To the Best of Our Knowledge

PROMO       9/2/2007     "The Bestiary"
*Once upon a time people believed the world was populated with terrible
monsters and fabulous mythical beasts.  They thought if they just
searched long enough and hard enough, they'd find them.  In this hour of
To the Best of Our Knowledge, the mythical beasts of folktale and
legend, and the modern researchers who are still hunting for them. 
Tales of sea serpents, lake monsters, and abominable snowmen.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "The Bestiary"

0:01 - 20:16        SEGMENT 1: (20:17)
            Laurel Kendall is one of the curators of "Mythic
            Creatures," a blockbuster exhibition at the American
            Natural History Museum.  She walks through the exhibition
            with Anne Strainchamps and we hear visitor reaction to
            the dragons and their ilk. Also, Loren Coleman considers
            himself a conservative crypto-zoologist. He tells Jim
            Fleming what that means, and why he's still looking for
            the next Lake Monster or Bigfoot or Thunderbird.
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

20:17 - 20:46  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

20:47 - 35:49       SEGMENT 2: (15:04)
            Jonathan Baillie is the lead scientist at the Zoological
            Society of London and directs its new EDGE of Existence
            Program.  He tells Steve Paulson about his conservation
            campaign to save Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally
            Endangered animals like a species of echidna from Papua
            in the South Pacific. Also, Tim Friend is the author of
            "The Third Domain."  It's a book about Archaea - a kind
            of microbe that doesn't fit into any of the traditional
            categories of life and only exists in wildly inhospitable
            environments.
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

35:50 - 35:19       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

35:20 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (16:39)
            Nicholas Christopher collected myths and legends for
            years to write his novel, "The Bestiary." He talks with
            Anne Strainchamps about his book and reads excerpts from
            it.  It's a bestiary of magical beats.  And, we hear a
            produced reading of Mario Milosevic's poem "When I Was"
            from his collection "Animal Life." 
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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