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10:00The Future of Free Trade

Guest host: Susan Page

After seven years of negotiations, the Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks collapsed this week. A look at the split between established and rising powers over protecting interests at home, and different views on how future agreements can best tap the benefits of trade.

Guests

Claude Barfield, resident scholar, the American Enterprise Institute

Robert Scott, international economist and director of international programs at the Economic Policy Institute

Jutta Hennig, chief editor, "Inside U.S. Trade"

Gawain Kripke, policy director, Oxfam America

11:00Teresa Miller: "Means of Transit" (Oklahoma)

Guest host: Susan Page

An author describes her upbringing in a small, Oklahoma town and examines her struggles with writer's block and depression.

Guests

Teresa Miller, author of the novels "Remnants of Glory" and "Family Correspondence," teacher and founder of the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, and host and executive producer of "Writing Out Loud" on PBS.

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