TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO FOR  August 10, 2008     "Collaboration"
*20 years ago a group of musicians gathered in Trinity Church in Toronto
and did something extraordinary. In one night, using only one microphone
and with no budget, they recorded a masterpiece. The band is the Cowboy
Junkies. And the album, "The Trinity Session." In this hour of To the
Best of Our Knowledge, the Cowboy Junkies look back on the moment that
defined the alt-country movement. 


PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 1:   "Collaboration"


0:00 - 22:08        SEGMENT 1: (22:09)
            Jim Fleming talks with Ward Cunningham, the man who
            invented the wiki in 1995.  A wiki is a web page written
            and then edited and added to by any other user.  The
            collaborative on-line encyclopedia called Wikipedia now
            boasts several million entries and is entirely written
            and run by volunteers.  Also, Steve Paulson goes to the
            Quantocks in Southwest England to tell the story of the
            remarkable collaboration between 18th century British
            poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We
            also hear from Adam Sisman, whose book "The Friendship"
            describes their relationship.
                         
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

22:09 - 22:38  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

22:39 - 34:19       SEGMENT 2: (11:41)
            "Ten Canoes" is an Australian film that was made as a
            collaboration between film-maker Rold De Heer and the
            aboriginal people of Ramingining.  De Heer tells Steve
            Paulson what an extraordinary process the film-making
            was, and we hear excerpts from the film.  
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

34:20 - 34:49       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

34:50 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (18:10)
            Michael Timmins writes the music and lyrics that his
            sister Margo Timmins sings as part of The Cowboy Junkies. 
            Twenty years ago, they recorded a seminal album in
            Trinity Church in Toronto.  Anne Strainchamps talks with
            the Timmins siblings about "The Trinity Session." And of
            course we hear some of the music. Their latest album is
            called "At the end of Paths Taken." 
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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