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The Radio Reader  | Dick Estell presents serialized readings of recent best sellers and books that should be best sellers Monday through Friday nights.
Current book (February 13 through March 23, 2007):
The Innocent Man:
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham
In the major-league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of
Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said
goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big-league glory.
Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits----
drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to
keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa.
In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter
was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime.
For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend
Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital
murder. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson
was sent to death row.
If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will
shock you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate
you.
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| Car Talk | Imagine the Marx Brothers answering questions about automobiles. Or Monty Python trying to imitate car noises. Mix in a little Smothers Brothers and you've got Car Talk. Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers," freely dispense expert car advice to callers in the broad accents of their native Boston. The show is punctuated with a weekly puzzler and the "Stump the Chump" feature. (NPR)
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| This American Life | Built around the innovative, personal vision of host Ira Glass, This American Life documents and describes contemporary America. The show explores a weekly theme - fiascoes, sentencing, conventions, the job that takes over your life - through a playful mix of radio monologues, mini-documentaries, "found tape," and unusual music. The stories on This American Life are engaging, intimate, surprising, funny, disturbing, and bittersweet. Ira has an unusual knack for finding writers and performers whose work hasn't been heard on radio, and producing their stories alongside his own disarming style. (PRI)
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| A Prarie Home Companion | For 25 years, humorist Garrison Keillor has been spinning stories about his hometown, Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all the children are above average." The show also features nationally acclaimed artists performing music from classical to zydeco, and a repertory theater of actors and radio's only remaining sound effects master. (PRI)
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| A Way With Words | This weekly show features Louisville native and acclaimed author Martha Barnette and is described as a "joy ride through the English language." It is produced by KPBS in San Diego. Martha has appeared on WFPL's award-winning “State of Affairs®” program to discuss words, phrases and how and why they are used. She's delighted to bring her show to Louisville and taking calls from WFPL's listeners. Word-loving listeners can call the show at (877) 929-WORD.
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