TTBOOK began as an audio magazine of ideas – two hours of smart, entertaining radio for people with curious minds. It’s sort of journalistic, but it’s never about the President’s speech to the U.N., weapons inspections in Iraq, or yesterday’s stock market disaster. It’s the kind of show that would spend an hour on the future of capitalism, or on the roots of Islamic fundamentalism. It might also spend an hour on hair. Or salt. Or pirates, road trips, psychic phenomena, house cleaning, animal intelligence, high energy physics, or how to say you’re sorry. It’s the kind of show where someone might mention Charlotte Bronte or Anthony Trollope in one segment, U2 or They Might Be Giants in another.
Made in Russia
Siberia is the name for a place we tend to think of as a metaphor as much as a destination on the map. Writer Ian Frazier indulged what he calls his dread Russia love with travels through Siberia...
Minding Mortality
Are you deadline driven? Are you most productive, most focused as "zero hour" approaches? Well, what about the ultimate end, the true end of the time frame. Deadline, indeed. How does knowing that you're going to die affect your life? In this hour, we're minding mortality.
Brainpower
The Turing Test is an annual event in which the most advanced computer programs try to fool a panel of judges into mistaking them for real people. And real people compete to try to win the coveted "Most Human Human Award."
American Invention
What's your billion dollar idea? You know, the one that's going to change the world? America's the land of invention, right? And it's that can-do spirit that makes this country great. But America's no longer the global innovation giant it once was.Where have you gone, Thomas Edison?
Henry David Thoreau
Why is Henry David Thoreau still an American icon 150 years after he died? Yes, he was a brilliant writer, but above all, he asked us to "front only the essential facts of life."
Airports
"I suspect that the airport will be the true city of the next century." -- J.G. Ballard
Into the Woods
Lace up the hiking boots and grab the bug spray! Spring is here and we're heading Into The Woods. Learn how to read a forest. Unlock the meanings hidden in leaf and bole, twig and soil. And celebrate the woods in fairytale, myth, story and song.
Back to the Land, Again
The Back to the Land spirit of the 60s lives on today, in the proliferation of farmer's markets, increased interest in sustainability and growing our own food. This hour, what the Back to the Land spirit looks like today.
Other Worlds
Past, present, future, and the imaginary - other worlds are everywhere.
Mother Issues
It seems everyone has something to say about motherhood. A lot of people have advice. Others just have... issues.
