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

Friday, January 7, 2000

WMUB Forum: Ask the general manager
Diane Rehm: weekly news roundup; On the Job: piano teachers
Fresh Air: "Peanuts" creator Charles Schultz; filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
Public Interest: celebrating "National Geographic" magazine
Talk of the Nation/Science Friday: moon news; monkeys that count;
Nobe Laureate Leon Lederman
All Things Considered: Dorothy Hamill returns to figure skating competition

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    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, January 7: Ask the General Manager

Cleve Callison answers your questions about WMUB, its people and programs.



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

10-11 News Roundup: A panel of journalists reviews the week's top
national and international news stories, including the presidential
candidates' debates in New Hampshire, and the peace negotiations
between Israel and Syria.
         Guests: Karen Hosler, Baltimore Sun; Clarence Page, Chicago
Tribune; Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal

11-12 On the Job/Piano Teachers: In the first installment of our new
"On the Job" series, Diane talks with a panel of piano teachers about
different approaches to helping people of all ages and all levels
learn to play the piano.
        Guests: Gregory Sioles, Levine School of Music; Martha Smith,
President-elect of Virginia Music Teachers Assn.; Geoffrey Horn,
freelance piano teacher



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

Peanuts creator Charles Shultz.  After 50 years, Shultz has retired.
His last daily strip was published earlier this week.  And we talk
with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker.  "Don't Look Back," his film about
Bob Dylan, is being released on DVD.

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


    Public Interest

Host: Kojo Nnamdi

MANY AMERICANS ARE FIRST EXPOSED TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND DIVERSE
CULTURES THROUGH THE PAGES OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE.  NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC PRESIDENT GILBERT GROSVENOR (GROVE-nor) AND WILLIAM ALLEN,
EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE MAGAZINE,  JOIN KOJO TO DISCUSS THE HISTORY OF
THE MAGAZINE, ITS PLANS FOR THE FUTURE, AND WHY FEW SUBSCRIBERS CAN
BRING THEMSELVES TO THROW OUT EVEN ONE.
         Guests: 1. William l. Allen, editor in chief, National
Geographic; 2. Gilbert M. Grosvenor, president, National Geographic
Society


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

Host: Ira Flatow

HOUR ONE: MOON NEWS/COUNTING MONKEYS: the moon, and the best evidence
yet that non-human primates can count.


HOUR TWO: NOBEL LAUREATE LEON LEDERMAN: Nobel laureate and physicist
Leon Lederman ...about his recent trip to Cuba, high school science
education reform, and particle physics



    All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.

Figure skater Dorothy Hamill is returning to competition on the ice
for next month's Goodwill Games in Lake Placid, New York. The last
time she competed professionally was more than a decade ago. We'll
hear her expectations for the games.