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January 2000
1/2 1/9 1/16 1/23 1/30
January 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

1/2/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-12-06-C FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL
Friendship, Betrayal & Linda Tripp - Cathleen Schine
Women's Friendships - Ruthellen Josselson
V.S. Naipul - Paul Theroux
Nature of Friendship - Andrew Sullivan
Hour 2 99-02-07-C STREET LIFE
Homeless in New York - Lee Stringer
A Juggler's Life - Truly Remarkable Loon
Radio Documentaries - David Isay
Begging In India - Rohinton Mistry
Mr. Satan - Adam Gussow

1/9/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-01-09-A CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Children's Emotions - Katherine Paterson
Harry Potter Round-Up
- Children from Shorewood Elementary School, Madison, WI
- Lee Siegel - The New Republic
- Henry Jenkins - M.I.T.
- Alison Lurie - Cornell
- Donn Esmonde - The Buffalo News
Historical Fiction - Christopher Paul Curtis
Picture Books
- Kevin Henkes
- Uri Shulevitz
- Barbara Barstow
Hour 2 00-01-09-B THE NOSE KNOWS
Smelly Cyberspace
- Joel Bellenson
- Dexster Smith
Aromatheraphy
- Kevin Mays
- Debbie Bilder
Scent & Emotion - Rachel Herz
Stinky Cheese - Pat Michaelson
Perfume - Cathy Newman

1/16/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-01-16-A TEACHING
Educating Esmé - Esmé Raji Codell
Neuroscience of Teaching - David Sousa
Educating Afghan Girls - Ruth Messenger
Teaching Style - Paul Pflueger
Costs of Education - Stuart Rojstaczer
Hour 2 00-01-16-B THE SPORTING LIFE
Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss
Lombardi One-Man Show - John Pinero
Sports Writing - David Halberstam
Black Planet - David Shields
Life on the Edge - Pam Houston

1/23/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-01-23-A DOES RACE MATTER?
Forget Race - Ward Connerly
Forming Racial Identity - Beverly Tatum
Racial Categories - Michael Omi
Mixed Race Story - Catherine Young
Thurgood Marshall - Juan Williams
Hour 2 00-01-23-B NEW ART, OLD MASTERS
Rembrandt - Simon Schama
Sick Art - Linda Kauffman
Guitar & Weaving - Robert & Rebecca Bluestone
Walking and Place - Robert Stilgoe
Breughel & Collecting - Michael Frayn

1/30/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-01-30-A GLUED TO THE TUBE
Game Shows - Robert Thompson
TV That Matters - Bill Moyers
TV in Ex-Soviet Countries - Carol Larson
TV Collector - Glenn Bubenheimer
Growing Up Without TV - Rob Nixon
Hour 2 00-01-30-B QUARKS, CHAOS, & THE PHYSICS OF FOAM
The Fourth Dimension - Clifford Pickover
Amazing Physic Demos - David Willey
Murray Gell-Mann - George Johnson
Butterfly Effect - Murray Gell-Mann
Chaos Theory on Wall Street - Thomas Bass
Physics of Foam - Sidney Perkowitz
January 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

February 2000
2/6 2/13 2/20 2/27
Febuary 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
2/6/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-12-13-B THE ANIMAL WITHIN
Human/Cow Hybrid - Jeremy Rifkin
Baboon Marrow Transplant - Jeff Getty
Fish Antibiotics - Bob Hancock
Animal/Human Connection - Richard Conniff
Commentary - Mary Lou Finnegan
Animals Have Souls - Susan McElroy
Hour 2 00-02-06-B MAKING MUSIC
Breaking in to the Music scene
- Noe Venable & Lee Townsend
Writing Songs - Jimmy Webb
Grade-school Music
- Lyle Davidson & Larry Scrip
- Karen Tordera
Most Wanted/Unwanted Music - Dave Soldier

