Today's talk
shows on
WMUB
Thursday, July 23, 1998.
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Diane Rehm: International Monetary Fund;
political columnist, George Will
Fresh Air: film director, Don Roos; and sculptor
George Segal Public Interest: Ordinary Men and
Women who shaped the Twentieth Century Talk of the
Nation: Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferre;
mentoring in the workplace All Things Considered:
World War II epic, "Saving Private Ryan."
The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
Guest host Steve Roberts (Diane will be on
vacation for the rest of the month.)
10-11: International Monetary Fund: The United
States Treasury has requested seventeen-point-nine
billion dollars for the International Monetary
Fund, but controversy on Capitol Hill has delayed
action. A panel talks about the IMF and its role
in managing economic crises around the world.
Guests: Bob Zoellick, president and
CEO-designate, Center for
Strategic & International Studies
Steven Radelet, Harvard Inst. for
International Development Fred Bergsten,
Inst. of International Economics
11-12: George Will: George Will is best known as a
political columnist and commentator, but his other
passion in life is baseball. He talks about
"Bunts," (Scribner), his new collection of essays
on America's pastime.
Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.
The director of the new film "The Opposite of
Sex"...DON ROOS... talks about pushing the edge of
conventional mores in this film that explores our
sex-obsessed culture...Also, hear from sculptor
GEORGE SEGAL...He's having his first major exhibit
in North America in 20 years.
Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.
MANY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN HISTORY WERE
NOT BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRESIDENTS AND PRIME
MINISTERS, BUT BY PEOPLE MOST OF US HAVE NEVER
HEARD OF. JOURNALIST GODFREY HODGSON TALKS WITH
HOST KATHY MERRITT ABOUT THE ORDINARY MEN AND
WOMEN WHO HELPED SHAPE THE EVENTS OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY WHILE REMAINING HISTORICALLY "NAMELESS" TO
THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Guest: 1. Godfrey Hodgson, has
worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines,
radio and television in Britain and the U.S.;
author of several books, including "People's
Century: The Ordinary Men and Women Who Made the
Twentieth Century"; director of the Reuter
Foundation Programme for Journalists at Oxford
University.
Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m.
Join Ray Suarez for the July Book Club of the
Air...The book this month is "The House on the
Lagoon" by Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferre
[feh-RAY]... It's the third installment in a
three-part series on Puerto Rican politics and
culture...And in the second hour...A look at the
role of mentoring in the workplace and whether it
helps employees achieve their career goals...
HOUR 1: Book Club of the Air//Puerto Rico - Part
Three HOUR 2: Mentoring
on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.
Later today on All Things Considered, the new
World War Two epic, "Saving Private Ryan." We'll
also remember the real-life Allied Invasion of
Europe...and the birth of a new kind of
journalism, as up-to-the-minute news became a
reality for people who'd never heard such a thing
before.
When radio was how the world followed the war...
that story, and the day's news, later, on NPR's
All Things Considered.
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