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FOURTH QUARTER PROGRAMS

OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2006

To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio

October 2006
10/01 10/08 10/15 10/22 10/29

10/01/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-10-01-A

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POPULAR CULTURE
Pop Culture Critic - Chuck Klosterman
America's Self-Invention - Greil Marcus
Convergence Culture - Henry Jenkins
TV Show "Lost" - Doug Gordon
James Tiptree, Jr. - Julie Phillips

Hour 2

 

06-10-01-B

(was 05-10-23-A)

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FUTURE PERFECT
Germline Genetic Engineering - Bill McKibben
Transhumans - James Hughes
Cloning Novel - Kazuo Ishiguro
Robot Uprising - Daniel Wilson
Novel of Survival - Margaret Atwood

10/08/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-10-08-A

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FUTURE PHYSICS
Weirdness of Physics - Marcus Chown
Problem with String Theory - Lee Smolin
Band "Aspects of Physics" - Jason Soares
Physics of Everyday Life - Len Fisher
Physics Books for Kids - Russell Stannard

Hour 2

 

06-10-08-B

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DEATH BY NOSTALGIA
The Dap Kings - Sharon Jones
Photos of the South - William Christenberry
Norman Rockwell - Richard Halpern
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded - Hannah Palin
When Madeline Was Young - Jane Hamilton

Replacement
Hour 2
on some
Stations

 

05-10-30-B

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REINVENTING YOURSELF
Self-Help Authors' Conference - Jessica Lamb-Shapiro
Makeover Culture - Micki McGee
Musical Reinvention - Al Anderson
Reinventing a Lost Self - Jonathan Cott

10/15/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-10-15-A

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LOSING FAITH, FINDING MEANING
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Surfing as Religion - Steven Kotler
Letting Go of God - Julia Sweeney
Being Catholic - Mary Gordon

Hour 2

 

06-10-15-B

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HUMANITY: A WORK IN PROGRESS
Transcending Biology - Ray Kurzweil
De-evolution - Mark Mothersbaugh
The First Human - Ann Gibbons
Intelligent Life - James Gardner

10/22/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-10-22-A

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THE MIND, MUSIC & MATH
Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
Suicide Comedy - Nick Hornby
Mental Illness Stories - Adam Haslett
Math & Madness - Janna Levin
Children's Brains & Music - Daniel Levitin

Hour 2

 

06-10-08-B

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DEATH BY NOSTALGIA
The Dap Kings - Sharon Jones
Photos of the South - William Christenberry
Norman Rockwell - Richard Halpern
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded - Hannah Palin
When Madeline Was Young - Jane Hamilton

Hour 2
Wisconsin Only

 

05-10-30-B

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REINVENTING YOURSELF
Self-Help Authors' Conference - Jessica Lamb-Shapiro
Makeover Culture - Micki McGee
Musical Reinvention - Al Anderson
Reinventing a Lost Self - Jonathan Cott

10/29/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-10-29-A

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JUST WAR?
Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo - James Yee
War & Morality - Scott Turow
Sophie Scholl White Rose - Marc Rothemund
Bombing Civilians in WWII - A.C. Grayling
Humor and War - Kurt Vonnegut

Hour 2

 

06-10-29-B

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A POEM
Here, Bullet - Brian Turner
Funny - Jennifer Hecht
Wisconsin Book Festival - Linton Kwesi Johnson & Ted Kooser
Factotum - Kristin Asbjornsen

November 2006
11/05 11/12 11/19 11/26

11/05/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-11-05-A

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THE CULTURE OF POLITICS
Conservatives in America
- Andrew Sullivan & Brian Mann
Undercover in Conservative America
- Harmon Leon
Conservative Rock Songs - John J. Miller
Profile - Barack Obama

Hour 2

 

06-11-05-B

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LIONS, WITCHES & WIZARDS
Peter Pan Redux - Geraldine McCaughrean
Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton
Fantasy Boom - Sharyn November
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

11/12/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-11-12-A
(was 05-11-13-A)

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WHAT MAKES A CLASSIC?
Like a Rolling Stone - Greil Marcus
Psycho - Doug Gordon
Walt Whitman - Michael Cunningham
Lolita - Steve Paulson
Rereadings - Anne Fadiman

Hour 2

 

06-11-12-B
(was 05-10-30-A)

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BRAZEN WOMEN
Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy
Chicago May - Nuala O'Faolain
Nancy Drew - Melanie Rehak
Nancy Drew Parody - Chelsea Cain
Civil War Spy - Ann Blackman

