
To the Best of Our Knowledge Caryl here - got to eavesdrop on interviews with Stewart Brand and Yes Man Andy, plus we mixed a piece on creativity and advertising. This week, more in the "Boots on the Ground" series, and a look and money, debt and capitalism.

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TTBOOK's Canadian producer Doug Gordon here.
Just finished mixing a show for this weekend..."Coming of Age Through Music."
The show features Anne Strainchamps' interview with Lavinia Greenlaw re. "The Importance of Music to Girls"; Steve "Still Buzzed from the Andre Agassi Interview" Paulson's interview with the legendar...y Ralph Stanley; Jim Fleming's interview with Nick Hornby re. his new novel, "Juliet, Naked"; and a profile of the Welsh singer/songwriter that Nick Lowe describes as "the missing link between Paolo Conte and Howlin' Wolf" -- the one and only Geraint Watkins.
Check out Geraint Watkins in action here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R-PmOtxb ZE
Thank you for your time and consideration. Hope that you all enjoy a wonderful, whimsical weekend.
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Just finished mixing a show for this weekend..."Coming of Age Through Music."
The show features Anne Strainchamps' interview with Lavinia Greenlaw re. "The Importance of Music to Girls"; Steve "Still Buzzed from the Andre Agassi Interview" Paulson's interview with the legendar...y Ralph Stanley; Jim Fleming's interview with Nick Hornby re. his new novel, "Juliet, Naked"; and a profile of the Welsh singer/songwriter that Nick Lowe describes as "the missing link between Paolo Conte and Howlin' Wolf" -- the one and only Geraint Watkins.
Check out Geraint Watkins in action here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R-PmOtxb
Thank you for your time and consideration. Hope that you all enjoy a wonderful, whimsical weekend.
best,
DGRead More
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Geraint has been featuring the Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks song in his act for some time. Saxophonist Renaud Pion is a friend of Van Dyke's so it seem only natural that he should play on the song even if he'd never heard it before. ...

To the Best of Our Knowledge Steve Paulson here - It's not often I get a real buzz from doing an interview, but I just got one. I've played tennis my whole life, so talking to Andrei Agassi was lots of fun. No, we didn't get into crystal meth - does anybody really care? - but I did hear plenty about his raging dad. And my kids - who normally don't care two figs about what we do on the radio - badgered me for autographs.

To the Best of Our Knowledge This is an amazing slide show from journalist David Swanson who was embedded with the Marines in Ramadi in April of 2004. David Swanson is a part of our Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq seres.
Video made after an embed with the Marines in Iraq in the city of Ramadi.
Length:16:03

To the Best of Our Knowledge Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq continues with part 3: Esprit de Corps.
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For many soldiers and Marines, war is not fundamentally about the mission. War is not really about the enemy. It's not even about patriotism. War is about the man to the left and right of you. War is about your buddy. ...

To the Best of Our Knowledge Heavy metal, punkmusic, accordions... How did you came of age through music?

To the Best of Our Knowledge Just recorded a great interview for the Nov. 22nd show on magic: Persi Diaconis ran away from home at 14 to become a traveling magician. Magic got him interested in probability theory, which required him to learn calculus, and today he's a world reknowned mathematician whose work on card shuffling and coin tossing is helping decode DNA.

To the Best of Our Knowledge Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq continues...

To the Best of Our Knowledge What do the planners of the war think of the War in Iraq now? Check out part 2 of our 5-part series of our Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq called THE ARCHITECTS OF WAR.
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On March 20, 2003, the US invaded Iraq. More than 6 years later we're still there. What happened? Were we prepared? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll talk with the planners of the war in Iraq. ...

To the Best of Our Knowledge We are in the middle of our Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq 5-part series. Here's a sneak peak from Colby Buzzell (featured in the final hour on COMING HOME).
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To the Best of Our Knowledge This week our new series begins. Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq. These are the real thing.
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Iraq. April 6, 2004. This day marked the Marines' heaviest fighting since Vietnam and was the start of the Iraqi insurgency. By the end of the day more than 40 Marines and hundreds of Iraqis were dead. ...

To the Best of Our Knowledge So how were your tomatoes this year? For a lot of folks these days that's a real conversation starter as their interest moves from a corporate future to the land. Check out "Back to the Farm" on TTBOOK this weekend!
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Bright young men and women used to graduate and head for Wall Street or a top corporate law firm. Today more and more of them are heading back to the land. After all, which would you rather do ...

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Producer's note: Hope you'll give a lesson to the DFW show this weekend. During the interview with David's sister, we had to pause production - everyone was crying too hard to continue, from his sister Amy, to Anne, to our engineer Caryl. And listening to the exclusive reading from "This is Water" takes away some o...f the bitterness left from his suicide and leaves a little sweetness in its place. Hope you enjoy.Read More

To the Best of Our Knowledge Insider Alert for David Foster Wallace Fans on Facebook! This weekend's TTBOOK is a DFW retrospective with an exclusive reading from his unfinished novel "The Pale King" an interview with his sister Amy Wallace-Havens, and excerpts from several interviews with David Foster Wallace himself.
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David Foster Wallace may have understood the modern American better than any writer of our time. His suicide in September of 2008 stunned his friends and fans. Wallace was a master at capturing the way ...

To the Best of Our Knowledge No you haven't read this before. Probably. Maybe. Or have you? It's Deja Vu All Over Again this week on TTBOOK.
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Do you ever have the strange feeling that you've heard this promo before? Well, in this case, it's only fitting because we're going to explore deja vu on the next edition of To the Best of Our Knowledge. ...

















