WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL

Program 03-11-02-A

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To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio

To the Best of Our Knowledge and the Wisconsin Book Festival joined forces Sunday October 26thfor a live show at the Orpheum Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Tim O'Brien, David Maraniss, Grace Paley, Noah Adams and John Wesley Harding were all on stage with us. It was a great day, as you'll see if you view our photo scrapbook.

SEGMENT 1:

This program was recorded during a special edition of TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE on stage at the Orpheum Theater in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Wisconsin Book Festival. Music throughout the hour is provided by Leo Sidran, drums; Ben Sidran, keyboard; Nick Moran, bass. Jim's guests this segment include novelist Tim O'Brien and journalist David Maraniss.
	Tim O'Brien has written many novels that concern the Viet Nam war and its effects on his generation. His most recent is "July, July."
	David Maraniss is the author of "They Marched into Sunlight," a book about a battle that took place at the same time as a major protest against the War.
The two authors and Jim Fleming talk about their own experiences of the Viet Nam War era.

SEGMENT 2:

Grace Paley is a writer of short stories, poetry and essays. An American original, she once described herself as a "combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist." She talks with Steve Paulson about her life and her politics.
Also, NPR's Noah Adams has a new book: "The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright." It's his fifth book. He talks about writing and radio with Anne Strainchamps.

SEGMENT 3:

John Wesley Harding is a singer/songwriter who was born Wesley Harding Stace but took his name from the Bob Dylan album. He studied literature at Cambridge University, and talks with Steve Paulson about how his literary sensibility shapes his music. We also hear him perform a song containing the entire plot of "Hamlet."

 

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Books:

• Noah Adams, The Flyers: in search of Wilbur & Orville Wright (Crown)
  
• David Maraniss, They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 (Simon & Schuster)
  
• Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (Broadway)
  
• Grace Paley, Just As I Thought (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

Music:

• Ben Sidran, keyboard
• Leo Sidran, drums - www.leosidran.com
• Nick Moran, bass
• -Comin' Home Baby by Herbie Mann
  
• -Girl Talk
  
• -Hi Fly
  
• -Work Song, trad.

Distribution dates:

week of 11/02/2003 - hour 1

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Questions and comments can be addressed to: flemingj@wpr.org

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