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Thursday December 27, 2007

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10:00Alan Alda: "Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself" (Random House) (Rebroadcast)

The star of the hit TV series "MASH" on life lessons he's learned and his journey to find meaning in life.

Guests

Alan Alda, six-time Emmy and six-time Golden Globe winning actor and author of the bestselling memoir, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed."

11:00Jim Crace: "The Pesthouse" (Doubleday) (Rebroadcast)

A British novelist set out to challenge the American Dream by imagining the United States of the future with no literacy or technology. He explains how a novel intended as a blow to America became a love story instead.

Guests

Jim Crace, author of eight previous novels, including "Being Dead," the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000, and "Quarantine," the Whitbread Novel of the year in 1997.

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