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THIRD QUARTER PROGRAMS

JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 2009

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from Wisconsin Public Radio

July 2009
07/05 07/12 07/19 07/26

07/05/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-07-05-A
(was08-07-13-A)

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ANIMAL MINDS
Inside Animal Minds - Virginia Morell
Elephant Painting - David Ferriss
Dogs & Boys - David Wroblewski
Animal Dialogues - Craig Childs
Bird Literature - Graeme Gibson

Hour 2

 

09-07-05-B
(was 08-07-06-B)

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HOW WE REMEMBER
New Memory Research - Sue Halpern
Woman Who Can't Forget - Jill Price
Memorizing Beethoven - Christopher Taylor
Memory Studies in History - Guy Beiner

07/12/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-07-12-A

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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Renovation - Rachel Simon
Relo-ville - Peter Kilborn
Staying Put - Michael Schuler
My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin

Hour 2

 

09-07-12-B
(was 08-07-27-A)

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SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCKSTAR
Sticky Fingers - Steven Kurutz
Elliott Smith - Christopher O'Riley
Sloan Alone - Doug Gordon
Street Musician - Steve Lopez
Indie Folk-Rocker - Josh Ritter

07/19/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-07-19-A

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GOD IS BACK
Fingerprints of God - Barbara Bradley Haggerty
Global Religious Revival - Adrian Wooldridge
Pray the Devil Back to Hell - Gini Reticker
Evolution of God - Robert Wright

Hour 2

 

09-07-19-B

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TRAVEL
Political Travel - Rick Steves
Playing for Change - Mark Johnson
Traveling Home - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Travel Writing - Raphael Kadushin
An American Mosey - William Least Heat-Moon

07/26/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-07-26-A
(was 08-08-10-A)

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COLLABORATIONS
Father of Wiki - Ward Cunningham
Coleridge & Wordsworth - Steve Paulson with Adam Sisman
Ten Canoes - Rolf De Heer
The Trinity Session - The Cowboy Junkies

Hour 2

 

09-07-26-B
(was 08-07-20-B)

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LIFE AS ENTERTAINMENT
The "Up" Series - Nick Hitchon
Personal Blogs - Emily Gould
Virtual Anthropology - Tom Bellstorf
Reality Television - Laurie Oulette
Flash Mobs - Bill Wasik

August 2009
08/02 08/09 08/16 08/23 08/30

08/02/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-08-02-A

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AMAZING MINDS: INSIDE AUTISM
Amazing Minds - Daniel Tammet
Autism the Musical - Tricia Regan
Brother's Memoir - Karl Taro Greenfeld
Aliens & Autism - Ian Hacking
Disordered World - Tyler Cowen

Hour 2

 

09-08-02-B
(was 08-08-03-A)

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POST-POSTMODERNISM: ARE WE THERE YET?
Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
Postmodernism - Amy J. Elias
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
Monkey Bowl - Robert Ellis Orrall

08/09/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-08-09-A

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REVIVING CLASSICAL MUSIC
Performing Asian Music- Anne Akiko Myers
Rhythm Rules! - Jade Simmons
Bridgetower not Kreutzer - Rita Dove
Violin Prodigy - Joshua Bell

Hour 2

 

09-08-09-A
(was 08-09-07-A)

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DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
Deja Vu & Memory - Chris Moulin
Nietzsche's Recurrence - Lawrence Hatab
Viewing Vertigo - Wendy Lesser
Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen

08/16/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-08-16-A
(was 08-07-20-A)

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REMIX - CULTURE
Re-Mix Culture - DJ Spooky (Paul Miller)
The Mash-Up - World Famous Audio Hacker (Derek Chilcote Bacco)
The Creative Commons - Lawrence Lessig
Cassette From My Ex - Jason Bittner

Hour 2

 

09-08-16-B
(was 08-09-28-B)

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THE HORROR, THE HORROR
An Inferno for our time - Andrew Davidson
Terror on the Air - Richard Hand
Zombie Movies - Glenn Kay
Pretty Monsters - Kelly Link

08/23/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-08-23-A

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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Generational Writer - Laura Miller
Infinite Jest - DT Max
Oblivion - DFW
Time Remembers - Lev Grossman
Rolling Stone - David Lipsky
The Pale King - Michael Pietsch
Pale King reading - Carrie Coon
I'll Never Do Again - DFW
Sister's Memories - Amy Wallace-Havens
Kenyon Commencement - DFW

Hour 1

 

09-08-23-B
(was 08-09-21-A)

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MIND AND MEANING
Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
Microphone in Brain - Coyle & Sharpe
Spiritual Evolution - George Vaillant
Musical Brain - Daniel Levitin
Really Hard Problem - Owen Flanagan

08/30/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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09-08-30-A

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RELIGION 2.0
Spiritual Non-Religious - Clark Strand
New Wave Buddhism - Brad Warner
Religious Case Against Belief - James Carse
Feeding Your Demons - Tsultrim Allione
Reading Old Testament - David Plotz

Hour 2

 

09-08-30-B
(was 08-09-28-A)

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LIBRARIES
The Reading Brain - Maryanne Wolfe
Decline of Reading - Ursula Le Guin
Sarajevo Haggadah - Geraldine Brooks
Library at Night - Albert Manguel
Children's Books - Susan Hirschman

September 2009
09/02 09/09 09/16 09/23

09/06/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-09-06-A

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WELCOME TO THE WORKING WEEK
World as Corporation - Douglas Rushkoff
Value of Work - Matthew Crawford
Coffee Shop Waitresses - Candacy Taylor
Gravedigger's Memoir - Charles Wilkins

Hour 2

 

09-09-06-B
(was 08-10-19-A)

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THE SACRED & THE PROFANE
Sacred & Profane - Al Green
Sacred Texts - Mamak Khadem
Sacred Love - Li-Young Lee
Recording Gospel - Michael Reilly

09/13/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-09-13-A
(was 08-11-09-A)
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POETRY INSTEAD
Poetry Slam Champion - Patricia Smith
Why Poetry Matters - Jay Parini
What Makes a Child Lucky? - Gioia Timpanelli
The Biplane Houses - Les Murray

Hour 2

 

09-09-13-B
(was 08-11-02-B)

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MODERN MUSIC
Listening to the 20th Century - Alex Ross
East Village Opera Company - Peter Kiesewalter & Tyley Ross
Jazz Conversations - Ben Ratliff
Indi Singer-Songwriter - Syd Straw

09/20/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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09-09-20-A
(was 08-10-26-A)

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AFRICA AT THE CROSSROADS
AIDS Orphans - Melissa Fay Greene
Spirit Healer - Mandeza Kandemwa
Rwanda Poems - Derrick Burleson
Nigerian Novelist - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
South Africa and Rugby - John Carlin

Hour 2

 

09-09-20-B
(was 08-11-23-A)

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THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE FICTION
Literature of Ideas? - George R.R. Martin
Literature of Ideas! - Ursula K. Le Guin
H.P. Lovecraft - S.T. Joshi
Beauties of Sci-Fi - Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.

09/27/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-09-27-A

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NATIONAL PARKS
Park History - William Cronon
Buffalo Soldiers - James Mills
Conservation Refugees - Mark Dowie
Alaska's Parks - Richard Nelson

Hour 2

 

09-09-27-B
(was 07-06-17-A)

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WHAT IS NORMAL?
Eavesdropping - Stephen Kuusisto
Poster Child - Emily Rapp
Essay - Harriett Brown
Rumspringa - Tom Schachtman
Wide Awake - Alan Berliner

     


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