 |
|
|
|
Some mobile devices like iPhone and iPad cannot handle direct streaming of our archives.
Please visit WPR's mobile website and download our Mobile Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
|
 |
Most MP3 Players |
 |
Windows Media Player |
 |
Download Program |
|
 |
|---|
|
|
|
PREV
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
NEXT
|
Friday
6/11/2010
10:00 PM
100611E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Food seems to be on everyone’s minds these days, from farming to food magazines... food TV to celebrity chefs. But how did we arrive at this modern obsession? After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest examine thirty key moments in American eating history, and how they ushered in the modern food scene.
Guest: Andrew Smith, author, "Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine" www.andrewfsmith.com (REBROADCAST from 1/15/2010)
|
|
Friday
6/4/2010
9:00 AM
100604D
|
Veronica Rueckert
Could viruses be a cause for cancer? That’s what evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald thinks. After ten, Veronica Rueckert's guest discusses his revolutionary views of disease.
Guest: Paul Ewald, Director, Evolutionary Medicine program, University of Louisville, Kentucky. Author, "Evolution of Infectious Disease" and "Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease".
|
|
Friday
6/4/2010
10:00 AM
100604E
|
Veronica Rueckert
These days, it seems more and more people are raising chickens, keeping bees, growing vegetables, and sewing their own clothes. After ten, Veronica Rueckert’s guest talks about how do-it-yourself activities are essential to creating a richer, more meaningful life.
Guest: Mark Frauenfelder, Author, "Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World" Editor-in-chief, Make magazine. Co-founder, the tech/culture blog BoingBoing.
|
|
Friday
6/4/2010
10:00 PM
100604E
|
Veronica Rueckert
These days, it seems more and more people are raising chickens, keeping bees, growing vegetables, and sewing their own clothes. After ten, Veronica Rueckert’s guest talks about how do-it-yourself activities are essential to creating a richer, more meaningful life.
Guest: Mark Frauenfelder, Author, "Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World" Editor-in-chief, Make magazine. Co-founder, the tech/culture blog BoingBoing.
|
|
Friday
5/28/2010
9:00 AM
100528D
|
Veronica Rueckert
Many scientists are convinced the universe is teeming with life. But after fifty years of searching, we haven’t found anything yet. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest talk about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Guest: Paul Davies, Physicist, Cosmologist, and Astrobiologist, Arizona State University. Chair, SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup. Author, The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence.
|
|
Friday
5/28/2010
10:00 AM
100528E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Author Janet Burroway believes writing is "an enchanted and subversive activity that exempts you from life's rules". After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest talk about what she calls the "audacity of writing".
Guest: Janet Burroway, Professor Emerita, Florida State University. Author and writing teacher. Author, "Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft".
|
|
Friday
5/28/2010
10:00 PM
100528E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Author Janet Burroway believes writing is "an enchanted and subversive activity that exempts you from life's rules". After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest talk about what she calls the "audacity of writing".
Guest: Janet Burroway, Professor Emerita, Florida State University. Author and writing teacher. Author, "Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft".
|
|
Friday
5/21/2010
9:00 AM
100521D
|
Veronica Rueckert
What ever happened to "embarrassment?" After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore the differences between the universal emotions of embarrassment and shame... and the apparent shift in today's culture.
Guest: Christine Rosen, Senior Editor, “The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society.” Her article, “The Death of Embarrassment” (May issue, In Character).
|
|
Friday
5/21/2010
10:00 AM
100521E
|
Veronica Rueckert
She writes about subjects not often talked about in polite company... alcoholism, religion, and the troubles of motherhood. After ten, Veronica Rueckert talks with author Anne Lamott about her life, and her honesty in writing.
Guest: Anne Lamott, author including, "Operating Instructions," "Plan B," "Traveling Mercies".
|
|
Friday
5/21/2010
10:00 PM
100521E
|
Veronica Rueckert
She writes about subjects not often talked about in polite company... alcoholism, religion, and the troubles of motherhood. After ten, Veronica Rueckert talks with author Anne Lamott about her life, and her honesty in writing.
Guest: Anne Lamott, author including, "Operating Instructions," "Plan B," "Traveling Mercies".
|
|
Friday
5/14/2010
9:00 AM
100514D
|
Veronica Rueckert
Our daily lives seem like a random series of events... emailing, eating, driving to work. But what if our lives are not haphazard at all, but actually follow a pattern? After nine, Veronica Rueckert’s guest describes how everything we do happens in a series of predictable bursts.
Guest: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Director, Center for Network Science, Northeastern University. Author, "Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do."
|
|
Friday
5/14/2010
10:00 AM
100514E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Eat them, wear them, write with them. Insects enrich our lives in countless, often unseen, ways. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore the surprising ways humans use and interact with insects.
Guest: Gilbert Waldbauer, author of "Fireflies, Honey, and Silk", is emeritus professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois. He’s the author of many books on insects, including "Insights from Insects, What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us", "The Handy Bug Answer Book", and "A Walk Around the Pond: Insects in and Over the Water".
|
|
Friday
5/14/2010
10:00 PM
100514E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Eat them, wear them, write with them. Insects enrich our lives in countless, often unseen, ways. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore the surprising ways humans use and interact with insects.
