Series produced by Wisconsin Public Radio
To the Best of Our Knowledge is a radio show about big ideas that fuel deep insights into our world through interviews with the world's luminaries, from experts to cultural icons. Each show revolves around a theme where we explore these ideas and the people who consider them.
TTBOOK is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning radio show where long-form interviews help fuel deep insights into our world. We have conversations with novelists and poets, scientists and software engineers, journalists and historians, filmmakers and philosophers, artists and activists—anyone with a big idea and a passion to have a creative and engaging conversation about it.We consider ideas big and small, conventional and dangerous, and marshal them into shows centered around a theme. A show's theme sometimes centers on a big question, other times it will zero in on the small things that give us pause. A good theme is a conversation starter: is the Internet making us stupid? Can a computer truly be creative? Are humans innately good? What’s the best road trip you ever... Show full description
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282 Pieces
HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - It's a long walk from the truth to the whole truth. A biographer, a poet, a memoirist and a filmmaker describe...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Losing Yourself In Fantasy" - When the real world becomes too much, fantasy might be your ticket out. But at what point does fantasy go ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Telling A Life" - How do you tell the story of your life? Songwriter Patti Smith says try writing "about nothing." HOUR TWO: "The Powe...
- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'The Year Of Return' - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores...
- Added: Sep 02, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: 'The Secret Language of Trees' - Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly...
- Added: Aug 26, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: 'A Parenti...
- Added: Aug 19, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Saving Democracy from Demagogues" - Around the world, authoritarian leaders are on the rise – from Russia and Hungary to the U.S. We exa...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Journeys Through Gender" - Once upon a time there were two genders. He and She. Not anymore. So what are your pronouns? HOUR TWO: "The...
- Added: Aug 26, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Why Do We Have So Mu...
- Added: Jul 29, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...
- Added: Jul 22, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...
- Added: Jul 15, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Are You Ready For The Psychedelic Revolution?" - Could a psychedelic compound undo years of depression or addiction? Meet the CEO behind...
- Added: Jul 01, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Mysteries Of Migration" - Millions of animals migrate every year to a destination they've never seen. How do they do it — and what can w...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: May 27, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00