Today's talk
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Tuesday, June 1, 1999
For questions about Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, or All Things
Considered, call NPR's Audience Services at (202) 414-3232. For tapes and
transcripts call toll-free 1-877-NPR-TEXT (1-877-677-8398).
Diane Rehm: medical marijuana; "Home Improvement" co-star Richard Karn
Fresh Air: novelists Michael Korda and Kurt Anderson
Public Interest: the Computer Guys
Talk of the Nation: political scientist Francis Fukuyama; gun control
All Things Considered: summer reading list
Friday on WMUB Forum: LIVE FROM HUESTON WOODS: protecting the environment
in the 21st century
The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
(*2 FULL HOURS
on WMUB)
Diane's on vacation this week. She returns Monday,
June 7.Guest host Liane Hansen of NPR
10-11: Medicinal Marijuana: According to revised
research guidelines from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, scientists
may solicit funding from non-government sources for the study of
marijuana. But many people are upset that there is still no provision that
would allow people to smoke marijuana legally in an attempt to control
pain, nausea, vomiting, and certain other symptoms. A panel talks about
the latest developments in the controversy over medicinal use of marijuana.
Guests: Lyn Nofziger, former aide to Pres.
Reagan; Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of clinical psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School; Dr. Eric Voth, chmn, International Drug Strategy
Inst.
11-12: Richard Karn: Richard Karn has just completed
an eight-year run as Tim Allen's sidekick on the ABC sitcom "Home
Improvement." But he doesn't just play a home repair expert on TV... he's
also a real-life renovations survivor. His new book is called "House
Broken: How I Remodeled My House for Just Under Three Times The Original
Bid" (Harper Collins)
Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.
Editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster MICHAEL KORDA
discusses what it was like editing famous writers and presidential memoirs
... KORDA has written a memoir about the publishing world ... Also -- a
sprawling, satirical futuristic novel by the co-founder of Spy Magazine ...
A talk with KURT ANDERSON author of "Turn of the Century."
For tapes and transcripts of Fresh Air, call
Toll-Free 1-(877)-21-FRESH.
Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.
Host: Kojo Nnamdi
IT'S THE FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH AND THAT MEANS
THE COMPUTER GUYS ARE BACK TO SOLVE YOUR COMPUTER OPERATING AND HARDWARE
PROBLEMS. "PC-GUY" JOHN GILROY AND "MAC GUY" TOM PIWOWAR (PEE-VO-VAR)
FILL US IN ON THE QUESTIONS.
Guests: 1. John Gilroy 2. Tom Piwowar
Talk of
the Nation
2-4 p.m. (*LIVE)
Host: Ray Suarez
HOUR ONE: FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: a conversation with the
controversial author and political scientist
HOUR TWO: GUN CONTROL: he meaning of the Second
Amendment
Call Talk of the Nation at 1-800-989-TALK to
join in the conversation.
on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.
Our book reviewer Alan Cheuse gives us his top ten
picks for summer reading... including novels from Peter Matthiessen
<MATH-EH-SEN> and David Guterson... stories from Annie Proulx <PRUE>,
essays from Annie Dillard... poetry from Langston Hughes... AND we'll hear
all ten authors reading from their books.
WMUB Forum,
9-10 a.m.,
repeated 7-8 p.m.
Guest host Cleve Callison with an hour of
conversations with guests, and your e-mail comments and questions
(http://www.wmub.org/forumcomment.html)
Friday, June 4: LIVE FROM HUESTON WOODS:
protecting the environment in the 21st century
Guest: TBA
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