Today's Talk Shows on WMUB (http://www.wmub.org/today)


Monday, August 27, 2001

Interconnect with John Hingsbergen and Cheri Lawson (9am - 10am,
repeated 7pm -8pm)
        Psychic Illness: The Rise and Fall of Evil on Earth. Guest:
Gregory Alan Sweitzer, author and clinical social worker who has
specialized in treatment of adult survivors of abuse.

The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon); guest host Laura Knoy
        Hour one: challenging the laws of physics
        Hour two: women's health and women's bodies

Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm)
        Soul Music Week: ARETHA FRANKLIN and RAY CHARLES

Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm)
        "Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery"

Talk of the Nation with Juan Williams (2pm - 4pm)
        Hour one: a jailed journalist in Texas
        Hour two: tenure in the wake of the Joseph Ellis case

All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
        A concert performance where audience members are asked to
keep their cell phones turned ON.



coming up soon in local talk
        (live and interactive 9am - 10am, repeated 7pm - 8pm)

Tuesday on the Todd Mundt Show
        The leaning tower of Pisa. It leaned a bit too much and in
1990, on the verge of collapse, it was closed to visitors. It
re-opened this summer. Engineer John Burland devised a way to save
the tower. He'll tell us how he did it.
        NOTE: Todd Mundt moves to a NEW day, beginning Thursday September 6th.

Wednesday on Sound Health with Marianne Russ
        Headaches.
        NOTE: This will be Marianne Russ's last show before she
leaves to attend graduate school at Ohio University.

Thursday on Help Desk
        Mac and PC questions answered with Ted Beerman and Guy Moore.
        NOTE: Help Desk moves to a NEW day, beginning Tuesday September 4th.

Friday on WMUB Forum with Darrel Gray
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Sunday on Talk of the Week (a 4 pm re-broadcast of one of the
previous week's talk show)
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DETAILS:

Interconnect with John Hingsbergen and Cheri Lawson (9am - 10am,
repeated 7pm -8pm)
        Psychic Illness: The Rise and Fall of Evil on Earth. Guest:
Gregory Alan Sweitzer, author and clinical social worker who has
specialized in treatment of adult survivors of abuse.

The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon); guest host Laura Knoy
        Hour one: Laws of Physics: A panel talks about recent
scientific findings that challenge some of the most widely held
assumptions about how matter behaves, and have the potential to
reshape our ideas about how the universe was born. Guests: Mario
Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute; Christopher Churchill,
Pennsylvania State U.; Vera Rubin, Carnegie Institution
        Hour two: Cortney Davis: Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner
in a busy women's clinic, writes of women's health and women's bodies
in her book "I Knew a Woman" (Random House). She tells stories based
on patients she's treated, as well as her own experiences on both
sides of a medical examination.

Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm)
        Soul Music Week: it's a week of great soul singers,
songwriters, and producers. Today: ARETHA FRANKLIN and RAY CHARLES.

Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm)
        WE TAKE ANESTHESIA FOR GRANTED. BUT IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH
CENTURY, MANY CHOSE DEATH OVER EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL SURGERY. FIND
OUT HOW LAUGHING GAS' EVOLVED FROM A SOURCE OF COMIC RELIEF INTO A
MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH. AND WHY IT TOOK SO LONG TO DISCOVER THE
MEDICINAL USE OF NITROUS (NIGH-trus) OXIDE AND ETHER (EE-ther).
Guest: Julie Fenster, author of "Ether Day: The Strange Tale of
America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made
It." (Pub: Harper Collins)

Talk of the Nation with Juan Williams (2pm - 4pm)
        Hour one: JAILED JOURNALIST: A Texas free lance writer is in
jail for refusing to turn over her notes on a high profile murder
case to the federal government. What constitutes journalism and what
doesn't.
        Hour two: TENURE: Tenured professor and Pulitzer Prize
winning author Joseph Ellis was suspended from teaching without pay
for one year after he was caught lying to his students. Has tenure
lost its high status? Juan Williams talks with educators and others.

All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
        A concert performance where audience members are not only
welcome to bring their cell phones, they're asked to keep them turned
ON. It's those phones that serve as the instruments in the Dialtones
Telesymphony, as dialing musicians bring the whole concert hall to
life.


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General Manager, WMUB Public Radio
Williams Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-5958, 513-255-1201 cell, 513-529-6048 Fax
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, 513-255-1201 cell, 513-529-6048 FAX
"Help Desk" host, Thursdays 9-10 am, 7-8 pm EDT
listen to WMUB live at http://www.wmub.org