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Veronica Rueckert
233 PROGRAMS (157 WEEKS) AVAILABLE FOR LISTENING NOW
105 WEEKS OF PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING BY WPR MEMBERS
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2/5/2010
10:00 PM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100205E
Elizabeth Gilbert is skeptical of marriage. Yet after making her name while traveling the world to get through a nasty divorce, she ended up at the altar again. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss the meaning of marriage.
Guest: Elizabeth Gilbert, Author, "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage"
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Friday
2/5/2010
10:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100205E
Elizabeth Gilbert is skeptical of marriage. Yet after making her name while traveling the world to get through a nasty divorce, she ended up at the altar again. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss the meaning of marriage.
Guest: Elizabeth Gilbert, Author, "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage"
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Friday
2/5/2010
9:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100205D
Time is all around us, helping to shape what happens in our everyday lives. Yet how time works, and why it appears to move in one direction... forward... remain provocative questions. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest unravel the mysteries of Time.
Guest: Sean Carroll, Theoretical Physicist, California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Author, "From Here To Eternity: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time,"
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Friday
1/29/2010
10:00 PM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100129E
A true craftsman does a job well for its own sake... a quality often de-valued in today’s workplace. Veronica Rueckert's guest, after ten, describes craftsmanship as a basic human impulse... and how its diminishing role in modern society is a detriment to us all.
Guest: Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University and the London School of Economics. Author, "The Craftsman".
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Friday
1/29/2010
10:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100129E
A true craftsman does a job well for its own sake... a quality often de-valued in today’s workplace. Veronica Rueckert's guest, after ten, describes craftsmanship as a basic human impulse... and how its diminishing role in modern society is a detriment to us all.
Guest: Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University and the London School of Economics. Author, "The Craftsman".
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Friday
1/29/2010
9:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100129D
These days we work fast, think fast, talk fast, eat fast, and play fast. Yet there's a price to pay for living life in constant fast-forward. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss how to slow down... and savor life's journey.
Guest: Carl Honore, Author, "In Praise of Slowness" and "Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood From the Culture Of Hyper-parenting."
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Friday
1/22/2010
10:00 PM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100122E
Americans love a good deal... but at what cost? After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest examine our Low-cost Lifestyle, and explore the hidden economic, political, and psychic costs.
Guest: Ellen Ruppel Shell, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic. Author, "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture". www.ellenruppelshell.com
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Friday
1/22/2010
10:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100122E
Americans love a good deal... but at what cost? After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest examine our Low-cost Lifestyle, and explore the hidden economic, political, and psychic costs.
Guest: Ellen Ruppel Shell, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic. Author, "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture". www.ellenruppelshell.com
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Friday
1/22/2010
9:00 AM
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- 100122D
Are we raising loud, self-centered kids? ...or children who truly feel connected and responsible for the people around them? After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss how to raise socially aware and responsible kids.
Guest: Michael Ungar, Professor, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Canada. Author, "The We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Kids."www.michaelungar.com
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Friday
1/15/2010
10:00 PM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100115E
Food seems to be on everyone’s mind these days, from farming to food magazines... food TV to celebrity chefs. But how did we arrive at this modern obsession? After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest examine thirty key moments in American Eating History, and how they ushered in the modern food scene.
Guest: Andrew Smith, author, "Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine" www.andrewfsmith.com
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Friday
1/15/2010
10:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert
- 100115E
Food seems to be on everyone’s mind these days, from farming to food magazines... food TV to celebrity chefs. But how did we arrive at this modern obsession? After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest examine thirty key moments in American Eating History, and how they ushered in the modern food scene.
Guest: Andrew Smith, author, "Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine" www.andrewfsmith.com
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Friday
1/15/2010
9:00 AM
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- 100115D
What makes a teacher great? For years, the answer seemed more a matter of chance than of science. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest look at how new research by Teach for America is evolving the perception that great teachers are more than merely a matter of chance.
Guest: Amanda Ripley, author, "What Makes A Great Teacher?" (The Atlantic Jan/Feb) www.amandaripley.com
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Friday
1/8/2010
10:00 PM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 100108E
Flying cars... talking dolphins... underwater cities.... Most of us have imagined what life would be like in the future... but most of the time we’ve been wrong. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest look at some of the most outrageous predictions from the past hundred years.
