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May 2001 Shows
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TUESDAY 1ST MAY
Milt has been busy taping interviews with authors of notable recent books.
These include CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, PAUL ROBESON, Jr., STANLEY WILLIAMS,
TIM FLANNERY, BILL SCHULZ, P.D. JAMES and many others. Tune in to Extension
720 after the Cubs-Padres game to hear one or more of these tapes.
WEDNESDAY 2ND MAY
Taped interviews will follow the Cubs-Padres game which, again, begins
at 7:05 pm.
THURSDAY 3RD MAY
CITY WATCH
"Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates."
Though JON ANDERSON did not come up with this quote (William Vaughn Moody
did), regular listeners of Extension720 know of Jon’s encyclopedic knowledge
of Chicago from his Tribune feature column and from our program’s regular
'Anderson Archives' feature. Now, Jon has published a book of some of
his best feature stories--CITY
WATCH: DISCOVERING THE UNCOMMON CHICAGO. Jon will join longtime Tribune
columnist ROBERT DAVIS and DAVID SCHMITTGENS, who has just completed co-producing
an annotated version of Nelson Algren’s Chicago: City on the Make,
for a discussion of "the uncommon Chicago".
FRIDAY 4TH MAY
OUR COUSINS, THE APES
 Arguably
the world's leading primatologist FRANS DE WAAL joins Milt tonight
to discuss his new book THE
APE AND THE SUSHI MASTER: CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF A PRIMATOLOGIST.
de Waal's book challenges the view that human nature is unique by
arguing that both human nature and ape societies possess similar mechanisms
for the transfer of learned behavior: i.e. apes, too, develop and transmit
cultures
MONDAY 7TH MAY
The Cubs travel to check out the new baseball stadium in Milwaukee--and
to battle the Brewers, Tune in to Extension 720 after the 7:05pm game
to hear one of Milt’s recently taped interviews.
TUESDAY 8TH MAY
Taped interviews will follow the 7:05pm Cubs-Brewers game.
WEDNESDAY 9TH MAY
Taped interviews will follow game three of the Cubs-Brewers series, which
begins at 7:05pm.
THURSDAY 10TH MAY
DON McNEILL AND HIS BREAKFAST CLUB
"Good Morning Breakfast Clubbers, Good Morning to ya, we got up bright
and early to howdy-do ya!" Longtime radio listeners will probably
recognize the name Don McNeill and his traditional greeting; he was, after
all, a pioneer in morning talk radio, with a career spanning from 1933
to 1968. Milt is joined by JOHN DOOLITTLE of American University, radio
archivist FRED MAC DONALD, and TOM MC NEILL, Don’s son, to discuss Doolittle's
new book DON
MC NEILL AND HIS BREAKFAST CLUB. In reviewing the career and life
of Don McNeill we will, of course, listen to numerous original sound clips
from BREAKFAST CLUB, a show which all America listened to for some 35
years.
FRIDAY 11TH MAY
The first of the annual clashes between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals
begins at 7:10pm. Please join Extension 720 after the game to hear some
of Milt’s recently taped interviews.
MONDAY 14TH MAY
AMERICAN JUDAISM AND ISRAEL
For over five decades, American Jewish support for the state of Israel
has been crucial to securing it a prominent place in international politics.
Has this support diminished? Professor STEVEN T. ROSENTHAL offers his
opinion that it has, in a new book IRRECONCILABLE
DIFFERENCES? THE WANING OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH LOVE AFFAIR WITH ISRAEL.
Professor Rosenthal joins Milt to discuss the state of American Jewish
attitudes toward Israel, the growing separation between the two communities
and the changing problems of those communities.
TUESDAY 15TH MAY
ODDBALL WISCONSIN rescheduled to May 22 due to extra innings at Wrigley
Field.
WEDNESDAY 16TH MAY
The Houston Astros remain in town for another 7:05pm game with the Cubs.
Tune in to Extension 720 afterward for recently taped interviews.
THURSDAY 17TH MAY
A VISIT WITH CARDINAL GEORGE
Since the turn of the new year, the Catholic Church has already seen myriad
changes, perhaps most notably Pope John Paul II’s appointment of more
than three dozen new cardinals around the world. The church clearly faces
unchartered waters in the changing world. Tonight, Extension720 is honored
to welcome FRANCIS CARDINAL GEORGE, ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO as he prepares
for another trip to Rome. The future of the Catholic Church, in Chicago
and in the world, will be our topic for discussion.
FRIDAY 18TH MAY
EATING AND AGING
 "Age
will not be defied," said Francis Bacon, quite sensibly. Perhaps.
But MICHAEL F. ROIZEN, M.D., the chair of the Department of Anesthesia
and Critical Care at the University of Chicago, believes that aging may,
to an extent, be controlled. How? By monitoring your diet. As easy as
this may sound, Dr. Roizen has conducted exhaustive research that would
seem to confirm his theory. He appears on Extension720 tonight for a discussion
of his new book THE
REALAGE DIET: MAKE YOURSELF YOUNGER WITH WHAT YOU EAT.
