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These programs currently air on Sundays at 4pm on stations of The Ideas Network.
CDs for many of these programs are available at the Radio Store. Call 1-800-747-7444. WPR Members can download programs that
have aired in the past year. Programs are also available for free online listening in the University of the Air
Audio Archives.
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PROGRAMS FROM 2009
AIRDATE TITLE/DESCRIPTION/GUEST.........................................
Jan 4 Hypertension–the Silent Killer – with Paul Kellerman
Jan 11 Edgar Allan Poe–Two Hundred Years – with Margaret George
Jan 18 Greatest Inaugural Addresses – with Steve Lucas
Jan 25 The Speech Strategy of Barack Obama – with Steve Lucas
Feb 1 The Lincoln Songbook – with Douglas Hill
Feb 8 Lincoln the Emancipator – with Steve Kantrowitz
Feb 15 Darwin – David Baum
Feb 22 George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries – with John Kaminsky
Mar 1 Monsters & the Literature of the Fantastic – with Christopher Livanos
Mar 8 The Rule of Law and Corporate Governance in Russia – with Matthew Murray
Mar 15 Julius Caesar – with Jeff Beneker
Mar 22 The Medieval Origins of Medicine – with Walton Schalick
Mar 29 Women, Peacemaking, and Power in Africa – with Aili Tripp
Apr 5 The Monsters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Jorge Luis Borges, and H.P. Lovecraft
– with Christopher Livanos
Apr 12 Jewish Music from the Old World to the New– with Henry Sapoznik
Apr 19 Accomplishments of the Bush Administration – with Jeremi Suri
Apr 26 Reconstruction – with Steve Kantrowitz [4/20]
May 3 No Child Left Behind: A Report Card – with Mary Haywood Metz
May 10 Energy, Resources and Human Demand on a Small Planet – with Nate Hagens
May 17 The Unemployed People’s Movement – with James J. Lorence
May 24 The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln – with Larry Tagg
May 31 Comet Hunter – with John C. Stowe, Jim Lattis, and Miranda McClenaghan
June 7 American GIs in France – with Mary Lou Robertson
June 14 How Telephone, Cable TV and Internet Businesses Compete for Your Money
– with Barry Orton
June 21 The Infamous General Curtis LeMay– with Warren Kozak
June 28 A Brief History of Light – with Peter Sobol
July 5 Tissue and Organ Transplants – with William Burlingham
July 12 Microbial Planet – with Jo Handelsman
July 19 Young Jane Austen -- with Joseph Wiesenfarth
July 26 Nicolet: The Man & the Legend -- with Patrick Jung & Nancy Lurie Additional resources
Aug 2 Farmers' Markets, the Food Movement & Fair Trade -- with Barry Orton & Jack Kloppenburg
Aug 2 Farmers Markets & Fair Trade – with Barry Orton & Jack Kloppenburg
Aug 9 Transforming America's Community Colleges –with Sara Goldrick-Rab
Aug 16 Elizabeth Bishop – with Lynn Keller
Aug 23 Your Kidneys – with Bryan Becker
Aug 30 Ants, Fungus, and You -- with Cameron Currie
Sep 6 Inside the Washburn Observatory -- with Robert Bless & Jim Lattis
Sep 13 The Art of the Guitar -- with Javier Calderon
Sep 20 The Innocence Project -- with Keith Findley
Sep 27 Wisconsin & Climate Change -- with Dan Vimont and Chris Kucharik
Oct 4 Energy and the Credit Crisis -- with Nate Hagens
Oct 11 HIV and AIDS -- with Narra Cox
Oct 18 Moliere & "The Imaginary Invalid" -- with Patricia Boyette & Cast
Oct 25 My Germnany -- with Lev Raphael
Nov 1 Drama in India -- with Aparna Dharwadker & Girish Karnad
Nov 8 Policing America's Empire -- with Alfred McCoy
Nov 15 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Europe -- with T. Douglas Price
Nov 22 Comics in Wisconsin -- with Paul Buhle
Nov 29 How Lincoln Learned to Read -- with Daniel Wolff
Dec 6 The Strange Story of Hans Staden -- with Neil Whitehead
Dec 13 Harvest Festivals -- with Harold Scheub
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