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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Living the Language Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 06-29-12 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, Stephen Marche is the author of How Shakespeare Changed Everything. He tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks Shakespeare is the most important figure in history. Next, Novelist Arthur Phillips is the author of The Tragedy of Arthur. The book tells the story of a fictional character, also named Arthur Phillips, whose family finds a lost Shakespeare play. Then, David Orr says modern poetry shouldn't intimidate us. He's the author of Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry. Finally, Oscar Hijuelos is the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature for his book The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. His memoir is c

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, John Donnelly, Sarah Moon, James Lecesne, and John Feinstein, June 28, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-28-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In a special report, the online journalism outlet GlobalPost compares the battle against HIV/AIDS in two places Washington DC and southern Africa. Although the rate of HIV infection is effectively being lowered in many African countries, the same is not true in our capital city where rates still are persistently high. Their series, AIDS: A Turning Point, is now online and will continue through July, when Washington, DC hosts the upcoming International AIDS Conference. Bob talks with GlobalPost correspondent John Donnelly about the websites series. Next, Bob talks to editors Sarah Moon and James Lecesne who have compiled an anth

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, June 27, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-27-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Rajiv Chandrasekaran is senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post. He describes to Bob how President Obamas 2009 surge in Afghanistan was bungled by Afghans, Pakistanis, military leaders, diplomats, and top national security aides. Chandrasekaran will also discuss how the war against Al Qaeda has been affected elsewhere. His newest book is Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan. [Broadcast Date: June 27, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Timothy Gay and Mark Anderson, June 26, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-26-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle chronicles the stories of those five newspapermen who risked their lives on the frontlines to bring Americans the headlines. Bob speaks with the books author, Timothy Gay. Then, on June 5th, Venus passed directly between the sun and the earth. 243 years ago, this same astronomical event changed the history of navigation techniques. Science writer Mark Anderson charts this remarkable story in his new book The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transi

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Kate Campbell, June 25, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 06-25-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Nashville singer-songwriter Kate Campbell took piano lessons as a child and switched to the guitar as a teenager. Since then, over the course of thirteen albums, she has written, recorded and performed almost exclusively on the acoustic guitar. On 1000 Pound Machine, Campbell returns to the instrument of her childhood and enlists Will Kimbrough to produce the eleven-song disc. Campbell joins Bob in our performance studio to talk about her new album and play a few of her songs. [Broadcast Date: June 25, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Studio 360: Vampires, Werewolves, and Abraham Lincoln Author: Kurt Andersen Format: Original Recording Length: 54 mins Language: English Release date: 06-23-12 Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Thousands of people filled the lawn of the Michigan state capitol in Lansing this past Monday to watch female members of the state's house and senate perform The Vagina Monologues. The performance/rally was a response to a ruckus in Michigan House of Representatives days earlier. Representative Lisa Brown was banned from speaking on any bill after her speech about a bill putting certain limits on abortion. It concluded, "Mr. Speaker, I'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but 'no' means 'no.'" The Speaker condemned her lack of decorum, video of the speech went viral, and female politicians quickly organized the Vagina Monolog

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Carolina Chocolate Drops and Doyle McManus, June 22, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-22-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times, joins Bob to discuss the latest political news. Next, Bob visits with the North Carolina ensemble Carolina Chocolate Drops. The band followed-up their 2010 Grammy-winning album Genuine Negro Jig with their latest CD titled Leaving Eden. The group debuts original compositions along with traditional songs from Americas past. Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Jeffrey Hollender. Like many of us, Hollender lived his life on autopilot. Instead of enjoying the present, he was always considering the past or the future. Then, Hollenders

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Paul Theroux and Laura Miller, June 20, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Paul Theroux spent four years after college in Malawi as a Peace Corps volunteer. Now, the prolific author of nearly 30 fiction novels and 15 travel books returns there in the tale of a retiree who returns to the Malawi village where he spent his own best years only to find himself trapped by the people he came to help. Then, Salon.com book critic and writer Laura Miller share whats on her reading list this summer. [Broadcast Date: June 20, 2012] Check out all of our titles from author . Want more of The Bob Edwards Show? Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Poems Old and New Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-12 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, as editor of Poetry Magazine, poet and essayist Christian Wiman's got a great vantage point from which to survey the state of English-language poetry. He and Steve Paulson sit down to talk about the magazine, poetry criticism and finding new voices. Next, the Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs. She tells Anne Strainchamps about how people are reading poems online, and we sit on a meeting about a new project in development. Then, this month, Natasha Trethewey

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Studio 360: Dads Man Up & the Art Market Bubble Author: Kurt Andersen Narrator: Kurt Andersen Format: Original Recording Length: 53 mins Language: English Release date: 06-16-12 Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: The European economy is teetering this week, but theres one place in Europe where the good times are rolling: Basel, the site of the continents oldest and biggest contemporary art fair. Next, thus far in Studio 360's Redesigning Canada project, we've tried to gauge how much Americans know about their neighbor. (Not much.) Canadians told us what they think we should know about them. And weve received hundreds of submissions for our national slogan contest that put a new spin Canada's image. Then, a couple years ago, when the writer Joel Stein found out he and his wife were expecting a son, he worried that he lacked the manlines

