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

Tuesday, December 22, 1998

Diane Rehm: foreign policy overview; birth mothers and adopted children
Fresh Air: singer-songwriter Randy Newman
Public Interest: single fathers with custody of children
Talk of the Nation: Book Club of the Air: "The Beach" by Alex Garland;
Victor Klemperer's diaries of life in  Nazi Germany
All Things Considered: the perfect Christmas tree?

WMUB Forum will return on Friday, January 8th


   The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
(*2 FULL HOURS
on WMUB)

                       Guest host Jim Angle of Fox News

                       10-11: Foreign Policy Overview: A panel discussion
on U.S. foreign policy, especially the recent bombing  campaign in Iraq,
and what implications the ongoing impeachment proceedings could have for
the future  of U.S. policy.

                             Guests: Martin Kettle, The Guardian (British
newspaper); Anthony Lake, former National Security  Adviser; Bob Zoellick,
president, Center for Strategic & International Studies

                       11-12: Sarah Saffian: Sarah Saffian talks about her
memoir "Ithaka" (Basic Books). She was adopted as an infant, and the book
tells the story of how, as an adult, she was contacted by her birth mother
and  developed a relationship with her blood relatives.


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

                       Thirty years with singer-songwriter RANDY NEWMAN.
Rhino Records has just released a new C-D box set  that tracks Newman's
career, and includes an entire disc of previously unreleased songs.
Newman's most  popular songs include "Short People" and "I Love L-A." He's
also written music for movies including  "Ragtime" and "Toy Story."



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.

                       THE LATEST CENSUS REPORTS THAT THE NUMBER OF SINGLE
FATHERS WITH CHILDREN AT HOME HAS  RISEN TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT IN THE LAST
THREE YEARS. KOJO AND HIS GUESTS DISCUSS THE  SOCIOLOGICAL AND LEGAL
ELEMENTS THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS INCREASE AND THE UNIQUE  CHALLENGES
FACED BY SINGLE DADS.

                             Guests: 1. Dr. Wade Horn, President of the
National Fatherhood Initiative and lead author of the  recently published
Better Homes and Garden's "New Father's Guide." 2. John Sims, Founder and
Executive Director of The Single and Custodial Fathers' Network.


   Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m. (*LIVE)

                       Host: Ray Suarez

                       HOUR ONE: BOOK CLUB OF THE AIR: This month's book is
"The Beach," by Alex Garland.

                       HOUR TWO: DIARIES OF VICTOR KLEMPERER: Victor
Klemperer, a Dresden Jew, kept a detailed account of  what it was like to
live in Nazi Germany. Klemperer's diaries are sparking mixed reactions
among young  Germans.


   on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.

                       The perfect Christmas tree. Commentator Michael Ivey
discovers a factory in Watertown, New York that  has a pint-size solution
to a holiday proscrastinator's problem: a little tree that dangles from
your rear-view  mirror.



   WMUB Forum,
9-10 a.m.,
repeated 7-8 p.m.

                       News Director Darrel Gray hosts an hour of
conversations with guests, and your e-mail comments and  questions
(http://www.wmub.org/forumcomment.html)

                             Forum will return Friday, January 8th

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