Today's talk shows on WMUB (http://www.wmub.org/Today.html)

Thursday, November 18, 1999

WMUB'S fall "Mount Pledgemore" fund-raising campaign ended last
Wednesday with a new WMUB record total of pledges:$48,620. Even if
you couldn't participate, you can still make a pledge at
http://www.wmub.org/pledge2.html.

Diane Rehm: open phones; author Michael Crichton [CRY-ton] ("Jurassic Park")
Fresh Air: nuclear proliferation
Public Interest: the roots of popular culture
Talk of the Nation: "This Earth of Mankind" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
(Prem-OOHH-de-ah Ananta TORE); TBA
All Things Considered: marketing to children, part 2: the World Wide Web

today on The Sound of Faith: African-American Gospel (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 transcripts call toll-free 1-877-NPR-TEXT
(1-877-677-8398).



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

10-11 Open Phones: Diane opens up the lines and gives listeners
around the country the opportunity to set the day's agenda.  You're
invited to join her on the air and share your thoughts on the day's
news.

11-12 Michael Crichton: Michael Crichton ("CRY-ton") presents
"Timeline" (Knopf), his latest novel combining cutting-edge science
and good old-fashioned suspense.  In "Jurassic Park," he used real
advances in genetic engineering to bring dinosaurs back to life.  In
the same way, "Timeline" draws from the emerging field of quantum
technology to make time travel possible.



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

Nuclear proliferation. . . a talk international securty expert GEORGE
ROBERT PERKOVICH (Per-KO-vich) , author of "India's Nuclear Bomb."

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



Public Interest

Host: Kojo Nnamdi

WHILE MANY PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HOMOGENIZATION OF AMERICAN
CULTURE, PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING HISTORIAN MICHAEL KAMMEN(CAM-en)
THINKS TODAY'S POP CULTURE IS FASCINATING JUST AS IT IS.  KAMMEN
JOINS KOJO TO EXPLAIN THE ROOTS OF POPULAR CULTURE AND ITS
INTERESTING EVOLUTION OVER THE PAST TWO CENTURIES.

"American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 21st
Century"; Guest: Michael Kammen, author; Newton C. Farr Professor of
American History and Culture at Cornell University (Pub:  Knopf)



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

Host: Melinda Penkava

HOUR ONE: BOOK-CLUB-OF-THE-AIR: "This Earth of Mankind" by Pramoedya
Ananta Toer (Prem-OOHH-de-ah Ananta TORE)

HOUR TWO: TBA



All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.

Our second report on selling to kids: Marketing to children on the
new frontier of the world wide web. Kids today are the focus of a new
advertising blitz.... everywhere they look, someone is attempting to
pitch a product.



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 19: TBA

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