DATE: 3/28/05

CONTACT: Bob McAnally, (864) 656-7458

Your Day radio schedule for week of April 4

CLEMSON -- The following "Your Day" radio programs from Clemson University Radio Productions are scheduled to air on South Carolina ETV Radio for the week of April 4. The program airs from noon to 1 p.m. , Monday through Thursday. Listeners can call in questions during a "live” show by using the toll-free phone number: 1-888-539-8859.

MONDAY, APRIL 4 –- The World Bank and the global climate. Dr. Bob Becker, Director of the Strom Thurmond Institute on Government and Public Affairs at Clemson University talks with Todd Johnson, team leader for Climate Change at the World Bank about the group’s market-based carbon fund and other issues.

National Child Abuse Prevention Month . Dr. Gary Melton, director of the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life (IFNL) at Clemson University talks with Dr. Howard Dubowitz of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland and Dr. David Wolfe, RBC Chair in Children's Mental Health and Director of the CAMH Centre for Prevention Science at the University of Toronto .

One hundred years of fantasy . Dr. Michelle Martin, a specialist in children’s and young adult literature in the Clemson University English Department talks with Linda Benson, associate professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University about fantasy books for children.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5 – A live call-in segment on gardening in South Carolina . An hour-long edition hosted by Clemson Extension Horticulturist Bob Polomski, author of Month-by-Month Gardening in the Carolinas . His guest is certified rosarian Sheree Wright of Happy Plants   Garden Center in Easley.  A Clemson Master Gardener and certified American Rose Society Consulting Rosarian, Sheree was past president of the Greater Greenville Rose Society and is program chairman and editor of their monthly newsletter The Greenville Rosebud. Listeners may call in with questions via the toll-free number: 888-539-8859. For additional help with gardening topics visit Clemson Extension’s Home & Garden Information Center.

W EDNESDAY, APRIL 6 – A live call-in segment on nutrition and weight loss . Libby Hoyle, Clemson Extension food and nutrition specialist in the Clemson University Department of Packaging Sciences, is joined by national health and wellness expert Ann Kulze, MD, author of Dr. Ann's 10-Step Diet: A Simple Plan for Permanent Weight Loss and Lifelong Vitality. Listeners may call in with questions via the toll-free number: 888-539-8859.

A live call-in segment on pet care topics. Dr. Glenn Birrenkott of the Clemson University Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and Dr. Bobby Long of Magnolia Veterinary Clinic in Anderson take calls from listeners via the toll-free number: 888-539-8859.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 – The work of the American Chemical Society. Donna London of the Jim Self Center on the Future talks with Dr. Bill Carroll, president of the American Chemical Society and vice president for chlorovinyl issues at Oxychem, Occidental Chemical Corporation in Dallas .

Access to safe water. We learn about a practical, affordable, sustainable, worldwide solution for communities with contaminated water. Jon Keith talks with Molly Greene, co-founder of the Charleston-based non-profit organization Water Missions International which provided relief to recent tsunami victims. For more information: 843-769-7395.

A visit to the Charleston Grill . Libby Hoyle, Extension Food and Nutrition Specialist in the Clemson University Department of Packaging Sciences, talks with Chef Bob Waggoner of the Charleston Grill located at the Charleston Place Hotel in downtown Charleston.

For more information on these programs, contact Your Day at (864) 656-7458.

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