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04/04/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-04-04-A
(was 03-04-20-B)
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A GIRL'S LIFE
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Belfast Blues - Geraldine Hughes
Single Women in America - Betsy Israel
Classical Guitarist - Sharon Isbin

Hour 2

 

04-04-04-B
(03-04-27-A)

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FLOWER POWER
Perfumes - Chandler Burr
Flower Portraits - Joyce Tenneson
Springtime - Thomas Moore
Fresh Flowers - Barbara Fischer
Gardening Tricks - Sharon Lovejoy

04/11/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-04-11-A

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FILM FEST '04
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself - Lone Scherfig
Patriot's Day - Marian Marzynski
Jockey - Kate Davis
Political Ads - Mark Moskowitz

Hour 2

 

04-04-11-B
(was 03-05-04-B)

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EXTREME CUISINE
Raw Food Movement - Peggy Orenstein
Anthropology of Cooking - Richard Wrangham
Edible Art - Clare Crespo
Kosher Food - Joe Regenstein
Eels - Richard Schweid

04/18/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-04-18-A

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NATURE'S WONDERS
Ocean Sounds - Richard Ranft
Aldo Leopold - Nina, Carl & Estella Leopold
Thai Elephant Orchestra - Dave Soldier
Urban Nature Poetry - Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Raising Orphan Bear Cubs - Ben Kilham

Hour 2

 

04-04-18-B

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CREEPY CREATURES
Rats - Robert Sullivan
Deep Sea Monsters - Loren Coleman
Dragons - Margaret Weis
Zombies - Max Brooks
The Minotaur - Steven Sherrill

04/25/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-04-25-A

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THE GOOD EARTH
Birding Competition - Mark Obmascik
Birding Essay - Veronica Rueckert
Eating Cicadas - David George Gordon
Earthworms - Amy Stewart
Emily Dickinson's Garden - Judith Farr

Hour 2

 

04-04-25-B
(was 03-10-19-A)

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BASEBALL: THE DREAM VS. THE MONEY
Taking on the Yankees - Henry Fetter
Field of Dreams - Charles Monroe-Kane
Fastpitch: the real baseball - Jeremy Spear
Globalization of Baseball - Artur J. Marcana Guevara
Brooklyn Dodgers to L.A. - Michael Shapiro

05/02/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-05-02-A
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SOUTH AFRICA AND BEYOND
South African Music - Vusi Mahlasela
Afrikaans Writer - Etienne Van Heerdon
Back to Africa - Paul Theroux
Growing up Maasai - Joseph Lukuton

Hour 2

 

04-05-02-B
(was 03-05-18-A)

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BOYS TO MEN
Guys Read - Jon Scieskza
Boyhood without adults or girls - David Benjamin
"Little Brother" film - Steve James
Friendship in Adolescence - Rich CohenMiddlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

05/09/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-05-09-A
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MOTHER'S DAY
The Mommy Myth - Susan Douglas
Underground Parenting - Ayun Halliday
My Flesh & Blood - Jonathan Karsh
Women & Evolution - Leonard Shlain
Slacker Mom - Muffy Mead-Ferro

Hour 2

 

04-05-09-B
(was 03-07-06-A)

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CHINA TODAY
The New Chinese Empire - Ross Terrill
The Pipa - Wu Man
Chinese Literatrure Today
- Gao Xinjian ("Soul Mountain")

- Ha Jin ("Waiting")
- Annie Wang ("Lili")
The Chinese in America - Iris Chang
Words on the Night Breeze - Xinran Xue

05/16/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-05-16-A
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THE NEW THIRTYSOMETHINGS
Thirtieth Birthday Bashes - Vanessa Grigoriadis
Avenue Q - Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, John Tartaglia
Urban Tribes - Ethan Watters
Urban Commentary - Amanda Henry
Becoming a Buddhist Nun - Faith Adiele

Hour 2

 

