Monday, May 28, 2012, 12:30pm
Monday, May 28 through Friday, June 15, 2012. Read by Norman Gilliland.
An unforgettable novel about an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his memories of the people who helped him.
(Random House; ISBN: 1400067189)
Theme: Artie Shaw & his orchestra: Frenesi (as recorded March 3 1940) (RCA Victor 9026-68494-2)
Monday, May 7, 2012, 12:30pm
Monday, May 7 through Friday, May 25, 2012. Read by Michele Good.
The Broadway legend and multiple award winner has been a huge success on stage. In this memoir she takes the reader backstage personally and professionally to explore her life.
(Crown; ISBN: 0307460746)
Theme: Patti Lupone Live - "I Get A Kick Out of You" (RCA 09026-61792-2)
Monday, April 9, 2012, 12:30pm
Monday, April 9 through Friday, May 4, 2012. Read by Karl Schmidt.
A coming of age story in mid 20th century Chicago. As Booklist says: "...in this mordantly funny yet profoundly mysterious novel, Just asks what divides and what unites us. What should be kept secret? Which teaches us more, failure or success? And of what value is beauty?"
(Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt; ISBN-10: 0547504195 / ISBN 13: 9780547504193)
Theme: Kronos Quartet: "Blues" & "Wind On My Back" from the album "In Formation"
Monday, March 19, 2012, 12:30pm
Monday, March 19 through Friday, April 6, 2012. Read by Jim Fleming.
It's November 1958 and the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City is about to begin. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horses - a drab white former plow horse named Snowman and his rider, Harry de Leyer.
(Ballantine; ISBN-10: 0345521080 / ISBN 13: 978 0345521088)
Theme: Stephen Foster: Camptown Races, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair; Trevor Stephenson, 1850 parlor grand piano, form the album "The Americans" (Light & Shadow LS-902)
Monday, February 20, 2012, 12:30pm
Monday, February 20 through Friday, March 16, 2012. Read by Karl Schmidt.
The author of Plainsong returns to the people of Holt, Colorado. This time the focus is on the brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron in a story that reveals the heart of the American West.
(Knopf; ISBN-10: 0375411585)
Theme: Bill Frisell: What Do We Do? Where Do We Go? from "Blues Dream" (Nonesuch)
Monday, February 6, 2012, 12:30pm
Monday, February 6 through Friday, February 17, 2012. Read by Jim Fleming.
Joshua Glover was bought in St. Louis to be a "servant for life," broken out of jail after his escape by Wisconsin abolitionists, and helped to escape to Canada and freedom.
(Wisconsin Historical Society Press; ISBN-10: 0870203827)
Theme: Mark O'Connor: Concerto No. 6 "Old Brass" - mvt 1 "The Road is Smooth" - Pro Arte Chamber Orch of Boston, Joel Smirnoff, cond. (OMAC-12)
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 12:30pm
Thursday, February 2 through Friday, February 3, 2012. Read by Analiese Dickinson
Moore is known for her incisive short fiction, and her new novel takes on the disconnection so many people feel in a post 9/11 world. This is the excerpted first chapter as published in The New Yorker Magazine
(Knopf; ISBN-10: 0375708464 / ISBN-13: 9780375708466
Theme: Peter Schickele: Clarinet Concerto: Dawn Robert Spring, clarinet, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, Timothy Russell, conductor, on Summit 1023
Monday, January 16, 2012, 12:30pm
Monday, January 16 through Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Read by Norman Gilliland
In rural Russia a tiger is killing people. Vaillant brings the tiger, the people, and the conflict to life in this true story.
(Vintage ISBN-10: 0307389049)
Theme: Edward MacDowell: Lamia on Albany Troy 235 - Keith Klein, LSO
Monday, December 26, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, December 26 through Friday, January 13, 2012. Read by Susan Sweeney.
In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her?the legend of the tiger's wife.
(Random House; ISBN-10: 0385343833 / ISBN-13: 9780385343831)
Theme: Schubert's Piano Quintet in C, the 2nd movement ("Adagio")
Monday, November 28, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, November 28 through Friday, December 23, 2011. Read by Karl Schmidt.
Taylor returns to Ballybucklebo, where doctors O'Reilly and Laverty are practicing country medicine. The holidays provide a different look at the eccentric village residents.
