Archive for the ‘Voices’ Category
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Executive Producer & Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Bill Phillips, Peter Rottman, Meredith DeFrancesco, Helen York, Andy Buckley
Segment 1: Health care in America produced by Bill Phillips and Peter Rottman
Guest: Dr. Peter Millard, physician, the Family Medicine Residency Program at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine
How do health outcomes in the ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
TOPIC: Rebroadcast of two environmental programs from 1998: Environmental Notebook and A Wildlife Journal (as part of WERU's 20th Anniversary "Hear Again" series)
Why may boycotts of rainforest wood products be counterproductive? What are some other economic appraoches to helping to preserve rainforests? What benefits do spiders have ecologically?
GUESTS:
Professor ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Executive Producer: Amy Browne
Producer: Marge May
Host: Ann Luther, Co-president, League of Women Voters of Maine
Topic: Part of the on-going monthly "Democracy Forum" series. Today: Corporations and Democracy
Private vs public:Â what's appropriate for the public sector, what's appropriate for the private sector?
What would be the function of government if everything possible ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Producer/Host: JIm Campbell
Topic: Interview with and readings by Janwillem van de Wetering (recently deceased) from the WERU Archives
What were some of the formative influences on van de Wetering's writings? What is the central point in all of his fiction writings? How did his living in Maine affect his writing?
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Producer/Host: John Greenman, with assistance from Hugh Curran
Topic: Tanzania:Â An interview with Jaffar Mjasiri, Journalist, Tanzania Standard Newspapers, during his recent visit to Maine
How concerned are the people of Tanzania about ecological degredation to Mt Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti Plains What is the cultural/religious makeup of the population? How concerned ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Producers/Hosts: Marge May and Ann Luther, League of Women Voters, Downeast Maine
Topic: Democracy Forum
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Producer/Host: Marge May
Topic: Segments recorded at the 2008 National Media Reform Conference
Have mass media adequately covered the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan?
What is the role of news media: to advocate for gov’t policies or to inform the public about gov’t policies?
What can a citizen do to encourage better media coverage ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Producer: Adam Lacher, with technical assistance from Jeffrey McCarter
Host/Editor: Amy Browne
Topic: June 25th over 120 protestors from around the state and abroad gathered at the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells Water District in opposition to a plan by the water district to sell water to Poland Spring Water Company, a subsidiary of ...
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