The Kathleen Dunn Show
Focused on leading balanced discussions about the issues of the day and those of our time, "The Kathleen Dunn Show" aired Monday through Thursday, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ideas Network stations from 2006 until August 10, 2017.
Dunn and her producers strove to be as timely as possible when choosing topics and guests. The immediacy of the show attracted many loyal listeners who sought in-depth discussions that go beyond the headlines.
| Date | Description | Audio |
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| Wed, 12/31/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/31/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says while President-elect Obama has attractive ideas for improving post-secondary education, he should also use his position to undermine the Bachelor’s Degree as a job qualification. | Download |
| Wed, 12/31/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/31/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says while President-elect Obama has attractive ideas for improving post-secondary education, he should also use his position to undermine the Bachelor’s Degree as a job qualification. | Download |
| Wed, 12/31/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/31/2008 - From the first Iowa caucuses... to the historic election of Barack Obama, the 2008 election captivated the nation. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look back on a memorable election year 2008. | Download |
| Tue, 12/30/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/30/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the future of space exploration in the U.S. The space program is in a state of flux. The current fleet of space shuttles is scheduled to retire in 2010, the next era in rockets won’t be ready until 2015, and the Orlando Sentinel reported NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. | Download |
| Tue, 12/30/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/30/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the future of space exploration in the U.S. The space program is in a state of flux. The current fleet of space shuttles is scheduled to retire in 2010, the next era in rockets won’t be ready until 2015, and the Orlando Sentinel reported NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. | Download |
| Tue, 12/30/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/30/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the economic relationship between the U.S. and China, and how this may have led to our current financial crisis. | Download |
| Mon, 12/29/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/29/2008 - After ten, John Munson and his guest discuss the best, and worst moments in the media from 2008. Jason Linkins, political reporter for the Huffington Post. | Download |
| Mon, 12/29/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/29/2008 - After ten, John Munson and his guest discuss the best, and worst moments in the media from 2008. Jason Linkins, political reporter for the Huffington Post. | Download |
| Mon, 12/29/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/29/2008 - The economy, U.S. and global affairs are all part of the discussion with John Munson and his guest, after nine. | Download |
| Thu, 12/25/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/25/2008 - Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, discusses what our "stuff" says about us. | Download |
| Thu, 12/25/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/25/2008 - Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, discusses what our "stuff" says about us. | Download |
| Thu, 12/25/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/25/2008 - The talk turns to language for Kathleen Dunn and her guest, after nine. | Download |
| Wed, 12/24/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/24/2008 - Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa... December holidays when family and friends get together to celebrate with food, song, gifts and especial ceremony. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss the December holidays, their origins, and their traditions. Guestr: Jennifer Trainer Thompson, author, "The Joy of Family Traditions: A Season-by-Season Companion to Celebrations, Holidays, and Special Occasions" (Ten Speed Press). | Download |
| Wed, 12/24/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/24/2008 - Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa... December holidays when family and friends get together to celebrate with food, song, gifts and a special ceremony. After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss the December holidays, their origins, and their traditions. Guestr: Jennifer Trainer Thompson, author, "The Joy of Family Traditions: A Season-by-Season Companion to Celebrations, Holidays, and Special Occasions" (Ten Speed Press). | Download |
| Wed, 12/24/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/24/2008 - After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss how to face consumer debt, and find financial health in tough times, especially over the Holidays. | Download |
| Tue, 12/23/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/23/2008 - Do vitamins really work? After ten, Veronica Rueckert talks with a top authority on dietary supplements about the health benefits of vitamins. | Download |
| Tue, 12/23/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/23/2008 - Do vitamins really work? After ten, Veronica Rueckert talks with a top authority on dietary supplements about the health benefits of vitamins. | Download |
| Tue, 12/23/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/23/2008 - After nine, Veronica Rueckert talks with the author of the recent article, “Why Wall Street Always Blows It.” He describes how the financial industry got it so badly wrong... why it always will... and why we're all to blame. | Download |
| Mon, 12/22/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/22/2008 - There is a unique relationship between dogs and their human companions. After eight, Veronica Rueckert's guest explores the important role dogs play in the lives of their owners. | Download |
| Mon, 12/22/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/22/2008 - There is a unique relationship between dogs and their human companions. After eight, Veronica Rueckert's guest explores the important role dogs play in the lives of their owners. | Download |
| Mon, 12/22/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/22/2008 - After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss the latest news from Washington. | Download |
| Thu, 12/18/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/18/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with the author of, “Loving the West to Death: Will Tourists, Bikers, and Gearheads ruin the American Wilderness, or Save it?” | Download |
| Thu, 12/18/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/18/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with the author of, “Loving the West to Death: Will Tourists, Bikers, and Gearheads ruin the American Wilderness, or Save it?” | Download |
| Thu, 12/18/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/18/2008 - Caroline Kennedy is actively seeking Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look at Caroline Kennedy the candidate, as well as other possible Clinton replacements. | Download |
| Wed, 12/17/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/17/2008 - After ten, what makes American English... American? Kathleen Dunn's guest tells the story of the Founding Father of American English Noah Webster. How, in 1800, he set out to record the vocabulary of a novel breed... the American citizen. | Download |
| Wed, 12/17/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/17/2008 - After ten, what makes American English... American? Kathleen Dunn's guest tells the story of the Founding Father of American English Noah Webster. | Download |
| Wed, 12/17/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/17/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests take a look at the policy proposals of the new administration's Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle. They're outlined in his book, “Critical: What We Can Do about the Health-Care Crisis.” | Download |
