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.
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| Wed, 09/30/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/30/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss how science, the military, and politics became interwoven during the Cold War. | Download |
| Wed, 09/30/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/30/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss how science, the military, and politics became interwoven during the Cold War. | Download |
| Wed, 09/30/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/30/2009 - With Americans with college degrees and without struggling to find employment in the recession, Kathleen and her guest ask: what is the true value of today’s college education? | Download |
| Tue, 09/29/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/29/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the state of the Great Lakes | Download |
| Tue, 09/29/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/29/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the current condition of The Great Lakes. | Download |
| Tue, 09/29/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/29/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the work of New York Times conservative columnist and former Nixon speechwriter William Safire, who died last weekend. | Download |
| Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/28/2009 - After ten, John Munson and his guest discuss climate change, including last week's UN climate summit and look ahead to December's meeting in Copenhagen. | Download |
| Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/28/2009 - After ten, John Munson and his guest discuss climate change, including last week's UN climate summit and look ahead to December's meeting in Copenhagen. | Download |
| Mon, 09/28/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/28/2009 - After nine, it's All Things Political. John Munson sits in for Kathleen Dunn talks and talk with his guest about Afghanistan, health care reform, and the United Nation's General Assembly. | Download |
| Thu, 09/24/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/24/2009 - Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, contends that humans are hard-wired for compassion by using primate tendencies as his model. | Download |
| Thu, 09/24/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/24/2009 - Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, contends that humans are hard-wired for compassion. He uses primate tendencies as his model. | Download |
| Thu, 09/24/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/24/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn’s guest joins us from Kabul, Afghanistan to discuss the latest on troop levels and the Afghan Presidential Election. | Download |
| Wed, 09/23/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/23/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss “Mental_floss” magazine’s list of the five gutsiest world leaders... from conquering AIDS in Africa, to uniting Europe, to galvanizing Latin America. | Download |
| Wed, 09/23/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/23/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss “Mental_floss” magazine’s list of the five gutsiest world leaders... from conquering AIDS in Africa, to uniting Europe, to galvanizing Latin America. | Download |
| Wed, 09/23/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/23/2009 - A public option: should it be a part of a national health care reform bill? After nine, Kathleen and her guest analyze the efficiency of a public option plan in San Francisco. | Download |
| Tue, 09/22/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/22/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with a guest whose mission it is to mark places of long forgotten historic moments. | Download |
| Tue, 09/22/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/22/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest is on a personal mission to discover and mark the places of long-forgotten historic moments. | Download |
| Tue, 09/22/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/22/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the future of the conservative movement. Democrats currently control the White House and both Houses of Congress. Some analysts claim pundits and conservative commentators are more in control of the Republican party than party leaders. | Download |
| Mon, 09/21/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/21/2009 - On October 2nd, the International Olympic Committee will announce the host city for the 2016 Summer Games. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the economic impact...positive or negative...the Olympics could have on surrounding states if Chicago is selected to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. | Download |
| Mon, 09/21/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/21/2009 - On October 2nd, the International Olympic Committee will announce the host city for the 2016 Summer Games. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the economic impact...positive or negative...the Olympics could have on surrounding states if Chicago is selected to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. | Download |
| Mon, 09/21/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/21/2009 - Columnist Connie Schultz joins Kathleen Dunn to talk politics, after nine. | Download |
| Thu, 09/17/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/17/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests take stock of the U.S. Treasury Department and Wall Street one year after more than a quarter - trillion TARP fund dollars were poured into the financial system. | Download |
| Thu, 09/17/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/17/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn hosts her September open-line. Call in with your guest and show suggestions. | Download |
| Thu, 09/17/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/17/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests take stock of the U.S. Treasury Department and Wall Street one year after more than a quarter - trillion TARP fund dollars were poured into the financial system. | Download |
| Wed, 09/16/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/16/2009 - After ten, in a re-broadcast from this morning, Kathleen Dunn continues a panel discussion on health care reform in America. | Download |
| Wed, 09/16/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/16/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn continues a live panel discussion on Health Care Reform in America from the Froedtert (FRAY-durt) Clinical Cancer Center in Milwaukee. | Download |