(Doherty/Tom; ISBN-10: 0765366851 / ISBN 13: 9780765366856)
Theme: "Anam" performed by Clannad on the album "Anam" (Atlantic)
Monday, October 24, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, October 24 through Friday, November 11, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
The author of Montana 1948 and Justice is back with coming of age story from the heartland of Minnesota in 1962 that will break your heart, and win you over.
(Milkweed; ISBN-10: 1571310789 / ISBN-13: 978-1571310781
Theme: Bernstein: West Side Story Suite; Lucian Plessner, guitar "Bernstein on Guitar" (CPO 999 505-2)
Monday, October 10, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, October 10 through Friday, October 21, 2011. Read by Susan Sweeney and Jim Fleming.
A story in letters between a boy and a girl, letters which span the years 1949-1960. (Xlibris; ISBN-10: 145689711X / ISBN-13: 9781456897116;) You can also order from Margot Peters at margot13.peters@charter.net)
Theme: Eric Chesney: "Guiquenout" & "I Remembered You Today" from the album "The Pardoner's Refrain" (e.chesney@hotmail.com)
Monday, September 12, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, September 12 through Friday, October 7, 2011. Read by Karl Schmidt.
A fresh, imaginative portrait of the legendary Doc Holliday.
(Random House; ISBN-10: 1400068045 / ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6804-3)
Theme: Bill Frisell - "Gimme a Holler" and "Go Jake" from the album "Nashville" (Nonesuch)
Monday, September 5, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, September 5, 2011 through Friday, September 9, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
Oliver Sacks writes in his usual extraordinary manner about people who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. Further excerpts not broadcast earlier this year.
(Knopf; ISBN-10: 0307272087 / ISBN-13: 9780307272089)
Theme: Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu, Op 66 et al from "Chopin Favorites" Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (London 417 798-2)
Monday, August 22, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, August 22 through Friday, September 2, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
John Charles Gilkey steals rare books, but only for love-the love of books. Ken Sanders wants to catch him. For Bartlett it's a fascinating chase, but also a search to find out: What is it that makes some people stop at nothing to posses the titles they love?
(Penguin; ISBN-10: 1594484813 / ISBN-13: 9781594484810)
Theme: Charlie Parker: Bird, The Savoy Recordings, Volume 1 - "Tiny's Tempo" and "Red Cross" (Savoy Jazz ZDS 4402)
Monday, August 1, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, August 1 through Friday, August 19, 2011. Read by Karl Schmidt.
A naive doctor just out of medical school is introduced to life in a small Irish village filled with eccentric residents.
(Doherty; ISBN-10: 0765368242 / ISBN-13: 9780765368249)
Theme: "The Precious Jewel" from "Beyond the Missouri Sky" - Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny (Verve 314537130)
Monday, July 4, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, July 4 through Friday, Friday July 29, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
The quiet village life of Major Pettigrew changes forever with the unexpected friendship of Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village.
(Random House; ISBN-10: 0812981227 / ISBN-13: 9780812981223)
Theme: Elgar: Introduction & Allegro, Op 47; English String Orch - Boughton (Nimbus NI 5210/13)
Monday, June 13, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, June 13 through Friday, July 9, 2011. Read by Norman Gilliland.
A novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War.
(St. Martin's Press; ISBN-10: 0312674449 / ISBN-13: 9780312674441)
Theme: "Little Wing" and "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix Played by Benjamin Verdery on Newport Classics NPG 85509
Monday, May 16, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, May 16 through Friday, June 10, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
The return of the characters from Once a Spy, heard on Chapter a Day last year, once again asks the question "What happens when a former CIA agent can no longer trust his own mind?" Charlie and Drummond Clark are hiding out in Switzerland when Alice is kidnapped and the action begins.
(Doubleday; ISBN-10: 038553079X / ISBN-13: 9780385530798)
Theme: Ellington: "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" Ramsey Lewis & Billy Taylor (CBS MK 44941)
Monday, April 11, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, April 11 through Friday, May 13, 2011. Read by Karl Schmidt.
