TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO FOR 2/1/2009  "Alone Time"
*Imagine the loneliest place you can think of.  For Robert Kull, that
place was an island off the coast of Patagonia.  A place where the
barometer dipped and the wind howled off the ocean.  Kull spent a year
there, exploring complete solitude and seeking the answers to spiritual
questions that had dogged him all his life.  What he found was the
opposite of loneliness.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge,
the art of alone time.



PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Alone Time"


0:00 - 23:31        SEGMENT 1: (23:32)
            John Cacioppo is the co-author of "Lonelines: Human
            Nature and the Need for Social Connection."  He tells
            Steve Paulson that feeling lonely is a signal that we
            need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-
            being as signals like hunger and thirst.  Also, Robert
            Kull chose to live completely alone off the coast of
            Chile for a year.  He tells Anne Strainchamps the hardest
            part was the mental challenges he faced, not the weather
            or coping with his prosthetic leg.  Kull's book is
            "Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes." 
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

23:32 - 24:01  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

24:02 - 42:23       SEGMENT 2: (18:22)
            Nashville music critic Bill Friskics-Warren is the author
            of the book "I'll Take You There."  He takes Jim Fleming
            on a quick trip through some classic songs of loneliness,
            from the Stanley Brothers, Roy Orbison and others, and we
            hear them all. Also, Thomas Dumm tells Anne Strainchamps
            why he thinks a lonely society can be a dangerous one and
            he's worried about America.  His book is "Loneliness As a
            Way of Life."  
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

42:24 - 42:53       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

42:54 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (10:06)
            Kathleen Norris is the author most recently of "Acedia
            and Me."  She tells Anne Strainchamps about her
            experience with the mental habit monastics used to
            describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other
            people.  It's similar, but not identical, to the modern
            disease of depression.   
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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