What's on the radio: Friday, Nov. 22
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Here’s the MPR News programming plan for Friday, Nov. 22, on the radio and on the stream. Missed a live show? Follow the links below to find our show archives and podcast feeds. And for daily news updates straight to your inbox every weekday morning, sign up for the MPR News a.m. newsletter.
9 a.m. — 1A with Jenn White
The News Roundup – Domestic
On this week’s Friday News Roundup, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for Attorney General withdraws his name for consideration. Matt Gaetz has gone, will others now follow? Also, a row over who gets to use what bathroom in Congress, the federal workforce is told to prepare for “mass layoffs.” And in Dallas, the roof falls in on the Cowboys. (Friday Host: Todd Zwillich)
10 a.m. — 1A with Jenn White
The News Roundup – International
The U.S.-built “Army Tactical Missile System” is better known as “attack ’ems”. That’s exactly what Ukraine did this week, using the weapon to strike inside Russia - for the first time. And now Russia is responding. Plus, news from the Middle East as the International Criminal Court issues a warrant for the arrest of Israel’s Prime Minister. (Friday Host: Todd Zwillich)
11 a.m. — Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
Dr. Marty Makary on medicine's blind spots
If you stopped eating eggs for fear it could raise your cholesterol, or you avoided giving peanuts to your toddler to prevent allergies, or you stayed away from hormone replacement therapy because you were told it could cause breast cancer — you are a victim of what Dr. Marty Makary calls “medical dogma.”
Long known as an iconoclast in the medical community, Dr. Makary’s latest book, “Blind Spots,” examines how health care can go so wrong. He chalks much of it to groupthink and a growing inability for science to identify its own biases.
His diagnosis? Humility.
“Medical science is about transparency and civil discourse. Great ideas and truths have always emerged from a healthy debate within the scientific community,” he tells Kerri Miller on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas. “And tragically, what we’ve seen in the modern era is a small group of people making the decisions for everybody — many times with a paternalist and hierarchical philosophy.”
Guest:
Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University. His newest book is “Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health.”
Noon — Left, Right & Center
“Left, Right & Center” is KCRW’s weekly politics show where we take on the tough, divisive issues you’re afraid to talk about with your own family. Host David Greene, along with a rotating cast of left and right panelists, review the week’s news from Congress, the White House, the campaign trail and legislatures around the country.
1 p.m. – Science Friday
Lucy turns 50
It’s the 50th anniversary of Lucy’s discovery – she’s our 3.2-million-year-old ancestor. She transformed our understanding of who we are and where we came from. So what have we learned in 50 years of Lucy? And what’s next?