MONDAY 21ST MAY
THE TRAVEL DETECTIVE
 When
once asked whether he had traveled much, Henry David Thoreau replied,
"Yes--around Concord." Tonight’s guest, PETER GREENBERG, the
Travel editor for NBC’s Today Show, has seen a bit more than Mr. Thoreau.
In fact, Greenberg logs over 400,000 air miles a year! He will offer his
surefire travel advice and, inevitably, reveal the most humorous and disheartening
of his travel adventures as he visits Extension 720 to discuss his new
book THE
TRAVEL DETECTIVE.
TUESDAY 22ND MAY
ODDBALL WISCONSIN
(Rescheduled from May 15)
 The
World's Largest Talking Cow? The UFO Capital of the World? The International
Clown Hall of Fame? Yes, these are just a few of the bizarre but entertaining
attractions in the state of Wisconsin. JEROME POHLEN, who has traveled
throughout the Midwest in search of the unusual, joins us tonight after
a 7:05pm ballgame to discuss ODDBALL
WISCONSIN: A GUIDE TO SOME REALLY STRANGE PLACES.
WEDNESDAY 23RD MAY
COSMOLOGY
 The
1965 song "The Impossible Dream" calls for its listeners, "To
dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star!" In fact,
such sentiment has not been merely inspirational. ALAN HIRSHFELD, an astronomer
at the University of Massachusetts, reveals the fascinating history of
the "reach" for the stars--not in a theoretical or emotional
sense, but in the literal sense of measurement. His book PARALLAX:
THE RACE TO MEASURE THE COSMOS, details the ways by which such distances
are measured. Hirshfeld is joined by local astronomers EVALYN GATES, of
Adler Planetarium and the University of Chicago, and MICHAEL TURNER, of
the University of Chicago, for a broad discussion of cosmology--though
we may also ponder the question of how to go about measuring the distances
to other whole universes that MAY exist parallel to our own.
THURSDAY 24TH MAY
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
For many years, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations has been a leading
forum in the Midwest for the presentation, discussion, and review of international
politics. Its pioneering research in the field of public opinion and U.S.
foreign policy remains a benchmark. During JOHN RIELLY’s many years leading
the Council, Presidents, Secretaries of State, world leaders, and leading
scholars have all visited and spoken at the Council. At the end of June,
John will step down as president, and we welcome him and a panel of experts
to the show tonight for an indepth look at the uncertain state of American
foreign policy.
FRIDAY 25TH MAY
This program remains under construction. Please check back to wgnradio.com
for details.
MONDAY 28TH MAY
MEMORIAL DAY
Tonight’s program remains under construction. Please check back to wgnradio.com
later in the month for details.
TUESDAY 29TH MAY
THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE, CONT.
 "The
headlong pursuit of safety is killing off the simple pleasures of life,"
says tonight’s guest, PHILIP HOWARD. Howard notes some of the more egregious
actions that have made virtually all organizations and businesses nesting
grounds for legal paranoia. His new book THE
LOST ART OF DRAWING THE LINE: HOW FAIRNESS WENT TOO FAR details the
absurdities that have resulted from legal fear. In our pursuit to protect
the rights of individuals, he argues, we have trampled the rights of individuals
as members of a society.
WEDNESDAY 30TH MAY
ARCHITECTURE
One may not necessarily notice, but the skyline of Chicago is undergoing
constant renewal. Or is it constant regression? Tonight after a 6:05pm
game, Milt is joined by a panel which will include Chicago Tribune architecture
critic BLAIR KAMIN, MARTHA THORNE, the Associate Curator in the Department
of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago, and local architectural
observer author PHILIP BESS, author of INLAND ARCHITECTURE: SUBTERRANEAN
ESSAYS ON MORAL ORDER AND FORMAL ORDER IN CHICAGO, to discuss the recent
trends in city architecture. Will our panel endorse the gaudiness of such
proposals as the new design for Soldier Field? Or will they agree with
the German-born architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, who quite simply summarized
his architectural philosophy in the now famous phrase, "Less is more."
THURSDAY 31ST MAY
COMMIES
 Will
Rogers once commented, "Communism is like prohibition, it’s a good
idea but it won’t work." The political evolution of our guest, RONALD
RADOSH, revealed to him the bitter truth of this statement. Radosh began
his political life as a radical leftist and became a major radical activist
in the 1960s. After much soul-searching and, perhaps more importantly,
research, Radosh concluded that he and his allies on the left had been
gravely mistaken, though, in the main, altruistically motivated. Radosh
visits tonight to discuss his memoir COMMIES:
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE OLD LEFT, THE NEW LEFT, AND THE LEFTOVER LEFT.
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