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Radio Talking Book Radio News June 2008 |
Current Edition: June 2008
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Radio now archived on the Internet
Communication Center staff, with support from the technical staff of our Department of Employment and Economic Development, has reached a new milepost for the Minnesota Radio Talking Book: they have made archived programs available through the Radio Talking Book website. If you have a computer and access to the Internet, you can now listen to any program that has been on the Minnesota Radio Talking Book in the previous week. In practical terms, this will mean that your doctor’s appointment or a movie-night will not interfere with hearing your favorite program or a broadcast of a book that you’ve been following.
To reach that webpage, go to www.mnssb.org/rtb. You will then be directed to give a password, which is available to eligible users from SSB staff, and will have an option of either listening to the streamed broadcast or to any archived program from the previous week.
At the Minnesota Radio Talking Book, we recognize that we produce much more programming than anyone can possibly listen to. If a person has an active life, it is even more difficult to find the time to listen to the programming. Archiving the material so the listener can hear it at her or his convenience is a method of making the programming more useable by more people.
We hope that you enjoy this new innovation and will let others know of it as well.
Books Available Through Faribault
All books broadcast on the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network are available through the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library in Faribault. Their phone is 1-800-722-0550 and hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Their catalog is also online, and you can access it at the main website, http://education.state.mn.us and clicking on the link, or go to http://education.state.mn.us/mde/Learning_Support/MN_Braille_Talking_Book_Library/index
.html. If you live outside of Minnesota, you may obtain copies of books by contacting your own state=s Network Library for the National Library Service.
Review old issues of Radio News on the Internet at www.mnssb.org/radionews.
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Chautauqua
Tuesday - Saturday 4 a.m.
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Shaggy Muses
Nonfiction by Maureen Adams, 2007.
Many great writers have had animal companions. Here we visit five great women writers and the dogs that joined them in their bond of private playfulness.
Read by Isla Hejny.
10 broadcasts. Begins June 3.
Elvis Is Titanic
Nonfiction by Ian Klaus, 2007.
Ian Klaus spent a semester teaching U.S. history and English at Salahaddin University in Iraqi Kurdistan. His goal is to illuminate the American way for people more attuned to our pop culture than our national ideals.
Read by Bruce Hanson.
10 broadcasts. Begins June 17.
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Past is Prologue
Monday - Friday 9 a.m.
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Shadow of the Silk Road
Nonfiction by Colin Thubron, 2007.
The Silk Road begins in the heart of China, and runs across northern Afghanistan into Kurdish Turkey. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies, but also of ideas, religions and inventions.
Read by Leila Poullada.
14 broadcasts. Begins June 3.
The Pirate Queen
Nonfiction by Susan Ronald, 2007.
Dubbed the “pirate queen” by the Vatican and Spain’s Philip II, Elizabeth I was the epitome of power. Her use of piracy transformed England from an impoverished state on the fringes of Europe into an empire that covered two-fifths of the world.
Read by Audray Rees.
17 broadcasts. Begins June 23.
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Bookworm
Monday - Friday 11 a.m.
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June Bug
Fiction by Jess Lourey, 2007.
Mira’s life is not what she expected. She’s living in a trailer and working as a reporter for the paper. Then she hears of a legend of a missing necklace. Finding it would make a good scoop for the paper. Read by Karen Wertz.
7 broadcasts. Begins June 3.
Remembering the Bones
Fiction by Frances Itani, 2007.
Georgina is on her way to celebrate her birthday with Queen Elizabeth II, when her car drops into a ravine. Unable to move, she reflects on her life, loves, and secrets.
Read by Judy Woodward.
7 broadcasts. Begins June 12.
Loving Frank
Fiction by Nancy Horan, 2007.
Frank Lloyd Wright met Mamah when she and her husband commissioned Wright to design a home for them. When they became lovers, they shocked society and changed both their lives.
Read by Ann Reed.
15 broadcasts. Begins June 23.
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Potpourri
Monday - Friday 2 p.m.
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Quiet Strength
Nonfiction by Tony Dungy, 2007.
Dungy’s team went to ’07 Super Bowl victory, a first for an African American coach. But he is not an ordinary coach; he is a role model for his players.
Read by Art Nyhus.
11 broadcasts. Begins June 2.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
Nonfiction by Linda Colley, 2007.
Elizabeth Marsh was conceived in Jamaica in 1735, and during her life, she traveled farther and was more knowledgeable than the vast majority of men.
Read by Barbara Struyk.
12 broadcasts. Begins June 17.
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Choice Reading
Monday - Friday 4 p.m.
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When We Get There
Fiction by Shauna Seliy, 2007.
Lucas’ father died in a coal-mine blast. Now 13, Lucas goes in search of his mother who has left. His world is comprised of old-world elders and extended family members in his close-knit ethnic community. L -
Read by Jodi Furness.
8 broadcasts. Began May 28.
