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Program 07-09-02-A |
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Once upon a time people believed the world was populated
with terrible monsters and fabulous mythical beasts. They thought if they
just searched long enough and hard enough, they'd find them. In this hour
of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the mythical beasts of folktale
and legend, and the modern researchers who are still hunting for them.
Tales of sea serpents, lake monsters, and abominable snowmen.
SEGMENT 1:
Laurel Kendall is one of the curators of "Mythic Creatures," a blockbuster exhibition at the American Natural History Museum. She walks through the exhibition with Anne Strainchamps and we hear visitor reaction to the dragons and their ilk. Also, Loren Coleman considers himself a conservative crypto-zoologist. He tells Jim Fleming what that means, and why he's still looking for the next Lake Monster or Bigfoot or Thunderbird.
SEGMENT 2:
Jonathan Baillie is the lead scientist at the Zoological Society of London and directs its new EDGE of Existence Program. He tells Steve Paulson about his conservation campaign to save Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered animals like a species of echidna from Papua in the South Pacific. Also, Tim Friend is the author of "The Third Domain." It's a book about Archaea - a kind of microbe that doesn't fit into any of the traditional categories of life and only exists in wildly inhospitable environments.
SEGMENT 3:
Nicholas Christopher collected myths and legends for years to write his novel, "The Bestiary." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book and reads excerpts from it. It's a bestiary of magical beats. And, we hear a produced reading of Mario Milosevic's poem "When I Was" from his collection "Animal Life."
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 07-09-02-A.
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Books:
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Loren Coleman, Jerome Clark, Cryptozoology from A-Z (Simon & Schuster) |
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| Nicholas Christopher, The Bestiary: a novel (Dial Press) | |
Websites:
- Mario Milosevic:
http://www.conditionalreality.blogspot.com/ - Robert Rich:
http://www.robertrich.com/rrbestiary.html
Music:
- “Abominable Snowman in the Market,” by Jonathan Richman. On “23 Great Recordings by Jonathan Richman.” (Castle Communications)
- “The Unicorn,” by the Irish Rovers, on “A Child’s Celebration of the World.” (Music for Little People)
- “The Veldt” by Combustible Edison, on “I, Swinger.” (SubPop)
- “The Whale (Mopy Dick),” by Flanders and Swann, on “The Bestiary of Flanders and Swan.” (EMI)
- “Breakfast at Denny’s” by Combustible Edison, on “I, Swinger.”
- Several tracks from Robert Rich’s CD, “Bestiary.” (see link)
- “Beezus, Beeten, Breep,” by David
Rothenberg on “Why Birds Sing.” (Terra Nova)
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