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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| Tue, 05/31/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/31/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest filmmaker talks about her documentary featuring people in their 90s and 100s who are living extraordinary and passionate lives. | Download |
| Tue, 05/31/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/31/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest filmmaker talks about her documentary featuring people in their 90s and 100s who are living extraordinary and passionate lives.
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| Tue, 05/31/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/31/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the nation’s top news.
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| Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/30/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest revisit the summer of 1964, when more than seven-hundred student volunteers arrived in racially charged Mississippi . . . to assist in registering black voters and opening schools . . . to advocate for civil rights. | Download |
| Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/30/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest revisit the summer of 1964, when more than seven-hundred student volunteers arrived in racially charged Mississippi . . . to assist in registering black voters and opening schools . . . to advocate for civil rights.
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| Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/30/2011 - How much can we trust the statistics in research studies? Kathleen Dunn's guest, after nine, says while numbers don’t lie . . . people sure do.
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| Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/26/2011 - After ten, self-described 'Space Paleontologist' Mike Brown joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his discovery of Eris, the largest new object found in the solar system in 150 years, which sparked the debate and demotion of Pluto to "dwarf" planet status. | Download |
| Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/26/2011 - After ten, self-described 'Space Paleontologist' Mike Brown joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his discovery of Eris, the largest new object found in the solar system in 150 years, which sparked the debate and demotion of Pluto to "dwarf" planet status.
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| Thu, 05/26/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/26/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look back at the story of the "Accidental President," Andrew Johnson, who is often considered one of the nation's worst leaders.
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| Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/25/2011 - After ten, join Kathleen Dunn and her guest as they look back at the history of green technology in America, from the waterwheels of the 1800s to the latest sprawling solar arrays. | Download |
| Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/25/2011 - After ten, join Kathleen Dunn and her guest as they look back at the history of green technology in America, from the waterwheels of the 1800s to the latest sprawling solar arrays.
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| Wed, 05/25/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/25/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests take a look at the recent spate of severe weather across the country.
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| Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/24/2011 - Are we alone in the universe? According to Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, almost certainly not. | Download |
| Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/24/2011 - Are we alone in the Universe? According to Kathleen Dunn’s guest, after ten, almost certainly not.
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| Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/24/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the goals and themes of President Obama’s weeklong trip to Europe.
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| Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/23/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest travelled from Kansas, to Hawaii, to Indonesia, in an effort to recount the life of Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother. | Download |
| Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/23/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest travelled from Kansas, to Hawaii, to Indonesia, in an effort to recount the life of Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother.
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| Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/23/2011 - After nine, join Kathleen Dunn and her guest as they take a look at the top political headlines of the past week.
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| Thu, 05/19/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/19/2011 - What can great works of literature teach us about childhood and about growing old? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest extract timeless lessons from Shakespeare, Alice Walker, Charles Dickens and more. | Download |
| Thu, 05/19/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/19/2011 - After ten, Wisconsin Public Radio provides special coverage of President Obama's speech on the Middle East and North Africa. Joy Cardin and UW-Madison History Professor Jeremy Suri (SURRY) will preview the speech, and NPR coverage begins at ten-twenty.
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| Thu, 05/19/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/19/2011 - What can great works of literature teach us about childhood and about growing old? After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest extract timeless lessons from Shakespeare, Alice Walker, Charles Dickens and more.
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| Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/18/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest revisit the story of how a skinny singer from Hoboken, New Jersey became the "Sultan of Swoon," Frank Sinatra. | Download |
| Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/18/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest revisit the story of how a skinny singer from Hoboken, New Jersey became the "Sultan of Swoon," Frank Sinatra.
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| Wed, 05/18/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/18/2011 - He's become something of a mythical figure in America... After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the life of Founding Father and First President George Washington.
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| Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:30pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/17/2011 - Legendary actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten-thirty. | Download |
| Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/17/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn plays comedy clips, from Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks to Steve Martin. | Download |
| Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:30am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/17/2011 - Legendary actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten-thirty.
