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To The Best Of Our KnowledgeFarewell from TTBOOKYou listened on car trips and overnight flights, in tents and canoes, kitchens and living rooms. You shared our love of ideas, our search for wonder, our curiosity and our belief in the future. Now, after 35 years, it’s time for us to say goodbye. In this hour, Anne talks with TTBOOK’s producers about some of their favorite interviews and why public radio is such a powerful medium.Music in this hour was provided by the Aurora Principle, AurbanniAudio, Kai Engel, and Tom Blain.Original Air Date: September 27, 2025Interviews In This Hour: A...
2025-09-2752 min
Going for BrokeAnne Strainchamps and Ray Suarez talk about reporting on poverty and why the care economy mattersThe hosts of "Going for Broke" discuss reporting on poverty and how to give economic insight a tone of empathy and a tangible sense of human connection.More about the series at ttbook.org/goingforbroke.
2022-11-2614 min
Holding History PodcastWhat Makes an Audio Archive Special?Our first episode features a conversation with Anne Strainchamps, host and co-founder of Wisconsin Public Radio's To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Peabody Award-winning public radio interview show heard on more than 200 public radio stations across the United States.
This episode’s Bookish Word, ogham, was created by UW-Madison graduate students Megan Fox and Rhett Blankenship.
To learn more about the texts, ideas, and people mentioned in this interview, visit the episode guide on HoldingHistory.org.
Thanks for listening!
2021-09-0626 min
BookmarksComing April 30: Bookmarks, Kid's Book EditionNeverland. Wonderland. Magic wands and unicorns. Your escape from COVID-19 is just a wish-upon-a-star away. Season 3 of Bookmarks — the kid’s book edition — is flying in on a fire-breathing dragon.
In this ragtag collection, awesome writers share their favorite children’s books from an audio treehouse of hope in tough times. Because you know what you need right now? An orphan on an adventure where she triumphs against all odds! It’s Black Girl Magic meets White Fang on a raft down the Mississippi with a little Search for Delicious along the way.
Bookmarks is brought to y...
2021-04-2301 minHolding History PodcastHolding History Podcast PreviewAn excerpt from our conversation with Anne Strainchamps.
2021-01-0601 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeLoving BeesBees stir each one of our senses — the zen-like hum, the sweet honey, the waxy smell of wildflowers mixed with hard work, the vibrant orange and black bodies attached to window-paned wings.
If they land on us, and we are calm, say beekeepers, it will be a gentle touch; they will sting only to save their lives.
Bees are endangered, but all over the world, people are stepping up to save them — in backyards, science labs, and the abandoned lots of urban Detroit. We explore the art to building a relationship with bees, and the science of how...
2020-08-0152 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeLoving Bees [Rebroadcast]Bees are endangered, but all over the world, people are stepping up to save them — in backyards, science labs, and the abandoned lots of urban Detroit.
Guests:
Heather Swan, Nicole Lindsey, Timothy Paule, Thor Hanson, Christof Koch, Tania Munz, Stephanie Elkins, Peter Sobol, Anne Strainchamps
2019-05-1852 min
The Podcast HourListening to the city: To The Best of Our KnowledgeTTBOOK (as it's known to its friends) started life as a radio show back in 1990 on Wisconsin Public Radio. 28 years later and it's still on the radio on nearly 200 different US stations, and of course now you can podcast it too! Husband and wife team Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson do most of the interviewing, with Anne taking the lead role as host. And the format's perhaps best described as 'variations on a theme'. Each episode takes a big idea and explores it with a range of different interviews. Recent topics have included the search for meaningful work, automation, and...
2018-12-0100 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeLoving BeesBees are endangered, but all over the world, people are stepping up to save them — in backyards, science labs, and the abandoned lots of urban Detroit.
Guests:
Heather Swan
Nicole Lindsey
Timothy Paule
Thor Hanson
Christof Koch
Tania Munz
Stephanie Elkins
Peter Sobol
Anne Strainchamps
Interviews in this hour:
Falling In Love With Bees
'Medicine'
Why We Ought to Live a 'Pro-Bee Lifestyle'
Rebuilding Detroit, Hive by Hive
'Honeybee'
How Do We Wrap Our Minds Around Bee Consciousness?...
2018-07-2853 min
Download the Top 100 Audiobooks in Radio & TV, Great InterviewsTo the Best of Our Knowledge: Striving to See in a Vast, Invisible Universe AudiobookPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1017/to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Striving to See in a Vast, Invisible Universe
Author: Anne Strainchamps
Narrator: Anne Strainchamps
Format: Original Recording
Length: 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-23-17
Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
On Monday, August 21, a total solar eclipse will cross the United States for the first time in a hundred years. For millions of people in its path, it'll be like opening a window directly onto the...
2017-08-2351 min
Discover the New Releases Audiobooks in Radio & TV, Great InterviewsTo the Best of Our Knowledge: Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq, Part 3 AudiobookPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq, Part 3
Author: Jim Fleming
Format: Original Recording
Length: 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-21-10
Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
In this hour, Toby Nunn was a Marine Sergeant First Class who served two tours in Iraq. Home now, he's finding it hard to adjust to civilian life, but as he told...
2010-05-2152 minDiscover the New Releases Audiobooks in Radio & TV, Great InterviewsTo the Best of Our Knowledge: Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq, Part 2 AudiobookPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq, Part 2
Author: Jim Fleming
Format: Original Recording
Length: 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-14-10
Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
In this hour, after a quick look back at Neo-conservative Richard Perle's 2003 justification for war with Iraq, Steve Paulson talks with Douglas Feith about decision-making in the wake of 9/ll. Feith is...
2010-05-1452 min