List of RadioWest Episodes (2012)

This is a list of guests and topics of the RadioWest radio show and podcast during 2012. RadioWest is a daily radio show and podcast hosted by Doug Fabrizio.

January

Date

Guest

Topic

January 3

Frederick Wiseman

The film "Crazy Horse": a Parisian [...] cabaret

January 4

Henry Alford

The book "Would It Kill You To Stop Doing That?"

January 5

Tom Zoellner

The book "A Safeway in Arizona": Gabrielle Giffords

January 9

Lindsay Whitehurst, Tonia Tewell, Cardell Jacobsen, Ken Driggs

The Long Arm of Warren Jeffs

January 10

John Maggio, Mark Lee Gardner

Billy the Kid

January 12

John Campbell

The book "The Iron Lady": Margaret Thatcher

January 16

LDS Legislators

LDS Values and Political Beliefs

January 17

Adam Davidson

On the NPR program 'Making It In America': the manufacturing decline over the last decade

January 19

Steve Volk

Fringeology: Volk researches the paranormal

January 20

Rory Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy

Sundance - Rory and Ethel discuss Rory's documentary AbOUT her mother: "Ethel"

January 23

Eugene Jarecki

Sundance - The House I Live In

January 24

Kirby [...]

Sundance - The Invisible War

January 25

Rodney Ascher and Tim Kirk

Sundance - Room 237

January 26

James Marsh

Sundance - Shadow Dancer

January 27

Malik Bendjelloul

Sundance - "Searching for Sugar Man" about Sixto Diaz Rodriguez

January 31

McKay Coppins, Scott Helman

Why Not Romney? Mitt Romney's rocky trajectory with Americans.

February

Date

Guest

Topic

February 1

Thomas Forrest Kelly

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the night it was first performed

February 3

Siân Evans

The book "Life Below Stairs": English Country Houses, and "Downton Abbey"

February 6

David Mark, Dave Owen

The book "Going Dirty": negative campaigning in American politics

February 7

Dr. Fred Berlin

The book "Understanding Pedophilia": Berlin regards pedophilia as treatable.

February 8

Quinn Norton, Garbriella Coleman

Anonymous: Hackers? Activists? Terrorists? Who are they?

February 9

Brandon Robbins, Mark Garbett

Local Music - The Moth & The Flame

February 10

William Powers

The book "Hamlet's Blackberry": balance in the ultra-connected world

February 13

Howard Berkes, Terry Gildea, Andrea Smardon, Dan Bammes

Looking Back at the 2002 Olympics

February 14

Steve James (producer)

The film "The Interrupters"

February 15

Elna Baker

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

February 16

Abraham Verghese

Bedside Manners

February 17

Klea Blackhurst

The Songs of Ethel Merman

February 21

Jon Foy

Through the Lens - Resurrect Dead

February 22

Dalia Dassa Kaye and Alireza Nader

Israel and Iran - A Dangerous Rivalry

February 23

Cullen Murphy

The book "God's Jury"

February 27

Utah Lawmakers

Recent laws about teaching abstinence in Utah schools

February 28

David Belton

The PBS documentary "Amish: American Experience"

March

Date

Guest

Topic

March 3

Wade Davis

The book "Into the Silence" about British attempts on Everest in the 20s

March 5

Duncan Watts

The book "Everything Is Obvious, Once You Know the Answer"

March 6

Controlling Utah's Public Land

March 7

Debra Threedy

The play "The Third Crossing"

March 8

Robert Kagan

The Myth of American Decline

March 12

Steve Hendricks

Starving your Way to Vigor

March 14

Mark Sundeen

The book "The Man Who Quit Money" on Daniel Suelo

March 15

John Avlon, John Farrell

No One in the Middle: the death of centrism

March 21

David Folkenflik, Christopher Cokinos

Mike Daisey and "The Truth of a Matter"

March 20

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson

March 22

Brian Kellow

The book "Pauline Kael - A Life in the Dark"

March 26

Geoffrey Gray

The book "The Hunt for D.B. Cooper"

March 27

Joanna Brooks

Brooks and her "Ask Mormon Girl" blog

March 29

Jon McNaughton, Benjamin Park, Adam Bateman

Art, Politics and the Paintings of Jon McNaughton

April

Date

Guest

Topic

April 2

Timothy Johnson

Decision Making and the US Supreme Court

April 3

Jonah Lehrer

How Creativity Works

April 5

Desert Noises: Kyle Henderson, Tyler Osmond, Pat Boyers, Timothy George

Local Music - Desert Noises

April 9

Ira Byock

The book "The Best Care Possible"

