"cocktail-party science", Th. 5/20, Down Out in Paris London
David L Benders
Thur.
TOTN
The book club of the Air--
George Orwell, _Down and Out in Paris and London_
"cocktail-party science"
ATC
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Juvenile Justice...a self-examination
FA
"The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions"
Friday
6pm Living on Earth -
Bio-engineered food
7pm
"THIS AMER LIFE" / Advice
DB the PD saz:
There's always something good on 'BFO !
Didja know: Ira Glass will come to Buffalo Monday, Oct. 25th.'99.
TAL -- not-to-be-missed Sarah Vowell 'n' Dan Savage
SATURDAY
7am
"ONLY A GAME"
NHL/HOCKEY'S NEXT TO LAST PLAY-OFF ROUND
Monday
MAY 24, 1999
All Things Considered
14 million children living below the poverty line
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Thurs.
MAY 20
2pm
Talk of the Nation
BOOK-CLUB-OF-THE-AIR
DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON
by George Orwell
George Orwell's first published book, _Down and Out in Paris and London_ is
a heavily autobiographical novel.
Orwell's narrator, feeling guilty about the
plight of the underclass, decides to live among them. The novel is filled with
episodes of dark humor and social realism, as the protagonist works as a
dishwasher in Parisian restaurants and lives as a tramp in London.
Join Ray Suarez to discuss _Down and Out in Paris and London_, a book that
showcases George Orwell's talents as a novelist and a journalist, on Talk of
the Nation's Book Club of the Air, from NPR News.
++++++++++++++++++++++++
3pm
MEMES
GUESTS: SUSAN BLACKMORE
*Author, "The Meme Machine" (Oxford University Press, 1999)
*Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the West
of England, Bristol, England
ROBERT WRIGHT
*Author, "The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and
Everyday Life" (Vintage, l995)
RICHARD DAWKINS
*Author, "The Selfish Gene" (Oxford University Press, 1976)
*Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford
University
*Author, "Unweaving the Rainbow" (Houghton-Mifflin, 1998)
A meme is a idea or behavior one person can pass on to another.
Some scientists claim that memes act like genes, with the fittest surviving and
interacting to produce the peculiarities of human behavior.
Can memetics help us understand complex aspects of human nature and culture, or
is it, as some have complained, "cocktail-party science"?
Join Ray Suarez and guests for a look at the controversy over memes...on the
next Talk of the Nation, from NPR News.
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Th.
4-7pm
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
The juvenile justice system in Jefferson County, Colorado ...
worked with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold for nearly a
year before they commited murder.
Juvenile Justice ... a self-examination ... and the day's news ...
later today on N-P-R's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
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Thur.
7pm
FRESH AIR
RUNDOWN FOR
THURSDAY,
MAY 20, 1999
HOST: TERRY GROSS
INTERVIEW ONE SEGMENT**
Journalist and author MARTIN DILLON:
Journalist and author MARTIN DILLON is considered an expert
on the conflict in Northern Ireland.
His three books:
*"God and the Gun,"
*"The Shankill Butchers," and
* "The Dirty War"
all bestsellers in his native Ireland have just been
published for the first time in the U.S.
MARTIN DILLON has worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland for 18 years. He has
also produced news segments for CNN, ABC, CBC, and NPR. He currently lives in
New York City.
INTERVIEW SEGMENT**
"The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions"
"Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time"
"Jesus and the Victory of God"
MARCUS J. BORG and N.T. WRIGHT are co-authors of the new book
"The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions."
The two scholars offer dramatically different views on Jesus and his teachings.
MARCUS. J. BORG provides liberal interpretation of Jesus.
He is the author of "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time."
N.T. WRIGHT takes a more traditional view of Jesus.
He is author of Jesus and the Victory of God."
REVIEW SEGMENT**
Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new novel,
"Another World," by British author Pat Barker.
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Friday,
May 21, 1999
6pm
Living on Earth -
Bio-engineered food
A look at the revolt against genetically-engineered foods
that's sweeping Western Europe.
Eight major European grocery chains have banned what they call Frankenstein
foods, andd widespread public opposition has caught the biotechnology industry
by surprise.
Host Steve Curwood.
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Friday
5/21
7p
*(Sat. 5 P.M.)*
"THIS AMER LIFE" RUNDOWN
Host:Ira Glass
This week: Advice
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
A program taped before live audiences in Seattle (thanks to public radio
station KUOW) and at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.
A taxonomy of different kinds of advice - and stories which illustrate why
advice is so rarely taken.
Prologue.
When Adam and Jamie were kids, Jamie would always ask
for Adam's advice, but he didnUt want to hear what Adam would say
himself. Instead, he wanted Adam to pretend to be an Israeli
commando he once knew, named Yakov. Yakov seemed to know things
that Adam didn't. But still Jamie wouldn't take the advice.
Which raises the question:
what would it take?
When we give advice, we witness the the puniness of reason, when compared with
the vastness of human inertia and emotion. (6 minutes)
Act One.
Sleepless in Seattle.
What if you asked people for
advice and actually took ALL the advice that everyone gave you?
As an experiment, writer Sarah Vowell tried exactly that, when she
recently solicited advice from many different people about
insomnia. (15 minutes)
Act Two.
Advise and Consent.
Host Ira Glass talks with his mom - a clinical psychologist - about why people
seem to rarely take the advice others give.
Then Advice Columnist Dan Savage, author
of the syndicated column (and book) "Savage Love" gives the
audience some advice that hopefully might save lives. (24 minutes)
Music from Black Cat Orchestra, recorded live in Seattle
Act Three.
Guided Meditation.
Forget all the self-help seminars
you've ever heard of or attended.
Writer Cheryl Trykv leads the audience in Seattle in a guided meditation, to
end our program with epiphany, epiphany, epiphany. (9 minutes)
Music from Black Cat Orchestra, recorded live in Seattle
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SATURDAY,
MAY 22, 1999
7am
"ONLY A GAME"
With BILL LITTLEFIELD.
*EX-BOSTON CELTIC BILL RUSSELL, THE BEST TEAM PLAYER ON PERHAPS THE GREATEST
TEAM EVER.
*THE NHL'S FAB FOUR SOON TO SLASH AND GRIND INTO HOCKEY'S NEXT TO LAST PLAY-OFF
ROUND
*SALT LAKE CITY'S AS YET UNNAMED OLYMPIC MASCOT TRIO.
HOW ABOUT GREEDY, SLIMY AND GIMME?
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MONDAY
MAY 24, 1999
All Things Considered
4-7pm
Special piece for ATC MONDAY, MAY 24:
14 million children living below the poverty line
The United States is the richest society in history...
Yet even after eight years of uninterrupted economic growth, one in five
American children is growing up poor.
The U.S. child poverty rate reached a low of 11 percent in 1973. It has risen
gradually ever since.
Child poverty is more prevalent in the U.S. than in any other developed nation
in the world.
John Biewen of American Radio Works traveled to eastern Kentucky and profiles
two families struggling to make ends meet. The economy in this region produces
few if any jobs. We'll meet some of the 14 million children living below the
poverty line---how they see their lives and their future.
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