Today's talk shows on WMUB (http://www.wmub.org/Today.html)

Tuesday, August 17, 1999

For questions about Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, or All Things
Considered, call NPR's Audience Services at (202) 414-3232. For tapes and
transcripts call toll-free 1-877-NPR-TEXT (1-877-677-8398).

Diane Rehm: Kosovo today: why many Americans don't vote
Fresh Air: singer-songwriter Richard Thompson; the Gothic sensibility
Public Interest: computer user groups
Talk of the Nation: the Reform Party; US-Cuba relations
All Things Considered: fugitive financier Martin Frankel

Friday on WMUB Forum: ask the General Manager


   The Diane Rehm Show, 10-12 noon (*2 full hours on WMUB)

Diane is taking some time off after a voice treatment and then some
vacation time.  She'll return to the air Monday, August 30. Guest host
Susan Page of USA Today

10-11: Kosovo Today: The NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia have ended, but life
in Kosovo is changed forever.  Two people who've just returned from
extended stays in Kosovo tell us what they've seen and talk about the UN's
role in overseeing rebuilding in the region.
                Guests: Fabrizio Hochschild, special asst. to the United
Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs; Scott Simon, host
of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday

11-12: Non-voters: Two Northwestern University professors share the results
of their new study on the reasons why so many Americans don't vote.
"Nonvoters: America's No-Shows" by Jack Doppelt and Ellen Shearer will be
published next month (Sage Publications).



   Fresh Air with Terry Gross, 12:06-1 p.m.

Singer/songwriter RICHARD THOMPSON. He's got a new CD.  Also --  the Gothic
sensibility. . . a talk with RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES, author of "Gothic:
Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin."

      For tapes and transcripts of Fresh Air, call Toll-Free 1-(877)-21-FRESH.


   Public Interest, 1-2 p.m.

Host: Kathy Merritt

COMPUTER USER GROUPS COULD BE THE ANSWER TO YOUR NEED TO LEARN ABOUT
COMPUTER BASICS, NEW TECHNOLOGY, SOFTWARE, AND THEY MIGHT SERVE YOUR SOCIAL
NEEDS AS WELL.  ON THIS EDITION OF TECHNOLOGY TUESDAY, GUEST HOST KATHY
MERRITT SPEAKS WITH MEMBERS OF USER GROUPS.

Guests: 1.  Rich Schinnell, founder, Capital PC User Group; 2.  Lorin
Evans, president, Washington Apple Pi


   Talk of the Nation, 2-4 p.m. (*live on WMUB)

Host: Ray Suarez

HOUR ONE:  THE REFORM PARTY: who are they, and what do they stand for?

HOUR TWO:  U.S. - CUBA RELATIONS



   All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.

Martin Frankel lived life large - he owned two mansions in Connecticut, and
surrounded himself with young women. But his biggest passion, authorities
say, was taking other people's money - perhaps 350 million dollars. He's
been on the lam for the past three months.



   WMUB Forum, 9-10 a.m., repeated 7-8 p.m.

News Director Darrel Gray with an hour of conversations with guests, and
listener e-mail comments and questions
(http://www.wmub.org/forumcomment.html)

Friday, August 20: Ask the General Manager

WMUB General Manager Cleve Callison will take calls and comments about WMUB.

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General Manager, WMUB Public Radio
Williams Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH
513-529-5958, 513-529-6048 FAX
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