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October 2000
10/1 10/8 10/15 10/22 10/29
October 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

10/1/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-10-01-A HIGHBROW/LOWBROW/NOBROW
Nobrow Culture - John Seabrook
Culture Fuss - Doug Gordon
Liberace - Darden Asbury Pyron
Rise & Fall of Western Culture - Jacques Barzun
5-Minute Iliad - Greg Nagan
Hour 2 99-08-08-C NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES
Playing Indian - Philip Deloria
Chippewa Land - Wayne Johnson
Trickster Stories - Lewis Hyde
Native Storyteller - Joseph Bruchac

10/8/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-10-08-A CHILDREN LOST AND FOUND
Girl's Coming of Age - Mary Karr
Renaissance tips for Parents - Rudolph Bell
Children in the South Bronx - Jonathan Kozol
Children's Literature - Jack Zipes
Picture Book Author - Anthony Browne
Hour 2 00-10-08-B NATURE CALLS
Global Green Deal - Mark Hertsgaard
A Friend of the Earth - T.C. Boyle
Alien Species Invastion
- Mark Sagoff & Jason Van Driesche
Birds of N.A. - Kenn Kaufman (Debbie Bilder)
Great Auk - Errol Fuller

10/15/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-10-15-A THE WHITE MAN'S WEST
Arizona Orphan Abduction - Linda Gordon
Transcontinental Railroad - Stephen Ambrose
Why Indians Liked Bill Cody - James Welch
The Real Buffalo Bill - Joy Kasson
Montana Novel - Claire Davis
Hour 2 99-05-30-C PHILOSOPHY'S COMEBACK
Philosophy Cafes - Bernard Roy
Art of Living - Alexander Nehamas
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Philosophical Counselor - Lou Marinoff
Flying Philosopher - Sam Keen

10/22/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-10-22-A FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Green Revolution - Frances Moore Lappe
Gourmet Dining - Charlie Trotter
Theme Restaurants - Doug Gordon
French Dining - Harriet Welty Rochefort
Wine Guy - Andrew Jones
Hour 2 00-10-22-B INTO THE DEEP
Giant Squid - Clyde Roper
Coral Reef Devastation - Phil Dustan
Trilobytes - Richard Fortey
Ocean Sounds - Richard Ranft
Amazonian Pink Dolphins - Sy Montgomery

10/29/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-10-29-A THE EVIL HOUR
Vatican on Exorcism - John Allen
Burning Fairies - Angela Bourke
Scary Music - Michael Schelle
Horror on Broadway - Doug Gordon
Scary Books - David Almond
Hour 2 00-10-29-B RADIO: ON THE AIR AND ON THE NET
Future of Radio - Tod Maffin
History of Radio - Susan Douglas
Pirate Radio - Greg Ruggiero
Radio Humor -Mal Sharpe
October 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

November2000
11/5 11/12 11/19 11/26
November 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
11/5/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-11-05-A TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Life in Israel - David Horovitz
Play about Middle East - David Hare
Middle Eastern Food - Claudia Roden
Algerian War - Nancy Huston
Hour 2 00-11-05-B ROBO-SAPIENS & CYBORGS
High-Tech Toys - Mark Pesce
Toy Tension - Sherry Turkle
Robo Sapiens - Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio
Battlebots - Lisa & Mike Winter
Cyborgs - Kevin Warwick

11/12/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-11-12-A HIDDEN CULTURES, SECRET LIVES
Anthropologic Devastation? - Patrick Tierney
Early Man - Doris Lessing
Hidden Iran - Elaine Sciolino
Maria Callas
Skull & Bones - Ron Rosenbaum
Hour 2 00-11-12-B THE POWER OF WORDS
Conversation - Theodore Zeldin
Freedom Writers - Erin Gruwell, Sonia Pineda & Darius Garrett
Just Write! - Natalie Goldberg
Language of Politics - Anna Deveare Smith

