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You can access program descriptions, guest names and topics for many of the programs on Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network. To see Program Notes for a particular day, select a date using the drop down lists below.
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PROGRAM NOTES FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2006
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6:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
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The Food and Drug Administration is set to permit the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals. Would you eat cloned meat? A critic of the plan is Joy Cardin’s guest.
Guest: Carol Tucker Foreman, director of food policy, Consumer Federation of America. Former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Carter Administration. www.consumerfed.org
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7:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
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According to Joy Cardin’s guest, jobs, health care, retirement, and the middle class lifestyle are all under assault. He’ll talk about how you can fight back.
Guest: Jacob Hacker, associate professor of political science, Yale University. Fellow, New America Foundation. Author, "The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement – And How You Can Fight Back" (Oxford University Press)
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8:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
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Joy Cardin's guest says a growing chastity movement among young people is a direct response to the oversexed culture we live in today.
Guest: Dawn Eden, author, "The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On."
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9:00 AM
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Sheryl Gasser in for Kathleen Dunn
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According to Sheryl Gasser’s guest, while progress is being made, there's still a long way to go in providing good food and nutrition in our schools.
Guest: Jean Saunders, director of school wellness, Healthy Schools Campaign, Chicago. www.healthyschoolscampaign.org
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10:00 AM
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Sheryl Gasser in for Kathleen Dunn
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From independent films to the latest James Bond flick, Sheryl Gasser and her guest movie critic take a look at the best and the worst from Hollywood.
Guest: Rob Thomas, entertainment writer and movie reviewer, The Capital Times. www.madison.com/tct/entertainment
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11:00 AM
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Larry Meiller
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You can practically smell the aroma of fresh-baked bread. Larry Meiller's guest is bread-making instructor Paul Novak, from the Madison Area Technical College.
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11:45 AM
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Larry Meiller
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The focus is on cameras. Larry Meiller's guest is Brian Carless of The Camera Company, Madison.
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12:30 PM
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Chapter A Day
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Jim Fleming reads from, "A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906," by Simon Winchester.
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1:00 PM
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Talk of the Nation
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If your house is strewn with bits of tinsel, phone numbers scrawled on wrapping paper, and half eaten cookies... don't fret about that mess. On Talk of the Nation, a new book claims there are advantages hidden buried in all that clutter in your life. It's, "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder."
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2:00 PM
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Talk of the Nation
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As civil wars continue to loom in the Middle East, conflict brews in Africa,
and Cuba balances on the precipice of a new era, the U.S. may be at a turning point in its foreign relations. On Talk of the Nation, from Iraq, to the Middle East, to South America... what's next for U.S. Foreign Policy.
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3:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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On To The Best of Our Knowledge, Debating Darwin, part four in the series: Electrons to Enlightenment, a five-part series on Science and Religion.
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4:00 PM
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At Issue with Peter Donalds in for Ben Merens
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Peter Donalds welcomes a panel of Wisconsin Public Radio reporters from around the state for a year-end review of the top news stories.
Guests: Mike Simonson, Chuck Quirmbach, and Shawn Johnson, Wisconsin Public Radio reporters.
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5:00 PM
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At Issue with Peter Donalds in for Ben Merens
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On this, the third day of the seven-day Kwanzaa celebration, Peter Donalds' guest shares the spiritual, cultural, and political meanings of the holiday.
Guest: Nomusa Xaba, activist, storyteller, and educational consultant. www.mamanomusa.com
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6:00 PM
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On Point
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On Point: Author Nora Ephron on Aging.
A conversation about her new book, "I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman."
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7:00 PM
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On Point
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On Point: A conversation with the latest biographer of Julius Caesar... Adrian Goldsworthy, author of "Life of a Colossus."
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8:00 PM
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As It Happens
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At eight, it's As It Happens from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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9:00 PM
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Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Al-Jazeera began an English Language Service in November, but one nation still doesn’t have it... America, where cable and satellite networks claim there’s no market for it. But why? On Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with Al-Jazeera English anchor Dave Marash and others about the network’s fight for the U.S. audience.
Guests:
- Dave Marash, anchor, Al-Jazeera English.
- Hugh Miles, author, “Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That is Challenging the West.”
- Mohammed el-Nawawy, author, “Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East”
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10:00 PM
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Sheryl Gasser in for Kathleen Dunn
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From independent films to the latest James Bond flick, Sheryl Gasser and her guest movie critic take a look at the best and the worst from Hollywood.
Guest: Rob Thomas, entertainment writer and movie reviewer, The Capital Times. www.madison.com/tct/entertainment
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11:00 PM
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Chapter A Day
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Jim Fleming reads from, "A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906," by Simon Winchester.
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