| Wed, 09/16/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/16/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn hosts a live panel discussion on Health Care Reform in America from the Froedtert (FRAY-durt) Clinical Cancer Center in Milwaukee. | Download |
| Tue, 09/15/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/15/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest traces the history of frugality and cheapness in America, from Puritans of the Colonial era, to the current recession. | Download |
| Tue, 09/15/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/15/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest traces the history of cheapness and frugality in America, from the Colonial-era Puritans, to the current recession. | Download |
| Tue, 09/15/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/15/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss water quality in America, and if there is a rise in Clean Water Act violations. | Download |
| Mon, 09/14/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/14/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss IceCube, a telescope under construction at the South Pole, that will search for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. | Download |
| Mon, 09/14/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/14/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss IceCube, a telescope under construction at the South Pole, that will search for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. | Download |
| Mon, 09/14/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/14/2009 - NPR Political Junkie Ken Rudin joins Kathleen Dunn, after nine, to discuss the top stories in the news. www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie | Download |
| Thu, 09/10/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/10/2009 - Do animals have souls? After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest says the soulful nature of our pets lies in the things they do, and the impact they have on our lives. | Download |
| Thu, 09/10/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/10/2009 - Do animals have souls? After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest says the soulful nature of our pets lies in the things they do, and the impact they have on our lives. | Download |
| Thu, 09/10/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/10/2009 - President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress last night (Wed) detailing his plan for health care reform. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at what's next in the health care debate. | Download |
| Wed, 09/09/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/09/2009 - In 1998 Matthew Shepard was targeted and murdered because he was gay. After ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with his mother about his life and gay rights in the ten years since his death. | Download |
| Wed, 09/09/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/09/2009 - In 1998 Matthew Shepard was targeted and murdered because he was gay. After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with his mother about his life...and gay rights...in the ten years since his death. | Download |
| Wed, 09/09/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/09/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the state of public schools in America, and the challenges facing them. | Download |
| Tue, 09/08/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/08/2009 - Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, examines the political, philosophical, and messaging conflicts surrounding health care reform today, and during past administrations. | Download |
| Tue, 09/08/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/08/2009 - Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, examines the political, philosophical, and messaging conflicts surrounding health care reform today, and during past administrations. | Download |
| Tue, 09/08/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/08/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the state of access to health care around the world. | Download |
| Mon, 09/07/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/07/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss how scientists were able to map out the Milky Way. | Download |
| Mon, 09/07/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/07/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss how scientists were able to map out the Milky Way. | Download |
| Mon, 09/07/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/07/2009 - After nine, it’s All Things Political, as Kathleen and her guest examine the week’s headlines and newsmakers, including the latest on the health care debate. | Download |
| Thu, 09/03/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/03/2009 - An aphorism is a one-line novel, says the Ukrainian writer Leonid Sukhorukov. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest explore the world of aphorisms that begin with ‘if.’ | Download |
| Thu, 09/03/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/03/2009 - An aphorism is a one-line novel, says the Ukrainian writer Leonid Sukhorukov. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest explore the world of aphorisms that begin with ‘if.’ | Download |
| Thu, 09/03/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/03/2009 - After making headlines from his interview with Bill Moyers, Wendell Potter, joins Kathleen Dunn, after nine, to discuss health care reform and the insurance industry. | Download |
| Wed, 09/02/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/02/2009 - Primatologist Jane Goodall and Conservationist George Archibald join Kathleen Dunn after ten, to discuss the importance of biodiversity. | Download |
| Wed, 09/02/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/02/2009 - According to the latest federal statistics, nearly one in every ten Americans remains out of work. After ten, Kathleen and her guest discuss the psychological effects of unemployment, job searching and rejection. | Download |
| Wed, 09/02/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/02/2009 - Primatologist Jane Goodall and Conservationist George Archibald join Kathleen Dunn after nine, to discuss the importance of biodiversity. | Download |
| Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/01/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest explains the latest version of the House and Senate Health Care Bills. | Download |
| Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/01/2009 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest explains the latest version of the House and Senate Health Care Bills. | Download |
| Tue, 09/01/2009 - 9:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 09/01/2009 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn’s guest updates us on the latest from New Orleans, four years after Hurricane Katrina. | Download |