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PROMO 5/11/2007      "Mother Stories"
*Every mom deserves something special on Mother's Day.  We can't fix you
breakfast in bed or drop by with coffee and muffins   though here's
hoping someone in your life does! - but we can serve up a radio show. 
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge stories by and for and
about mothers.  What do women want to say to each other about what it's
like to be a mom.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Mother Stories"


0:01 - 25:35        SEGMENT 1: (25:36)
            Poet Frances Richey calls her latest collection "The
            Warrior   A Mother's Story of a Son at War." The poet and
            her soldier son, Ben, visit with Jim Fleming and talk
            about her work and how it affected her son and his unit
            while he was on the front line in Iraq.  Also, Isabel
            Allende talks with Anne Strainchamps about "The Sum of
            Our Days." It's Allende's fourth memoir, and takes the
            form of a letter to her deceased daughter, Paula. Allende
            talks about her extended, "tribal" family and how writing
            helped her contain her grief over Paula's death.
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

25:36 - 26:05  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

26:06 - 41:42       SEGMENT 2: (15:38)
            Amanda Henry provides a commentary on the rocky road to
            motherhood.  Also, Rachel Pastan reads from and talks
            with Steve Paulson about her novel "Lady of the Snakes."
            The book concerns a young professor of 19th century
            Russian literature confronted with combining her
            professional life and motherhood.  
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

41:43 - 42:12       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

42:13 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (10:46)
            Jeanne Birdsall began writing at age 41. Her first novel
            became an instant classic.  Now "The Penderwicks" has a
            sequel: "The Penderwicks on Gardam Street."  Birdsall
            tells Anne Strainchamps her own childhood was less than
            idyllic and she escaped into books, so that was the kind
            of book she wanted to write. She also tells us a bit
            about the 4 Penderwick sisters, their clueless dad and
            goofy dog, Hound.  
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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