DATE: 11/29/06

CONTACT: Bob McAnally, (864) 656-7458

Your Day radio schedule for week of Dec. 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 Dec. 4. The program airs from noon to 1 p.m. , Monday through Thursday. Listeners can call in during a "live” show by using the toll-free phone number: 1-888-539-8859.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4

South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights.Dr. Bob Becker, director of the Strom Thurmond Institute on Government and Public Affairs at Clemson University , talks with Phil Grose, research fellow at the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, author of South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights.

Educational Video Games and Academic Achievement.Dr. Lamont Flowers, director of the Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education, in Clemson University ’s Moore School of Education talks with Michael Grant, program chair and instructor of digital entertainment and game design at ITT Technical Institute.

Inner rested. Chesnee writer Pat Jobe considers a recent miswriting episode. His essays are collected in The Best of Radio Free Bubba and in Return of Radio Free Bubba, both published by Hub City Writers Project.

Holiday Tours of Historic Columbia. Kaela Harmon, communications coordinator of Historic Columbia , gives us a preview of this season’s holiday tours, which take place Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm through Dec. 30. Candlelight tours take place Dec. 7-9 from 6 to 9 pm . For more information call 803-252-1770 or visit Historic Columbia online.

Touring with Man of La Mancha . Glenn Hare learns about life in the touring company of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha from actress Tess Rohan. The Phoenix Entertainment production opened in Alaska on Oct, 3, was performed at Clemson University ’s Brooks Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 30, and will continue to play coast to coast through May, 2007.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
A live call-in hour on insects and other household pests. Charlotte Holt hosts Cam Lay, assistant department head for Pesticide Regulation and Dr. Eric Benson, Clemson Extension urban entomologist. Phone in with questions for the entomologists via the tollfree number 888-539-8859. For additional insect information, visit the Clemson University Entomology website.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
A live call-in segment on the DNR SC Scenic Rivers Program. Host Mike Willis, communications director for the SC Department of Natural Resources, and his colleagues Bill Marshall and Mary Crockett with the DNR SC Scenic Rivers Program will be joined by Scott Lamprecht, a fisheries biologist from the DNR Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division who will discuss his research and studies that have been conducted on some of the state's Scenic Rivers and other rivers and waterways. Listeners may take part via the toll-free number 888-539-8859.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7
Donna London, director of the Jim Self Center on the Future, asks Taylor Jones from Anderson County and Henry Gordon from Oconee County to discuss the Western Piedmont Regional Emergency Management Task Force, which was recognized for regional cooperation during the 2006 Jim Mitchell Graham Memorial Awards at the Annual Conference of the SC Association of Counties.

Rotary International. Jon Keith learns more about this global network of community volunteers from Bill Boyd, the president of Rotary International.

First Friday First Annual BBQ Kick-off Cook-off. Clemson Extension Food and Nutrition Specialist Libby Hoyle strolls among cooking competitors at an Upstate barbecue competition held Friday, Sept. 1 in Clemson.

Beef Tenderloin. Abbeville County Extension Agent Rhonda Matthews visits with Chef Bob Waggoner of the Charleston Grill located at the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston .

For more information, contact Your Day at (864) 656-7458 or visit http://yourday.clemson.edu.

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