To the Best of Our Knowledge

PROMO       12/02/2007   "Transgender Identity"
*"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn."
That's what Aaron Raz Link says. And Link should know. He began life as
a girl named Sarah. And he started a new life as a gay man twenty-nine
years later. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll meet
Aaron Raz Link. And his mother, Hilda Raz...as we explore issues of
transgender identity. 
Also, the gender-bending speculative fiction of Kelley Eskridge.
Eskridge talks about her captivating character, Mars...whose gender
remains a mystery.  And mystery novelist Jason Goodwin introduces us to
his detective, Yashim... a Turkish eunuch.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:  "Transgender Identity"

0:00 - 16:05        SEGMENT 1: (16:06)
            Aaron Raz Link and his mother, Hilda Raz, are the co-
            authors of a collaborative memoir called "What Becomes
            You."  Aaron was born female and lived the first 29 years
            of his life as a girl named Sarah. He then went through
            the hormone and surgical therapies to become male and
            lives now as a gay man. 
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

16:06 - 16:35  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

16:36 - 27:52       SEGMENT 2: (11:18)
            Genesis P-Orridge is a conceptual artist who calls
            himself a cultural engineer.  He was born male but is re-
            inventing himself as a "pandrogyne," or hermaphrodite by
            choice. Doug Gordon talks with Genesis P-Orridge, and we
            hear music from his latest ensemble, Psychic TV.
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

27:53 - 28:22       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

28:23 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (24:36)
            Jason Goodwin won the Edgar Award for "The Janissary
            Tree," his first novel featuring Yashim Togalu, a eunuch
            who lives in 19th century Istanbul.  Yashim is back in
            "The Snake Stone."  Goodwin talks with Anne Strainchamps
            about Yashim and his similarity to other classic
            detectives. Also, Kelley Eskridge is a fiction writer,
            essayist and screenwriter.  Her latest collection of
            short stories is called "Dangerous Space." Three of the
            stories feature a compelling character named Mars whose
            gender is never revealed.  Eskridge tells Jim Fleming
            what she was trying to accomplish with Mars and how
            people have reacted. 
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo

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12-2-B.