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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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