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SMITHSONIAN GALAXY - 104 two-and-one-half-minute radio features 



RADIO SMITHSONIAN - 52 half-hour radio programs 



The partial listing of segments, which follows, contains material 

 based on research done by Smithsonian curators or other personnel: 

 "The Piano at Home" From "Piano in America" series, old favorites, 

 rediscoveries, and nostalgia in concert recreation of songs sung 'round 

 the piano in 19c America, with music historian Mark Tucker. (MAH) 

 "Community and Cosmos" First comprehensive survey of Igbo art reveals 

 complexity of this ancient culture. Herbert Cole and Roslyn Walker. (MAfa) 

 "Sky Fighters" Exhibition pays tribute to Leroy Grumman and the F6F 

 Hellcat, the plane that gave Allies control of skies in WWII.(NASM) 

 "Halley's Comet in Babylonia" 2000-year-old tablets recently rediscov- 

 ered at British Museum offer confirmation for modern computer programs 

 tracing history of Halley's comet, with Allan Needell. (NASM) 

 "Fire and Ice" Astronomers swing into observational action for Halley's 

 Comet and museum offers visual commentary with comet-inspired art . (SAO /NASM) 

 "Understanding Echinoderms" An unusual deep-water colony of urchins, 

 starfish, brittlestars and their kin and Smithsonian scientists investi- 

 gating them. (MNH) 



"The Spider's Web" A tour through a bizarre world of vibrations where 

 spiders sense their prey through web movements, with Jonathan Coddington. 

 (MNH) 



"Revising Classic Jazz" A second look at Smithsonian Recordings set called 

 "Classic Jazz," with music historian Martin Williams on music under con- 

 sideration for revisions including works by Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, 

 Stan Getz, and other jazz greats. (SIP) 



"It's a Gas" 100th anniversary of gas light is celebrated with curator 

 Bill Worthington and exhibition. (MAH) 



"The Best Food in Space" An exhibition of space food with curator Derek 

 Elliott discussing weightless cuisine on the Space Shuttle. (NASM) 

 "A People's History" Everyday life in 18c America presents new views of 

 the Revolution and triumphs and struggles of people who forged often oppos- 

 ing opinions and lifestyles into new nation. (MAH) 



"At Home on the Road" 150 years or so later, Americans were discovering 

 the vacation. Exhibition explores nation's love affair with travel and 

 leisure as it developed after turn of 20c.(MAH) 



"Vertical Flight" New gallery devoted to man's efforts to go straight up 

 in air with museum director Walter Boyne and assistant director Donald 

 Lopez, authors of book on subject . (NASM) 



"Flights of Fancy" Curator Claudia Oakes recounts famous first flights 

 to far-away places — from England to southern tip of Africa, England to 

 Australia, California to New Guinea. (NASM) 



"A Paderewski Recital" Part of "Piano in America" series, this is recrea- 

 tion of Ignaz Jan Paderewski' s first Washington appearance in February, 

 1892, featuring Christine Niehaus playing same Steinway he played. (MAH) 

 "Cosmic Bubbles" A startling discovery reveals revolutionary picture of 

 universe, with galaxies in clusters on surfaces of great bubble-like voids 

 in space, with astrophysicists Margaret Geller, John Huchra and others. (SAO) 



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