TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO FOR   "Made in Russia"
*Siberia is the name for a place we tend to think of as a metaphor as
much as a destination on the map. Writer Ian Frazier indulged what he
calls his dread Russia love with travels through Siberia, tracing the
path of prisoners on their way to lonely exile and through
mosquito-ridden swamps at the edge of the world. Next time on To the
Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore some history, stories and culture
from Russia, from ballet to reality TV.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Made in Russia"

0:00 - 25:19        SEGMENT 1: (25:20)
            The cold war is over and democracy has begun.  But the
            past is still with us in Russia.  British TV Producer
            Peter Pomerantsev found that out when he was invited to
            move to Moscow to develop a Russian version of the west's
            popular reality shows.  He tells Steve Paulson it was
            unlike anywhere he'd ever worked.  Ballet is performed
            all over the world, but in Russia ballet is the route to
            stardom.  Jennifer Homans wrote the first definitive
            history of ballet, called "Apollo's Angels."  She tells
            Anne Strainchamps what makes "The Nutracker" one of the
            world's most popular ballets.
                         
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

25:20 - 25:49  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

25:50 - 39:19       SEGMENT 2: (13:30)
            Siberia is enormous, but Ian Frazier has crossed it all,
            from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, in a barely
            functioning van.  He tells Jim Fleming about his "Travels
            in Siberia."
                         
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

39:20 - 39:49       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

39:50 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (13:10)
            Films about the cold war were a staple of the American
            film industry for decades, symbols of the Atomic Age. 
            Jim Hoberman is the senior film critic for the Village
            Voice and writes about cold war films in a book called
            "An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of
            the Cold War."  He tells Anne Strainchamps about a film
            called "The Next Voice You Hear."
                         
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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