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Title: Studio 360: Culture Shock 1913

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-12

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, American viewers confronted Cubism and abstraction for the first time. In Vienna, the audience at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinskys new ballet The Rite of Spring burst on stage with inflammatory results.

Culture Shock 1913 tells the stories behind these and other groundbreaking events that year, and goes back to consider what led to this mad, Modernist moment. "I think in a lot of ways it was just the beginning of a century just of absolute chaos and nightmare, and as so often, the artists heard it and reflected it first," notes the critic Tim Page. WNYCs Sara Fishko speaks with thinkers, authors, musicians, art curators, and historians about this unsettling era of sweeping change and the not-so-subtle ways in which it mirrors our own uncertain age. [Broadcast Date: December 28, 2012]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Religious Belief, Secular Values

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-12

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In this hour, Jacques Berlinerblau says we still don't know how to talk intelligently about religion in public life. That's why he wrote How to be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom. He says we mistakenly think "secular" means "atheist." Actually, secularism would allow people to feel free to practice any faith, or no faith at all.

Next, Finding good fiction about religion is harder than you'd think. That's why Hanna Pylvainen wrote her debut novel We Sinners, a serious look at religious faith. The book is loosely based on Pylvainen's own upbringing in a very conservative Lutheran community.

Then, how did religion ever get started in the first place? Renowned sociologist Robert Bellah has spent much of his life pondering the question. He says religion isn't about belief in God. It's rooted in ritualistic behavior - and ultimately play.

After that, in Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi, an Indian boy is stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Pi survives by his wits and by his religious faith. Martel explains why writing the novel forced him to confront his own prejudices about religious faith and doubt. He says a good religion is like a good story.

And finally, if you want to trace the origins of the "being spiritual, not religious" movement, you need to go back to William James. His classic book The Varieties of Religious Experience gave us a new understanding of religion. James thought religion was about spiritual experience, not what a sacred text tells us. Biographer Robert Richardson tells Steve Paulson about James' willingness to embrace uncertainty. [Broadcast Date: December 26, 2012]

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Title: Studio 360: Beck's Play-It-Yourself Album & Photo Remix Winners

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-12

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Kurt Andersen talks with the musician Beck, whose new project is a collection of 20 songs released as sheet music. If you want to hear the songs, you have to play them yourself, and we did. Donna Summers I Feel Love defines the sound of dance music were still grooving to today. And EEG hits the mass market, as toy makers develop electrode headsets that read your mind. [Broadcast Date: December 21, 2012]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Other Money

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-12

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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In this hour, the end of money. Really? Are we really on the verge of a coming cashless society?

Next, people do without money in many different ways from simple bartering to using bitcoin on-line. In 2005, a group of parents in Madison did it by creating a babysitting coop. Its simple. Colored popsicle sticks are traded per hour of babysitting. All families start with a limited number of sticks. So, once youre out of popsicle sticks, you have to babysit to get more. Families are added to the group and problems are discussed at potlucks every 4 months. And its all organized on-line. Since 2005, the group has traded some 1,250 hours of babysitting worth more than 15,000 dollars.

Then, Ithaca Hours is a local currency from Ithaca, New York, that is the oldest and largest alternative currency in the US. Founded in 1991, by Paul Glover, Ithaca Hours has an estimated circulation of several million dollars and has spawned about 80 imitators around the country.

After that, Before there was money, there was debt - boldly states David Graeber in his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Now, Graeber brings a lot to the table. Hes considered one of the worlds leading anarchists. Hes a professor of Anthropologyat Goldsmiths, University of London. And hes one of the founders of that little thing called Occupy Wall Street. Greaber says all those experiences help him understand the role of debt in our lives.

Finally, imagine living an entire year without money. And I mean no money. No cash. No credit cards. Nothing. Where do you live? What do you eat? How do you wash? Mark Boyle did it. And he found out it wasnt so bad after all. In fact, he loved it. He tells his heart-warming, and funny, story in the book, The Moneyless Man. Steve Paulson spoke with Boyle about the transition from a life with money to one without it. [Broadcast Date: December 21, 2012]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Telling the Story

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-12

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In this hour, no book has won more raves this year than Katherine Boos nonfiction portrait of a Mumbai slum. A stunning work of journalism, Behind the Beautiful Forevers takes us into the heart of a squatters' settlement where the main economy is trash picking.

