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November 1999 Shows
MONDAY NOVEMBER 1ST
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Milt hosts a discussion of foreign policy with noted analysts Professors
Richard Sobel, Charles Lipson and Arthur Cyr. Tune in as America's role
in the international sphere is discussed tonight on Extension 720.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER
2ND
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Martin Luther King's famous observation that we have guided missiles and
misguided men echoes the themes set out in the new book Hi-tech, Hi-touch
whose authors John Naisbitt, Nana Naisbitt and Douglas Phillips are tonight's
guests on Extension 720. Focusing on the effects of technology in reshaping
society, the book brings together a mountain of evidence implicating technology
in relentlessly accelerating our lives and stirring profound yearnings
for a more emotionally satisfying existence.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMEBER
3RD
THE LAST MILLENNIUM
"August was the month when flies started to become a problem, buzzing
round the dung heaps in the corner of every farmyard and hovering over
the open cesspits of human refuse that were located outside every house."
Although daily dangers were many, housing uncomfortable, and the dominant
smells unpleasant indeed, life in England at the turn of the previous
millennium was not at all bad, according to tonight's guest, Robert Lacey
author of Year 1000. Drawing on the medieval Julius Work Calendar, a document
detailing everyday life around A.D. 1000, Lacey's book takes the reader
on a month-by-month tour through a single year, touching on such matters
as religious belief, superstition, medicine, cuisine, agriculture, and
politics, as well as contemporary ideas of the self and society. An insight
into life at the breaking of the last millennium tonight on Extension
720.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER
4TH
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
We're pleased to welcome the noted presidential scholar Michael Beschloss
into our studios for a discussion of presidential politics and the forthcoming
race for the White House. Beschloss will be joined by an expert panel
including newspaperman Bill Minutaglio author of the new biography of
George W Bush, First Son.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5TH
EVERY CHARTERED STREET
Extension 720 is going to the dogs, well to the Isle of Dogs as we are
joined by Professor Stephen Inwood author of A History of London and fellow
historian of the foggy metropolis Professor Robert Bucholz. Inwood's book
is a lively history of one of the world's great cities from its Roman
origins to the 60's tower blocks that have so angered Prince Charles.
Join Milt and guests on a journey from barbarism to brutalism tonight
on Extension 720. (This show will be broadcast on C-Span later in the
month)
MONDAY NOVEMBER 8TH
RACING APART?
Tonight Extension 720 welcomes one of America's foremost sociologists
William Julius Wilson on the occasion of the publication of his new book
'Bridge over the Racial Divide'. Wilson's book demonstrates how political
power is disproportionately concentrated among the most advantaged segments
of society and how the monetary, trade, and tax policies of recent years
have deepened this power imbalance. Developing his earlier views on race
in contemporary society, William Julius Wilson gives a simple, straightforward,
and crucially important diagnosis of the problem of rising social inequality
in the United States and details a set of recommendations for dealing
with it.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER
9TH
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED
Michael Janeway author of Republic of Denial: Press, Politics and Public
Life joins Milt in conversation with a panel of experienced journalists
for an informative and searching discussion of the state of American journalism.
In his new book Janeway presents a compelling analysis of the crumbling
barrier between the newsroom and the boardroom--and the dismaying notion
that serious journalism has itself become just one more niche market.
Tonight on Extension 720
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER
10TH
VIRTUAL INDUSTRY
In The New New tonight's guest Michael Lewis takes readers inside the
world of Silicon Valley excess, the frantic deal making, the absurdly
hyped expectations and the phenomenal wealth. Lewis will join Milt in
conversation with a panel of new technology analysts and entrepreneurs
tonight on Extension 720 as we explore the dizzying world of modern Silicon
Valley and beyond.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER
11TH
TABERNACLE TALES
Mormon America: The Power and The Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan
K. Ostling, grew out of a 1997 Time magazine cover story called "Mormon's
Inc." One of the reporters on that story, Richard Ostling, became
so fascinated by Mormonism that he set out to write "a candid but
non-polemical" overview of the Church, beginning with its founding
by Joseph Smith Jr. in 1830 and continuing to the present day. Richard
Ostling joins Extension 720 tonight as our expert panel considers Mormonism
and the role that it plays in modern American society
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12TH
We're planning a special show on human rights for tonight.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 15TH
THE SEA, THE SEA
Tonight's guest Jonathan Raban, a Londoner resident in Seattle, is one
of the English-speaking world's great travelers and travel writers. His
latest book Juneau: A sea and Its Meanings is a wonderfully literate account,
of a sailing trip up the Inside Passage from the Puget Sound to the Alaska
Panhandle. Turn on the GPS and batten down the hatches for a sea faring
edition of Extension 720.
