spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer
 

Home
Shows
Search
Listen
About Us

subscribe to our archives through Audible.Com

 

Peabody
Winner of the
64th Annual
Peabody Award
for Radio
Programming!

 

To the Best of Our Knowledge

 


A Five Part Series from TTBOOK!

PRI
Public Radio International

WPR
Wisconsin Public Radio

Contact Us

Order CD Copies
1-800-747-7444

Sunday Mornings on
a Satellite Near You!
more info

 

 
spacer from Wisconsin Public Radio  

LOOK UP EARLIER PROGRAMS ON OUR ARCHIVES PAGE
order a CD copy from The Radio Store at 1-800-747-7444 or listener@wpr.org

AUDIO ARCHIVES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE.

.............................................................................

SECOND QUARTER PROGRAMS

APRIL, MAY, JUNE 2007

To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio

April 2007
04/01 04/08 04/15 04/22 04/29

04/01/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-04-01-A

Listen

POP MUSIC
Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gayle F. Wald
Pub Rock - Will Birch
Alternative Rock Novel - Jonathan Lethem

Hour 2

 

07-04-01-B
(was 06-03-19-A)

Listen

AGAINST THE TIDE
Quest for Fulfillment - Elizabeth Gilbert
Western Yogi Profile - Matthew Remski
Chanting Nun - Choying Drolma
New Roles for Black Actors - Andre DeShields

04/08/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-04-08-A

Listen

FORBIDDEN FOOD
Bizarre Foods - Andrew Zimmern
Gospel of Food - Barry Glassner
Fierce Food - Christa Weil
Chocolate - Mort Rosenblum
Baking at Home - Dorie Greenspan

Hour 2

 

07-04-08-B
(was 06-03-19-B)

Listen!

IDENTITY CRISIS
Immigrant Identity - Jorge Drexler
Art, Reality & Identity - Lynn Hershman Leeson
Online Role-Playing Games - Edward Castronova
Songwriter Profile - Robbie Fulks

04/15/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-04-15-A

Listen

FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
Time Travel - Ron Mallett
Poetry about Physics - Fleda Brown
Sci-Fi TV - Leo Duran, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Cassutt
Space Travel - Chris Jones
Bio-Friendly Universe - Paul Davies

Hour 2

 

07-04-15-B
(was 06-04-16-B)

Listen!

THE BOOK BUSINESS
What Makes a Best-Seller - Sara Nelson
Writing Best Sellers - Steve Berry
Writing Now - Kevin Smokler
Selling Your Own Book - Larry Baker
Forster & Wallace - Zadie Smith

04/22/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-04-22-A

Listen

JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE
J-Horror - David Kalat
Love of Robots - Tim Hornyak
Japanese Toys - Anne Allison
New Samurai Movies - Hiroyuki Sanada
Murakami's Well - Teresa Goff

Hour 2

 

07-04-22-B
(was 06-04-16-A)

Listen

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
Yes Man - Danny Wallace
World Changing - Nicole-Anne Boyer
Pronoia - Rob Brezny
Happiness, a History - Darrin McMahon
Spiritual Pop - Bill Friskics-Warren

04/29/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-04-29-A

Listen

AGING & MEMORY
Memory Mechanics - Eric R. Kandel
My Dad - Jim Fleming
Thomas Hardy - Claire Tomalin
Premature Retirement - Rodney Rothman
Holy Longing - Mary Rose O'Reilly

Hour 2

 

07-04-29-B
(was 06-03-26-A)

Listen

BETWEEN BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
Faith in Jesus - Garry Wills
Historical Jesus - Karen King
Silly Bible Stories - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Science and Religion - E.O. Wilson

 

May 2007
05/06 05/13 05/20 05/27

05/06/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-05-06-A
(was 06-04-30-A)

Listen

RESPONDING TO WAR
Reporters in Iraq - George Packer
War Movies - Martha Bayles
Vietnam War Trauma - Danielle Trussoni
Cambodian Poetry - U Sam Oeur & Ken McCullough

Hour 2

 

07-05-06-B
(was 06-04-30-B)

Listen!

AMERICAN CLASSIC
The American Dream - Jeanette Walls
American Gothic - Steven Biel
Alt Country Band Freakwater - Catherine Irwin & Janet Beverdige Bean
Apple Pie - John T. Edge

05/13/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-05-13-A

Listen

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
Peace Activist - Satish Kumar
The Movie "Ghandi" - Reihan Salam
Nonviolence & History - Mark Kurlansky
War Letters - Andrew Carroll

Hour 2

 

07-05-13-B
(was 06-04-09-B)

Listen!

