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How did your life collide with the headlines in 2007?
Iraq, the subprime crisis, Facebook, immigration, oil prices - 2007 had no shortage of hefty headlines. We'd like to hear about how these and other major news events of the past year affected you. Where did your life collide with the news in 2007?

What's your holiday performance story?
The office talent show, the neighborhood caroling posse, the school pageant ... At holiday time we often sing, dance, and dress as shepherds. Did you bloom in the warmth of your audience's adulation, or freeze up like the snowman you'd rather be building? Did your holiday performance change your life or that of someone close to you?

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Broadcast Information for October 9, 2004
Music Bridge: Start From Scratch
Artist: Galactic
CD: Crazyhorse Mongoose (Capricorn)


The Morning After
Charles Gibson, host of Good Morning America and moderator of Friday's debate, talks with Bill about last night's Presidential debate. Then, Bill speaks with Robin Dahle, one of the undecided voters who asked the first question of the debate.

Music Bridge: He Uses Special Stamps On His Special Letters
Artist: Langtry
CD: As Upon The Road Thereto (Sub Pop)


Under the Weather
Barbara had a flu shot before the shortage was announced and now she's feeling guilty. She goes to the doctor for help.

Online resources:
www.medicare.gov
www.cdc.gov

Music Bridge: Oriental Wind
Artist: Wax Poetic
CD: World 2004 (Wrasse)
Remembering Robert Kennedy
On Sunday, October 10, Cincinnati Camerata will perform Mass for the Dead by Frank Lewin. The piece, which was written in memory of Robert Kennedy, was last performed 35 years ago. We'll hear from Frank and his daughter Naomi Lewin about their work and inspirations. We'll also hear parts of the piece itself.

Online resource:
Listen to the entire Requiem for Robert F. Kennedy
Listen to the Lord's Prayer, an excerpt from the Requiem for Robert F. Kennedy
Cincinnati Camerata

Music Bridge: Sonate F-Dur op. 5, Nr 1
Artist: Andras Schiff Miklos Perenyi
CD: Ludwig Van Beethoven: Complete Music for Piano and Violonceello (ECM)

Listener Letters
Barbara and Bill read from listener emails about barbeque, bluegrass jamming and the difference between "genius" and "genuine."

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Weekend America Collage
Today is the official launch of Weekend America. This is a sound collage of some our favorite moments from the Weekend America pilots.
Music Bridge: Afrique
Artist: Cuica
CD: City to City (Ubiquity)

Michael Moore
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Political Documentaries
From Michael Moore to George Butler, political documentaries have been in the news and on the screen. We'll talk with Nancy Buirski, the executive director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and John Else, a journalism professor at the University of California at Berkeley about whether the genre has been poisoned by politics.

Online resources:
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
More about Jon Else

Music Bridge: Arabic
Artist: The Claudia Quintet
CD: I, Claudia (Cuneiform)

Carnival Secrets
Bill goes to explore the carnival and gets advice on how to shoot to win.

Online resource:
Santa Monica Pier
Bret's book, "Carnival Undercover," is available at the Public Radio BookSource.

Music Bridge: Keep Your Fare Down
Artist: Global Goon
CD: Family Glue (Audio Dregs)
American Values
Producers Richard Paul and David Welch have been talking to Americans about what we believe. They asked Americans to explain what some of the phrases that politicians have been tossing around mean to them in practical terms.
Music Bridge: Door Opens Both Ways
Artist: Kim Hiorthoy
CD: Melke (Smalltown Supersound)
Featured in Hour Two

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 Audible Science
The Nobel Prize in medicine went to scientists who work with smell this year, but we wondered about the latest developments in hearing. Bill Radke talked with Dr. Hudspeth of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute about the sound ears make.

Online resource:
NobelPrize.org
Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience

Music Bridge: Bargain
Artist: Pete Townshend
CD: Oceanic Concerts (Rhino Records)

Beaux Arts Trio
Daniel Hope
Anja Lechner and
Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Classical Music Picks
Steve Smith of Time Out New York reviews some of the best new classical releases.

Steve's set list:
Piano Trio No. 1 - Movement 3 - Beaux Arts Trio from the album, Mendelssohn and Dvorak Trios (Warner Classics)
Swara-Kakali (part 2: Gat in Teentala) - Daniel Hope from the album, East Meets West (Warner Classics)
G.I. Gurdjieff: Duduki - Anja Lechner and Vassilis Tsabropoulos from the album, Chants, Hymns and Dances (ECM)



Kokoke Lani Bed and Breakfast
 In the Shadow of a Volcano
Mt. St. Helens is quieting down, but what's it like to live next to a volcano? We'll talk to Rod Hayes, who owns the Kokoke Lani Bed and Breakfast Inn at the foot of Mt. Hualalai in Hawaii.

Online resource:
Kokoke Lani Bed & Breakfast Inn

Live Chat with Sports Writer Gary Smith
Sports Illustrated writer Gary Smith is live with us in the studio. He'll fill us in on the baseball playoffs, the beginning of the football season and some of America's other favorite ways to sweat.
Music Bridge: Spheresong
Artist: Kiln
CD: Ampday (Thalassa)
Weekend America Collage
Today is the official launch of Weekend America. This is a sound collage of some our favorite moments from the Weekend America pilots.
Music Bridge: What It Is Pts 1&2
Artist: Appollis
CD: Bay Area Funk (Ubiquity)
American Values, Part 2
Producers Richard Paul and David Welch have been talking to Americans about what we believe. They asked Americans to explain what some of the phrases that politicians have been tossing around mean to them in practical terms.
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