To the Best of Our Knowledge

Series produced by Wisconsin Public Radio

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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 took?

Once we pick the theme, we dig in with interviews that explore the culture, the debate, the stories, the science and the actual sound of it all. And hopefully, when we’re done, we’ve animated the questions along with the answers, opening both our own minds and yours.

TTBOOK is available by annual carriage fee. Please contact Sean Nesbitt at sean.nesbitt@prx.org for more information. Hide full description

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


Additional Files

363 Pieces

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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: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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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: "Whose Land Is It?" -...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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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: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
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HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. How can we travel more e...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:02
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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: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe" - Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke reco...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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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: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "Living With Loneli...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "When Mountains Are Gods" - Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," is dominating the global box office. This hour, a litera...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Change of Address" - In the first episode of a three-part series on the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Man...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Generation Witch" - They’ve been hunted and silenced and burned at the stake, but witches are still practicing the craft. We take you fr...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Is there a better way to talk about death? And to grieve? The pandemic has brought us a period of global mournin...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01