C-SPAN Weekend Alert: Programming Information - Fri. 3/25 - Mon. 3/28

C-SPAN Weekend Alert

Programming Information for the Weekend of Fri. 3/25 - Mon. 3/28, 2005

C-SPAN Highlights

Tonight
. Actor & Activist Michael J. Fox on Stem-Cell Research & Bioethics (8pm)
. Leon Kass, Chairman of the President's Panel on Bioethics (9:30pm)

Saturday
. Reairs of This Week's Students & Leaders: Los Angeles (10am)
. America & the Courts: Jeffrey Rosen, Author, "Rehnquist the Great?" (7pm)

Sunday
. American Politics: Presidential Advance Work (6:30pm & 9:30pm)
. Q&A: Paul Weyrich, Chairman & CEO, Free Congress Foundation (8pm)

Monday
. U.S. House: In Recess Until Tuesday, April 5th
. Hudson Inst. Panel on Neoconservatives & Foreign Policy (10:45am) - LIVE
. Black Leadership Forum Symposium (1pm) - LIVE
. Library of Congress "Digital Future": Neil Gershenfeld of MIT (6:30pm) - LIVE
. C-SPAN Special: Conversations with U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Iraq (8pm)




C-SPAN 2 Highlights

Tonight
. Students & Leaders: L.A. - Noel Irwin Hentschel, AmericanTours Int'l (9pm)
. Students & Leaders: L.A. - John Bryant, Founder, Operation Hope (10pm)

Saturday - Sunday
. Book TV Airs on C-SPAN2 Every Weekend from 8am Sat. to 8am Mon.
. Check the Book TV Schedule Anytime - It's Updated Daily - http://www.booktv.org

Monday
. U.S. Senate: In Recess Until Monday, April 4th
. Release of State Dept. Report on Democracy & Human Rights (10am) - LIVE
. Release of New Study on State of Urban Schools (11am) - LIVE




C-SPAN 3 Highlights

Tonight
. History Programming: Religion & the Early Presidents (10pm)
. History Programming: Catholic American Voters (11:45pm)

Saturday
. Programming TBA

Sunday
. Programming TBA

Monday
. Pulitzer Prize Winning Books & Authors in the Category of Biography




C-SPAN Radio Schedule
http://www.cspan.org/watch/schedule.asp
C-SPAN Radio Highlights

Saturday
. American Political Archive: Congresswomen Reva Bosone & Edith Green (10am)
. LBJ Tapes: March '64 Calls on Alaska Earthquake & Brazilian Coup (3pm)
. Encore Booknotes: Peter Gomes, "The Good Book" (5pm)
. Supreme Court Oral Argument: Judicial Power & Personal Injury Case (6pm)

Sunday
. Replays of TV Talk Shows from NBC, ABC, Fox, CNN, CBS (12pm)
. Q&A: Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation (8pm)

Monday
. Washington Journal (7am) - LIVE
. Digital Future: The Concept of "Internet Zero" (6:30pm) - LIVE


Washington Journal Highlights

Saturday
. Donald Schumacher, Nat'l Hospice & Palliative Care
. Stefan Tucker, Partner at Venable Law Firm, on Living Wills
. Arthur Auerbach, Tax Director, Goodman & Company
. Robert Robinson, Managing Director, GAO, on Mad Cow Disease

Sunday
. Show Was Not Yet Booked at Time of Publication
. Likely Segments Include the Following...
. Look at Medicare & Soc. Sec. Trustees' Reports
. Kyrgyzstan; Torture & Interrogation Policies</b>

Monday
. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
. Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director, NORML
. Dan Glickman, President, Motion Picture Assn. of America
. Diana Kattan, Partners for Peace, Christian Palestinian
. Nina Mayorek, Partners for Peace, Jewish Israeli
. Aitemad Muhanna, Partners for Peace, Muslim Palestinian



BookTV Highlights

. After Words: Jim Wallis interviewed by Randy Tate - Sun. 6pm & 9pm
. Jeffrey Sachs "The End of Poverty" - Sat. 9:15pm & Sun. 10:30am
. Katherine Sibley " Spies in America" - Sat. 1:15pm
. Philip Short on the life of Cambodia's Pol Pot - Sun. 12pm
. Ralph David Abernathy's Autobiography - Sat. 7pm



C-SPAN Special Promotions

. The C-SPAN School Bus - On Tour Now - See the List of Cities at http://www.c-span.org/classroom/schoolbus/busschedule.asp



C-SPAN Capitol Spotlight

Today's Spotlight
. In a major policy shift, the Bush administration has agreed to sell F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan, administration officials said today. The diplomatically sensitive move... - Full Story at http://www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/index.asp

Today's Trivia

. Which Florida congressman started to become aware of politics after dating Kitty Kirk, the daughter of Florida Gov. Claude R. Kirk Jr., the first Republican to hold that post since Reconstruction? - Answer at http://www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/index.asp
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