TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE


PROMO          "Deja Vu All Over Again"
*Do you ever have the strange feeling that you've heard this promo before? Well, in this case, it's
only fitting because we're going to explore deja vu on the next edition of To the Best of Our
Knowledge. We'll try to find out what causes us to think we've already experienced the exact
same situation before, even though we haven't. And Wendy Lesser talks about watching Alfred
Hitchcock's classic film, "Vertigo." Over and over again. 


PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Deja Vu All Over Again"


0:00 - 14:17   SEGMENT 1: (14:18)
     Chris Moulin is a cognitive neuro-psychologist at Leeds University.  He tells Anne
     Strainchamps about his work involving the phenomenon of deja vu.  There's a link to
     Moulin's blog at our website, ttbook.org.
          
     Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

14:18 - 14:47  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

14:48 - 38:19  SEGMENT 2: (23:32)
     We hear a clip from the 2007 film "When Nietzsche Wept" which introduces the concept
     of "eternal recurrence." That's the subject of Lawrence Hatab's book "Nietzsche's Life
     Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence."  Hatab tells Steve Paulson that the
     philosopher spells out his notion of a constantly self-renewing universe in "Thus Spoke
     Zarathustra." Also, art critic, novelist and editor Wendy Lesser reads excerpts from her
     essay "Hitchcock's Vertigo."  Doug Gordon produced this piece in honor of the fiftieth
     anniversary of the Hitchcock masterpiece, which was released in 1958. Lesser's essay
     appears in her book, "Nothing Remains the Same: Re-Reading and Remembering."
          
     Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

38:20 - 38:49  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

38:50 - 53:00  SEGMENT 3: (14:10)
     Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel,
     "Atmospheric Disturbances."  She talks with Jim Fleming about the book, and we hear an 
     excerpt from the audio-book version read by Malcolm Hillgartner.  
          
     Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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