DATE: 7/24/07

CONTACT: Bob McAnally, (864) 656-7458

Your Day radio schedule for week of July 30

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 July 30. 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, JULY 30, 2007
The 2008 Election and t he Clemson University Provost’s Seminar.Bob Becker, director of the Strom Thurmond Institute on Government and Public Affairs at Clemson University talks with Clemson professors David Woodard and Joe Stewart of the Department of Political Science about an upcoming seminar on presidential politics that is open to the public. For more information call 864-656-3233.

Robert Smalls of South Carolina . Gary Melton, director of the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life at Clemson University visits with Dr. Andrew Billingsley, senior scholar in residence at the Institute for Families and Society at the University of South Carolina and author of Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and his Families.

The 50 th Anniversary of Stax Records. Roy Scott talks with Grammy-winning popular music historian Rob Bowman, author of Soulsville, USA: the Story of Stax Records, about the history of the Memphis-based company that became the preeminent soul music label.

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2007

A live call-in hour on gardening topics. Hosted by naturalist Lisa Wagner, director of education for the SC Botanical Garden. Listeners may call in with questions on gardening practices via the tollfree number 888-539-8859. For additional information on gardening, integrated pest management, and food safety and preservation, visit the website of the Clemson Extension Home and Garden Information Center (HGIC).

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2007
A live call-in hour on recreational fishing, shrimping and crabbing on the SC coast with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Host Mike Willis, communications director for the SC Department of Natural Resources welcomes David Whitaker, assistant deputy director for the DNR Marine Resources Division in Charleston and Region IV DNR Natural Resources Conservation Officer Lee Ellis. We’ll get an update on the 2007 commercial shrimp season; learn of new size and creel limits for many recreational finfish, and a take a look at the upcoming shrimp baiting season. Listeners may call in with questions on fishing, shrimping, crabbing and boating along South Carolina 's coast via the toll-free number 888-539-8859.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2007
Protecting natural treasures of the upstate. Donna London, director of the Jim Self Center on the Future, talks with Mark Robertson, executive director of the SC Chapter of the Nature Conservancy about recent conservation efforts in the Issaqueena Falls and Stumphouse Mountain area in Oconee County .

Discouraging barnacle growth. Peter Kent talks with marine biologist Dr. Andy Mount of the Clemson University Biological Sciences Department about research into methods to prevent barnacles from attaching to sea-going vessels.

The story of a survivor. Jon Keith visits the Charleston home of Joe Engel, a Polish-American survivor of Nazi concentration camps. Note: this interview contains disturbing descriptions of his experience during the Holocaust.

Who needs grass anyway? An essay on landscaping woes by Dr. Edwin Leap, an emergency room physician at Oconee Memorial Hospital in Seneca, and author of a collection of essays on his ER experiences: Working Knights. Dr. Leap’s columns can be found in the Greenville News, the Seneca Daily Journal-Messenger, and Emergency Medicine News. His latest collection of essays on family is called Cats Don’t Hike.

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

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