Thursday, April 30, 2009

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-04-30/senator-specter-switches-parties

Senator Specter Switches Parties

10 a.m. (ET)

Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties puts the Democrats one seat closer to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Why the independent-minded senator is changing his political affiliation and what it means for the president's...

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-04-30/andrea-wulf-brother-gardeners-knopf

Andrea Wulf: "The Brother Gardeners" (Knopf)

11 a.m. (ET)

How a colonial American farmer with a passion for plants and a group of eighteenth century explorers, botanists, and collectors triggered the English obsession with gardens and gardening.

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