Guest: Gilbert Waldbauer, author of "Fireflies, Honey, and Silk", is emeritus professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois. He’s the author of many books on insects, including "Insights from Insects, What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us", "The Handy Bug Answer Book", and "A Walk Around the Pond: Insects in and Over the Water".
|
|
Friday
5/7/2010
9:00 AM
100507D
|
Veronica Rueckert
Schools across the nation are teaching students how to create a greener, more sustainable society. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guests discuss the growing Green school movement.
Guests:
- Michael Stone, Senior Editor, Center for Ecoliteracy. Author, Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability.
- Mary Ellen Gabriel, Freelance Writer. Author, “Environment Education Push Gains Traction” in the Capital Times.
|
|
Friday
5/7/2010
10:00 AM
100507E
|
Veronica Rueckert
He's written more than sixty books... from thick legal tomes... to children’s books. But he’s best known for the "No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency" series. After ten, Veronica Rueckert talks with author Alexander McCall Smith about his prolific writing life.
Guest: Alexander McCall Smith, Author, "The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency" series.
|
|
Friday
5/7/2010
10:00 PM
100507E
|
Veronica Rueckert
He's written more than sixty books... from thick legal tomes... to children’s books. But he’s best known for the "No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency" series. After ten, Veronica Rueckert talks with author Alexander McCall Smith about his prolific writing life.
Guest: Alexander McCall Smith, Author, "The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency" series.
|
|
Friday
4/30/2010
9:00 AM
100430D
|
Veronica Rueckert
Veronica Rueckert's guest, after nine, blogs about language for The New York Times. It's described as "a repository of unconsidered lexicographical trifles... some serious, others frivolous, some neologized, others newly newsworthy."
Guest: Ben Schott, Blogger, "Schott's Vocab: A Miscellany of Modern Words and Phrases" http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/ .
|
|
Friday
4/30/2010
10:00 AM
100430E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Forty million Americans suffer from some form of clinical anxiety. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore what it is about our culture that’s making us all so anxious.
Guest: Patricia Pearson, author of "A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine)", is an award-winning author. She has won two National Magazine Awards, a National Author’s Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime Book for "When She Was Bad." She’s written two novels as well as a collection of essays.
|
|
Friday
4/30/2010
10:00 PM
100430E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Forty million Americans suffer from some form of clinical anxiety. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore what it is about our culture that’s making us all so anxious.
Guest: Patricia Pearson, author of "A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine)", is an award-winning author. She has won two National Magazine Awards, a National Author’s Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime Book for "When She Was Bad." She’s written two novels as well as a collection of essays.
|
|
Friday
4/23/2010
9:00 AM
100423D
|
Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
The Sabbath is not just a religious day. It’s also an idea about taking a break from the rush of modern life. After nine, Anne Strainchamps and her guest explore the history and meaning of the Sabbath day.
Guest: Judith Shulevitz, author of "The Sabbath World," is a literary critic and a former columnist for The New York Times and Slate. Her work has also appeared in The New Republic and The New Yorker.
|
|
Friday
4/23/2010
10:00 AM
100423E
|
Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
A gaping hole between his convictions and his daily life led Kurt Hoelting to a radical experiment in local living. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest discuss how everything we need is close to home.
Guest: Kurt Hoelting, author of "The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life." He is a commercial fisherman, wilderness guide, and meditation teacher; as well as founder of the sea-kayaking outfitter Inside Passages.
|
|
Friday
4/23/2010
10:00 PM
100423E
|
Anne Strainchamps in for Veronica Rueckert
A gaping hole between his convictions and his daily life led Kurt Hoelting to a radical experiment in local living. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest discuss how everything we need is close to home.
Guest: Kurt Hoelting, author of "The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life." He is a commercial fisherman, wilderness guide, and meditation teacher; as well as founder of the sea-kayaking outfitter Inside Passages.
|
|
Friday
4/16/2010
9:00 AM
100416D
|
Veronica Rueckert
We can’t always be happy, but we can be focused. After nine, Veronica Rueckert's guest argues that a focused life is a happy and fulfilled one.
Guest: Winifred Gallagher, Author, "Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life."
|
|
Friday
4/16/2010
10:00 AM
100416E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Spring has sort-of sprung, which means the return of outdoor farmers markets across Wisconsin. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss tips regarding how to shop for, then cook your market products.
Guest: Tory Miller, Chef at L'Etoile Restaurant in Madison
|
|
Friday
4/16/2010
10:00 PM
100416E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Spring has sort-of sprung, which means the return of outdoor farmers markets across Wisconsin. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss tips regarding how to shop for, then cook your market products.
Guest: Tory Miller, Chef at L'Etoile Restaurant in Madison
|
|
Friday
4/9/2010
9:00 AM
100409D
|
Veronica Rueckert
Pollution doesn't come just from smokestacks and contaminated waterways - it's also in our homes, shampoos, toothbrushes, and the toys we give our kids. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guests talk about the hidden dangers of everyday items.
