Today's talk shows on WMUB (http://www.wmub.org/Today.html)
Tuesday, August 10, 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: tracing crime guns; baseball '99
Fresh Air: coping with stress in rural and urban life ("The Group")
Public Interest: computer-humor writer Gary Rivlin ("The Plot to Get Bill
Gates")
Talk of the Nation: China spying revisited (postponed from yesterday);
planning "perfect" communities
All Things Considered: orphanages in Russia
Friday on WMUB Forum: prayer in schools
The Diane Rehm Show, 10-12 noon (*2 full hours on WMUB)
Diane is taking some time off after a voice treatment and them some
vacation time. She'll return to the air Monday, August 30.
Guest host Steve Roberts
10-11: Tracing "Crime Guns": The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
has always conducted traces on firearms to gather information about how
legally bought guns wind up in the hands of people who commit crimes. A
panel talks about the ATF's firearms tracing efforts and how they're
affecting gun dealers, gun owners, and law enforcement.
Guests: Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence
Prevention Research Program at the University of California-Davis; Wally
Nelson, deputy assistant director for Firearms, Explosives, and Arson at
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; Sandy Abrams, vice president
of the Maryland Licensed Firearms Dealers Association, and member, National
Rifle Association board of directors
11-12: Baseball '99: The All-Star game is behind, records are being broken
left and right, and America's pastime is just as great as ever. Guest host
and baseball fan Steve Roberts leads a discussion of the hottest players,
teams and topics of the 1999 baseball season.
Guests: Mel Antonen, baseball columnist for USA Today; Pattie Ames,
lifelong fan and only female participant in the 1999 Pittsburgh Pirates
Fantasy Camp
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, 12:06-1 p.m.
Coping with the stresses of rural and urban life. First, a talk with
farmer and psychologist Michael Rosmann, who often counsels farmers in
their fields, to help them cope with the struggle to keep their farms
going. Then, group therapy for six New Yorkers. Journalist Paul
Solotaroff tells us about his new book "Group."
For tapes and transcripts of Fresh Air, call Toll-Free 1-(877)-21-FRESH.
Public Interest, 1-2 p.m.
Host: Kathy Merritt
AS THECOMPUTER INDUSTRY BECOMES MORE AND MORE POWERFUL, MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN
BILL GATES EVOLVES FROM A MERE SOFTWARE MOGUL TO A FULL-BLOWN CULTURAL
ICON. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY RIVLIN JOINS GUEST HOST KATHY MERRITT
TO DISCUSS HIS NEW BOOK WHICH TAKES A HUMOROUS LOOK AT THE PEOPLE AND
PERSONALITIES WHO RULE IN CYBER-SPACE.
Guests:"The Plot to Get Bill Gates"; Gary Rivlin, author
Talk of the Nation, 2-4 p.m. (*live on WMUB)
Guest host: Melinda Penkava
HOUR ONE: CHINA SPYING REVISITED: the controversy over what went wrong
with investigations into spying at the Los Alamos National Laboratories
(postponed from yesterday)
HOUR TWO: PLANNED UTOPIA: a look at the planned-town of Celebration,
Florida and the difficulties in setting up a perfect community
All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.
A Commune for Kids: In Russia, child advocates have long deplored the
condition of the country's orphanages. We pay a visit to foster parents
with a different sort of arrangement -- a large working farm for many
foster families.
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 13: Prayer in schools
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