TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

Sunday      25 July 2010      1000 - 1359 (ET)

PROMO FOR   7/25/2010    "Here There Be Monsters"
*It's a post-apocalyptic novel that's been compared to Stephen King's
"The Stand" and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."  It covers a vast time
span and features a different kind of vampire, known as "virals."  It's
called "The Passage" and it's one of this summer's hottest books. Next
time on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet the author, Justin
Cronin, as we explore monsters. Also...Cartoonist and author Lynda Barry
reminisces about her favorite monsters.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Here There Be Monsters"

0:00 - 19:18        SEGMENT 1: (19:19)
            Here there be monsters is what it used to say on the
            edges of maps, and it describes the show pretty well.  We
            start cartoonist Lynda Barry, who reminisces about her
            favorite monsters.  Then we continue with Justin Cronin,
            whose novel "The Passage" has been described as "an
            engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic
            America."  He tells Jim Fleming the idea came out of a
            discussion with his eight-year-old daughter.

                         
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

19:19 - 19:48  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

19:49 - 43:12       SEGMENT 2: (23:24)
            Stephen Asma teaches philosophy at Columbia College in
            Chicago.  He talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book
            "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears." 
            Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar and the author
            of "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend."  But he
            tells Steve Paulson he doesn't really think the creature
            exists.
                         
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

43:13 - 43:42       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

43:43 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (00:00)
            Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of
            Wonder."  The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic
            generation discovered the beauty and the terror of
            science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary
            Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the
            scientific climate of the time.  
                         
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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