Today's talk shows on WMUB (http://www.wmub.org/Today.html)
Thursday, September 16, 1999
Diane Rehm: Chinese labor camps; traces of past living beings
Fresh Air: Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with creating the World Wide Web
Public Interest: creating a spacefaring civilization
Talk of the Nation: the life of Nelson Mandela; the power of storms
All Things Considered: latest from Hurricane Floyd; how technology moved
from analog to digital
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).
The Diane Rehm Show, 10-12 noon (*2 full hours on WMUB)
** DIANE's book tour is going on this week. Her memoir, "Finding My Voice,"
is in bookstores now. Over the next several weeks, she'll be in and out.
Guest host Steve Roberts
10-11: Chinese Labor Camps: A conversation about the torture, hard labor
and other abuses that are still part of China's labor camp system. Harry Wu
spent 19 years in the "Laogai" (reform through labor) system and has
dedicated much of his life to exposing the abuses that characterize
theprisons.
11-12: Martin Lockley: Paleontologist Martin Lockley's book "The Eternal
Trail" (Perseus) describes his lifelong study of the traces of all the
living beings of the past and present that have left traces of their
existence on the Earth's surface.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, 12:06-1 p.m.
Creating the Web. . . we talk with TIM BERNERS-LEE who invented the World
Wide Web, and now coordinates its development. His new book is "Weaving the
Web."
For tapes and transcripts of Fresh Air, call Toll-Free 1-(877)-21-FRESH.
**Public Interest
Host: Kojo Nnamdi
THE NEXT CENTURY PROMISES GREAT ADVANCES IN SPACE EXPLORATION AND
TECHNOLOGY. ASTRONAUTICAL ENGINEER ROBERT ZUBRIN JOINS KOJO TO DISCUSS
"ENTERING SPACE," HIS LATEST BOOK, IN WHICH HE PROVIDES A PRACTICAL
BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL, PLANETARY COLONIZATION, AND
EXPLORATION BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.
Guest: "Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization" Robert Zubrin,
author (Pub: Tarcher/Putnam, New York)
Talk of the Nation, 2-4 p.m. (*live on WMUB)
Host: Ray Suarez
HOUR ONE: NELSON MANDELA: the life of Nelson Mandela, with the journalist
who wrote his authorized biography
HOUR TWO: THE POWER OF STORMS: a conversation with authors who have
written bestselling accounts of some of the biggest storms in
history...plus, a firsthand account of flying through the eye of Hurricane
Floyd
All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.
How technology moved from analog to digital. The invention of binary code
didn't just affect computers -- telephones, children's toys, recorded music
-- all changed in the digital age. That story and the latest on Hurricane
Floyd.
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, September 17: TBA
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