| Tue, 12/16/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/16/2008 - Orphan, battle-hardened warrior, founder of the Democratic Party... Andrew Jackson created the modern presidency, says Kathleen Dunn's guest, after ten, who has just written a biography. He talks about the president who influenced some of the greatest who followed, from Lincoln, to Theodore Roosevelt, to F-D-R, and Truman. | Download |
| Tue, 12/16/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/16/2008 - Orphan, battle-hardened warrior, founder of the Democratic Party... Andrew Jackson created the modern presidency, says Kathleen Dunn's guest, after ten, who has just written a biography. He talks about the president who influenced some of the greatest who followed, from Lincoln, to Theodore Roosevelt, to F-D-R, and Truman. | Download |
| Tue, 12/16/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/16/2008 - The Chicago Tribune files for bankruptcy, a wage freeze at the New York Times, the Detroit Free Press cuts back on delivery service, and local newspapers across the country are closing their doors. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the future of print journalism. | Download |
| Mon, 12/15/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/15/2008 - When it comes to evolution, most people think of Charles Darwin. But Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, tells the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist who also wrote about the origin of new species, and the survival of the fittest. | Download |
| Mon, 12/15/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/15/2008 - On the subject of evolution, most people think of Charles Darwin. But Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, tells the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist who also wrote about the origin of new species, and the survival of the fittest. | Download |
| Mon, 12/15/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/15/2008 - After nine, columnist Arianna Huffington and Philip Klein from the “American Spectator” join Kathleen Dunn to talk politics. | Download |
| Thu, 12/11/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/11/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest discusses her book, “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.” | Download |
| Thu, 12/11/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/11/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest discusses her book, “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.” | Download |
| Thu, 12/11/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/11/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the meeting this week between President Elect Obama, and former Vice President Al Gore, and look at the future of American environmental policy. | Download |
| Wed, 12/10/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/10/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn is joined by a former interrogator whose work helped locate the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. He says it was subtle technique... not torture or intimidation... that made his team successful. | Download |
| Wed, 12/10/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/10/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest is a former interrogator whose work helped locate the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. He says it was subtle technique... not torture or intimidation... that made his team successful. | Download |
| Wed, 12/10/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/10/2008 - Laid-off workers in Chicago continue their sit-in protesting Bank of America this week. That's the topic for Kathleen Dunn and her guest, after nine. A look at workers rights, and why the 700-billion-dollar bailout didn't stop Republic Windows & Doors from closing. | Download |
| Tue, 12/09/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/09/2008 - As Americans live longer, more and more adult children find themselves taking care of their elderly parents. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss strategies for how to care for our parents as well as ourselves. | Download |
| Tue, 12/09/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/09/2008 - As Americans live longer, more and more adult children find themselves taking care of their elderly parents. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss strategies for how to care for our parents as well as ourselves. | Download |
| Tue, 12/09/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/09/2008 - The White House received a draft of a bill from Congress that would save the big three auto makers, at least until the end of the year. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the $15 billion bailout bill. | Download |
| Mon, 12/08/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/08/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the growing number of American Students seeking college degrees overseas. | Download |
| Mon, 12/08/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/08/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the growing number of American Students seeking college degrees overseas. | Download |
| Mon, 12/08/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/08/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the latest economic and political news. | Download |
| Thu, 12/04/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/04/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests explore the history of the world through the lens of Mental_Floss magazine. From the first cities in Mesopotamia (MESS-uh-po-TAY-me-uh)... to present day. | Download |
| Thu, 12/04/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/04/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests explore the history of the world through the lens of Mental_Floss magazine. From the first cities in Mesopotamia (MESS-uh-po-TAY-me-uh)... to present day. | Download |
| Thu, 12/04/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/04/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine how the Obama transition team is working with the Bush White House for a smooth presidential changeover. | Download |
| Wed, 12/03/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/03/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest explores how the unstoppable march of technology is changing the way young minds develop, function, and interpret information. | Download |
| Wed, 12/03/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/03/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest explores how the unstoppable march of technology is changing the way young minds develop, function, and interpret information. | Download |
| Wed, 12/03/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/03/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the history, meaning, and possible future of the The Fairness Doctrine. With Democrats taking control of Congress and the White House some speculate that the F-C-C will reimpose it. | Download |
| Tue, 12/02/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/02/2008 - Have a favorite book from 2008? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the notable fiction and non-fiction books of the year. | Download |
| Tue, 12/02/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/02/2008 - Have a favorite book from 2008? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the notable fiction and non-fiction books of the year. | Download |
| Tue, 12/02/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/02/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the recent terror attacks in Mumbai (moom-BYE)and the consequences for Indian and Pakistani relations. | Download |
| Mon, 12/01/2008 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/01/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest examines the four months between President Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the country was going through turbulent times. | Download |
| Mon, 12/01/2008 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/01/2008 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest examines the four months between President Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the country was going through turbulent times. | Download |
| Mon, 12/01/2008 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 12/01/2008 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the political headlines from across the nation, and around the world. | Download |