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PROMO FOR 7/19/2009 "Travel"
*Are you planning to see the world this summer?  Or enjoy the frugal
pleasure of a stay-cation?  Remember, the best travel isn't about miles
logged   it's about minds expanded.  In this hour of To the Best of Our
Knowledge, travel stories.  Travel guru Rick Steves develops an
unexpected passion for war-torn countries.  And writer William Least-
heat Moon moseys along some new back roads.



PROGRAM RUNDOWN:  "Travel"

0:01 - 26:04        SEGMENT 1: (26:05)
            Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and
            host of public radio and television travel shows. He's
            also done a one-hour special (available on DVD)on travel
            in Iran.  His new book is "Travel as a Political Act."
            Steves talks with Jim Fleming about the advantages of
            travel in war-torn areas. Also, Mark Johnson has spent
            years traveling around the world recording street
            musicians.  He calls his project "Playing for Change" and
            talks about it with Steve Paulson.
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

26:05 - 26:34  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

26:35 - 44:09       SEGMENT 2: (17:36)
            Lynn Sharon Schwartz is a novelist and a veteran
            traveler.  She tells Anne Strainchamps that she's finally
            admitted to herself that at this stage in her life, she
            doesn't like traveling. Her memoir is called "Not Now,
            Voyager."  Also, Raphael Kadushin is a senior travel
            writer for Conde Nast magazines, and author of "Big
            Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing."He talks with Steve
            Paulson about travel writing's utility for the armchair
            traveler.
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

44:10 - 44:39       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

44:40 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (8:20)
            William Least Heat-Moon created a sensation with his book
            "Blue Highways."  He's back now with "Roads to Quoz,"
            about traveling along America's back roads.  Moon talks
            with Anne Strainchamps about the trips that inspired the
            new book.
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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