Illinois in the War of 1812
With Gillum Ferguson, J.D. (Attorney in Naperville, Illinois; Historian)
Focus
Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football: A Documentary Film
With Ash-har Quraishi (Emmy Award-Winning Television Journalist, Writer, Photographer and Filmmaker), and , and Basma Babar-Quraishi (Award-Winning, long-form, documentary, and breaking news Producer)
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Talk with the Candidate
With The Honorable Timothy Johnson, J.D. (Representative from the 15th Congressional Illinois District to the U.S. House of Representatives; Republican Candidate for the 13th Illinois Congressional District)
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Government,
Politics
Talk with the Candidate
With Tom Pliura, M.D., J.D. (Republican Candidate for the Illinois State Senate, 51st District)
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Government,
Politics
Wildlife Health, Ecosystem Health, and Human Health
With Matthew C. Allender, D.V.M. (Wildlife Veterinarian and Epidemiologist; Visiting Instructor, Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois)
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The Illinois State Budget
With J. Fred Giertz, Ph.D. (Professor of Economics and at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois), and , and Robert Rich, Ph.D. (Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois)
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The Academy Awards Nominations and Films of 2011
With Richard Leskosky, Ph.D. (Associate Director Unit for Cinema Studies and Assistant Professor, University of Illinois; Film Critic, The News-Gazette), and , and David Desser (Emeritus Professor and former Director of Cinema Studies, UIUC; Adjunct Professor of Critical Media Studies, Department of Film and Television, UCLA)
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Categories:
Cinema
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
With Wade Davis, Ph.D. (Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society; Anthropologist, Ethnobotanist, Filmmaker)
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The Dark Defile: Britain’s Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842
With Diana Preston (Historian, Writer, Broadcaster)
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Categories:
History,
International Affairs
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
With Katherine Boo (Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Pulitzer Prize Winner)