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January 1998
1/4 1/11 1/18 1/25
January 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

1/4/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-01-04-A CATHOLIC IDENTITY
American Catholics - Charles Morris
Catholic Memoir - William F. Buckley
Catholic Novel - Edna O'Brien
Catholic Poet - Kathleen Norris
Hour 2 97-02-09-B TRACKING VIRUSES
Virus X - Frank Ryan
Into the Hot Zone -
Joseph McCormick & Susan Fisher-Hoch
Plagues in History - Christopher Wills
Memes (Thought Viruses) - Richard Dawkins
Hour 3 98-01-04-C LANGUAGE
Norwegian anti-Nazi jokes - Kathleen Stokker
Loss of Language - Hilda Raz
Language of Names - Justin Kaplan & Anne Bernays
Talk American! - Jim Crotty

1/11/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-01-11-A COMMUNISM & THE COLD WAR
Hollywood Blacklist - Pat McGilligan
Whittaker Chambers - Sam Tanenhaus
Alber Camus - Olivier Todd
European Socialism - Donald Sassoon
Hour 2 98-01-11-B TECHNOLOGY
Science & Religion - David Noble
Artificial Intelligence - Astro Teller
Computer Culture - Ellen Ullman
Starship Titanic -
Douglas Adams and Terry Jones
Hour 3 98-01-11-C THE QUEST FOR BEAUTY
Cosmetic Surgery - Elizabeth Haiken
History of Girls - Joan Jacob Brumberg
Beauty Shop Culture - Frida Kerner Furman
Big Hair - Grant McCracken

1/18/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-01-18-A THE NEW SOUTH
Dixie Rising - Peter Applebome
Old South Pride - Diane Roberts
Roots of Black Women's Humor - Daryl Cumber Dance
Southern Memoir - Rick Bragg
Hour 2 98-01-18-B PLANTS AND CULTURE
What Organic Means - Ned Groth
Diabetes & Native Foods - Gary Nabhan
Richard Evans Schultes - Wade Davis
Useful Plants - Oscar Castro
Hour 3 98-01-18-C TIME
New Internet Technology - George Strawn
Clap Skates - Catherine Raney
Disability & Speed of Life - Daniel Gottlieb
The Geography of Time - Robert Levine

1/25/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-01-25-A AMERICAN CITIES
Urban Decline - Fred Siegel
Downtown Chicago - Ross Miller
Robert Moses - Robert Caro
Building Communities - Milenko Matanovic
Hour 2 98-01-25-B NEW FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
Cloning - Gina Kolata
Immortality Gene - William Clark
Personality in Genes - Dean Hamer
Novel about Genetics - Simon Mawer
Hour 3 98-01-25-C BODIES OF POWER
Barbie History - Gary Cross
New Barbie - Andrea Dworkin
Barbie Parody - Sarah Strohmeyer
Extraordinary Bodies - Rosemarie Thomson
Professional Wrestling - Sharon Mazer
January 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

February 1998
2/1 2/8 2/15 2/22
Febuary 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
2/01/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-02-01-A ASIA AND FREE MARKETS
Asian Financial Crisis - Daniel Yergin
Japan - Patrick Smith
Thai Sex Trade - Lillian Robinson
Free Trade Rhetoric - Noam Chomsky
Hour 2 97-01-05-B SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS
Complexity - John Casti
Anti-Chaoplexity - John Horgan
Paradigm Shifting - Stan Temple
Conjuring Science - Christopher Toumey
Hour 3 98-02-01-C HISTORY AND FICTION
History in the Movies - Mark Carnes
Telling Your Own Version - Barry Unsworth
Custer's Diaries - Michael Blake
Historical Fiction - Dorothy Dunnett

2/08/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-02-08-A POWER
Media Power - Robert McChesney & John Nichols
The Independent Counsel - Katy Harriger
Women & Zippergate - Barbara Ehrenreich
Petticoat Affair - Joohn Marszalek
Hour 2 98-02-08-B ENGINEERING
Petronas Towers, Malaysia - Charles Thornton
Three Gorges Dam, China - David Lampton
Engineer's Mind - Henry Petroski
Building a Treehouse - Peter Nelson
Hour 3 98-02-08-C POPULAR SONG
Frank Sinatra - Donald Clark
Stephen Foster - Ken Emerson
Country Music - Nicholas Dawidoff
Misheard Lyrics - Gavin Edwards

2/15/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-02-15-A CIVIL RIGHTS
Human Conflicts Class -
Michael Bennett & Harold Lee
Civil Rights Movement - Taylor Branch
Paradise - Toni Morrison
Discrimination Lawsuit - Steve Watkins
Hour 2 98-02-15-B SCIENCE OF SMALL THINGS
Micro-Air Vehicles - Ribert Michelson
Cockroaches & Robots - Fred Delcomyn
Movie Monsters - Michael LeBarbera
Size & Evolution - David Jablonski
History of the Transistor - Michael Riordan
Hour 3 98-02-15-C MEN, WOMEN & INTIMACY
Should You Leave? - Peter Kramer
Men, Women & Divorce -
Benjamin Cheever & Daphne Merkin
Romantic Love is Doomed - Doris Lessing
Women & Men - Richard Ford

