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PROGRAMS FROM 2003

AIRDATE  TITLE/DESCRIPTION/GUEST...............................
Jan   5  U.S. Grant--General -- with John Simon
Jan  12  U.S. Grant--President -- with John Simon 
Jan  19  Progressives -- with Joel Rogers
Jan  26  Birds of Wisconsin -- with Tim Moermond
Feb   2  Childhood Language Development -- with Jenny Saffron 
Feb   9  Central Asian Folk Music -- with Anna Kunanbay
Feb  16* American Regional English--with Joan Houston Hall
Feb  23  Central Asian Epics -- with Anna Kunanbay
Mar   2  Sixties Folk Music -- with Stephen Butts
Mar   9  Bio-Terrorism--Anthrax -- with Dennis Maki
Mar  16  Bio-Terrorism--Small Pox -- with Dennis Maki   
Mar  23  W.E.B. Du Bois -- with Nellie McKay
Mar  30  Wisconsin's Iron Brigade -- with Lance Herdegen
Apr   6  Arthritis -- with Carolyn Bell  
Apr  13  Lincoln's Last Days -- with John Y. Simon
Apr  20  Jewish Popular Music in America -- with Ben Sidran    
Apr  27  A Life in the Music -- with Ben Sidran
May   4  Joseph McCarthy -- with Jerald Podair
May  11  Native American Literature -- with Sean Teuton
May  18  Sylvia Plath -- with Lynn Keller
May  25  The Weimar Republic -- with Eric Rothstein
June  1  Digestive Disorders -- with Mark Reichelderfer
June  8  The Sixties--Powwer & Protest -- with Jeremi Suri
June 15  The Ekaterinburg Trio  
June 22  Margaret Drabble
June 29  A Physics Approach to the Great Violin Mystery -- with Jack Fry
July  6  The State of Our Constitution -- Call-in with Howard Schweber
July 13  Five Thousand Years of Heroes -- with Harold Scheub
July 20  Wisconsin Limnology -- with Stephen Carpenter
July 27  "Amistad" and Other Novels -- with Alexs Pate
Aug   3  Early Music: The Baroque -- with Judith Linsenberg &
         Elisabeth Blumenstock
Aug  10  Alexander Pushkin & Madness -- with Gary Rosenshield
Aug  17  Shakespearean Tragedy and Music -- with Eric Rothstein
Aug  24  The Art of Celtic Song -- with Navan
Aug  31  Aztalan & Wisconsin Archaeology -- with Bob Birmingham
Sept  7  John D. Rockefeller -- with Jerald Podair
Sept 14  An American Rivalry: Red Sox vs. Yankees -- with Jerald Podair
Sept 21  The Tenor -- with James Doing
Sept 28  Copernicus -- with Peter Sobol
Oct   5  Amy Levy -- with Susan Bernstein
Oct  12  Intellectual Presidents -- with Richard Merelman
Oct  19  Athletics in America -- with David McDonald
Oct  26  Percy Shelley -- with Theresa Kelly
Nov   2  Cuba -- with Araceli Alonso
Nov   9  Kanaima – with Neil Whitehead
Nov  16  The Art of the Cello – with Matt Haimovitz 
Nov  23  The Amish in Court – with Shawn Peters
Nov  30  Anne Bradstreet (r) -- with Sargent Bush
Dec   7  Great Lakes Archaeology -- with Russ Green
Dec  14  Handel's "Messiah" -- Part I -- with Bruce Gladstone
Dec  21  Handel's "Messiah" -- Part II -- with Bruce Gladstone
Dec  28  Bible, Prophecy, and the Modern World -- with Paul Boyer 
Jan   4  "Beowulf" -- with Dick Ringler
Jan  11  AIDS & the Arts -- with David Clark

		
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