Today's talk shows on WMUB

Friday, November 5, 1999

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WMUB Forum: What do Ohio's elections mean?
Diane Rehm: weekly news roundup; a new account of the battle of Little Bighorn
Fresh Air: Dustin Hoffman and producer Tony Goldwyn
Public Interest: is racial discrimation coming to an end?
Talk of the Nation: the future of computing; World Wide Web inventor Tim
Berners-Lee
All Things Considered: Lost and Found Sound: Sam Phillips' all-girl radio
station WHER in Memphis

Thursday on The Sound of Faith: Buddhism (7:35 am and 4:50 pm)

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

10-11 News Roundup: A panel of journalists joins guest host Jim Angle for a
review of the week's top national and international news stories, including
the results of Tuesday's off-year elections.
         Guests: Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune; Gerald Seib, Wall Street
Journal; Karen Tumulty, Time Magazine

11-12 Herman Viola: Herman Viola of the Smithsonian Institution presents
never-before-published accounts of
Custer's Last Stand and the Battle of Little Bighorn, that give the
American Indians' side of the story.  His book is called "Little Bighorn
Remembered" (Times Books).



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

DUSTIN HOFFMAN and TONY GOLDWYN. They both produced the film "A Walk on the
Moon," which has recently been released on video. Terry Gross talks to them
about making the film and their lives in Hollywood.

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


    Public Interest

Host: Kojo Nnamdi

WHILE SOME HISTORIANS SAY THE U-S HAS BEEN MOVING STEADILY TOWARD THE END
OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, OTHERS SAY PROGRESS TOWARDS EQUALITY HAS ONLY
OCCURRED IN BRIEF PERIODS, WITH LONG PERIODS OF STAGNATION AND RETRENCHMENT
IN BETWEEN. KOJO SPEAKS WITH TWO SCHOLARS ABOUT THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
PROGRESS OF RACE ISSUES IN AMERICA.
         Guests: 1.  Philip A. Klinker, co-author of "The Unsteady March:
The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in
America"; also Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Arthur
Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College. (Pub: University of
Chicago Press); 2. (by phone) William Julius Wilson, author, "The Bridge
over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics"; also a
MacArthur Prize Fellow; and Lewis P and Linda L. Geyser University
Professor at Harvard University.  (Pub: University of California Press)


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

Host: Melinda Penkava

HOUR ONE: FUTURE OF COMPUTING: the latest advances in computing, and what
the computers of the future might look like.

HOUR TWO: TIM BERNERS-LEE: a conversation with Tim Berners-Lee, the
inventor of the World Wide Web



    All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.

Lost And Found Sound continues its look back at "all-girl" radio station
W-H-E-R in Memphis, Tennessee.



    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, November 5: what Ohio's elections mean

A roundup of the results from this week's voting, with Republican and
Democratic commentators.


Cleve Callison <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
General Manager, WMUB Public Radio
Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
513.529.5958, fax 513.529.6048
http://www.wmub.org

Cleve Callison <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
General Manager, WMUB Public Radio
Williams Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-5958, 513-529-6048 FAX
http://www.wmub.org