TECHNO CUISINE
Adventure Eating - Stefan Gates
Moto Restaurant - Homaro Cantu
Iranian Food Novel - Marsha Mehran
Chemistry of Food - Harold McGee
Competitive Eating - Ryan Nerz

05/20/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-05-20-A

Listen

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: GREAT WRITERS ON GREAT BOOKS
PART ONE: WRITING THE WORLD
What Makes a Real Indian? - Sherman Alexie
The Role of the Poet During War - Alice Walker
Speaking Your Mind - V.S. Naipul
Being Secular in an Islamic World - Orhan Pamuk
The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan
Black Class Differences - Toni Morrison

Hour 2

 

07-05-20-B

Listen!

TO BREED OR NOT TO BREED
Baby Quest - Peggy Orenstein
Childless Revolution - Madelyn Cain
Motherhood Poems - Catherine Wagner
Adoption Memoir - A.M. Homes

05/27/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-05-27-A

Listen

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: GREAT WRITERS ON GREAT BOOKS
PART TWO: MODERN CLASSICS
Best-selling Swedish Novel - Mikael Niemi
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Lolita - Steve Paulson
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Re-reading the Classics - Anne Fadiman
Best Endings - Jane Hamilton

Hour 2

 

07-05-27-B

Listen!

GOING GREEN
No Impact Living - Colin Beavan
Deep Economy - Bill McKibben
Empire of Scrounge - Jeff Ferrell
Blessed Unrest - Paul Hawken
Beatrix Potter Conservationist - Linda Lear
Comment - Rima Snyder

June 2007
06/03 06/10 06/17 06/24

06/03/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-06-03-A

Listen

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: GREAT WRITERS ON GREAT BOOKS
PART THREE: KIDS' LIT
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Picture Books - Kevin Henkes
Kids' Lit Today - Anne Strainchamps
Wizard of Oz - Salman Rushdie
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Peter Pan - Geraldine McCaughrean

Hour 2

 

07-06-03-B

Listen!

LIFE AND DEATH IN IRAQ
Email Correspondence - Susan Friedman
Iraqi Poet - Nabeel Yasin & Jo Tatchell
Baghdad Zoo - Lawrence Anthony
Baghdad Zoo Play - Rajiv Joseph
Exile's Return - Ali Allawi

06/10/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-06-10-A

Listen

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: GREAT WRITERS ON GREAT BOOKS
PART FOUR: PULP FICTION
Nelson Algran - Studs Terkel
Filming Tristram Shandy - Neda Ulaby
Tristram Shandy - John Wesley Harding
Postman Always Rings Twice - Tom Wolfe
Scandinavian Crime Novels - Steve Paulson
Graphic Novelist - Chris Ware
Setting Bukowski to Music - Kristen Asbjornsen

Hour 2

 

07-06-10-B

Listen!

WEEKEND
Saturday Night - Susan Orlean
Saturday Night Live - Anne Beatts
Sunday - Craig Harline
Godard's Weekend - David Sterritt

06/17/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-06-17-A

Listen

WHAT IS NORMAL?
Eavesdropping - Stephen Kuusisto
Poster Child - Emily Rapp
Essay - Harriett Brown
Rumspringa - Tom Schachtman
Wide Awake - Alan Berliner

Hour 2

 

07-06-17-B

Listen!

THE END OF THE WORLD (AS WE KNOW IT)
Peak Oil Crisis - Bryandt Urstadt
World Without Oil Game - Ken Eklund
Religion & Apocalypse - Martin Marty
Post-Apocalpytic Novel - Jim Crace
Cosmology & End of World - Lawrence Krauss

06/24/2007 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

07-06-24-A

Listen

GETTING RELIGION
Religious Literacy - Stephen Prothero
Hip-Hop & Islam - Lupe Fiasco
Gospel of Judas - Elaine Pagels
Finding Grace - Anne Lamott

Hour 2

 

07-06-24-B
(was 06-07-23-A)

Listen

HOOKED ON SONICS
Offbeat Instruments - Mark Brend
Acoustic Space - Peter Doyle
Stardivari's Genius - Toby Faber
Ukelele Return - Victoria Vox

     


Wisconsin Public Radio is a service of the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension.

Page design and management by Jim Fleming at Wisconsin Public Radio and Sarah Fleming.

© 2007 WHA Radio and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.