Today's talk
shows on
WMUB

Monday, November 23, 1998

Diane Rehm (*2 full hours, only on WMUB): Clinton's trip to Asia; Holocaust
survivor Yaffa Eliach
Fresh Air: former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes
Public Interest: impact of technology on disabilities
Talk of the Nation (*live, only on WMUB): Archbishop Desmond Tutu; 'third
wave' feminism
All Things Considered: musician Michelle Lewis


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

                       10-11: Clinton's Trip to Asia: A panel discussion on
President Clinton's trip to Asia and the issues he dealt  with there,
including Japan's troubled economy, and military security in North and
South Korea. Diane and  her guests will also talk about the role the United
States is playing in helping resolve these problems.

                             Guests: Benjamin Ladner, president of American
University; Ayako Doi, Japan Digest; Robert  Manning, Council on Foreign
Relations

                       11-12: Yaffa Eliach: Holocaust survivor Yaffa Eliach
("YA-fa ALE-ie-ock") talks with Diane about her new book, "There Once Was A
World" (Little, Brown). In 1941, Nazis killed all but 29 of the 3500 Jews
who  lived in her Eastern European hometown. Yaffa Eliach has spent the
past two decades recreating this lost  community by collecting photographs
and stories about the victims.


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

                       Former heavy weight world champ LARRY HOLMES. He was
heavyweight champion of the world from 1978  to 1985. In January he's
scheduled to fight another champ, George Foreman. HOLMES has written his
autobiography.



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.

                       Host: Kojo Nnamdi

                       ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE GIVEN MANY PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITIES OPPORTUNITIES TO  CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORKPLACE IN WAYS
THAT WERE NOT POSSIBLE ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO. KOJO AND PANELISTS DISCUSS HOW
THE IMPACT TECHNOLOGY CAN HAVE IN THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES.

                             Guests: 1. Jennifer Sheehy, National
Organization on Disability 2. Dr. Michael Rosen, National  Rehabilitation
Hospital


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

                       Host: Ray Suarez

                       HOUR ONE: DESMOND TUTU: a conversation with
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chair of South Africa's Truth  and Reconciliation
Commission. Bishop Tutu will discuss the commission's final report on
apartheid-era  abuses and what other countries might learn from the
process.

                       HOUR TWO: THIRD WAVE FEMINISM: from the Riot grrls
to the Spice Girls -- what is girl power and how is  it different from
earlier feminist movements?


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

                       Musician Michelle Lewis. She writes songs that are
almost short stories...or tiny movies. She says that she may be a
frustrated screenplay writer, and says that she'd probably like to do
movies as well...because  she's definitely connected to the visual.

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