Best of 2015
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Wisconsin Public Radio
4.7 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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You know those end of the year lists? Best books, movies, music and so on? This hour, To the Best of Our Knowledge shares the best interviews from 2015. Plus a booklist or two. The 36 Questions that Lead to Love; Helen Macdonald Battles Grief with a Goshawk; The Historic Hunt to Record America's Rarest Bird; Poet Claudia Rankine on Her Award Winning Book, "Citizen"; Keith Powell on Hollywood's "Urban" Voice Problem; Being Terry Gilliam.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for WPR comes from People's Food Co-op, a community-owned natural food store in La Crosse and Rochester, offering organic, locally raised meats, as well as a variety of ready-to-serve options for holiday dinners. PFC.C.C.O.P. |
| 0:18.2 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRI. I'm Anne Strange Champs. You know this end of the year lists, best books, movies, music? Well, this hour is a collection of our best interviews from 2015. And maybe it's because I ask questions for a living. But one of my favorite interviews this year was about questions. 36 specific questions designed by a psychologist, and they've been known to help people fall in love. |
| 0:45.3 | What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? |
| 0:48.3 | What do you value most in a friendship? |
| 0:50.3 | What is your most treasured memory? |
| 0:52.3 | What is your most terrible memory? |
| 0:53.3 | If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly? |
| 0:56.5 | Would you change anything about the way you're living now? |
| 0:59.7 | What does friendship mean to you? |
| 1:01.5 | What roles do love and affection play in your life? |
| 1:03.5 | How close and warm is your family? |
| 1:04.8 | Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find the most disturbing? |
| 1:08.9 | How do you feel about your relationship with your mother? |
| 1:11.6 | What if anything is too serious to be joked about? |
| 1:15.6 | When did you last cry in front of another person? |
| 1:18.6 | Or by yourself. |
| 1:19.6 | If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, |
| 1:24.6 | what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven't you |
| 1:28.4 | told them yet? Those are some questions, huh? I mean, some of them I haven't even asked |
| 1:38.2 | myself, let alone anyone else. Imagine asking them on a blind date. 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aaron designed those |
| 1:47.2 | questions for a study on love and intimacy, and he used them in a famous experiment. |
| 1:52.2 | A man and a woman, heterosexual, walk into a lab, they answer these 36 questions, and then |
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