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Week of March 11, 2002
Programs:
The Diane Rehm Show
Public Interest
The Computer Guys
The DC Politics
Hour
Metro
Connection
The Big Broadcast
Hot Jazz Saturday
Night
The Eddie
Stubbs Show
The
Ray Davis Show
The Dick Spottswood
Show
Stained Glass
Bluegrass
Bluegrass Overnight
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Special Productions
Diane is out this week for treatment of her voice disorder,
spasmodic
dysphonia.
Monday, March 11, 2002
Guest Host: Susan
Page
10:00 - 2002 Congressional Election Outlook
A panel discussion about the outlook for the 2002 midterm
elections: the candidates, the issues, the voters, and more.
Ron
Elving, Washington editor for National
Public Radio
Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report
11:00 - Beth Nielsen Chapman
Beth Nielsen Chapman talks about the experiences that
have influenced her music, including her husband's illness and death, and
her own recent treatment for breast cancer.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Guest Host: Susan
Page
10:00 - Military-Industrial Complex
A panel talks about the companies that are moving to fill
the expanding post-9/11 market for new security and defense services,
equipment and technology; who will be safer because of these products; and
who will profit from them.
11:00 - Liam Clancy: The Mountain of the Women
(Doubleday)
Get ready for St. Patrick's Day with a
conversation with Liam Clancy,
one of Ireland's legendary singing Clancy Brothers.
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Guest Host: Susan
Page
10:00 - Malcolm X Papers
An auction house announced it will sell papers and other
materials belonging to charismatic activist Malcolm X. But scholars say
the papers must remain public because of their historic importance. A
panel talks about the legal and cultural issues surrounding the fate of
these papers, which offer insight into Malcolm X's evolving thoughts on
race, culture and society.
James Early, director of cultural
heritage policy at the Smithsonian
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dr. Catherine
Williamson, director for fine books and manuscripts at Butterfield's, a West Coast
auction house
Karl Evanzz, Washington Post news staff;
author, The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X (Thunder's
Mouth)
11:00 - Kathleen Cambor: In Sunlight, in a Beautiful
Garden (Harper Collins)
Author Kathleen Cambor talks about her new
novel, set against the painstakingly researched story of the 1889
Johnstown Flood, which resulted from the catastrophic failure of a manmade
dam and killed more than 2,000 people.
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Guest Host: Susan
Page
10:00 - Nuclear Policy
Guest host Susan Page moderates a discussion on the
recently publicized Pentagon review of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, with a
look at shifting geopolitical forces around the world, changes in U.S.
security needs over the past several decades, and the international
treaties the U.S. has signed.
Ivo Daalder, senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution and former
director for European affairs in the National Security
Council
Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy
11:00 - Declining Birthrates
An expert panel talks about unexpected
drops in birthrates in India, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt and other
countries: what's behind these demographic changes and what they suggest
about our future.
Tom Merrick, World Bank Institute
Ben
Wattenberg, senior fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute
Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women's Health Coalition
Friday, March 15, 2002
Guest Host: Susan
Page
10:00 - News Roundup
A panel of journalists joins Diane for review and
analysis of the week's top news stories from across the country and around
the world.
Daniel Schorr, National
Public Radio
Karen Tumulty, Time
Tony Blankley, Washington Times
11:00 - Readers' Review: Wallace
Stegner's Crossing to Safety
The March Readers' Review panel discusses
Wallace Stegner's story of the decades-long friendship between two married
couples who first meet in Depression-era Madison, Wisconsin.
Jackson
Bryer, professor of English at the University of Maryland
Carla
Cohen, co-owner of Politics and Prose
Bookstore
Patricia Griffith, novelist and associate
professor of English at George Washington
University
Program topics and guests are subject to change without notice.
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dysphonia.