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

Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Diane Rehm: a U.S.-Cuban custody case; Nat King Cole biographer
Daniel Mark Epstein
Fresh Air: family caregiving in the age of managed care
Public Interest: the Computer Guys
Talk of the Nation: suicide; the stock market
All Things Considered: remembering Pearl Harbor

Thursday on The Sound of Faith: Buddhism

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

Diane will remain out after another treatment for her spasmodic
disphonia disorder. Guest host Jim Angle of FOX News

10-11: U.S.-Cuban Custody Case: Last week, a group of Cubans
attempted to reach the U.S. by boat.  Only 3 survived the journey,
including a six-year-old boy whose mother and stepfather lost their
lives.  The child is now staying with relatives in Miami, while Fidel
Castro demands he be returned to his father in Cuba.  A panel
discusses this case and the larger issue of the state of U.S.-Cuban
relations.
         Guests: Wayne Smith: Center for International Policy; Ninoska
Perez, Cuban American National Foundation; Bernard Perlmutter, law
professor, University of Miami

11-12: Daniel Mark Epstein: Daniel Mark Epstein presents his new
biography of Nat King Cole.  In this season when we so often hear Nat
King Cole crooning "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." Daniel
Mark Epstein tells the story of his early years as a jazz pianist and
singer, his work in the civil rights movement, and his amazing
popularity which made him the first African-American with his own
television show.  (Note: "Nat King Cole" is published by Farrar
Straus & Giroux)



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

Family Caregiving in the age of managed care. . .a talk with CAROL
LEVINE ("Leh-VEEN") about her efforts to increase support and
awareness for those who care for sick loved ones at home.  LEVINE
directs the United Hopital Fund's project on Family Caregiving, and
she's the sole caregiver for for her husband, who was critically
injured nine years ago in an automobile accident.

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


    Public Interest

Host: Kojo Nnamdi

Our monthly visit with The Computer Guys: John Gilroy, PC Guy and Tom
Piwowar, Mac Guy


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

Host: Brooke Gladstone

HOUR ONE:  SUICIDE: why it's becoming more of a problem, and what can
be done to prevent it

HOUR TWO:  THE STOCK MARKET: what we can't resist...what we can't
understand...why it's so hard to resist



    All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.

The beginning of war with Japan: on this day in 1948, Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor.  Veteran broadcaster Robert Trout remembers covering
the first news of that attack.



    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, December 10: TBA