TUESDAY NOVEMEBER
16TH
CARL SAGAN: A LIFE
Milt chats to Kaey Davidson, author of a new biography of Carl Sagan about
the late astronomer's life and ideas. Contributing to the discussion will
be Fermilab physicist Michael Turner who will help elucidate some of Sagan's
theories and explain his significance as a scientist as well as a popularizer
of science. We'll illustrate the discussion with extracts drawn from Milt's
many interviews with Sagan.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER
17TH
POLITICS AND PUNDITS
Ronald Reagan played a pretty good president, George Bush didn't have
an idea in his head, and John McLaughlin is a boor and a bully. And that's
only a sampling of the famous targets marked out in the new book Fat Man
in A Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics written by tonight's
guest Jack Germond. Join Germond and Milt in a no holds barred bout of
political discussion tonight on Extension 720
THURSDAY NOVEMBER
18TH
HOME HEALTH
Tonight we welcome two of America's most popular health experts Joe and
Teresa Greadon for a discussion their new book The People's Pharmacy Guide
to Home and Herbal Remedies. Your questions about domestic medicine of
all varieties answered on tonight's homegrown edition of Extension 720
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19TH
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
An airborne death machine, it can take off backward, hover, accelerate
in a fraction of a second, make an unbanked turn at full speed, somersault,
and even stop on a dime in flight. It's able to lift double its own weight,
and is capable of making up to 400 kills a day. No, it's not the Pentagon's
newest high-tech helicopter, but a dragonfly. This winged warrior is just
one of the many battle-scarred creatures that fly, swim, and walk through
the pages of Evolutionary Wars the new book by tonight's guest biologist
Charles Kingsley Levy. Levy's new book is a guide to nature's most ingenious
means of attack and defense. Participants include whales that can blast
ultrasonic sound intense enough to kill, frogs able to secrete lethal
toxins that attack the nervous system, lizards who distract predators
by shedding a piece of tail that continues to wiggle, and, finally, the
ultimate weapons system no other species has been able to compete with
the human brain. Levy and other panelists join a discussion of the evolution
of nature's arsenal tonight on Extension 720.
MONDAY 22ND NOVEMBER
CARDINAL GEORGE
We are honored to welcome to the studios Cardinal George for a timely
discussion tonight on Extension 720
TUESDAY NOVEMBER
23rd
GOLD FROM THE VAULTS
Tonight's show will consist of pre-recorded interviews. Amongst the likely
subjects are the discovery of Mallory's body on Everest, the life and
times of novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the origin of America's
distrust of politicians and the political system
WEDS NOVEMBER 24TH
Tonight's show is under wraps, but we promise to throw the covers off
shortly.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER
25th
TAPED TREATS
On this Thanksgiving evening we'll be playing a number of prerecorded
interviews on a range of topics from the Irish Diaspora to the latest
work in sociobiology and we guarantee that there will be absolutely no
turkeys
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26th
Tonight's show is still fermenting in the vat; we'll let you know as soon
as it's fully brewed
MONDAY NOVEMBER 29TH
BATTLE OF THE MIDWAY
Dr Robert Ballard the oceanographer who discovered the Titanic and explored
the wrecks of the Bismarck, Lusitania and Britannic pops his head round
the studio A bulkhead for a conversation with Milt. Ballard will discuss
his latest underwater investigation; an exploration of the wrecks of ships
sunk in the battle of Midway.
TUESDAY 30TH NOVEMBER
With only a few shopping days left to Christmas we're still wrapping up
tonight's show.
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