Today's talk
shows on
WMUB
Wednesday, July 1, 1998.
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Diane Rehm: New Museums; Cardinal Bernardin Fresh
Air: Actress Wendy Malick; Writer Lisa Michaels
Public Interest: William Wright, author on DNA
research Talk of the Nation: Billy Bragg;
Law/Behavior/Society All Things Considered: Civil
War widows
There is an interesting interview by Lori
Leibovich with Fresh Air's Terry Gross in the
current on-line issue of Salon. (Note that there
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The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
DIANE IS BACK: Diane Rehm's voice problems have
improved and she is now hosting her show again.
Thanks to all who expressed their concern. 10-11:
New Museums: A discussion on museums in the
Nineties. Diane and her guests will talk about
design, education, entertainment, and the cultural
trends that are changing the experiences of
visitors and making a museum visit more than a
tour of dusty artifacts in glass cases.
Guests: Victoria Newhouse, author, "Towards a
New Museum"
(Monocelli Press)
Kathy Southern, president of Port
Discovery, Baltimore, MD Rick West,
director, National Museum of the
American Indian John Walsh, director,
J.P. Getty Museum, Malibu, CA
11-12: Cardinal Bernardin ("BURN-adin"): A
conversation with the producers of a new
documentary about the life of the late Roman
Catholic cardinal, Joseph Bernardin. Cardinal
Bernardin inspired many by the way he lived his
life, and faced his death from cancer in 1996.
Guests: Martin Doblmeier, Journey Films
Frank Frost, Frank Frost Productions
(Note to stations: "Bernardin" will air on PBS
stations in early July you may wish to check
your local listings.)
Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.
Terry Gross talks with actress WENDY
MALICK...She's currently starring as a model
turned fashion editor on the hit T-V series "Just
Shoot Me"... Then, writer LISA MICHAELS talks with
Terry about growing up in the sixties and
seventies as the daughter of hippies...
Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.
AS RESEARCH INTO D-N-A BECOMES MORE ADVANCED, THE
"NATURE VERSUS NURTURE" DEBATE REMAINS DIVIDED AND
CONTROVERSIAL. AUTHOR WILLIAM WRIGHT WEIGHS IN ON
THE DEBATE WITH HIS BOOK "BORN THAT WAY: GENES,
BEHAVIOR, PERSONALITY" IN WHICH HE EXAMINES THE
FINDINGS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGISTS AND GENETICISTS
OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES AND CONCLUDES THAT HUMAN
BEHAVIOR IS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY GENES. THAT'S
PUBLIC INTEREST...
Guest:
1. William Wright, author
Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m.
Talk of the Nation
Join Ray Suarez for a performance chat with
British singer and songwriter Billy Bragg...He'll
talk about his new album which sets Woody
Guthrie's unrecorded lyrics to music...And in the
second hour...A look at how our morals and beliefs
have helped shape the rules we live by...
HOUR 1: Billy Bragg
HOUR 2: Law/Behavior/Society
on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.
Later today...we'll meet Civil War widows Daisy
Anderson and Alberta Martin. Both women are in
their nineties now but seven decades ago, they
married men who had fought on opposite sides of
the Civil War...men much older than they were.
We'll hear from the last Civil War widows, later
today on All Things Considered.
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