Friday, July 30, 2004 – "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" is in Salt Lake City. Mark Lach, exhibit designer, tells the stories of the real objects salvaged from the depth of the ocean and the real stories behind them. The exhibit is presented by the Utah Museum of Natural History at it's downtown annex in the ZCMI Center on 36 S. State Street through January 8th, 2005. (Repeat)

Monday, August 2, 2004 – James Kugel joins Doug by phone from Harvard to discuss his book "The God of Old." The work explores the historical perception of God ... one very different from the God of the modern world.

Visit one of Salt Lake's independent booksellers:


Ken Sanders Rare Books


The King's English


Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore

Tuesday, August 3, 2004 – How important is religion in the American political spectrum? Does "the Right" really own religion? Doug talks with author and journalist Anna Quindlen. (Repeat)

To find more information or to listen to audio of this program, please link to the original broadcast, May 5, 2004 here.

Thursday, July 29, 2004 – Doug speaks to Mayor Anderson about his "Freedom Campaign" and to other Utah delegates to the Democratic Convention in Boston.

Visitor one of Salt Lake's independent booksellers:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
The King's English
Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore

Or buy on-line at Amazon.com. A portion of your purchase benefits KUER.

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 – Congressman Jim Matheson and radiation victim Mary Dickson join Doug to discuss the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and its proposed expansion.

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 – Doug talks with local historians and activists on the history of the gay community in Utah.

Visit one of Salt Lake's Independent Booksellers:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
The King's English
Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore

Or order on-line through Amazon.com. A portion of your purchase benefits KUER.

Monday, July 26, 2004 – Producer Ted Hope talks with Doug about his prolific work. "The Door in the Floor" is his most recent film and an adaptation from John Irving's "A Widow for One Year."

Visit one of Salt Lake's Independent Booksellers:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
The King's English
Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore

By Poverty, Violence and Hope in a Sprawling Mexican Border Town

July 19, 2004 – From above, it looks like a city in a valley between two dry mountain ranges, a city all alone in the desert. But if you look closely, you can see where a river runs along the bottom of the valley, cutting the city in half.

On the northern side is El Paso, Texas, and to the south it's Ciudad Juarez, in the Chihuahua state of Mexico. Two cities, two countries, and with a combined population of 2.5 million people, it's the largest border community on the planet.

Thursday, July 22, 2004 – Doug talks with Larry Morris about his recently published book "The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition."

Visit one of Salt Lake's Independent Booksellers:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
The King's English
Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore

Friday, July 23, 2004 – Utah painter Doug Snow talks from his home in Torrey about his work "Capitol Reef: The Inner Landscape." (Repeat)

To listen to audio of this program, please link to the original broadcast, May 19, 2004 here.

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 – Charles Bowden is a hard hitting journalist and author who writes fearlessly and passionately about the American south-west. He takes on difficult topics ... killers, drug traffickers, the destruction of nature and the predicament of modern civilization. Bowden joins Doug for a conversation about his writing and his work.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 – Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman's new documentary "Thirst" looks at the commercialization of our precious natural resource, water. Doug talks with the filmmakers, along with Utah Division of Water Resources Larry Anderson and Joseph Sax, Professor of Environmental Regulation Emeritus at UC Berkeley.

Friday, July 16, 2004 – Dan Bammes and co-host John Bird continue the series "Your Personal Economy."

By The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

Monday, July 19, 2004 – Ron Suskind talks about his book on the career of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill who resigned from the Bush Administration. (Repeat)

Thursday, July 15, 2004 – Associate Professor of English Phil Nell has recently published "Dr. Seuss: American Icon." (Repeat)

By Charles Osgood, Michael Hicks and Mormon Music

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 – Charles Osgood, CBS News' "poet-in-residence," will be in town this week to help the Mormon Tabernacle Choir mark 75 years of broadcasting "Music and the Spoken Word." He joins Doug, along with Michael Hicks, author of "Mormonism and Music: A History."

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Wednesday, July 14, 2004 – Doug discusses the proposed marriage amendment with Senator Bob Bennett.

Doug continues the hour with writers Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld. Their play "A Heart Divided" is Youth Theatre at the U's latest production about prejudice, racism and perspective. Actors Olivia Dustman and Chris Eckels join the conversation..

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By Amending the Constitution

Monday, July 12, 2004 – Doug talks with legal scholar Kermit Hall and historian David Kyvig about what it means to amend the constitution.

By Joining Science & Literature: Shakespeare, Eclipses & Changing Ideas of the Cosmos

Thursday, July 9, 2004 – Doug talks with writer and astronomer David Levy. Levy will present his lecture "Joining Science & Literature: Shakespeare, Eclipses & Changing Ideas of the Cosmos" at the Salt Lake City Public Library on Saturday, July 10th at 7:30 p.m.

By Faith and Other Possibilities

Thursday, July 8, 2004 – Doug talks with artists Gretchen Reynolds and Teresa Jordan about their artistic collaboration Faith and Other Possibilities. Jordan's monotypes and Reynolds' mixed media works are on display at the Finch Lane Gallery through July 23, 2004.

By Range Creek Fremont Find

Wednesday, July 7, 2004 – Doug discusses the historic value of the recent archaeological find of a Fremont Indian tribe community in Range Creek, Utah.

06/30/2004 – Whether you're spending the summer on the beach or in the mountains, don't forget to pack a good book. Our friends from Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, The King's English and Ken Sanders Rare Books spoke with RadioWest's Doug Fabrizio about what they suggest for summer reading.

Fiction:

By Artist Anna Campbell Bliss

July 1, 2004 – Doug talks with artist Anna Campbell Bliss, whose work is influenced by water, modern dance, Euclidean geometry, Josef Albers' color theory, Islamic calligraphy, Navajo rugs, DNA and more. Her exhibit, "Intersections: The Art of Anna Campbell Bliss," is currently featured at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

By Summer Reading

June 30, 2004 – Doug talks with local reading gurus from Ken Sanders Rare Books, Kings English Bookshop and Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore about the best summer reads.

By Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

July 5, 2004 – Biographer Walter Isaacson describes why Ben Franklin is the Founding Father you would most want to hang out with today. (Repeat)

By Alexander Hamilton

July 2, 2004 – Doug talks with National Book Award winner Ron Chernow about his latest book, "Alexander Hamilton."

By TBD

July 1, 2004 – Show TBD

By Apologetics and Mormon Orthodoxy

July 6, 2004 – Doug explores the role of intellectualism and apologetics in LDS orthodoxy with scholar John-Charles Duffy.

By TBD

Friday, July 2 – Show TBD

By Utah Arts Festival

Thursday, June 24 – Doug is joined by artists and performers of the 2004 Utah Arts Festival.