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DRINKING PLEASURE
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Program 08-10-19-B |
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Picking up a bottle of wine for dinner used to be simple. It pretty much depended on how much you wanted to spend, since everything came from France. Not anymore! In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll look at what happened to the wine world in 1976, when wine from the Napa Valley won a blind tasting and turned the industry upside down. The makers of the new film Bottle Shock share the story.
SEGMENT 1:
Wine journalist Alice Feiring tells Anne Strainchamps what's in the average glass of wine besides grapes, and why she opposes the dominant, market-driven, one palate fashion of the wine industry. Her book is "The Battle for Wine and Love or How I Saved the World from Parkerization." Also, Randall Miller and Jody Savin wrote, directed and are distributing the 2008 Sundance Festival film, "Bottle Shock." They talk with Jim Fleming about the film which tells the story of the famous blind taste testing where California wines first triumphed over French wines and changed the wine world forever. And we hear several clips from the film.
SEGMENT 2:
A bit of Tom Paxton's "Bottle of Wine" sets us up for the darker side of drinking. Koren Zailckas started drinking at fourteen. Her memoir of her teens is called "Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood." She tells Steve Paulson how frighteningly easy it is for very young girls to get alcohol, and indicts colleges for accepting student drunkenness as a normal part of the college experience. And, we hear a musical cautionary tale from Flanders and Swann - their 1957 recording of "Madeira M'Dear."
SEGMENT 3:
Neil Steinberg is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the author of "Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life." He tells Jim Fleming about the incident that sent him to rehab, what rehab is really like, and why AA seems to work, even when you intellectually reject its basic premises.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 08-10-19-B.
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Books & CDs:
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Alice Feiring The Battle for Wine and Love or How I Saved the World from Parkerization (Harcourt) |
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Koren Zailckas Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Penguin) |
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| Neil Steinberg Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life (Dutton) | |
Websites:
- Bottle Shock the movie
http://www.bottleshockthemovie.com/
Music:
- After Feiring: “Red, Red Wine” UB40 from album “Labour of Love,” Virgin Records, U.S.
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Tease before Miller/Savin, and first local option: Music from film “Bottle Shock”
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After Miller/Savin: “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” Stick McGhee + his buddies Atlantic Recording Corp 1949
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After Zailckas: Tom Paxton “Bottle of Wine” from The Best of Tom Paxton Elektra R2 73515
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“Madeira M’Dear” from The Complete Flanders and Swann EMI CDFSB 1 or “At the drop of a Hat” Parlaphone CDP 7974652 Michael Flanders and Donald Swan
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Second local option: Holy Modal Rounders, Last Round, Tr. 12 “Silly Boys” Adelphi Records Inc. GCD 1030
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After Steinberg: “Rye Whiskey” from Tree on a Hill by Peter Rowan & the Rowan Brothers Sugar Hill Records SH CD 3823
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Distribution dates: week of 10/19/2008
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