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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin Joy Cardin's guest says bragging and boasting seem to be on the rise, in part because we want to share our triumphs on social media. Guest: Elizabeth Bernstein (BURN-steen), columnist at the Wall Street Journal, where she writes the "Bonds: On Relationships" column.
7:00 AM Joy Cardin The news media has been heavily covering Paul Ryan since Mitt Romney named him as his running mate last weekend. Joy Cardin's first guest discusses why he says the media has been fawning over Ryan's intelligence and bravery. Her second guest says the media is doing what it can to trash Ryan, just as it has to previous Republican vice presidential candidates. Guests: - Peter Hart, Activism Director, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. http://wpr.org/r/?809 - Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis, Media Research Center. http://wpr.org/r/?810
8:00 AM Joy Cardin In the latest industry poll of the best movies of all time, Citizen Kane was knocked from the number-one spot for the first time in fifty years-by Vertigo. Joy Cardin talks to a film expert about why these are the greatest movies of all time-and asks you what movies you'd add to the list. Guest: Dana Polan, professor of cinema studies at New York University. He voted in the last Sight & Sound Magazine Greatest Films of All Time poll, in 2002.
9:00 AM Kathleen Dunn Recent mass shootings have people on both sides of the issue debating current gun laws. This hour, Kathleen Dunn talks about the history of gun legislation in the United States with constitutional law professor Adam Winkler. Guest: Adam Winkler, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law.
10:00 AM Kathleen Dunn Irish Fest, Milwaukee's annual tribute to Irish music and culture, begins today. This hour, Kathleen Dunn talks about preserving the importance of storytelling in Ireland and one community's oral history effort. Then, we get a live performance from the Irish band We Banjo 3. Guests: 10 - 10:25: Tomas Mac Conmara - Folklorist and founding member of the Clare Oral History and Folklore Group. 10:25 - 11: We Banjo 3 - banjo trio from Galway, Ireland.
11:00 AM Larry Meiller Taking good digital pictures means having lasting memories of important life events. Larry Meiller learns how to take the best close-up photos possible. Guest: Jack Socha ("SO-sha"), photography instructor. Author, "How To Use The Digital Camera You Just Bought!
11:45 AM Larry Meiller Many of us use Apple computers and gadgets for work and play. Larry Meiller finds out how to get the most out them, and what's next to come on the market. Guest: Joe Rhodes, independent Macintosh computer support specialist
12:30 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads "The Tie That Binds" by Kent Haruf. It's the story of 80 year-old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told by an unreliable neighbor.
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation Another ten thousand baby boomers turn sixty-five today, give or take a few. A new survey shows that overall they're happy, healthy and optimistic about their future. That optimism fades, though, when it comes to paying their medical bills and paying for medicare. We turn the talk to aging in America.
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Oksana Marafioti (mara-fee-OH-tee) set out to write a novel about Gypsies, but she realized her own story was a lot more interesting. Her father, a successful Gypsy musician and occasional exorcist, moved the family to the U.S. when she was fifteen. Here, she learned what it means to be American. We look at the life of an American gypsy.
3:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens With automatic spending cuts set to take effect at the start of 2013, around 100 airports could lose air traffic control service, and as a result, be in jeopardy of closing. That's according to Ben's guest this hour, who's compiled a list of airports that could be affected, including Madison's Dane County Regional-Truax Field and Green Bay's Austin Straubel International. Guest: Scott Lilly, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. His piece on possible airport closures is at http://wpr.org/r/?799
4:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens On average, one alcohol-impaired-driving fatality occurred every 51 minutes in 2010. And among the majority of these fatalities, at least one driver involved in the crash had a BAC of .15 or higher...almost twice the legal limit in Wisconsin. Ben and his guest discuss the national problem that is drunk driving...and what states are doing to combat it. Guest: Nina Emerson, Director, Resource Center on Impaired Driving, UW Law School. Her "Wisconsin Alcohol and Law Policy Blog" is at http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/walp/
5:00 PM Q On Q, Stephen Quinn guest hosts! Jane Fonda on her new film "And If We All Lived Together", about a group of senior citizens who move into an old house in France together. Then, from the Best of Q: A performance by Bahamas, from his album Barchords.
6:00 PM On Point Paul Ryans Medicare Plan: A look at truth and consequences, on and off the Ryan plan.
7:00 PM On Point The Amazing World of Spiders: Black widows, Orb Weavers, the Brown Recluse.
8:00 PM As It Happens Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin In the latest industry poll of the best movies of all time, Citizen Kane was knocked from the number-one spot for the first time in fifty years-by Vertigo. Joy Cardin talks to a film expert about why these are the greatest movies of all time-and asks you what movies you'd add to the list. Guest: Dana Polan, professor of cinema studies at New York University. He voted in the last Sight & Sound Magazine Greatest Films of All Time poll, in 2002.
10:00 PM Kathleen Dunn Irish Fest, Milwaukee's annual tribute to Irish music and culture, begins today. This hour, Kathleen Dunn talks about preserving the importance of storytelling in Ireland and one community's oral history effort. Then, we get a live performance from the Irish band We Banjo 3. Guests: 10 - 10:25: Tomas Mac Conmara - Folklorist and founding member of the Clare Oral History and Folklore Group. 10:25 - 11: We Banjo 3 - banjo trio from Galway, Ireland.
11:00 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads "The Tie That Binds" by Kent Haruf. It's the story of 80 year-old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told by an unreliable neighbor.
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, AUGUST 16, 2012

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