast): Spoiled milk, monkey brains . . . and worse. What revolts us, and why?
8:00 PM As It Happens Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin  - 12/27C Joy Cardin's guest says that when his son came out of the closet at home, it was a non-event. But when he did so at school, it was a much worse experience. This hour, hear from the father of a gay child who hopes his story will help other parents face the struggles that come along with a teen's journey toward self-acceptance. Guest: John Schwartz, national correspondent with "The New York Times," author of, "Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle To Help Their Teenage Son Come To Terms With His Sexuality."
10:00 PM Kathleen Dunn  - 12/27E This week we rebroadcast Kathleen Dunn's Best Conversations of 2012. This hour, legendary blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy discusses his life. He was born into a Louisiana sharecropper's family in 1936, pioneered Chicago's fabled West Side sound, won six Grammys, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guest: Buddy Guy, Grammy Award winning blues musician. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee in 2005. His many albums include, "Living Proof," "Hoodoo Man Blues," and "Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues." His recent memoir is titled, "When I left Home."
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 - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012

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