04-05-16-B

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WRITER'S BLOCK
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Ideas to Jumpstart Your Imagination - Jason Rukulak
Hypergraphia - Alice Flaherty
Writer's Block - Garrison Keillor
Writer's Block & Movies - Molly Haskell
Aloft - Chang-Rae Lee

05/23/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-05-23-A
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EXPECTATIONS OF FREEDOM
Bayard Rustin -
John D'Emilio
Stokely Carmichael -
Michael Thelwell
Women of Gee's Bend -
Anne Strainchamps
Integration -
James Hood

End of Blackness - Debra Dickerson

Hour 2

 

04-05-23-B

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SCENE OF THE CRIME
Real Edinburgh - Ian Rankin
Restorative Justice - Howard Zehr
Hitchcock's Leading Men - Patrick McGilligan
Chicago & Serial Killer - Erik Larson
18th Century Justice - David Liss

05/30/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-05-30-A
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SCANDINAVIAN CHIC
Popular Music from Vittula - Mikael Niemi
IKEA - John Leland
Commentary on Christiana - Rick Steves
Norwegian Food - Andreas Viestad
Finnish Music - Varttina
Iceland off the Grid - Joseph Romm

Hour 2

 

04-05-30-B
(was 03-06-22-B)

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OCEANS
Oceans Demise - Daniel Pauly
Seaweed Cuisine - Jill Gusman
Dr. Hammerhead - Dr. Peter Klimley
Environmental Soundscapes - Jim Cummings
The Shell Collector - Anthony Doerr

06/06/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-06-06-A
(was 03-05-25-A)

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HIP HOP
Hip Hop Replaces Civil Rights - Todd Boyd
What Makes a "Dee Jay"?
- Veronica Rueckert
- Jason Connelly (DJ Puzzle)
- Stephen Webber
Tupac Shakur - Craig Werner
Godfather of Hip Hop - Russell Simmons

Hour 2

 

04-06-06-B
(was 03-03-30-B)

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BODY POLITICS
Fat Land - Greg Critser
Food & Loathing - Betsy Lerner
Living in the Body - poem by Joyce Sutphen
Your Body, Your Home - Andrea Olsen
Rudolf Nureyev - Colum McCann

06/13/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-06-13-A

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FAT OR FICTION
SuperSize Me! - Morgan Spurlock
But Not Me - Soso Whaley
The Obesity Myth - Paul Campos
Fat Girl's Guide - Wendy Shanker
World's Heaviest Athlete - Manny Yarborough

Hour 2

 

04-06-13-B

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SHADES OF COLOR
Color & Poetry - Molly Peacock
History of Pigments - Philip Ball
Dewey Color System - Doug Gordon
Shades of Black - Marita Golden
Brown - Richard Rodriguez

06/20/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-06-20-A

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TOUGH WOMEN
Women Stunt Doubles - Amanda Micheli
Midlife Crisis at 30 - Lia Macko
Swimming Antarctica - Lynne Cox
Women for Women International - Zainab Salbi

Hour 2

 

04-06-20-B
(was 03-08-03-B)

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TREES
Remarkable Trees -
Thomas Pakenham
Novel about Father in a Tree -
Judy Pascoe
Tree Storyteller -
Wayne Pauly
American Elm -
Thomas Campanella
Forest Sounds -
Nadine Svoboda

06/27/2004 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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04-06-27-A

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OUTSIDERS
Nelson Algren - Studs Terkel
Las Vegas - Marc Cooper
Gay Outsiders - Angie Blake
Dharma Punx - Noah Levine
Outsider Opera - Diamanda Galas

Hour 2

 

04-06-27-B
(was 03-06-15-A)

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SONGS
Country's Greatest Singles
-
David Cantwell & Bill Friskics-Warren
Dave Edmunds -
Doug Gordon
Song Reader -
Lisa Tucker
Stagolee -
Cecil Brown

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