11/19/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-11-19-A FOREVER JAPANESE
Being Japanese - Kazuo Ishiguro
Doing What Mom Did - Kyoko Mori
Hirohito - Herbert Bix
MacArthur in Japan - John Dower
Internment Camps - Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Hour 2 00-11-19-B COSMIC MATTERS
Search for Life - Michael Lemonick
Alien Broadcast - Doug Gordon
Stardust - John Gribbin
Private Space Exploration - Jim Benson
Science Fiction - Ursula Le Guin
Black Science Fiction -Sheree Thomas & Linda Addison

11/26/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-04-04-A SEARCHING FOR FAITH
Historical Jesus - Marcus Borg & Tom Wright
Spiritual Journey - Anne Lamott
Bible's Censored Stories - Jonathan Kirsch
Working on God - Winnifred Gallagher
Hour 2 99-10-17-A THE EIGHTIES
Hip Hop Culture - Nelson George
AIDS Plague - Larry Kramer
Ronald Reagan - Edmund Morris
An Eighties Quiz
Eighties Writer - Brett Easton Ellis

November 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

December2000
12/3 12/10 12/17 12/24
December 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
12/03/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-10-10-A MIND CONTROL
Music Therapy - Mitchell Gaynor
Melancholia - Jeffrey Smith
Brainwashing - Janja Lalich
Mesmerism - Alison Winter
Hour 2 99-10-03-B ANIMAL TALK
A Dog's Novel - Paul Auster
Legal Rights for Animals - Steven Wise
Bullfighting - Adrian Shubert
An Elephant's Novel - Barbara Gowdy
Monarch Butterflies - Robert Pyle

12/10/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-12-10-A RE-THINKING RACE
Racial Hybridity - Cornel West
Bob Marley - Gregory Stephens
Black Working Class - Debra Dickerson
Slave Triangle - Caryl Phillips
Racial Separatism - Scott Malcomson
Hour 2 00-12-10-B CODES AND EQUATIONS
Computer Security - Bruce Schneier
History of Codes - Simon Singh
E=mc2 - David Bodanis
Einstein in Love - Dennis Overbye

12/17/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-12-17-A ADVERTISING: HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
Under the Radar - Jonathan Bond
Father of the Funny Commercial - Stan Freberg
Culture Jamming - Kalle Lasn
Jingle Composer - Wally Williams
Hour 2 00-12-17-B MUSIC ON THE EDGE
Ambient Music - Mark Prendergast
Deep Listening - Pauline Oliveros
History of Muzak - Joseph Lanza
Famous Cellist - Lynn Harrell
Beethoven's Hair & Deafness - Russell Martin

12/24/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 00-12-24-A HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
Virtue of Prosperity - Dinesh D'Souza
Affluenza Project - Jennifer O'Neill
The Red Dress - Lynn Marie Helvey
Simplicity Movement - Camy Matthay
Simplicity Marketing - Peter Sealey
Clear Your Clutter - Karen Kingston
Hour 2 00-12-24-B MOVIE MAGIC & THE HOLLYWOOD BLUES
Making Movies - Ang Lee
Digital Actors - Michael Cohen
Rude Film-Goers - Doug Gordon
Women in Hollywood - Rachel Abramowitz
Chump Change - Steve Burrows

12/31/2000Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-11-14-B CALIFORNIA STORIES
Jim Clark & Silicon Valley - Michael Lewis
Aerospace Memoir - David Beers
Lost California - Gray Brechin & Robert Dawson
Celebrating the Gold Rush - J.S. Holliday
Racism & the Gold Rush - Isabel Allende
Hour 2 99-10-31-B LETTERS
Preserving Letters - Andrew Carroll
Friends Writing - Kate Montgomery & Hilary Lifton
E-Mail - Robert Thompson
Letters & Literature - Isabel Allende
Letters from Alger Hiss - Tony Hiss
December 2000 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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