Schedules

• 12:00 am
  News & Notes Jena 6 Co-Defendant Released Jena 6 Co-Defendant Released -- The program talks to NPR's Audie Cornish about the latest in the Jena 6 case -- the release of co-defendant Mychal Bell.
• 1:00 am
  This Week in Northern California Ed Jew Removed and Replaced Ed Jew Removed and Replaced -- The saga of San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew took another turn this week, when Mayor Gavin Newsom suspended him from his seat on the board for alleged official misconduct. The District 4 supervisor is the subject of a federal felony investigation into whether he accepted payments in exchange for using his influence to gain business permits. He was subsequently investigated for fraudulently claiming a San Francisco residence, a mandatory qualification to run for and hold local office. Jew has maintained his innocence, refusing to step down voluntarily. He is not without his supporters, and some residents of the largely Asian Sunset district say the accusations are racially motivated. The case will go for review before the city's 5-member volunteer Ethics Commission, which typically meets only 4 hours per month.
• 1:30 am
  Pacific Time Green Business in China Green Business in China -- China's record on the environment and energy consumption is at least consistent. Last year it failed to meet its targets to curb pollution and boost energy efficiency, and it looks like it'll miss those goals this year. China has now overtaken the United States to become the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions, and many are pointing their fingers at local officials who put economic growth ahead of the environment. As the program reports, however, in some places the tide is beginning to turn.
• 2:00 am
  Commonwealth Club Robert Reich Robert Reich -- The program's speaker is economist and former U.S. secretary of labor, Robert Reich. Reich will discuss the transformation of the economy and how it is affecting our lives and the democracy in which we live. The former Clinton administration economist will explain the ongoing economic transformation and how we can best navigate it while spreading prosperity. Reich, currently a professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, has written eleven books, including "The Work of Nations" and was co-founder of The American Prospect.
• 3:00 am
  Washington Week Ahmadinejad in New York Ahmadinejad in New York -- This week's opening session of the U.N. General Assembly was filled with drama. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used his address to world leaders as an opportunity to downplay Tehran's nuclear ambitions and accuse the Bush administration of human-rights violations. Ahmadinejad insists his country's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. USA Today Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Barbara Slavin, who met with Ahmadinejad in New York, reports on how the international community plans to pursue a third round of sanctions despite the Iranian leader's declaration that "the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed."
• 3:30 am
  Inside Europe Race and the French Modeling Industry Race and the French Modeling Industry -- Many people wouldn't associate the modeling industry with ethical employment practices, but one of the world s biggest model agencies, Elite, is setting an example when it comes to affirmative action. The Paris-based employers of Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford say they want to sign up more ethnic talent, but is France ready to make room for its large African-origin population on the catwalks, in commercials and on the cover of its fashion magazines?
• 4:00 am
  It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council) The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy -- Originally publishing "The Israel Lobby" as an essay in the London Review of Books in March 2006, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's analysis of the Israel lobby and its influence on U.S. foreign policy was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Having deepened and expanded their argument to confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran, Mearsheimer and Walt join the program to discuss their contention that the material and diplomatic support provided by the United States to Israel is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. The authors argue that this lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East-in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
• 5:00 am
  Weekend Edition Reminiscing on Sputnik Reminiscing on Sputnik -- Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union got to space first with Sputnik. Nikita Khrushchev's son remembers listening with his father to the beep, beep, beep over the radio receiver on the day they planned to launch the satellite. Sergei Khrushchev joins the program for a to reflect on the event with Daniel Schorr.
MORNING
• 7:00 am
  Weekend Edition

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• 9:00 am
  Weekend Edition
• 10:00 am
  Car Talk Click and Clack tackle the tougher questions of the automobile world.
• 11:00 am
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  This American Life Twentieth Century Man Twentieth Century Man -- Over the course of his life, Keith Aldrich was a child of depression in Oklahoma, a preacher-in-training, an aspiring Hollywood actor, a self-styled beat writer, a member of the New York literati and then a hippie, a denizen of the suburbs, and a born-again Christian. Gillian Aldrich, one of his nine children, ponders: "What happens if you're too good at transforming yourself?"
• 1:00 pm
  Radio Specials Intelligence Squared: Spreading Democracy in the Middle East is a Bad Idea Intelligence Squared: "Spreading Democracy in the Middle East is a Bad Idea" -- This program brings Oxford-style debating to America -- one motion, one moderator, three panelists for the motion, and three against. With informed and provocative panelists taking on the hot-button issues of the day, the show is certain to enlighten, entertain, inform and inflame. Panelists arguing for the motion include Flynt Leverett, senior fellow and director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council and the author of "Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options Toward Iran." Panelists arguing against the motion include John Esposito, professor of religion and international affairs, professor of Islamic studies and founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. The moderator is Robert Siegel, host of NPR's All Things Considered.
• 2:00 pm
  Soundprint Durga's Court Durga's Court -- One of the world's most unique courts can be found on the verandah of a house in a remote village in West Bengal, India. Each litigating party comes with a group of supporters who try to out-shout each other, and the judge makes her rulings by a potent alchemy of mythology, common sense, a flamboyant personality and a very loud voice. In this program, Dheera Sujan visits what must be one of the more unusual courts of justice in the world.
• 2:30 pm
  Soundprint Ode to Josephine Ode to Josephine -- Josephine Fernandez was Dheera Sujan's 20-something, bow-legged nanny. Sujan was about five and her sister two years younger when Josie came into their lives, staying with the family until they immigrated to Australia a few years later. When the Sujan family left India to start a new life, it was Josie whom they missed more than anything else they'd left behind. This program was produced by Radio Netherlands and is part of the international documentary exchange series, Crossing Boundaries.
• 3:00 pm
  BBC World Service
• 4:00 pm
  Living On Earth Alaska -- Oil or Birds? Alaska -- Oil or Birds? -- The Bureau of Land Management hopes to lease the last untouched part of Alaska's North Slope to oil and gas drilling companies. The program speaks with Stan Senner, executive director of Audubon Alaska, about Teshekpuk Lake, which is a critical nesting and mating ground for migratory birds and other species, and could soon be developed.
• 5:00 pm
  All Things Considered
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  A Prairie Home Companion The program presents a broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• 8:00 pm
  Selected Shorts Susanna Thompson reads "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin; Isaiah Sheffer reads "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain, the fairy tale, "Puddocky" and "Selected Letters" by Truman Capote; and Paul Hecht reads "Soul Murder" by David Mamet.
• 9:00 pm
  Studio 360 Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock -- Over his nearly fifty-year career, Herbie Hancock has experimented with all kinds of genres including classical, jazz, funk and hip-hop. Hancock can now add folk to the list. His latest record is "River: The Joni Letters," and on it he finds a kindred spirit in the music of Joni Mitchell. Hancock joins the program and remembers how when he first met Mitchell in the late 1970s, he was surprised by what he heard.
• 10:00 pm
  This American Life Twentieth Century Man Twentieth Century Man -- Over the course of his life, Keith Aldrich was a child of depression in Oklahoma, a preacher-in-training, an aspiring Hollywood actor, a self-styled beat writer, a member of the New York literati and then a hippie, a denizen of the suburbs, and a born-again Christian. Gillian Aldrich, one of his nine children, ponders: "What happens if you're too good at transforming yourself?"
• 11:00 pm
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.