2/13/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-02-13-A DNA and DESTINY
Human Genome - Matt Ridley
Digital Depression - Robert Trivers
Seymour Benzer - Jonathan Weiner
Egg Donors On-Line - Shelly Smith
Mothers - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Hour 2 00-02-13-B CHOOSING YOUR LIFE
Vocation and Depression - Parker Palmer
Suicide - Kay Redfield Jamison
Reasons to Live - Various
Bold Poetry - Sapphire
Life of Colette - Judith Thurman

2/20/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-01-17-A LAND USE
Black Farmers - Gary Grant
Trespassing - John Hanson Mitchell
Rethinking Land Ownership - Chuck Matthei
Indian Land - Winona LaDuke
Reading Landscape - Anne Spirn
Hour 2 00-02-20-B MEMOIR AND MEMORY
Lost Memories - Jill Robinson
Early Memories - Jo Ann Beard
Memoir Popularity - Judith Strasser
Critical of Memoirs - William Zinsser
Value of Memoirs - Walter Kirn
Memoir and Truth - Patricia Hample
World War II Story - Fred Rochlin

2/27/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-02-27-A TRUTH IN HISTORY
Pearl Harbor - Robert Stinnett
Global History - David Reynolds
Fictionalizing Lincoln - Richard Slotkin
African-American Folk History - Julius Lester
Hour 2 00-02-27-B COMPASSION
Globalization Makes Us Better - Robert Wright
Legacy of Vietnam War - Barbara Sonneborn
Giving Something Back - Bill Shore
Schadenfreude - John Portmann
Cynics and Saints - John Queenan

Febuary 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

March 2000
3/5 3/12 3/19 3/26
March 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
3/05/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-03-05-A GLOBAL TRAVEL
Tour of Tokyo - Donald Richie
Travel Essay - Judith Strasser
Extreme Sports Travel - Steven Kotler
Biking to Everest - Goran Kropp
Icebound in the Arctic - Alvah & Dianna Simon
Hour 2 00-03-05-B A LAND ETHIC
Thoreau's Wild Fruits - Bradley Dean
Aldo Leopold's Sand County Shack
Myth of Ecological Indian - Shepard Krech
Wildlands Project - Michael Soule
Florida Sleaze - Carl Hiaasen

3/12/00Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-03-14-A GROWING UP IRISH
NY Tenement Irish - Dennis Smith
A Priest & His Housekeeper/Story - John Gleeson
An IRA Bombing Comedy - Patrick McCabe
Maternal Alcoholism - Nuala O'Faolain
Pub Talk & Music - Ciaran Carson
Hour 2 99-03-28-A GETTING A LIFE
Blind Man's Memoir - Jim Knipfel
Depression as Social Epidemic - David Awbrey
Freudian Analyst - Daniel Menaker
Buddhism & Psychotherapy - Mark Epstein
Lies and Stories - Alice McDermott

3/19/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-03-19-A THE NEW MIDDLE EAST
Change in Iran - Robin Wright
Return to Iran - Tara Bahrampour
Bridges for Peace - Melodye Feldman
Commentary - Judith Strasser
Memoir of Exile - Edward Said
Hour 2 00-03-19-B MODERN LOVE
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Matchsticks - Michelle McDonald
SpeedDating - Antony Beilinsohn
Arranged Marriages - Chitra Divakaruni
love - bell hooks
General Theory of Love - Thomas Lewis

3/26/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-03-26-A CHINA AND THE RACE FOR EMPIRE
Taiwan & China - Ed Friedman
Mao - Philip Short
Memoir of Cultural Revolution - Da Chen
The Great Game - Karl Meyer & Shareen Brysac
Hour 2 00-03-26-B MEDICAL MYSTERIES
Flu - Gina Kolata
Hankies - Aimee Glassel
Healthy Eating - Andrew Weil
Nazi Medicine - Robert Proctor
From Doctor to Patient - David Biro

March 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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