Guests:
-Rick Smith, co-author of "Slow Death by Rubber Duck"; he is a prominent Canadian author and environmentalist, as well as Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada.
-Bruce Lourie, co-author of "Slow Death by Rubber Duck", he is an expert on toxic pollution and mercury, as well as President of the Ivey Foundation.
|
|
Friday
4/9/2010
10:00 AM
100409E
|
Veronica Rueckert
The Wisconsin Film Festival brings a broad range of films to Madison for five days of independent films, restorations, revivals, and locally-made pictures from Wisconsin filmmakers. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest highlight the festival and its films.
Guest:
Meg Hamel, director of the Wisconsin Film Festival
|
|
Friday
4/9/2010
10:00 PM
100409E
|
Veronica Rueckert
The Wisconsin Film Festival brings a broad range of films to Madison for five days of independent films, restorations, revivals, and locally-made pictures from Wisconsin filmmakers. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest highlight the festival and its films.
Guest:
Meg Hamel, director of the Wisconsin Film Festival
|
|
Friday
4/2/2010
9:00 AM
100402D
|
Veronica Rueckert
Depression afflicts millions every year. But what if all that suffering had a purpose? After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore the evolutionary function of depression.
Guest: Jonah Lehrer, Contributing Editor, Wired. Author, “Depression’s Upside” (February 28th New York Times Magazine). Author, "How We Decide," and "Proust was a Neuroscientist".
|
|
Friday
4/2/2010
10:00 AM
100402E
|
Veronica Rueckert
School lunch... immortalized as glop thrown on a plate by lunch ladies... is under attack from parents and educators. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guests discuss the growing School Lunch movement... and ways to improve the health of our kids.
Guests:
- Mrs Q, is a teacher in Illinois. She blogs anonymously at Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project about her year eating school food with her kids. fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com.
- Susan Rubin, Nutritionist and the Founder of Better School Food. www.betterschoolfood.org
|
|
Friday
4/2/2010
10:00 PM
100402E
|
Veronica Rueckert
School lunch... immortalized as glop thrown on a plate by lunch ladies... is under attack from parents and educators. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guests discuss the growing School Lunch movement... and ways to improve the health of our kids.
Guests:
- Mrs Q, is a teacher in Illinois. She blogs anonymously at Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project about her year eating school food with her kids. fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com.
- Susan Rubin, Nutritionist and the Founder of Better School Food. www.betterschoolfood.org
|
|
Friday
3/26/2010
9:00 AM
100326D
|
Veronica Rueckert
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is filled with instructions on how to care for the Earth. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest examine how the Bible can provide the answers to some of the biggest environmental problems facing us today.
Guest: Matthew Sleeth, General editor, "The Green Bible." Former emergency room physician. Author, "The Gospel According to Earth: Why the Good Book is a Green Book" & "Serve God, Save the Planet".
|
|
Friday
3/26/2010
10:00 AM
100326E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Could you eat on a-dollar-a-day? Facing rising debts, two teachers decided to drastically reduce their grocery bill. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore eating in America on a dollar or less a day.
Guest: Christopher Greenslate, Social Justice Teacher, La Costa Canyon High School, San Diego.
onedollardietproject.wordpress.com Co-author, "On a Dollar a Day: One Couple’s Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America."
|
|
Friday
3/26/2010
10:00 PM
100326E
|
Veronica Rueckert
Could you eat on a-dollar-a-day? Facing rising debts, two teachers decided to drastically reduce their grocery bill. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore eating in America on a dollar or less a day.
Guest: Christopher Greenslate, Social Justice Teacher, La Costa Canyon High School, San Diego.
onedollardietproject.wordpress.com Co-author, "On a Dollar a Day: One Couple’s Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America."
|
|
Friday
3/19/2010
9:00 AM
100319D
|
Veronica Rueckert
For many local food advocates, Wal-Mart is one place they wouldn't be caught dead shopping. But Wal-Mart’s move to organic foods may change that. After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore the expanding horizon for fresh, sustainably-raised foods.
Guest: Corby Kummer, Senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly. Author, “The Great Grocery Store Smackdown” (March issue).
|
|
Friday
3/19/2010
10:00 AM
100319E
|
Veronica Rueckert
From monster trucks to six-pack abs, manliness isn’t what it used to be. Have we lost the skills and social graces of the classic gentlemen? After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest view "the gentlemanly arts" today... with some useful advice from the past.
Guest: Brett McKay, co-creator, The Art of Manliness website, and the book by the same name.
www.artofmanliness.com
|
|
Friday
3/19/2010
10:00 PM
100319E
|
Veronica Rueckert
From monster trucks to six-pack abs, manliness isn’t what it used to be. Have we lost the skills and social graces of the classic gentlemen? After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest view "the gentlemanly arts" today... with some useful advice from the past.
Guest: Brett McKay, co-creator, The Art of Manliness website, and the book by the same name.
www.artofmanliness.com
|
|
|
PREV
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
NEXT
|
