The Leonard Lopate Show
No Strangers to Controversy
Monday, April 17, 2006
On today’s show, a biology teacher from Dover, Pennsylvania, describes what happened when the controversy over intelligent design came to her high school classroom. Then, a look at blondes in film and literature. Plus, a new novel about modern-day astronauts. And to start it all off, Jane Fonda!
Fonda Memories
Jane Fonda discusses her Oscar-winning performances, her credits as a producer, her workout videos, and her activism, in My Life So Far.
Becoming Bombshells
Ellen Tremper examines how blondes became brassy icons in film and literature in I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction And Film.
Mom Needs Her Outer Space
Stephen Harrigan describes his new novel Challenger Park, about a modern-day astronaut who’s also a wife and mother.
Events: Stephen Harrigan will be reading and signing books
Monday, April 17 at 7 pm
Lincoln Center Barnes and Noble
1972 Broadway at 66th Street
Controversy in the Classroom
Last December, a US District Judge ruled that it was unconstitutional for a Dover, Pennsylvania school board to require that teachers include intelligent design in their science classes. Jennifer Miller, a high school biology teacher from Dover, explains why she fought to keep intelligent design out of her classroom…and what effect the controversy had on her students.
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