Today's talk shows on WMUB (http://www.wmub.org/Today.html)
Thursday, August 24, 2000
Diane Rehm: Olympic preview; the great Hartford circus fire of 1944
Fresh Air: policing in New York vs. small-town Cape Cod
Public Interest: little-known South Pacific nations
Talk of the Nation: Clinton in Nigeria; Judge Judy
All Things Considered: patrolling Mexico's borders
tomorrow on WMUB Forum: tba
Monday on Interconnect: acupuncture
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Things Considered, call NPR's Audience Services at (202) 414-3232.
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The Diane Rehm Show, 10-12 noon (*2 full hours live on WMUB)
Diane is on vacation until after Labor Day. Guest host Melinda Penkava of NPR
10-11: Olympic Preview: A panel talks about the 2000 Summer Olympics:
what to expect from network coverage, which returning athletes and
promising newcomers to watch, how the Sydney, Australia setting will
affect the flavor of the proceedings, what new sports will be
featured in the games, and more.
Guests: Janice Lloyd, USA Today; Lisa Lax, NBC Olympics;
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, author of "Inside The Olympic Industry"
(State University of New York Press)
11-12: Stewart O'Nan: In 1944, a cataclysmic fire broke out in a
circus tent in Hartford, Connecticut, leaving 167 dead. Stewart
O'Nan's new book "The Circus Fire" (Doubleday) tells the story of the
tragedy and how it affected the city of Hartford and the thousands of
people who were in the audience that day.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, 12:06-1 p.m.
After 20 years as a cop in New York City, Richard Rosenthal became
Chief of Police for Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a small town on Cape
Cod. Comparing policing in a big city and small town.
Public Interest
Host: Kojo Nnamdi
FOR MANY PEOPLE, TALK OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC CONJURES UP VISIONS OF
PARADISE. BUT VIOLENCE BASED ON ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS, AND CULTURAL
CONFLICTS HAVE BEEN FLARING UP FOR YEARS. AS PART OF OUR "HOT SPOTS"
SERIES, EXPERTS JOIN KOJO FOR A LOOK AT THE ISLAND NATIONS OF THIS
SELDOM-EXAMINED CORNER OF OUR WORLD.
Guests: 1. James Clad, Professor, Southeast Asian Studies,
Georgetown University; 2. (Via ISDN from Ithaca, NY) Octovianus Mote
(OCT-toe-VEE-on-us MOE-tay), Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asian
Studies, Cornell University
Talk of the Nation, 2-4 p.m.
Host: Juan Williams
HR 1: CLINTON IN NIGERIA: President Clinton's trip to Nigeria, and
efforts to strengthen U.S. relations with the newly democratic state
HR 2: JUDGE JUDY: a conversation with the host of the daily law show
All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.
Patrolling Mexico's borders: the US Border Patrol has been adding
agents and equipment. On All Things Considered today, a visit to the
Mexican border, where critics say for all the effort, the crackdown
by the Patrol isn't keeping illegal aliens out.
WMUB Forum, 9-10 a.m., repeated 7-8 p.m., Fridays
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 25, 2000: TBA
Interconnect, 9-10 a.m., repeated 7-8 p.m., Mondays
John Hingsbergen and Cheri Lawson host a lively hour of discussion on
spirituality, self-care, alternative health care and lifestyle issues
(http://www.wmub.org/interconnect.html).
Monday, August 28, 2000: Acupuncture
Guest: Liza Allen, M.D.
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