Friday, July 27, 2001

WMUB Forum Darrel Gray (9am - 10am, repeated 7 - 8 pm) tba

The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon)
Hour One: weekly news roundup
Hour Two:  The New Yorker's Louis Menand

Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm)
Director Mike Nichols

Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm)
John Weingart, author of "Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Risk,
Radiation, and Distrust of Government"

Talk of the Nation/Science Friday with Ira Flatow (2pm - 4pm)

Hour one: DMCA Arrest / Investigating Cancer Clusters

Hour two: Michael Pollan, "The Botany of Desire"/Diabetes Update


All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
China's under-construction transcontinental railroad.


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

Sunday on Talk of the Week (a 4 pm re-broadcast of one of the previous
week's talk shows)
From Talk of the Nation:   Individual Black Identity.   Guests: Erin
Aubry Kaplan, Staff Writer, "LA Weekly;" Dr. Price Cobbs,
Psychiatrist and CEO, Pacific Management Systems; Houston Baker,
Professor of English and Afro-American Studies, Duke University
and author of "Turning South Again" (Duke University Press, 2001;) and
Karla Ballard, President, Nation Urban League's Young
Professionals Organization.

As more blacks enter the middle class, they're encountering a unique set
of problems.   Many Blacks who've "made it" in today's society say they
find racial barriers still in place. And they often do not feel accepted
as individuals but always judged on the basis of their color. Juan
Williams talks with guests about the mental stress -- even the rage --
that goes with being middle-class and African-American.

Monday on Interconnect with John Hingsbergen and Cheri Lawson
Re-evaluation Counseling,  Guest: Ginny Frazier

Tuesday on the Todd Mundt Show
 tba

Wednesday on Sound Health with Marianne Russ
Sleep Disorders Guest: Virgil Wooten, M.D; Director of TriHealth Sleep
and Alertness Center at Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati and a
representative from the Children's Medical Center Sleep Center in
Dayton.

Thursday on Help Desk
Mac and PC questions answered with Ted Beerman and Kevin Sizemore (Guy
Moore is on vacation.)

DETAILS

Friday, July 27, 2001

WMUB Forum with Darrel Gray (9am - 10am, repeated 7 - 8 pm); tba

The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon)
Hour one: News Roundup: A panel of journalists joins Diane for review
and  analysis of the week's top national, political, and international
news stories. GUESTS: E.J. Dionne, Washington Post; Tom Gjelten,
National Public Radio; David Brooks, Weekly Standard

Hour two:  Louis Menand: The New Yorker's Louis Menand talks about
American intellectualism in the late 19th century. His new book "The
Metaphysical Club" (Farrar Straus & Giroux) explains how the Civil War,
the work of Charles Darwin, and other
 developments shaped the ideas of the great thinkers of that era --  and
how their ideas shaped our nation's history.

Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm)
An archive edition featuring director MIKE NICHOLS.  He's just received
an Emmy nomination for the H-B-O film, "Wit"  and now he's
 directing an all-star production of  Chekhov's "The Seagull."

Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm)
Radioactiove waste is created by hospitals and power plants every day.
Disposing of it is always a challenge.  A conversation with one
government official who tried to buck the trend, change peoples' minds,
and take on the "Not in my  backyard" attitudes.   John Weingart, author
of  "Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Risk, Radiation, and Distrust of
Government" and  former Executive Director of New Jersey's Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility Siting Board

Talk of the Nation/Science Friday with Ira Flatow (2pm - 4pm)
Hour one: DMCA ARREST / INVESTIGATING CANCER CLUSTERS  Guests: Robin
Gross, Staff Attorney for Intellectual Property Electronic Frontier
Foundation,  San Francisco, California;   David Ozonoff,  Professor and
Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of
Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts;  Raymond Neutra (NOYtra) Chief,
Division of  Environmental & Occupational Disease Control, California
Department of Health Services,  Oakland, California.  Residents of
Fallon, Nevada learned this week how the government plans to
investigate an unexplained rash of cases of childhood
leukemia around their town. In this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk
about 'cancer clusters' and the challenges scientists face when
 investigating their causes.  Plus, the intersection of copyright law, a
Russian programmer, and the FBI -- the strange case of Dimitry Sklyarov.


Hour two: MICHAEL POLLAN "THE BOTANY OF DESIRE/ DIABETES UPDATE) Guests:
Denise Faustman,
Associate Professor of Medicine,  Harvard Medical School and Director,
Immunobiology Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital,  Boston,
Massachusetts

All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
In 19th century America, the transcontinental railroad helped bring
development to the West.   In 21st century China, the government says
its transcontinental railroad will bring economic opportunity to its own
remote western region -- Tibet.  Construction is underway, but opponents
say the project is political and calculated to strengthen Beijing's
control of Tibet.  Hear the
story Friday on All Things Considered.