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01/02/2005 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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05-01-02-A

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BY CHANCE
The Shooting - Kemp Powers
The Math of Chance - Amir Aczel
The Lottery - Roy Kaplan
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Brian Turtle

The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan

Hour 2

 

05-01-02-B

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COLLECTING
Record Collectors - Brett Milano
Great Collections - Maurice Sendak
History of Collectors - Philipp Blom
Collyer Brothers - Franz Lidz
Music & Sound Collection - Steve Nieve

 

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BLAME CANADA?
Myth of Converging Values - Michael Adams
Making Fun of Canada - Kyle McCulloch
Alice Munro Profile - Steve Paulson
American in Canada - William Gibson
Canadian Cinema - Katherine Monk

Hour 2

 

05-01-09-B

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FAILURE
The Great Failure - Natalie Goldberg
Best Bad Movie Ever - David Schmader
History of American Failure - Scott Sandage
Personal Failure - David Denby
Rise from Failure - Mike Magnuson

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05-01-16-A

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WRITING THE MIDDLE EAST
Novel about Israel - Pnina Moed Kass
Palestinian Memoir - Raja Shehadeh
Palestin 1924 - Jonathan Wilson
Israeli Memoir - Amos Oz
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Hour 2

 

05-01-16-B

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THE SOUL OF INDIA
Exploring India's Spirituality - Sarah MacDonald
Yoga & The Wizard of Oz - Hardeep Dhaliwal
Buddha's Biography - Karen Armstrong
Yoga vs. Meditation -
Deborah Willoughby & Brother Satyananda

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05-01-23-A

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THE DESERT
Life of Edward Abbey - Steve Paulson
Burning Man - Brian Doherty
Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
Music to Start a Cult To - Gram Rabbit
Poetry of the Desert - Terry Tempest Williams

Hour 2

 

05-01-23-B
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WHO OWNS NATIVE CULTURE?
Indian Identity - Sherman Alexie
Who owns native culture - Michael Brown
Cherokee storyteller - Gayle Ross
Native Species - Connie Barlow
Myth of Robert Johnson - Elijah Wald

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05-01-30-A

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SPORTS AND SOCIETY
Soccer & Globalization - Franklin Foer
Meaning of Sports - Michael Mandelbaum
Racism in Basketball - Oscar Robertson
Bankrobbing Goalie - Julian Rubinstein

Hour 2

 

05-01-30-B

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LIVING LA VIDA SPANISH
Growing Up Latino in America - Victor Villasenor
Roots of Latin Jazz - John Santos
Memories of an Absent Father - Veronica Rueckert
Cantinflas - Herbert Siguenza
Spanglish Memoir - Susana Chavez-Silverman

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05-02-06-A

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CLASS LESSONS
Working Class - Michael Zweig
Homeless - Michelle Kennedy
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison - Michael Streissguth
Fiction on social status - Tom Wolfe

Hour 2

 

05-02-06-B

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THE SIXTIES
1968 - Mark Kurlansky
Child of the Sixties - Joelle Fraser
Loving Che - Ana Menendez
Effects of the Sixties - Jeremi Suri

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05-02-13-A

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KEEPIN' IT SURREAL
David Lynch - David Hughes
Surrealism - Mary Ann Caws
Un Chien Andalou - Stephen Barber
Haruki Murakami - Jay Rubin

Hour 2

 

05-02-13-B
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HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY
Happiness Studies - Dave Myers
History of the Smile - Angus Trumble
Progress Paradox - Gregg Easterbrook
21 Grams - Guillermo Arriaga
Coping with Death - Loren Ladner

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
War on Terror - Richard Perle
Robert McNamara - Errol Morris
Charlie Wilson's War - George Crile
Memoir - Madeleine Albright
Poet on War - Naomi Shihab Nye

Hour 2

 

05-02-20-B
(was 04-03-07-B)

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PAINTING LIFE
Artist Emily Carr - Susan Vreeland
Francisco Goya - Evan S. Connell
Lascaux Cave Art - Clayton Eshleman
Artist & Ethics - Larry Watson
Clement Greenberg - Michael Fried

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05-02-27-A

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EUROPE RISES AGAIN
European Power - T.R. Reid
Muslims in Europe - Jorgen Nielsen & Sam Cherribi
American in Paris - Adam Gopnik
American in England - Joe Queenan
Turkish Writer - Orhan Pamuk

Hour 2

 

05-02-27-B

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SURF, SEA AND SAND
Surf Culture - Drew Kampion
Surfing Rabbi - Nachum Shifren
Surf Rock - Los Straitjackets
Sailing South - Ann Vanderhoof
Trawling the Atlantic - Redmond O'Hanlon

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05-03-06-A

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ADOLESCENCE
Freaks and Geeks - Paul Feig
In Touch With Teachers - Chelsea Vargas
Odd Friends - John McNally
Carefree Childhood (not) - Steven Mintz
The Organization Kid - Curtis Sittenfeld

Hour 2

 

05-03-06-B
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BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH
Friedrich Nietzsche - Alexander Nehamas
Sartre & Peanuts - Nathan Radke
Camus & Sartre - Ronald Aronson
Existential America - George Cotkin
Cornell Woolrich - Francis M. Nevins

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05-03-13-A

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FAKING IT
Philosophy of BS - Harry Frankfurt
My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey
The Making of Toro - Mark Sundeen
Air Guitar World Champion - Miri Park
Faking It - William Ian Miller

Hour 2

 

05-03-13-B

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TO THE STARS AND BEYOND
Frontiers of Physics -
Michio Kaku

Physics Conversation - Brian Greene
The Big Bang - Simon Singh
History of Jet Propulsion Lab - M.G. Lord

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05-03-20-A

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LIVING WITH CANCER
Cancer Patient - Katie Paul
New Cancer Research - Mark Clanton
Patient Advocate - Meg Gaines
Cancer Patient - Pete Daly
Cancer Counselor - Rachel Naomi Remen
Anthropologist - Paul Stoller

Hour 2

 

05-03-20-B
(was 04-03-14-A)

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OLD IRISH
St. Patrick - Philip Freeman
Sean-Nos Singer - Mairin Ui Cheide
Saving the Irish Language - Meaiti Jo Sheamuis
Fairy Stories of Ireland - Eddie Lenihan

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05-03-27-A
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GOD IN UNLIKELY PLACES
Jesus and Tupac - Rev. Alex Gee
American Jesus - Stephen Prothero
God in the Equation - Corey Powell
Laughing at Death - John Spalding
Killing the Buddha - Peter Manseau & Jeff Sharlet

Hour 2

 

05-03-27-B
(was 04-02-29-A)

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CITY AS MUSE
New York - Colson Whitehead
New York vs. St. Paul - Garrison Keillor
Hitchcock's San Francisco - Jeff Kraft & Aaron Leventhal
Memphis Music - Robert Gordon

 

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