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Tuesday December 26, 2006

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10:00Readers' Review: "The Stranger" by Albert Camus (Rebroadcast)

Diane invites listeners to participate in a discussion of this classic French novel about an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach.

Guests

Kate Lehrer, author, most recently of "Confessions of a Bigamist."

John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for Slate.com

Frank Ambrosio, associate professor of philosophy, Georgetown University

11:00Ann Fessler: "The Girls Who Went Away" (Penguin Press) (Rebroadcast)

An adoptee tells the story of her quest to find her birth mother. She's joined by two women who surrendered their babies in the decades before Roe v. Wade.

Guests

Ann Fessler, a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and a specialist in video-installation art.

Ann Hughes, President, Gateway Press; Author, "Soul Connection: Memoir of a Birthmother's Healing Journey;" surrendered her daughter in 1961 at age 21

Margaret McMorrow, director of case management, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore; surrendered her son at age 17

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