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CHANGE OVER TIME
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Program 10-01-03-A |
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Did you know that novelist Thomas Hardy had a second career as a poet? Or that many people don’t find their artistic passions until after the age of 85? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we talk about change over time -- that is, how change is really a lifelong project. A former monk talks about transforming his life spiritually through meditation. And Carl Honore reminds us that change itself should be... Slow.
SEGMENT 1:
Anne Strainchamps interviews Carl Honore, known as the unofficial godfather of the Slowness movement. His book is called Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper Parenting, Knopf, 2008. Also mentioned was his earlier book, In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed. HarperOne, 2004.
Anne Strainchamps interviews Amy Gorman, author of Aging Artfully: Profiles of 12 Visual and Performing Artists 85-105. Pal Publishing, 2009. The piece also included a clip of Lily Hearst from Greg Young’s documentary, Still Kicking, which profiled six of the women featured in Amy Gorman’s book.
SEGMENT 2:
Steve Paulson interviews Father Thomas Keating about spiritual meditation. Father Keating was the Abott of St. Josephs Abbey in Massachusetts, and later one of the founders of the Centering Prayer movement.
Jim Fleming interviews Lera Auerbach, Russian classical concert pianist and composer, about her lifelong fear of time. Her autobiographical novel is called The Mirror.
SEGMENT 3:
Steve Paulson interviews Claire Tomalin about her biography, Thomas Hardy. Penguin Press, 2007. She says it was the death of his wife, Emma, that brought out Hardy's true nature as a poet.
A sound portrait of Diana Athill, who worked for years as editor for some of the world’s most accomplished writers, including John Updike, and V.S. Naipaul. At the age of 91, she wrote her second memoir, Somewhere Towards the End. WW Norton, 2009.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 10-01-03-A.
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| Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton) | |
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Lera Auerbach, The Mirror |
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| Amy Gorman, Aging Artfully: Profiles of 12 Visual and Performing Artists 85-105 ( Pal Publishing) | |
| Carl Honore, In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed. (HarperOne) | |
- Lera Auerbach
http://www.leraauerbach.com/content/compositions_listen.html - Carl Honore
http://www.carlhonore.com/
- Amy Gorman/"Aging Artfully"
http://www.agingartfully.com/
- Greg Young's documentary, "Still Kicking"
(Golden Bear Casting)
http://www.goldenbearcasting.com/
- During Return: Ulrich Schnauss,
“Passing By,” from the album Far Away Trains Passing By
- After Honore: Sondre Lerche, Dan and Marie Melody,
from the Dan in Real Life Soundrack
- After Gorman: Ulrich Schnauss, As if You’ve Never
Been Away, Far Away Trains Passing By
- After Keating: Aine Minogue, Celtic meditation music
- After Auerbach: Lera Auerbach, After the End of Time
- After Athill: Vicki Logan, Only Time, Finding My Way
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