A story from the "driftless" area of Wisconsin, about a town apparently left out of time. It's an unforgettable slice of life in rural America
(Milkweed; ISDN-10: 1571310592 / ISBN-13: 978-57131-059-0)
Theme: Haydn: The Seven Last Words - introduction; Emerson Quartet (DG B0002053-02)
Monday, March 28, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, March 28, 2011 through Friday, April 8, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
In 1950, the Crehores, 7-year-old Dave and his parents, moved from Ohio to Manitowoc, WI. His memoir is filled with the satisfying life and adventures of a Wisconsin in the middle of the 20th Century.
(Terrace Books; ISBN-10: 0299230600 / ISBN-13: 9780299230609)
Theme: Rube Bloom: Spring Fever, Duke Ellington: Solitude; Alan Feinberg, piano from the disc "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Argo 444 457-2)
Monday, March 14, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, March 14, 2011 through Friday, March 25, 2011. Read by Norman Gilliland.
If only your high school chemistry class had been this good. It's a fascinating account of two forensic pioneers in early 20th-century New York, and brings the art of chemistry to life.
(Penguin; ISBN-10: 1594202435 / ISBN13: 978-1594202438)
Theme: "Goose Pimples" and "Sorry" recorded in 1927 by Bix Beiderbecke and reissued on Columbia CX 48175.
Monday, February 28, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, February 28, 2011 through Friday, March 11, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
Oliver Sacks writes in his usual extraordinary manner about people who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech.
(Knopf; ISBN-10: 0307272087 / ISBN13: 9780307272089)
Theme: Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu, Op 66 et al from "Chopin Favorites" Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (London 417 798-2)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:30pm
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 through Friday, February 25, 2011. Read by Karl Schmidt.
This is the third and final memoir detailing McMurtry's more than forty years in Hollywood. Though he's best known as a novelist, his story of the process of film making is compelling.
(Simon and Schuster; ISBN-10: 1439159955 / ISBN13: 9781439159958)
Theme:"Peace Piece" from Kronos Quaret - Music of Bill Evans (Savoy Jazz)
Monday, January 24, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, January 24, 2011 through Tuesday, February 15, 2011. Read by Susan Sweeney.
Inspired by the life of the author's great-grandmother, this is a moving story of two Iowa farm wives struggling to survive during the Depression.
(Other Press; ISBN-10: 1590513460 / ISBN: 9781590513460)
Theme: Aaron Copeland's "Letter from Home" St. Louis SO - Leonard Slatkin (EMI CDC-7 49766 2)
Monday, January 3, 2011, 12:30pm
Monday, January 3, 2011 through Friday, January 21, 2011. Read by Jim Fleming.
Morrie Morgan, the itinerant schoolteacher and charmer from Doig's "The Whistling Season" returns to Butte, Montana in 1919 and "the richest hill on earth." The story of copper mining and union/management conflict reveals an important moment in American history.
(Riverhead; ISBN-10: 1594487626 / ISBN-13: 978-1594487620)
Theme: selections from "Fiddle Fever" (Flying Fish FF 70303)
Thursday, December 23, 2010, 12:30pm
Thursday, December 23, 2010 through Friday, December 31, 2010. Read by Jim Fleming.
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and a New Year In .
Theme: "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" & "Greensleeves" from "A Midnight Clear: A Celtic Christmas" with Robin Bullock (Dorian DOR 93250)
Monday, December 20, 2010, 12:30pm
Monday, December 20, 2010 through Wednesday, December 22, 2010. Read by Karl Schmidt.
Playing "Christmas at Thompson Hall" is a Christmas tradition.
Friday, December 17, 2010, 12:30pm
Friday December 17, 2009. Read by Jim Fleming.
A Christmas story from his Wisconsin memoir.
(Terrace Books; ISBN-10: 0299230600 / ISBN13: 978-0299230609)
Theme: Rube Bloom: Spring Fever, Duke Ellington: Solitude; Alan Feinberg, piano from the disc "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Argo 444 457-2)
Monday, December 6, 2010, 12:30pm
Monday, December 6, 2010 through Thursday, December 16, 2010. Read by Jim Fleming.
including The Cricket on the Hearth (12/6-12/13/2010) & The Holly Tree (12/14-12/16/2010).
Theme: "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" & "Greensleeves" from "A Midnight Clear: A Celtic Christmas" with Robin Bullock (Dorian DOR 93250)