Guest: Paul Milo, author, "Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century."
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Friday
1/8/2010
10:00 AM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 100108E
Flying cars... talking dolphins... underwater cities.... Most of us have imagined what life would be like in the future... but most of the time we’ve been wrong. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest look at some of the most outrageous predictions from the past hundred years.
Guest: Paul Milo, author, "Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century."
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Friday
1/8/2010
9:00 AM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 100108D
Food does more than just fill your stomach... it can also fill your soul. After nine, Anne Strainchamps and her guest examine the power of food and cooking for self discovery, storytelling, and for building positive communities.
Guests:
- Traci Nathans Kelly, writing instructor, UW-Madison engineering department. Author of several articles on women and cookbooks.
- Okori Rice, participant in the UW-Madison Odyssey Project. http://odyssey.wisc.edu
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Friday
1/1/2010
10:00 PM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 091204D
After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest ponder what it is that makes us happy... and how we can make ourselves happier.
Guest: Gretchen Rubin, Creator and Author, "The Happiness Project" (Rebroadcast)
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Friday
1/1/2010
10:00 AM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 091204D
After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest ponder what it is that makes us happy... and how we can make ourselves happier.
Guest: Gretchen Rubin, Creator and Author, "The Happiness Project" (Rebroadcast)
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Friday
1/1/2010
9:00 AM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 091120D
After nine, Anne Strainchamps and her guest explore the world of Twitter... sampling some of the most clever tweets, from various tweeps, from across the globe.
Guest: David Pogue, Personal-Technology Columnist, The New York Times. Author, “The World According to Twitter.” (Rebroadcast)
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Friday
12/25/2009
10:00 PM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 091113E
What does it mean to be an American? After ten, Anne Strainchamps talks with author Barbara Kingsolver about her new novel, "The Lacuna", the story of a man struggling to find his place in the world.
Guest: Barbara Kingsolver, Author, "The Poisonwood Bible", and "The Lacuna"
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Friday
12/25/2009
10:00 AM
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- 091113E
What does it mean to be an American? After ten, Anne Strainchamps talks with author Barbara Kingsolver about her new novel, "The Lacuna", the story of a man struggling to find his place in the world.
Guest: Barbara Kingsolver, Author, "The Poisonwood Bible", and "The Lacuna" (Rebroadcast from November 13, 2009)
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Friday
12/25/2009
9:00 AM
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- 091204E
What's your favorite toy? After nine, Anne Strainchamps and her guest explore the stories and nostalgia behind favorite classic toys...
Guest: Scott Eberle, Vice President for Interpretation, Strong National Museum of Play. (Rebroadcast from December 4, 2009)
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Friday
12/18/2009
10:00 PM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 091218E
Who was Jesus, the man? Accounts of his life have a common subject but radically different treatments. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest explore what the four Christian Gospels of the life of Christ have to tell us about one of history’s most central figures.
Guest: Mary Gordon, Author, "Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels."
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Friday
12/18/2009
10:00 AM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
- 091218E
Who was Jesus, the man? Accounts of his life have a common subject but radically different treatments. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest explore what the four Christian Gospels of the life of Christ have to tell us about one of history’s most central figures.
Guest: Mary Gordon, Author, "Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels."
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Friday
12/18/2009
9:00 AM
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- 091218D
Everyone has a favorite book they read as a child. After nine, Anne Strainchamps and her guest page through the best books for the young, and how the stories we read in childhood have the power to shape our entire life.
Guest: Anita Silvey, Author, "Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book." Former publisher of children’s books for Houghton Mifflin. Former editor-in-chief, "The Horn Book Magazine." www.anitasilvey.com
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Friday
12/11/2009
10:00 PM
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- 091211E
After ten, Anne Strainchamps's guest tackles the often complex and confounding concepts of philosophy in an unconventional way... using other disciplines, such as economics, physics, and math.
Guest: Steven Landsburg, Professor of Economics, University of Rochester. Author, "The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics" (Free Press).
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