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Today's talk
shows on
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Monday, October 5, 1998
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Diane Rehm: schoolkids and computers; novelist John Burnham Schwartz
("Reservation Road")
Fresh Air: novelist Allegra Goodman ("Kaaterskill Falls"); UFO conspiracy
theorists
Public Interest: military funding: the Pentagon vs. Congress
Talk of the Nation: explaining the impeachment process; atheism
All Things Considered: a new disc of music by Rachmaninoff
Coaches' Call-In with Randy Walker, tonight at 7
ARTSline, Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Friday on WMUB Forum: TBA
The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
10-11: Schoolkids and Computers: A study released last week had mixed
messages on the benefits of using computers in elementary and junior high
school classrooms. A panel of experts joins Diane to talk about how
teachers and children can use computers in the most effective way.
Guests: Harold Wenglinsky, Education Testing Service; Chris Dede,
professor of education at George Mason University; Henry Becker, professor
of education, University of California, Irvine
11-12: John Burnham Schwartz: John Burnham Schwartz joins Diane to talk
about his novel "Reservation Road" (Knopf). It's the story of the death of
a young boy in a hit-and-run accident, and the aftermath as seen through
the eyes of the boy's parents, and the car's driver.
Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.
Guest host Barbara Bogaev talks with novelist ALLEGRA GOODMAN about her
book "Kaaterskill Falls" ... about an Orthodox Jewish family in upstate
New York ... Also, the secret place in the Nevada desert where U-F-O
believers ... secret military plane enthusiasts ... and conspiracy
theorists all converge ... A talk with journalist PHIL PATTON ... author of
"Dreamland".
Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.
A CONVERSATION ABOUT MILITARY FUNDING: LAST WEEK AN USUALLY HOSTILE
ENCOUNTER TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF AND THE SENATE
ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE. ACCORDING TO THE CHIEFS A LACK OF FUNDING FOR THE
PENTAGON HAS CREATED A READINESS CRISIS.
Guests: 1. Thomas E. Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for The Wall
Street Journal and author of "Making the Corps" (Simon and Schuster). 2.
Steven M. Kosiak, director of Budget Studies, Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments 3. Dr. John Hillen, Council on Foreign Relations
Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m.
Guest host: Lynn Neary
HOUR ONE: EXPLAINING THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS: what constitutes a "high
crime and misdemeanor"?
HOUR TWO: ATHEISM: a group of atheists discuss the recent national
discussion addressing morality, forgiveness and redemption.
on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.
A new compact disc of some very old recordings: we'll hear an electronic
reproduction...a piano playing back a computerized version of a 1922 piano
roll of a piece played by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The sound is great - but -
is it Rachmaninoff?
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