 |
Wisconsin Public Radio - Chapter A Day.
|
|
|
|
 |
Chapter a Day® is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm
on the Ideas Network stations of Wisconsin Public Radio
The five most recent chapters are available for RealAudio
on-demand listening on the Chapter a Day® Webcasting page.
| Monday June 30 through Friday July 25, 2008 |
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
read by Karl Schmidt
(Random House ISBN-13: 9780375759314)
|
 |
 A magnificent story of youthful idealism and mature realism that takes two couples from the beginnings of friendship during the Depression in Madison, Wisconsin to success and heartbreak in the years that follow. |
|
Theme: Sonata in A, Andantino - Schubert - Brendel Philips 411477-2 |
|
| Monday July 28 through Friday August 22, 2008 |
The Appeal by John Grisham
read by Jim Fleming
(Doubleday ISBN13: 9780385515047)
|
|
 John Grisham returns to form with the compelling story of the race for a Mississippi Supreme Court seat following a judgement against a polluting chemical company. |
|
Theme: Bolcom: The Serpent's Kiss; Elizabeth & Marcel Bergmann, pianos (Naxos 8.559244) |
|
| Monday August 25 through Friday September 12, 2008 |
by Pope Brock
read by Norman Gilliland
(Crown ISBN-13: 9780307339881)
|
|
 Dr. John R. Brinkley had his own way with the truth, including a medical degree of questionable value and clinics in Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas. He parlayed it all into an amazing ride through the worlds of politics, radio broadcasting, country music, and the rich and powerful. |
|
Theme: Virgil Thomson: excerpt from "The Plow that Broke the Plains" New London Orch - Ronald Corp, cond (Hyperion CDA 66576) |
|
***** SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2008 *****
|
|
| Monday December 31, 2007 through Thursday January 24, 2008 |
Cage of Stars by Jacqueline Mitchard
read by Susan Sweeney
(Warner; ISBN-13: 9780446696722)
|
|
 A twelve-year-old’s world is shattered when her sisters are murdered. Years later she decides to avenge them, in the process discovering the true meanings of crime and forgiveness.
Chapter a Day® will be preempted on Monday January 21 at 12:30 for a special Martin Luther King Jr Day Celebration. Monday evening 1/21 we will repeat the Chapter from Friday 1/18. The book will resume with a new chapter on Tuesday 1/22. |
|
Theme: John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; Steven Isserlis, cello; London SO-Rozhdestvensky (Virgin 0946 3629321) |
|
| Friday January 25, 2008 |
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
read by Karl Schmidt
(FSG; ISBN-13: 9780374280390)
|
|
 John McPhee's books have always been about real people in real places. Here are his adventures with people who work in freight transportation. |
|
Theme: Toots Footprints from Toots Thielemans Footprints (Emarch 846650) |
|
| Monday January 28 through Wednesday February 20 |
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies At The Founding of the Republic by Joseph Ellis
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf ISBN-13: 9780307263698)
|
|
 |
|
Theme: Ives: Variations on "America" (arr. William Schuman); Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Slatkin, cond (RCA 09026-61282-2) |
|
| Monday March 10 through Friday March 21 |
The One That Got Away: a memoir by Howell Raines
read by Karl Schmidt
(Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0641802013)
|
|
 Wry and funny memoir about fishing, and family, and the end of his newspaper career. |
|
Theme: Bill Frisell: selections by the artist (ECM 440 014 198-2) |
|
| Monday March 24 through Friday April 11, 2008 |
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America by Andrew Ferguson
read by Karl Schmidt
(Atlantic ISBN-13: 9780871139672)
|
|
 We all know who our 16th President was, but who is he today? Andrew Ferguson travels America looking for Lincoln in contemporary society. |
|
Theme: America the Beautiful & Amazing Grace; Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra (Verve) |
|
| Monday April 14 through Friday May 2, 2008 |
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
read by Jim Fleming
(Random House ISBN-13: 9780385525008)
|
|
 A 3rd string NFL quarterback finds the meaning of American football when he’s run out of town and finds himself playing in Parma, Italy. |
|
Theme: Bolero from Serenata by Beppe Gambetta with Carlo Aonzo (Acoustic Music POB 1945) |
|
| Monday May 5 through Friday May 23, 2008 |
The Poet of Tolstoy Park: A Novel by Sonny Brewer
read by Karl Schmidt
(Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0345476326)
|
|
 A 67-year-old man, given a year to live by his doctors, decides instead to read Tolstoy and “perfect his soul.” |
|
Theme: Ligeti: Cello Sonata; David Geringas (Teldec 8573-88262-2) |
|
| Monday May 26 through Friday June 6, 2008 |
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and The Brain by Oliver Sacks
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf ISBN13: 9781400040810)
|
|
The renowned neurologist and author brings us stories of the power of music to affect patients’ lives, from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist to “brainworms” and sticky tunes, to dementia, music and identity. |
|
Theme: selections from "Russian Piano School Vol 17: Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Chopin & Liszt (Melodiya 74321 33215 2) |
|
| Monday June 9 through Friday June 27, 2008 |
Never Surrender: a novel of Winston Churchill by Michael Dobbs
read by Karl Schmidt
(Sourcebooks ISBN-13: 9781402210440)
|
|
 This work of historical fiction examines three crucial weeks in 1940 when Churchill was at his lowest ebb, but England as a whole was lower. |
|
Theme: John Adams: Violin Concerto - chaconne; Gidon Kremer, vln; London SO-Nagano (Nonesuch 79360-2) |
|
If you have a comment or a question, send a message to Jim Fleming.
|
Listen to This Program
