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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin As more Americans enter the retirement stage of life, a lot of issues can cause conflicts between couples: when to retire, where to live, and how to deal with the transition together. After six, Joy Cardin's guest says many couples are unprepared to talk about these issues...but a little preparation can go a long way. Guest: Dorian Mintzer, psychologist, retirement counselor, and co-author of co-author of "The Couples Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Transitioning to the Second Half of Life" http://dorianmintzer.typepad.com/dorianmintzer/
7:00 AM Joy Cardin The economy continues to be the key issue in the ongoing presidential race, and after seven, Joy Cardin asks her guests this week's Big Question: have President Obama's policies been good or bad for the economy? Guests: Diana Furchtgott-Roth (FURSHT-gott ROTH), a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of RealClearMarkets.com. Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
8:00 AM Joy Cardin If you had another chance, what would you do differently? That's what Joy Cardin's guest after eight asks in a new book, based on her blog, that gives readers a second chance to say what they always wished they had. Guest: Jackie Hooper, author of "The Things You Would Have Said: The Chance to Say What You Always Wanted Them to Know." She's a life coach and the creator of the Things You Would Have Said blog, at www.WouldHaveSaid.com.
9:00 AM Kathleen Dunn At nine, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich talks about rising inequality and what outraged Americans can do about it. He writes about what he calls our broken economy and democracy in a new e-book exclusive, BEYOND OUTRAGE. GUEST: Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration and Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.
10:00 AM Kathleen Dunn After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest explore the appeal of swimming and why it's become the third most popular sports activity in the country! Guest: Lynn Sherr, former correspondent for ABC News; author of Swim: Why We Love the Water
11:00 AM Larry Meiller At eleven, Larry Meiller learns about Aldo Leopold and his legacy for us today. A new documentary, "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and A Land Ethic for Our Time," will premier on Wisconsin Public Television April twentieth. Guests: - Buddy Huffaker ("HUFF-a-ker"), executive producer, "Green Fire," executive director, Aldo Leopold Foundation - Curt Meine ("MEYE-nee"), conservation biologist, writer, and Leopold scholar. Director, the Center for Humans and Nature, senior fellow, Aldo Leopold Foundation, research associate, International Crane Foundation
11:45 AM Larry Meiller Larry Meiller learns at eleven forty-five what opportunities there are for young people pursuing a degree and career in agriculture. Plus, why every day is Earth Day on a sustainable farm. Guests: - Daphne Holterman, life-long Wisconsin dairy farmer, co-owner, Rosy-Lane Holsteins, mom of Taylor - Taylor Holterman, freshman, UW-Madison, majoring in Life Sciences Communication, grew up at Rosy-Lane Holsteins, daughter of Daphne
12:30 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads from "Rodin's Debutante" by Ward Just. A coming of age story in mid 20th century Chicago that compels us to ask what is the value of beauty? What divides and what unites us? And which teaches us more, failure or success?
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation Nobody, not Chris Christie, not Marco Rubio, wants to be veep. . .or so they say. Mitt files for a tax extension, and another Democrat will retire from Congress. After one, on Talk Of The Nation, guest Political Junkie Matt Bai and Andy Stern take the temperature of the Obamamaniacs, four years later
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Every Wednesday, you hear "I Wanna Grow up to be a Politician" on the Political Junkie. . .just one of a string of hits from Roger McGuinn and the Byrds. After two, on Talk Of The Nation, Roger McGuinn joins host Neal Conan and plays a few tunes.
3:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens After three, join Ben Merens and his guest as they discuss the medical impacts of nuclear power. Guest: Dr. Helen Caldicott has been called the "First Lady of the Nuclear-Freeze movement." An internationally known physician activist, she is a Nobel Prize nominee and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. She is the author of numerous books, her latest being "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth."
4:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens Barack Obama. Tim Tebow. Steven Colbert. After four, Ben and his guest discuss Time magazine's choices for the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World. http://wpr.org/r/?719 Guest: Belinda Luscombe, editor-at-large for TIME magazine
4:30 PM At Issue with Ben Merens Happiness is actually key to a healthy heart...so concludes research out of Harvard University. Today after four-thirty on At Issue, Ben Merens talks with one of the study's researchers. Guest: Laura Kubzansky, Associate Professor -- Dept of Society, Human Development, and Health Harvard School of Public Health -- Harvard University
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi After five, on Q with Jian Ghomeshi, soprano Measha Bruggergosman performs from her new album of pop standards, I've Got a Crush on You.
6:00 PM On Point After six, On Point: Unseasonably Warm Weather. Warm temps across the country, tornadoes in the Great Plains, hail in Texas . . . what's going on?
7:00 PM On Point After seven, On Point: Evolution of the Workspace. Tear down the cubicle. On Point looks at the evolution of the office, and new understandings of good workspace.
8:00 PM As It Happens After eight, it's news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin If you had another chance, what would you do differently? That's what Joy Cardin's guest after nine asks in a new book, based on her blog, that gives readers a second chance to say what they always wished they had. Guest: Jackie Hooper, author of "The Things You Would Have Said: The Chance to Say What You Always Wanted Them to Know." She's a life coach and the creator of the Things You Would Have Said blog, at WouldHaveSaid.com.
10:00 PM Kathleen Dunn After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest explore the appeal of swimming and why it's become the third most popular sports activity in the country! Guest: Lynn Sherr, former correspondent for ABC News; author of Swim: Why We Love the Water
11:00 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads from "Rodin's Debutante" by Ward Just. Tommy Ogden, a Gatsbyesque character living in a mansion outside robber-baron-era Chicago, declines to give his wife the money to commission a bust of herself from the French master Rodin and announces his intention to endow a boys' school. It's a story that compels us to ask what divides and what unites us? Which teaches us more, failure or success?
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, APRIL 18, 2012

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