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ROAD TRIPS FOR THE SOUL
To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio
You may recall the story of six young people who reported
seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje. Journalist Randall
Sullivan talked to one of the visionaries and concluded she believes
what she was reporting. But where does that leave us? In this hour
of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll investigate holy visions.
SEGMENT 1:
Journalist Randall Sullivan is the author
of "The Miracle Detective: An Investigation of Holy Visions."
Sullivan tells Steve Paulson about his extraordinary experience
in Medjugorje, a town in the former Yugoslavia where the Virgin
Mary is reported to have appeared. Sullivan says he doesn't know
what happened there, but he hasn't been the same since.
SEGMENT 2:
Writer Asra Nomani was born to a Muslim family
in India but raised in the United States. Her editor at the Wall
Street Journal assigned her to cover the "tantra" fad.
Nomani traveled alone in India and Pakistan on what became a personal,
spiritual journey. She tells Anne Strainchamps what happened after
she found out she was pregnant and her colleague, Daniel Perl,
was murdered. Also, Jim Carrier has written "A Traveler's
Guide to the Civil Right's Movement." He tells Jim Fleming
about some of the historic sites of the movement and why they
needed an outsider to publicize their locations.
SEGMENT 3:
Tad Pierson runs a tour business called "American
Dream Safari." He takes his clients on tours of Memphis and
into Mississippi in his 1955 Cadillac named Mansfield. TTBOOK
producer Doug Gordon takes us on the Memphis run.
Cassette copies are available
at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 04-08-08-B.
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Books:
- Jim Carrier, A Traveler's
Guide to the Civil Rights Movement (Harcourt)
- Asra Q. Nomani, Tantrika: Traveling the
Road of Divine Love (Harper SanFrancisco)
- Randall Sullivan, The Miracle Detective:
An Investigation of Holy Visions (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Links:
Music:
- -- "Enchanted"/Delirium
from the CD, "Karma" (Nettwerk)
- -- "Forgotten Worlds"/Delirium
from the CD, "Karma" (Nettwerk)
- -- Music used in Jim Carrier/"A Traveler's
Guide to the
Civil Rights Movement" interview:
- -- "Oh Freedom"/Hollis Watkins
from the CD, "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black
American Freedom Songs 1960-1966" (Smithsonian Folkways)
http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2269
- -- "Calypso Freedom"/Willie Peacock
from the CD, "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black
American Freedom Songs 1960-1966" (Smithsonian Folkways)
http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2269
- -- "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball?"/Natalie
Cole
from the CD, "Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns/Original Soundtrack
Recording" (Elektra Nonesuch)
- -- :We're Marching On to Freedom Land"/Carlton
Reese
from the CD, "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black
American Freedom Songs 1960-1966" (Smithsonian Folkways)
http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2269
- -- "A Single Wish"/This Mortal Coil
from the CD, "It'll End In Tears" (4AD)
- -- Music used in Tad Pierson/"Memphis Tour"
interview:
- -- "She Wolf"/Jessie Mae Hemphill
from the CD, "It Came from Memphis"(Rounder/Upstart)
- -- "Straighten Out Your Life"/Al Green
from the CD, "Greatest Gospel Hits" (Capitol)
- -- "Hip Hug-Her"/Booker T. & The
M.G.'s
from the CD, "Rock Instrumental Classics, Volume 4: Soul"
(Rhino)
http://www.rhino.com
- -- "Green Onions"/Booker T. & The
M.G.'s
from the CD, "Rock Instrumental Classics, Volume 4: Soul"
(Rhino)
http://www.rhino.com
- -- "Last Night"/Mar-Keys
from the CD, "Rock Instrumental Classics, Volume 4: Soul"
(Rhino)
http://www.rhino.com
Distribution dates:
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be addressed to: flemingj@wpr.org
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