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| Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:00am | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/17/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn plays comedy clips, from Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks to Steve Martin. | Download |
| Tue, 05/17/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/17/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss a new government report which found that many nursing homes are overmedicating their residents.
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| Mon, 05/16/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/16/2011 - From the Middle East to Madagascar, high food prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest talk about what he calls the 21st-century food wars. | Download |
| Mon, 05/16/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/16/2011 - From the Middle East to Madagascar, high food prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest talk about what he calls the 21st-century food wars.
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| Mon, 05/16/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/16/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the latest national and international headlines.
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| Thu, 05/12/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/12/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn is joined by word maven Mardy Grothe to discuss "neverisms" - words of advice that begin with the word 'never'. | Download |
| Thu, 05/12/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/12/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest take a look at "neverisms" . . . words of advice that begin with the word 'never'.
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| Thu, 05/12/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/12/2011 - The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill that would allow public school students to attend private and religious schools outside of the City of Milwaukee at taxpayers' expense. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests talk about expanding voucher schools in Wisconsin.
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| Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/11/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guests give us an update from the Encyclopedia of Life, an online venture with the goal of providing freely available knowledge about all the world’s organisms. | Download |
| Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/11/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guests give us an update from the Encyclopedia of Life, an online venture with the goal of providing freely available knowledge about all the world’s organisms.
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| Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/11/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn talks with the founder of the Milwaukee-based charitable organization YoutHaiti (youth HAY-tee). The group is focused on helping and encouraging young people in Haiti to develop ecological sanitation options and sustainable food sources. Also, two Haitian youth leaders talk about their efforts to improve sanitation in Haiti.
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| Tue, 05/10/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/10/2011 - Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to talk about his life, career, and how he credits his success with his early years in improvisational theater. | Download |
| Tue, 05/10/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/10/2011 - Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to talk about his life, career, and how he credits his success with his early years in improvisational theater.
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| Tue, 05/10/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/10/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look at current relations between the U.S. and Pakistan.
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| Mon, 05/09/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/09/2011 - Should a reportedly unarmed Osama bin Laden have been captured alive, rather than shot dead? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the ethics of killing during wartime. | Download |
| Mon, 05/09/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/09/2011 - Should a reportedly unarmed Osama bin Laden have been captured alive, rather than shot dead? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the ethics of killing during wartime.
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| Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/09/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests recap the nation’s top news.
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| Thu, 05/05/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/05/2011 - Author, poet, and Pulitzer Prize laureate Alice Walker joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss her past years of raising chickens - what they’ve taught her about life, and how they’ve become a great source of inspiration. | Download |
| Thu, 05/05/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/05/2011 - Author, poet, and Pulitzer Prize laureate Alice Walker joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to recall her time raising chickens . . . what they taught her about life . . . and how they’ve become a great source of inspiration.
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| Thu, 05/05/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/05/2011 - A proposed budget for the 2012 Milwaukee Public Schools fiscal year would cut the equivalent of nearly one-thousand full-time positions from the M-P-S staff. After nine, Kathleen Dunn discusses the 2012 Milwaukee Public Schools budget with the President of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association.
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| Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/04/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss this history of the cosmetic industry. | Download |
| Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/04/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest review some of the best new books for Spring reading.
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| Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/04/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss all the latest news from across the state, the nation, and around the world.
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| Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/03/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss America's war on terror, after Osama Bin Laden. | Download |
| Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/03/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss America's war on terror, after Osama Bin Laden.
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| Tue, 05/03/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/03/2011 - After nine, Kathleen Dunn is joined by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a specialist in terrorism to discuss the recent raid in Pakistan that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden.
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| Mon, 05/02/2011 - 10:00pm | The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/02/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the political and military relationships between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States. | Download |
| Mon, 05/02/2011 - 10:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/02/2011 - After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the political and military relationships between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States.
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| Mon, 05/02/2011 - 9:00am |
The Kathleen Dunn Show show on 05/02/2011 - Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan by US forces, President Obama announced last night. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the operation and future of Al-Qaeda.
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