Tipperary
Fiction by Frank Delaney, 2007.
Charles O’Brien’s profession as healer allows him to meet great figures during the era of the struggle for Irish independence. When he is rejected in love, he turns his attention to preserving the estate of Tipperary, which may belong to his loved one’s family. L -
Read by Del Adamson.
18 broadcasts. Begins June 9.
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PM Report
Monday - Friday 8 p.m.
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The Stillborn God
Nonfiction by Mark Lilla, 2007.
Religious passions are driving world politics. The quest to bring political life under God’s authority has been revived, confounding expectations of a secular future. Surprisingly, this age-old quest has a role in shaping Western thought.
Read by Wally Vavrosky.
10 broadcasts. Begins June 2.
Infidel
Nonfiction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2007.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines after the murder of her colleague Theo van Gogh. Raised as a Somali Muslim, her intellectual awakening came after she sought asylum in the Netherlands. L -
Read by Susan Niefeld.
17 broadcasts. Begins June 16.
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Night Journey
Monday - Friday 9 p.m.
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The Sleeping Doll
Fiction by Jeffrey Deaver, 2007.
Daniel is serving a life sentence for murder. Special Agent Dance is to interview him, but he escapes. His string of murders is aimed at including his pursuers. V,L,S -
Read by Diane Ladenson.
14 broadcasts. Begins June 3.
Spook Country
Fiction by William Gibson, 2007.
Hollis is on assignment for a magazine that doesn’t yet exist. She has been told to find Bobby Chombo. But finding him is a challenge; he refuses to sleep in the same place twice. L -
Read by Pat Kovel-Jarboe.
12 broadcasts. Begins June 23.
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Off the Shelf
Monday - Friday 10 p.m.
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Angelica
Fiction by Arthur Phillips, 2007.
In the Barton household, a sexual spectre hovers over the daughter in her sleep and terrorizes the mother. A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the house. L -
Read by Mary Davies.
13 broadcasts. Began May 21.
People of the Book
Fiction by Geraldine Brooks, 2008.
A rare book expert, analyzing a 15th century Hebrew manuscript discovers tiny artifacts in the book’s binding that help unlock the book’s eventful past. L -
Read by Leandra Peak.
13 broadcasts. Begins June 9.
Stone Cold
Fiction by David Baldacci, 2007.
Oliver Stone is the leader of the Camel Club. Stone is feared by many. But when Harry Finn sets his sights on him, Stone may have met his match. L -
Read by John Schmidt.
10 broadcasts. Begins June 26.
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Evening Odyssey
Monday - Friday 11 p.m.
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Engleby
Fiction by Sebastian Faulks, 2007.
Mike Engleby is not quite right. He becomes fixated on one of his classmates and she goes missing. Is Mike involved? And as he ages, he becomes more and more detached from those around him, almost as an anti-come-of-age. V -
Read by Hugh Jones.
15 broadcasts. Begins June 2.
Mister Pip
Fiction by Lloyd Jones, 2007.
Mr. Watts is the only white man left on this war-torn tropical island. Every day, he reads to the children from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Matilda is one of these children. But life on the island continues to be dangerous. V,L -
Read by Bonita Sindelar.
7 broadcasts. Begins June 23.
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Good Night Owl
Monday - Friday midnight
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
Fiction by James Robertson, 2007.
Gideon Mack is a minister in a small Scottish town. When he falls down a local ravine into a raging river, he is presumed drowned. But he resurfaces three days later claiming he was rescued by the Devil. L -
Read by Charlie Boone.
16 broadcasts. Began May 21.
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
Fiction by Porochista Khakpour, 2007. Growing up in the United States with Iranian parents, Xerxes struggles to find his own identity separate from his parents’. But when he meets a beautiful part-Iranian girl, it seems Iran will not let him go. L -
Read by Leila Poullada.
12 broadcasts. Begins June 12.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Fiction by Sherman Alexi, 2007.
Junior is a young cartoonist on the Spokane Indian reservation. He is picked on because of medical problems, so he leaves to go to a different school. His new school, though, is off the reservation and he is the only Indian there. L -
Read by Wally Peters.
5 broadcasts. Begins June 30.
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After Midnight
Tuesday - Saturday 1 a.m.
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Eclipse
Fiction by Stephenie Meyer, 2007.
Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings. Bella finds herself surrounded by danger and being forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing her decision may ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf.
Read by Mary Ellen Morris.
19 broadcasts. Began May 22.
The Scandal of the Season
Fiction by Sophie Gee, 2007.
In 1711, in London, Arabella Fermor and Robert, Lord Petre conducted an illicit affair. It was observed by Alexander Pope, who immortalized their relationship in a poem that catapulted him to fame and fortune: The Rape of the Lock. S -
Read by Judith Johannessen.
12 broadcasts. Begins June 18.
Abbreviations:
V - violence
L - offensive language
S - sexual situations