RADIO PRODUCTIONS 

 Radio Smithsonian , a weekly series of half-hour programs 

 broadcast nationally; many subjects developed by Radio 

 Smithsonian staff. 

 "A Conversation with Jerry Garcia" Lead guitarist of The 



Grateful Dead reflects on the importance of traditional 



music. (RS) 

 "Exchanging Notes" Highlights from the first International 



Folklore Festival in Moscow featuring 4 traditional 



American musicians. (OFP) 

 "The Aviation Careers of Sikorsky" A discussion of Igor 



Skorsky's contributions on the centennial of his birth. 



(NASM) 

 "Stumbling into the Coca Culture" Botanist Dieter Wasshausen 



examines a plant with a 5000-year cultural past and a deadly 



present. (NMNH) 

 "Tracing the Tractor" Overview of a century of tractoring. 



(NMAH) 

 "Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius" Eminent scholar and poet 



Margaret Walker, author of an acclaimed biography of Wright, 



discusses his career. (RAP) 

 "Caribbean Festival Art" Highlights of Caribbean festivals 



expressing the cultures and arts of the islands. (OWAD) 

 "Composing a Life" Henry Mancini reflects on his career at 



ASCAP's 75th anniversary celebration. (RS) 

 "A Whiz of a Wiz" A tribute to the 50th anniversary of "The 



Wizard of Oz. (RS) 

 "World at War: 1939-1945" Fifty years later, experts offer 



perceptive analyses of key issues in the war's political, 



diplomatic, military, and social history. (NASM) 

 "Workers and Managers" As a new labor relations exhibit opens, a 



discussion focuses on the struggle between workers and 



managers for control of the workplace from the early 1800s 



to the present. (NMAH) 

 "Jazz Piano" Highlights of new album showcasing decades of 



performances by jazz artists of every style and school. 



(SIP) 

 "Great American Comics" A celebration of 100 years of American 



cartoon and comic art as featured in a new traveling 



exhibition. (SITES) 

 "Parting the Green Curtain" Deforestation, global warming, and 



species extinction are just a few of the 'hot' issues being 



researched in Panama. (STRI) 

 "Beni Biological Reserve" Touring a refuge for the Amazon 



basin's forest animals where Smithsonian scientists work 



with other researchers. (RS) 

 "Man in the Biosphere" A report on the Smithsonian's effort in 



Latin America to train local ecologists. (RS) 

 "The Noble Path" Highlights of the evolution of Buddhism in 



India and how it matured and spread into Tibet and Nepal . 



(AMSG) 

 "American Abstraction 1930-1945" Artists who resisted the 



representational tide reflect on the implications of their 

 work. (NMAA) 



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