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Lindsey Hilsum and Doyle McManus, June 15, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-15-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times, joins Bob to discuss the latest political news. Next, looking back at last years Libyan civil war, award-winning journalist Lindsey Hilsums new book Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution gives readers a ground-floor view of the tumultuous Arab Spring. Hilsum is the international editor for Britains Channel 4 News. Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Mary Curran Hacket. When Curran Hacket was a child, her fathers never-give-up lectures were heard often by his eight children. She never did anything to challenge his fortitude until she be

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Remembering Civil War Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 06-15-12 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, it may surprise some to know that not all white southerners actually fought with the Confederacy in the Civil War. In her book, The Long Shadow of the Civil War, historian Victoria Bynum relates the story of three communities in the South that waged what she calls "inner civil wars. Bynum tells Anne Strainchamps, about southern unionists who fought against the Confederacy in places as diverse as Jones County, Mississippi, North Carolina's Quaker Belt, and the Big Thicket region of East Texas. [Broadcast Date: June 15, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, David Talbot and John Feinstein, June 14, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-14-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Every momentous turn in human history is tied to a place Italy during the Renaissance, France during the Enlightenment and England during the Industrial Revolution. David Talbot is the founder and CEO of the online magazine Salon, and he tells the story of San Francisco during the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s in the new book, Season of the Witch. Talbots narrative encompasses everyone from Harvey Milk to Jerry Garcia, Charles Manson to Jim Jones, and the events and movements they came to represent all building blocks in what has come to be known as San Francisco values. Then, Bob talks sports with John Feinstein, Washington Post columnist and

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Pasi Sahlberg and Mark Kurlansky, June 13, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-13-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: 40 years ago Finland implemented its economic recovery plan. Education was its central focus. Since 2000, Finlands educational system remains among the top three on the globe; its students lead the world in reading, math and science. Bob talks to Pasi Sahlberg, Director General of Finlands Ministry of Education, about his book Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? Then, in 1912, Clarence Birdseye was working as a fur trapper in Canada and tired of the heavily salted foods that he ate during the long winter. On returning to America, Birdseye developed the patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Daniel Pinkwater, Dale Cockrell, and Matt Combs, June 12, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-12-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: The author of almost 100 books, writer, childrens book author and illustrator, and public radio regular, Daniel Pinkwater is one of Americas most important voices in young peoples literature. His most recent book is Mrs. Noodlekugel. Then, Bob talks to Dale Cockrell and Matt Combs about Pas Fiddle, a CD series and live musical events that bring to life the songs found in Laura Ingalls Wilders Little House On the Prairie series. Charles Pa Ingalls was an avid fiddler, and the Little House books contain 127 old-time songs embedded in the narratives. Cockrell is the director of Middle Tennessee State Universitys C

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Carrie Manolakos and Doyle McManus, June 8, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-08-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times, joins Bob to discuss the latest political news. Next, Echo is the sultry debut album of Carrie Manolakos. The songstress gained immediate attention when she released a cover of Radioheads Creep on YouTube. Since, Manolakos has been distinguished by the likes of The New Yorker and other publications for her talent. Bob talks to Carrie about her album, her career in performance theatre, and what we can expect from the burgeoning icon. Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Andrew Riutta. Raised to be tough, Riuttas ancestors were farmers, miner

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and John Feinstein, June 7, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-07-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Bob talks with banjo player Bela Fleck, and the original Flecktones, who have reunited for their latest CD called Rocket Science. Howard Levy is back on piano and harmonica, joining bandleader Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten and Futureman on percussion. Then, Bob talks sports with John Feinstein, Washington Post columnist and co-host of SiriusXMs Beyond the Brink (Mad Dog Radio, channel 86). [Broadcast Date: June 7, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: James Fallows and Claude Lanzmann, June 6, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 54 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation with James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic. Next, a conversation with French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann. [Broadcast Date: June 6, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Buddy Guy, June 06, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: His father bought him his first guitar, a worn-in instrument with two strings, for $4.35. Since then, Buddy Guy says life aint never been the same. Bob talks to Guy about his music and journey from Lettsworth, Louisiana. His new book is When I Left Home: My Story. [Broadcast Date: June 6, 2012] Want more of The Bob Edwards Show? Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Rethinking Education Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-12 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, you want kids to love learning? Get rid of the emphais on grades and test scores. That's according to Alfie Kohn, one of America's most passionate advocates for progressive education. Next, do public schools stifle creativity and real learning, or are they essential to a diverse society? Questions like this have sparked a lively debate in response to Astra Taylors recent essay Unschooling in the literary magazine n+1 and Dana Goldsteins response in Slate. We hear both sides. Then, Jody Lewen is the executive director of the Prison University Project, a degree-granting program for the inmates at San Quentin State Prison in Cali