Patt Morrison for Friday, 11/06/09

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Friday, November 6, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

 

1:06 – 1:39

OPEN

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

Helen Gahagan Douglas—The Pink Lady

She was a three-term Congresswoman, Broadway star, Nixon nemesis and lover of LBJ. But a brutal Senate campaign waged by Republican Congressman Richard Nixon ended her career as an elected official in 1950. That’s when Nixon and his henchmen dubbed Douglas “The Pink Lady” and, with the help of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover, took her down with the McCarthyist anti-Red hysteria that was sweeping Hollywood. Author Sally Denton tells Helen Gahagan Douglas’ story in this long-overdue political biography.

 

Guest:

Sally Denton, author of “The Pink Lady”

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2:06 – 2:30

Berlin Wall – 20 yrs after the fall

It has been 20 years since the wall that separated East and West Germany came down ending the Cold War in Eastern Europe. Reagan was applauded for demanding that Gorbachev tear down the wall and Gorbachev went on to win the Nobel Prize and be named the Man of the Decade by TIME Magazine. Were the efforts enormous or was the implosion of the Iron Curtain inevitable? Twenty years later how much does November 9th, 1989 really matter?

 

Guests:

Michael Meyer, author of “The Year that Changed the World:  The Untold Story of the Fall of the Berlin Wall”; former Newsweek bureau chief for Eastern Europe in 1989 & current speechwriter for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

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2:30 – 2:58:30

Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me…brings the frivolity to KPCC

It’s the most listened to hour on KPCC’s weekly schedule, and it’s easily the goofiest show on NPR’s roster—“Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” is ostensibly a quiz show but is really more about making fun of the news, politics and ourselves.  The shows two hosts Peter Sagal & Carl Kasell, in Pasadena to tape L.A. editions of “Wait, Wait” join Patt in studio to get a behind the scenes look at the show and perhaps answer a quiz question or two.

 

Guests:

Peter Sagal & Carl Kasell, hosts of NPR’s “Wait, Wait….Don’t Tell Me!”

IN STUDIO

 

Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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