Next, photojournalist Brendan Bannon has documented refugee crises, epidemics, drought and poverty throughout Africa. He's committed to bringing Western audiences stories that reflect Africa as more than just a place of deep tragedy. The Africa he sees is also full of vitality and inventiveness.

Then, Pir Zubair Shah risked his life reporting for the New York Times from Waziristan, in the heart of the Taliban-controlled Pashtun area in Pakistan. In the course of his reporting, he was detained by both the Taliban and Pakistani government forces. His work won a Pulitzer Prize, but he was forced to leave the country for his personal safety.

After that, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich -- hosts of the hit public radio show Radiolab. They make witty, sparkling radio about huge ideas. They also challenge a lot of assumptions about what it means to practice journalism. They hang out in their studio with Steve and chat about radio, science and a lot more...

Following that, Tom Wolfe is back! And in his trademark white suit, no less. The writer whose name was synonymous with the New Journalism movement of the 60's and 70's has unleashed a new piece of journalistic fiction. In this interview, he talks about "Back to Blood", Miami, immigration, journalism, the contemporary art world and his sartorial panache.

And finally, what's the best piece of reporting you encountered this year? TTBOOK listeners recommend these stories. We'll add new suggestions as they come in. [Broadcast Date: December 19, 2012]

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Title: Studio 360: David Chase and A Charlie Brow Christmas

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-12

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Kurt Andersen talks with the creator of The Sopranos, David Chase, who returns to New Jersey for Not Fade Away, his first movie. Vince Guaraldis score to A Charlie Brown Christmas does the near-impossible - its holiday music that conjures childhood without getting too cute. Plus, we'll hear Kurt Andersens sci-fi story with a holiday twist. [Broadcast Date: December 14, 2012]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge, 12-14-2012

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-12

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Satisfy your hunger for new ideas with this interview show that explores the cutting edge of contemporary thinking in politics, religion, economics, science, the arts, and popular culture. Host Jim Fleming, along with interviewers Steve Paulson and Anne Strainchamps, talks to some of the greatest thinkers, figures, and artists of our time. It's a radio salon where a playwright and a scientist, a theologian and a rock critic might all offer their views on, say, revenge. Inviting a diverse group of people with very different backgrounds to approach a subject creates a kind of depth and richness that's positively riveting. [Broadcast Date: December 12, 2012]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge, December 12, 2012

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-12

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Satisfy your hunger for new ideas with this interview show that explores the cutting edge of contemporary thinking in politics, religion, economics, science, the arts, and popular culture. Host Jim Fleming, along with interviewers Steve Paulson and Anne Strainchamps, talks to some of the greatest thinkers, figures, and artists of our time. It's a radio salon where a playwright and a scientist, a theologian and a rock critic might all offer their views on, say, revenge. Inviting a diverse group of people with very different backgrounds to approach a subject creates a kind of depth and richness that's positively riveting. [Broadcast Date: December 12, 2012]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Extraordinary Minds

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-12

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Daniel Tammet has memorized the number pi into the tens of thousands of digits. He's learned new languages in a few weeks. He describes the gift - and the burden - of being an autistic savant.

Psychiatrist Darold Treffert regards savants as "islands of genius". He talks about a lifetime of studying savant syndrome.

Aubrey Ralph is an audio engineer and radio producer. He's also bipolar. Having a mental illness has made him acutely aware of how schizophrenics can shape and distort reality.

Long before Timothy Leary's study of LSD, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof launched his own investigation of psychedelics. Since then he's devoted his life to exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Some of the world's most celebrated scientists and artists have been dyslexic. Cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf says dyslexia can be a gift, but schools must learn how to teach dyslexics to read.

Ray Kurzweil believes we'll soon have tiny computers embedded in our brains. He says we're on the verge of a new era in evolution - a fusion of biology and machine technology. [Broadcast Date: December 5, 2012]

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Title: Studio 360: 12-01-2012

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-12

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Studio 360 is an American weekly public radio program about media, the arts and culture hosted by novelist Kurt Andersen and produced by PRI Public Radio International and WNYC in New York City. The program's stated goal is to "Get inside the creative mind" and uses arts and culture as a lens to understand our world.

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