11/19/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-11-19-A

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ELECTRONS TO ENLIGHTENMENT:
PART ONE: SCIENCE VS. RELIGION
InterviewRoundup
- E.O. Wilson
- Karen Armstrong
- Richard Dawkins
- Ken Wilbur

Spinoza - Rebecca Goldstein
Reconciling Science & Religion - Francis Collins
Wicca - Ronald Hutton & Margot Adler

Hour 2

 

06-11-19-B
(was 05-12-04-B)

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CREATIVITY
Classical & Jazz Ideas- Gunther Schuller
Famous Unknown Brion Gysin- John Geiger
Science & Art - Roald Hoffmann
Transcendental Meditation - David Lynch

11/26/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-11-26-A

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ELECTRONS TO ENLIGHTENMENT:
PART TWO: THE COSMOS
New Cosmology - Joel Primack & Nancy Abrams
The Sound of Space - Don Gurnett
Cosmic Africa - Thebe Medupe
God & The Big Bang - Daniel Matt
Religion & The Superstring - Michio Kaku

Hour 2

 

06-11-26-B

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SHOW AND TELL
Graphic Novels - Chris Ware & Marjane Satrapi
Walt Disney - Neal Gabler
Interactive Film - Larry Atlas
Kill Bill - David Carradine

December 2006
12/03 12/10 12/17 12/24 12/31

12/03/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-12-03-A

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ELECTRONS TO ENLIGHTENMENT:
PART THREE: THE BRAIN AND BELIEF
Science & Meditation - Karen Michel
Why We Believe - Andrew Newberg
The God Gene - Dean Hamer
Ghost Hunters - Deborah Blum
Near Death Experience - Bruce Greyson

Hour 2

 

06-12-03-B

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MAPPING THE IMAGINATION
California Visionaries - Erik Davis
Mapping & Writing - Peter Turchi
Post 9/11 Kid Lit - Chitra Divakaruni
World's 1st Geological Map - Simon Winchester
Indian Cooking - Madhur Jaffrey

12/10/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-12-10-A

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ELECTRONS TO ENLIGHTENMENT:
PART FOUR: DEBATING DARWIN
Darwin's Radicalism - Daniel Dennett
Flock of Dodos - Randy Olson
Darwin on Religion - Steve Paulson
Evolutionist - Richard Dawkins
Creationist - Paul Nelson
Inevitable Humans - Conway Morris
Consciousness in Evolution - Elisabet Sahtouris

Hour 2

 

06-12-10-B

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EARLY CHRISTIANS
Bible Experience - Kyle Bowser
Paul - Garry Wills
Gnostic Gospels - Tucker Malarkey
Lost Christianities - Bart Ehrman
Sin and Sinsuality - Tori Amos

12/17/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-12-17-A

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ELECTRONS TO ENLIGHTENMENT:
PART FIVE: AWE & WONDER
Wonder - Robert Fuller
Secret Life of Plants - Nicholas Harberd
Commonplace & Sacred Nature - Ursula Goodenough
Meditation Journal - Scott Topper
Rumi's Mystical Ecstasy - Coleman Barks

Hour 2

 

06-12-17-B

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BLACK IDENTITY
Strong Black Man - Mark Anthony Neal
Blackface - John Strausbaugh
Black Fiction - Edward P. Jones
Media & Civil Rights - Hank Klibanoff
Black Movies - Esther Iverem

12/24/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-12-24-A
(was 05-12-11-B)

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SEARCHING FOR SALVATION
C.S. Lewis - Tom Key
St. Francis - Steve Paulson
Angels & Saints - Robert Orsi
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

Hour 2

 

06-12-24-B
(was 06-01-22-A)

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SNOW AND ICE
Avalanches - Jill Fredston
Animal Survival - Bernd Heinrich
Reindeer People - Piers Vitebsky
Ice - Mariana Gosnell
Living With the Inuit - Lawrence Millman

12/31/2006 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

06-12-31-A

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NO SMOKING
Cigarettes are Sublime - Richard Klein
A Life in Smoke - Julia Hansen
Thank You For Smoking - Jason Reitman
Death Cigarettes - Boz Temple-Morris

Hour 2

 

06-12-31-B
(was 06-01-01-B)

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CALENDAR
Cosmological Time - Brian Swimme
Calendar Redesign - Chris Hardman
Aluna Moon Clock - Laura Williams
Lunar Tales - Carolyn McVickar Edwards
Eco-Logical Calendar - Chris Hardman
Biological Clocks - Russell Foster

 

 

     


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