2/22/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-02-22-A RUSSIA
Decline of the Russian Military - Anatol Lieven
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - D.M. Thomas
Urban Revival - Svetlana Boym
Family Roots in Russia - Serge Schmemann
Hour 2 98-02-22-B SPACE
TransHab - Horacio de la Fuente
Space & Imagination - Howard McCurdy
The Lunar Embassy - Dennis Hope
Growing Up Near Space - Jesse Lee Kurcheval
Hour 3 98-02-22-C RELIGION & PSYCHOLOGY
Jung Was a Fraud - Richard Noll
Defending Jung - Thomas Moore
Spirituality & Therapy - James Jones
William James - Linda Simon

Febuary 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

March 1998
3/1 3/8 3/15 3/22 3/29
March 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
3/01/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-03-01-A PRIVACY IN PERIL
Invasion of Privacy - Beth Givens
Public Surveillance - Richard Chase
A Housecleaner's Adventures - Louise Rafkin
Protecting the Private Life - Janna Malamud Smith
Hour 2 97-03-23-B THE SCIENCE OF SEX
Evolution of Sex - Jared Diamond
Prehistory of Sex - Timothy Taylor
Female Sexuality - Bram Dojkstra
Natural History of Parenting - Susan Allport
Hour 3 97-02-23-C CHILD'S PLAY
Kinderculture - Shirley Steinberg & Joe Kincheloe
How to Play With Your Child - Lawrence Cohen
Mother Goose - Iona Opie
Bear Games - Robert Fagan

3/08/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-03-08-A CORPORATE VALUES
Bringing Soul to Work - Lance Secretan
Peter Drucker - Jack Beatty
Limiting Corporations - Richard Grossman
Birth Order at Work - Frank Sulloway
Hour 2 98-03-08-B ALZHEIMER'S AND AGING
Ethics of Genetic Testing - Henry Greely
Alzheimer's Poem - Kelly Cherry
New Alzheimer's Research - Steve DeKosky
Aging & Memory - John Daniel
Joy of Aging - Rebecca Latimer
Hour 3 98-03-08-C GREAT WRITERS & BESTSELLERS
Truman Capote's Celebrity - George Plimpton
Victor Hugo - Graham Robb
Bestselling Authors - Richard Joseph
Book-of-the-Month Club - Janice Radway

3/15/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-03-15-A ETHNIC WAR
Moral Intervention - Michael Ignatieff
Kurdish Photographs - Susan Meiselas
Islamic Pluralism - Jamal Badawi
Civil War and Baseball - Thomas Dyja
Hour 2 96-04-07-B ANIMAL MORALITY
Naturally Evil - Lyall Watson
Naturally Good - Frans de Waal
Animals Made Us Human - Paul Shepard
Creepy Creatures - Natalie Angier
Hour 3 98-03-15-C ANXIETY & DEPRESSION
Chronic Worry - Edward Hallowell
One Man's Depression - Joel Smith
Crisis Hotline - Diane Ackerman
Suicide Novel - Martin Amis

3/22/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-03-22-A POLITICS AND CHARACTER
Public Character - Jay Rosen
Clinton Scandal - David Frum
Young Lincoln - Douglas L. Wilson
American PresidentsGore Vidal
Hour 2 98-03-22-B MAPPING THE LAND
Cosmic Cartography - Margaret Geller
Mapping Revolution - John Radke
Native American Maps - Mark Warhus
Mapping Cyberspace - Paul Starrs
Hour 3 97-04-13-C LIBRARIES
Silence is Golden! - Sallie Tisdale
Library Memories - Frank McCourt
Used and Rare - Lawrency & Nancy Goldstone
A Gentle Madness - Nicholas Basbanes

3/29/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-02-09-A Teaching Virtue
Moral Intelligence - Robert Coles
A Liberal's Moral Guide - Colin Greer
Moral Quagmires - Tobias Wolff
The Politics of Shame - Stuart Schneiderman
Hour 2 98-03-29-B Electronic Communities
Interactive Communities - David Brock
Wiring the Arctic - Sheldon Teitelbaum
How Television Saved Russia - Ellen Mickiewicz
Radio Orca - John Ford
Emotion and Radio - Scott Simon
Hour 3 98-03-29-C Poetry and Everyday Life
Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath - Susan Van Dyne
Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath - Blake Morrison
Trends in American Poetry - David Lehman
Poetry Giveaway - Andrew Carroll
Poetry & Corporations - David Whyte

March 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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