Patt Morrison for Wednesday, March 14, 2012

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:58:30 - OPEN

 

2:06 – 2:39

Ask the Chief: LAPD top cop Charlie Beck takes your questions

The last month has been a busy one for the Los Angeles Police Department’s Chief Charlie Beck, especially when it comes to issues of the four-wheeled sort. The Chief made headlines late last month when he came out in support of driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. A group of LAPD motorcycle officers are set to go through with a lawsuit filed last summer, alleging the officers were denied overtime and given bad performance reviews because they didn’t fulfill traffic ticket quotas. Potentially more damaging are the recent statistics about the number of auto accidents involving police vehicle, 1250 over three years – that’s an average of one per day. The city has spent $24 million on lawsuits and settlements, and in several cases, police officers have been found responsible for civilian fatalities and have lied about their involvement. On top of this already tricky powder keg comes the LAPD’s latest announcement: a plan to stop impounding the vehicles of certain unlicensed drivers, which critics argue will attract even more undocumented workers to the Southland. Car-related or not, now’s your opportunity to ask the Chief! 

 

Guest:

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck

IN STUDIO

 

2:41:30 – 2:58:30

Jeanette Winterson asks the question, “Why be happy when you could be normal?”

When, at age sixteen, Jeanette Winterson left home because she was in love with a woman, her adoptive mother asked her, “Why be happy when you could be normal?” ‘Mrs. Winterson,’ as Jeanette calls her, was a religious zealot who kept a revolver in the dresser and locked her daughter out of the house. Winterson’s compelling new memoir details her painful Pentecostal upbringing in a north English industrial town, her search for her biological mother, her journey into madness and out again and her eventual salvation through writing. It’s been called “clarion, courageous, vividly expressive” and “a work of terror and beauty.”

 

Guests:

Jeanette Winterson,  author of “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” (Grove Press) and numerous other novels, including “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” “Sexing the Cherry” and “The Passion.”

 

Jeanette Winterson will be signing books at Skylight Books tonight [Thursday] at 7:30 p.m.  http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/jeanette-winterson-discusses-and-signs-her-book-why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lauren Osen

Southern California Public Radio - 89.3 KPCC

626-583-5173 / 626-483-5278

losen@scpr.org @Patt_Morrison