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LET'S GET LOST

Program 05-09-04-A

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Linda Ellerbee believes in taking big bites. And she's not just talking about food. Ellerbee likes to take big bites out of elsewhere. In fact, that's the way she defines adventure. In this hour of the Peabody Award-winning program To the Best of Our Knowledge, journalist Linda Ellerbee tells us about her edible journeys around the world.

SEGMENT 1:

Journalist Linda Ellerbee talks with Anne Strainchamps about her latest book "Take Big Bites: Adventures around the World and across the Table." Ellerbee remembers buying oranges in Afghanistan, visiting Vietnam a generation after the war, and bathing in the Mediterranean to mark the passing of Julia Child. Also, Dean King, author of "Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival" tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.

SEGMENT 2:

Rebecca Solnit is the author of "A Field Guide to Getting Lost." She tells Steve Paulson that getting lost has many meanings and that sometimes it's a good thing if it allows you to go beyond your own constraints and comfort zones.

SEGMENT 3:

Colin Meloy likes to lose himself in music. He's the songwriter and lead singer of a band called The Decenberists. Doug Gordon prepared this profile. And we hear lots of music.

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Books:

• Linda Ellerbee , Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table (Putnam)
  
• Dean King, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (Back Bay Books)
  
• Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Viking)

Links:

• Colin Meloy/The Decemberists' official website
  http://www.decemberists.com/

Music:

• -- "Secret O' Life"/James Taylor
  from the CD, "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" (Sony)
  
• -- "Hassaniya Song for Dancing"/Khalifa Ould Eide
  and Dimi Mint Abba
  from the box set, "Africa: Never Stand Still" (Ellipsis Arts)
  
• -- "The Long Black Veil"/Johnny Cash
  from the CD, "At Folsom Prison" (Columbia/Legacy)
  
• -- "Scene d'Amour"/Music Composed by Bernard Herrmann
  Conducted by Muir Mathieson
  from the CD, "Vertigo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
  (Varese Sarabande)

• MUSIC used in Colin Meloy/The Decemberists Mix:
  -- "Eli, The Barrow Boy"/The Decemberists
  from the CD, "Picaresque" (Kill Rock Stars)
  -- "The Infanta"/The Decemberists
  from the CD, "Picaresque" (Kill Rock Stars)
  -- "The Chimbley Sweep"/The Decemberists
  from the CD, "Her Majesty the Decemberists" (Kill Rock Stars)
  -- "The Mariner's Revenge Song"/The Decemberists
  from the CD, "Picaresque" (Kill Rock Stars)
  -- "We Both Go Down Together"/The Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
  from the CD, "Picaresque" (Kill Rock Stars)
  -- "16 Military Wives"/The Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
  from the CD, "Picaresque" (Kill Rock Stars)

  http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/factsheets/thedecemberists/
  http://www.decemberists.com/
  

Distribution dates:

week of 09/24/2006 - hour 2 week of 09/04/2005 - hour 1

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