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Thursday, December 24, 1998

Diane Rehm: (rebroadcast) Stephen Dubner's memoir "Turbulent Souls";
Geraldine Ferraro
Fresh Air: the best in movies and pop music of 1998
 Public Interest: Tony Bennett
Talk of the Nation: (rebroadcast) heroes; author Judy Blume
All Things Considered: Kentucky poet Wendell Berry

WMUB Forum will return on Friday, January 8th


   The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
(*2 FULL HOURS
on WMUB)

                       Repeat broadcast

                       10-11: Stephen Dubner (orig. 12/07): A rebroadcast
of Diane's interview with Stephen Dubner about his  memoir "Turbulent
Souls" (Little, Brown). Raised in a devout Catholic family, he tells how
his search for  more information about his parents' background led him to
change his religion.

                       11-12: Geraldine Ferraro (orig. 11/13): A
rebroadcast of Diane's interview with former congresswoman  and Vice
Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. In her new memoir "Framing a
Life" (Scribner) she  talks about five generations of women in her Italian
American family.


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

                       We'll look back at the best movies of 1998 with film
critic John Powers, and the best pop music of the  year with rock critic
Ken Tucker.



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.

                       Host: Kojo Nnamdi

                       AMERICAN ICON TONY BENNETT HAS BEEN PERFORMING FOR
OVER 50 YEARS AND HAS SUCCEEDED IN  ATTRACTING FANS THAT RANGE IN AGE FROM
8 TO 80. TONY BENNETT JOINS KOJO TO DISCUSS HIS  PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS, HIS LEGENDARY FRIENDSHIPS, HIS  CREATIVE
INSPIATIONS, AND THE IMPACT OF HIS MUSIC ON OUR CULTURE.

                             Guests: 1. Tony Bennett, singer, performer,
author of "The Good Life"


   Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m. (*LIVE)

                       Host: Ray Suarez

                       HOUR ONE: REBROADCAST: HEROES: a discussion of the
heros in our lives and how they compare to our
                         grandparents heros.

                       HOUR TWO: REBROADCAST: JUDY BLUME: author Judy Blume
on about her life and work while doing that  last minute running around.


   on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.

                       Wendell Berry writes at a desk by a window that
overlooks fields and a river in Kentucky. He says that the  real drive in
his life has been to have a farm of some kind...doing work outdoors...and
that he's learned a  great deal from the process.



   WMUB Forum,
9-10 a.m.,
repeated 7-8 p.m.

                       News Director Darrel Gray hosts an hour of
conversations with guests, and your e-mail comments and questions
(http://www.wmub.org/forumcomment.html)

                             Forum will return Friday, January 8th

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