April 10

Elizabeth Kolbert, Bryan Caplan

The Ethics of Having Babies

April 11

Anuradha Koirala

Through the Lens - The Day My God Died

April 12

Philip Freeman

How to Win an Election

April 16

Eyal Press

The book: "Beautiful Souls" ordinary people who take exceptional risk

April 17

Stephen Marche

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

April 18

The West's Withering Snowpack

April 19

James McConnachie

The Book of Love

April 23

Philip Coggan

The book "Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order"

April 24

Doug Hawes-Davis, Dan Flores

The PBS show "Facing the Storm: The Story of the American Bison"

April 26

Lisa Riley Roche, John Daley, Robert Gehrke, Terry Gildea

The 2012 Utah Caucuses

April 27

Elaine Pagels

The Book "Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation"

April 30

Nancy Cohen

[...] and the Political Divide

May

Date

Guest

Topic

May 1

James Curtis

Curtis' book "Spencer Tracy - A Biography"

May 2

Fred Montague, Gary Paul Nabhan

In Season: Soil, Local Gardens and Young Farmers

May 3

Lee Hirsch

The film "Bully"

May 7

Chase Peterson

Peterson's memoir "The Guardian Poplar"

May 8

Rachel Maines

Vibrator Rx

May 10

Richard Dutcher

Filmmaker Richard Dutcher

May 12

Florence Williams

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

May 15

Energy Development in the Rural West

May 16

L'anarchiste

Local music: L'anarchiste

May 17

David Finch

The book "The Journal of Best Practices" and autism

May 22

Daniel Stashower

Poe and the Beautiful Cigar Girl

May 23

Alain de Botton

Religion for Atheists

May 24

Jack Hitt

A Bunch of Amateurs

May 30

Bess Kargman

The film "First Position" about ballet

May 31

Charles C. Mann

The World Columbus Created

June

Date

Host

Guest

Topic

June 4

Doug Fabrizio

Joanna Brooks, Ryan Cragun, Matthew Martinich

Counting the Saints

June 5

Doug Fabrizio

Bill Harley

Storyteller Bill Harley

June 6

Doug Fabrizio

Ari Shapiro, John Ydstie

The American Dream in the 21st Century

June 7

Doug Fabrizio

[...] Teresi

The Line Between Life and Death

June 8

Doug Fabrizio

Catherine Weller, Betsy Burton, Ken Sanders

2012 Summer Reading

June 12

Doug Fabrizio

David Auburn, Anne Milliken

The Columnist: about Joseph Alsop

June 13

Doug Fabrizio

Larry Tye

Superman

June 14

Doug Fabrizio

Lucy Walker

Through the Lens: The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

June 18

Doug Fabrizio

Jon Ronson

The book "The Psychopath Test"

June 20

Doug Fabrizio

Jeffrey Rosen

The Legacy and Legitimacy of the Roberts Court

June 21

Doug Fabrizio

Bullets and Belles

The local band "Bullets and Belles"

June 25

Benjamin Bombard

John T. Edge

Truck Food

June 26

John Daley

Mind Your Gray Matter: Sports-related head trauma

June 27

Thad Hall

Quin Monson, Alan Abromowitz, Mickey Edwards

The Road Ahead for the GOP

July

Date

Host

Guest

Topic

July 2

Matthew LaPlante

Scott Poole

Vampires in America

July 3

Joanna Brooks

Jay Michaelson

"God vs. Gay?"

July 10

Christy Karras

Amy Reading

Reading's book "The Mark Inside" about J. Frank Norfleet

July 11

Bill Allred

Matteo Pistono

Pistono's book "In the Shadow of the Buddha" about about Tibetan Buddhism

July 12

Doug Fabrizio

Carl Colby

Through the Lens: The Man Nobody Knew

July 16

Doug Fabrizio

Peter Meehan, Chris Ying

Lucky Peach - American Food

July 17

Doug Fabrizio

Barbara Demick

Demick's book "Nothing to Envy" about North Korea

July 18

Doug Fabrizio

Is "Dead Man Walking" Too Much for High School?

July 19

Doug Fabrizio

The Life of Martha Hughes Cannon

July 25

Doug Fabrizio

Eric Chipman, Matteo

The band "Matteo"

July 26

Doug Fabrizio

E.J. Dionne Jr

The Battle for the American Idea

July 26

Doug Fabrizio

Terry Gildea, Andrea Smardon, Jason Cooke, Stan Rasmussen

The Future of Medicaid in Utah

July