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  Weekdays, 10am to 12pm, 7pm to 9pm

Archived shows

Your voice matters on WOSU's Open Line.
Weekday mornings, Fred Andrle hosts his award-winning talk program. Fred’s show features fascinating national and local guests. He guides an intelligent and balanced discussion on topics ranging from politics to literature, music to science, health to finance, and psychology to science fiction.

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Open Line Podcasts
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http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510161

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(N.B. All emails will be read, but the producers may not have time to respond to all of them personally.)

Open Line is repeated weekday evenings at 7pm.
 
 MONDAY
  7/30

10:00 AM

At the conclusion of the U.S. Supreme Court 2006-07 term: we’ll hear an analysis of recent rulings on important cases, with Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Professors Ruth Colker, Edward Foley and Alan Michaels—Part II of a series.

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11:00 AM
Following the declassification of sixty years of secret records, we’ll hear the untold history of the CIA and charges that the agency fails its primary mission—to gather and analyze intelligence, with New York Times National Security Reporter Tim Weiner.

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11:30 AM
the nature of our relationship with domestic animals and the human bond with dogs, with author and host of Northeast Public Radio’s “Dog Talk” John Katz.

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Dog Dispatches


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 TUESDAY
  7/31

10:00 AM

Open Forum.

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11:00 AM
The use of language in politics, with linguist and University of California at Berkeley School of Information Professor Geoffrey Nunberg.

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Talking Right


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 WEDNESDAY
  8/1

10:00 AM

words and the adventure of language, with Webster’s New World College Dictionary Editor in Chief Mike Agnes.

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Webster's New World


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11:00 AM
A pragmatic approach to conservation of the Amazon Rainforest that respects indigenous peoples and culture, with “Tale’s of a Shaman’s Apprentice” author and Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) President Mark Plotkin

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Amazon Conservation Team


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 THURSDAY
  8/2
Special encore presentations of the “Best of Open Line”:
10:00 AM

Reflections on the path to leadership, with a panel of Central Ohio’s women leaders: Ohio State University College of the Arts Dean Karen Bell, United Way of Central Ohio President and CEO Janet Jackson, YWCA Great Lakes Alliance Regional Manager Karen Schwarzwalder, and South Side Settlement Executive Director Mari Sunami.

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11:00 AM
How to make changes in your life—and live your particular dream, with journalist and Random Acts of Kindness author M.J.Ryan.

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This Year I Will


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 FRIDAY
  8/3

10:00 AM

U.S. foreign policy in a time of conflict, with Ohio State University Mershon Center Director Richard Herrmann.

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11:00 AM
The history of the concept of “universal human rights,” with UCLA Modern European History Professor Lynn Hunt.

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Inventing Human Rights


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