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The Kathleen Dunn Show

Kathleen Dunn

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.

January 2010

Date Description Audio
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/28/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest suggests strategies for parents who have unorganized teenage boys. Download
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/28/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest suggests strategies for parents who have unorganized teenage boys. Download
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/28/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss President Obama's first State of the Union address. Download
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/27/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn takes your program ideas and guest suggestions during her January open-line. Download
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/27/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the rise of the contemporary Tea Party political demonstration, and recent turmoil within the movement. Download
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/26/2010 - The current economic crisis has been often cited as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency and his New Deal. Download
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/26/2010 - The current economic crisis has often been referred to as "the worst since the Great Depression" of the 1930s. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest take a look back at the New Deal presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Download
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/26/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the impact of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on campaign finance. Download
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/25/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with a researcher who is working to ensure the future of endangered species by banking genetic materials through the expansion of a “frozen zoo.” Download
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/25/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with a researcher who is working to ensure the future of endangered species by banking genetic materials through the expansion of a “frozen zoo.” Download
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/25/2010 - After nine, the talk turns to politics as Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss last week's top political headlines. Download
Thu, 01/21/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/21/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine how the history of U.S. foreign policy has been substantially affected by the domestic political landscape. Download
Thu, 01/21/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/21/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine how the history of U.S. foreign policy has been substantially affected by the domestic political landscape. Download
Thu, 01/21/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/21/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn gets an update from a doctor working in Haiti, and speaks with an expert on disaster emergency medicine about the complications of coordinating relief efforts there. Download
Wed, 01/20/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/20/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest tells of the most significant discoveries in evolutionary biology, and the fascinating people who made them. Download
Wed, 01/20/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/20/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest tells of the most significant discoveries in evolutionary biology, and the fascinating people who made them. Download
Wed, 01/20/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/20/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the results from Tuesday’s Massachusetts senate election, and how the winner could sway health reform legislation. Download
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/19/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest warns against the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides in the home landscape, to avoid health and safety issues for children and pets. Download
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/19/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest warns against the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides on the home landscape, to avoid health and safety issues for children and pets. Download
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/19/2010 - Anger over Wall Street's big bonuses has resurfaced, despite talk of a new bank tax that would target fifty of Wall Street's biggest firms... with assets of 50-billion or more. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine President Obama's proposed "Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee." Download
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/18/2010 - Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and more… after ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest shares outrageous stories about legendary minds. Download
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/18/2010 - Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and more... After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest shares outrageous stories about legendary minds. Download
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/18/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest review last week's top headlines. Plus, a conversation about earthquake relief with people on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Plus, the Massachusetts Senate race, and how its outcome could shape health care reform. Download
Thu, 01/14/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/14/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests remember the life of Miep Gies (MEEP GEESE), the woman who saved the diary of Anne Frank, and helped hide the Jewish girl and her family from the Nazis for more than two years in Amsterdam. Download
Thu, 01/14/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/14/2010 - A 7.0 magnitude quake devastated an already impoverished Haiti early this week. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the humanitarian needs of the country. Download
Thu, 01/14/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/14/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests remember the life of Miep Gies (MEEP GEESE), the woman who saved the diary of Anne Frank, and helped hide the Jewish girl and her family from the Nazis for more than two years in Amsterdam. Download
Wed, 01/13/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/13/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the legal challenge to California's Proposition Eight, the voter-approved constitutional amendment denying same-sex couples the right to marry. Download
Wed, 01/13/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/13/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the legal challenge to California's Proposition Eight, the voter-approved constitutional amendment denying same-sex couples the right to marry. Download
Wed, 01/13/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/13/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says former Home Run slugger Mark McGwire’s apology for using steroids didn't go far enough because he didn't admit they gave him a competitive edge. Download
Tue, 01/12/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/12/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn is joined by a sociologist who has spent eight years researching the hidden resistance to an economy that harms millions of working families. Download
Tue, 01/12/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/12/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn is joined by a sociologist who has spent eight years researching the hidden resistance to an economy that harms millions of working families. Download
Tue, 01/12/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/12/2010 - It was reported over the weekend that Senate Majority leader Harry Reid once described President Obama as "light-skinned" with "no Negro dialect." After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss thoughts on color and race in America. Download
Mon, 01/11/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/11/2010 - Cosmologists found more evidence of dark energy, astronauts returned Hubble to prime condition, and astronomers photographed worlds beyond our solar system.... after ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with an associate editor from Astronomy Magazine about the top-ten stories from 2009. Download
Mon, 01/11/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/11/2010 - Cosmologists found more evidence of dark energy, astronauts returned Hubble to prime condition, and astronomers photographed worlds beyond our solar system.... after ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with an associate editor from Astronomy Magazine about the top-ten stories from 2009. Download
Mon, 01/11/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/11/2010 - Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss all things political, after nine. Download
Thu, 01/07/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/07/2010 - He did something no former president had ever done before... or since... After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recount the amazing three-week Road Trip in 1953 by then former President Harry Truman and his wife Bess... and his amusing attempts to keep a low profile along the way. Download
Thu, 01/07/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/07/2010 - In 1953, Harry Truman did something no former president had ever done before... or since: He took a road trip. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recount Truman's amazing three-week journey and his amusing attempts to keep a low profile along the way. Download
Thu, 01/07/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/07/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the presence al Qaeda in Yemen and how this may effect the closing of Guantanamo. Download
Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/06/2010 - After ten, former C-N-N chairman Walter Isaacson joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his new collection of essays that explores the roots of creativity, what makes for great leadership, and how influential people end up rippling the surface of history. Download
Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/06/2010 - After ten, former C-N-N chairman Walter Isaacson joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his new collection of essays that explores the roots of creativity, what makes for great leadership, and how influential people end up rippling the surface of history. Download
Wed, 01/06/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/06/2010 - Actor, director and screenwriter Alan Alda joins Kathleen Dunn, after nine, to discuss a new Public Television series that examines what makes us human. Download
Tue, 01/05/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/05/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with an environmental law and policy expert about how urban planners should rethink the typical American city. Download
Tue, 01/05/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/05/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with an environmental law and policy expert about how urban planners should rethink the typical American city. Download
Tue, 01/05/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/05/2010 - The House and Senate health care bills continue through Congress... states and political parties becoming strapped for cash... and national security again at the forefront. Join Kathleen Dunn and her guest, after nine, for a discussion of all the latest news. Download
Mon, 01/04/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/04/2010 - New rules go into effect for Credit Cards in February as part of the Credit Card Act of 2009. After ten, John Munson and his guest discuss the changes. Download
Mon, 01/04/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/04/2010 - New rules go into effect for Credit Cards in February as part of the Credit Card Act of 2009. After ten, John Munson and his guest discuss the changes. Download
Mon, 01/04/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 01/04/2010 - After nine, John Munson and his guest recap all the major political headlines from last week. Download

January 2010