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October 6, 1996 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Peace and the Tunnel
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Deserts
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Baseball
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Peace and the Tunnel
SEGMENT 1:
Glenn Frankel won a Pulitzer Prize as Jerusalem bureau
chief for the Washington Post. He is the author of
"Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road
to a New Israel." He tells Steve Paulson that Benjamin
Netanyahu was elected not to stop the peace process but
to slow it down, which he has certainly done by insisting
on the opening of an entrance to an ancient tunnel in
Jerusalem.
SEGMENT 2:
Earl Sullivan teaches political science at the American
University in Cairo, Egypt. He talks with Judith
Strasser about the modest achievements of the Middle East
peace process and the prospects for its future. Also,
Karen Armstong tells Jim Fleming that arguments about
Jerusalem's holy sites go back thousands of years and
involve Christians and pagans as well as Jews and
Moslems.
SEGMENT 3:
French literary critic Helene Cixous talks with Judith
Strasser about growing up white and French in Algeria
during and after the Second World War. She experienced
there the same sort of sectarian/racial strife that
afflicts the Middle East. Cixous is the founder of the
Institute for Feminist Studies and teaches literature at
the experimental University of Paris VIII.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
10-06-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Deserts
SEGMENT 1:
Atlantic Monthly correspondent William Langewiesche talks
with Judith Strasser about his experiences in the Sahara.
He says people are the ultimate desert creatures and
debunks myths about desert sands and camels.
Langewiesche is the author of "Sahara Unveiled: A Journey
across the Desert."
SEGMENT 2:
Julia Blackburn talks with Steve Paulson about Daisy
Bates, an Irish immigrant to Australia who at the age of
forty moved into the Western Australian desert to
document the passing of the Aboriginal peoples. Blackburn
is the author of an "imaginative biography" called "Daisy
Bates in the Desert." Also, writer and journalist David
Darlington talks with Jim Fleming about the Mojave -- the
definitive American desert.
SEGMENT 3:
Writer, naturalist and political activist Terry Tempest
Williams talks with Steve Paulson about the Utah deserts
she calls home. Williams also reads two excerpts from
her book "Desert Quartet."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
10-06-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Baseball '96
SEGMENT 1
Historian G. Edward White tells Judith Strasser how
baseball became the national pastime and what's happened
to it lately. White is the author of "Creating the
National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself 1903-1953."
SEGMENT 2:
Buck O'Neill was an all-star player with the Kansas City
Monarchs of the Negro Leagues. He talks with Jim Fleming
about the exclusion of Black players from major league
baseball, and life in the Negro Leagues. O'Neill is
currently chairman of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
in Kansas City and the author of a memoir, "I Was Right
on Time." Also, Mark Winegardner tells Jim Fleming about
the baseball season of 1946 when the Mexican League
brought together some of the best players in the world
regardless of race or nationality. Winegardner uses this
extraordinary season as the backdrop for his novel
"Veracruz Blues."
SEGMENT 3:
When Stephen Jay Gould isn't curating Harvard's Museum of
Comparative Zoology, he's watching the Red Sox at Fenway
Park. Gould explains to Steve Paulson his theory on why
we don't have any more .400 hitters.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
10-06-C.
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