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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.

October 2010

Date Description Audio
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/28/2010 - After ten, get into the spirit of Halloween with Veronica Rueckert and her guest as they look at some scary books.. new... and classic. Download
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/28/2010 - Get into the spirit of Halloween with Veronica Rueckert and her guest as they look at some scary books.. new... and classic. Download
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/28/2010 - Veronica Rueckert and her guests discuss young people’s involvement with campaigns and elections. Download
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/27/2010 - Kathleen Dunn talks with Tony Award-winning actress and singer Patti LuPone about her life and legendary career. Download
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/27/2010 - Kathleen Dunn talks with Patti LuPone about her life and legendary career. LuPone has won a multitude of awards for her performances as Eva Perón in Evita, Rose in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, and as Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables. She chronicles the highs and lows of her career in a new memoir. Download
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/27/2010 - The midterm elections are less than a week away. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest try to make sense of the pervasive... and sometimes contradictory... political polls now dominating media coverage. Download
Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/26/2010 - It was an election where women broke barriers and changed the nation’s narrative in completely unexpected ways. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine how the 2008 election was transformative for American women. Download
Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/26/2010 - It was an election where women broke barriers and changed the nation’s narrative in completely unexpected ways. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine how the 2008 election was transformative for American women. Download
Tue, 10/26/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/26/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss sports-related head injuries. Download
Mon, 10/25/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/25/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest argues that the planet's population is getting older, fast, and it's dramatic pace is going to change the world as we know it - politically, economically,and militarily. Download
Mon, 10/25/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/25/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest argues that the planet's population is getting older, fast, and it's dramatic pace is going to change the world as we know it - politically, economically,and militarily. Download
Mon, 10/25/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/25/2010 - NPR's political junkie Ken Rudin joins Kathleen Dunn, after nine, to discuss the week's top news. Download
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/21/2010 - After ten, literary diva and renowned librarian Nancy Pearl joins Kathleen Dunn at the Milwaukee Art Museum to look at books about travel. Download
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/21/2010 - Kathleen Dunn continues her live broadcast from the Milwaukee Art Museum. After ten, literary diva and renowned librarian Nancy Pearl joins us to look at books about travel. Download
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/21/2010 - Kathleen Dunn broadcasts live from the Milwaukee Art Museum today. After nine, she's joined by Museum Director of Exhibits Laurie Winters for a look at what's new and upcoming. Download
Wed, 10/20/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/20/2010 - Has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss what he calls the strange science of immortality. Download
Wed, 10/20/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/20/2010 - Has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss what he calls the strange science of immortality. Download
Wed, 10/20/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/20/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss a scholarly return to explaining persistent poverty from a cultural standpoint. Download
Tue, 10/19/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/19/2010 - As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to change Washington. Kathleen Dunn's guest, after ten, discusses how, two years in, President Obama may have to change his job approach. Download
Tue, 10/19/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/19/2010 - Join Kathleen Dunn, after ten, for her October Open Line. You're invite to call-in with your suggestions for topics and guests for future shows. Download
Tue, 10/19/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/19/2010 - As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to change Washington. Kathleen Dunn's guest, after nine, discusses how, two years in, President Obama may have to change his job approach. Download
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/18/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss a recent documentary film that examines the consumption and waste of Plastic in America, and around the world. Download
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/18/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss a recent documentary film that examines the consumption and waste of Plastic in America, and around the world. Download
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/18/2010 - Join Kathleen Dunn and her guest, after nine, for All Things Political, when they take a look back over the headlines from the past week. Download
Thu, 10/14/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/14/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest explores the many unsung benefits of aging, and focuses on the humor in longevity. Download
Thu, 10/14/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/14/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest explores the many unsung benefits of aging, and brings out the humor in longevity. Download
Thu, 10/14/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/14/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn talks with a Harvard researcher who studied American thoughts on wealth distribution, and found that many would rather live in a place like Sweden. Download
Wed, 10/13/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/13/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the life of one of America’s greatest and most enduring artists, Bob Dylan... and how he still surprises us and moves us after all these years. Download
Wed, 10/13/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/13/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the life of one of America’s greatest and most enduring artists, Bob Dylan... and how he still surprises us and moves us after all these years. Download
Wed, 10/13/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/13/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn’s guest explores a new stage of the life cycle, “Adulthood-2”, created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources. Download
Tue, 10/12/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/12/2010 - Acclaimed psychiatrist Robert Coles joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, for a look at how Literature influences moral meaning in our lives. Download
Tue, 10/12/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/12/2010 - Acclaimed psychiatrist Robert Coles joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, for a look at how Literature influences moral meaning in our lives. Download
Tue, 10/12/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/12/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss a new study by the Tax Foundation that examines how various income levels fare under the Bush tax cuts. Download
Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/11/2010 - Former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, joins Kathleen Dunn after ten to discuss the importance of nursing in health care. Download
Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/11/2010 - Former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, joins Kathleen Dunn after ten to discuss the importance of nursing in health care. Download
Mon, 10/11/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/11/2010 - It's all things political, after nine, when Kathleen Dunn is joined by USA Today's Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page. Download
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/07/2010 - Get up and go, with librarian Nancy Pearl, after ten. The world’s only librarian with her own action figure joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss books about travel, and far-away and imaginary places. Download
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/07/2010 - After ten, Matt Taibbi joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss the inner workings of politics and finance in this country, and how he believes that relationship led the recent financial meltdown.
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/07/2010 - After ten, librarian Nancy Pearl... the only librarian in the world with her own action figure... joins Kathleen Dunn to look at some books about travel, and far-away and imaginary places. Download
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/07/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn is joined by Mark Vonnegut... son of the late counterculture hero Kurt Vonnegut... for a conversation about his struggle with, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. Also, his medical education at Harvard that led him to a career as a pediatrician. Download
Wed, 10/06/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/06/2010 - Join Kathleen Dunn and her guest, after ten, when they examine what's in the sweeping new Republican agenda "Pledge To America." Download
Wed, 10/06/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/06/2010 - Join Kathleen Dunn and her guest, after ten, when they examine what's in the sweeping new Republican agenda "Pledge To America." Download
Wed, 10/06/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/06/2010 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn welcomes the astrophysicist who recently discovered the planet Zarmina (zar-MEE-nah), the first recorded Earthlike planet outside our solar system. Download
Tue, 10/05/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/05/2010 - After ten, historian Julian Zelizer joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his latest book, "Jimmy Carter: The American Presidents Series." Download
Tue, 10/05/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/05/2010 - After ten, historian Julian Zelizer joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his latest book, "Jimmy Carter: The American Presidents Series." Download
Tue, 10/05/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/05/2010 - The death last week of a Rutgers student was one of five suicides by gay teenagers in the last three weeks. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine what's being done about gay bullying, and teaching acceptance in the classroom and on college campuses. Download
Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:00pm The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/04/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss handling the financial and emotional aspects of our struggling economy. Download
Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/04/2010 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss handling the financial and emotional aspects of our struggling economy. Download
Mon, 10/04/2010 - 9:00am The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 10/04/2010 - Join Kathleen Dunn and her guest after nine as they look back at the news that shaped the past week for the regular All Things Political show. Download

October 2010