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Passing for Black

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Louisville author Wade Hall's biography of former state legislator Mae Street Kidd, told mostly in her own words. A 1999 KET production.
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The Same River Twice
S1 E12 Length 25:57 Premiere Date 12/07/99

Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, and Honest Fried Chicken
S1 E11 Length 25:58 Premiere Date 11/02/99

Come and Go, Molly Snow
S1 E8 Length 25:49 Premiere Date 08/03/99

Scissors, Paper, Rock
S1 E6 Length 25:42 Premiere Date 06/01/99

The Natural Man
S1 E5 Length 26:01 Premiere Date 05/15/01

Storming Heaven
S1 E4 Length 25:25 Premiere Date 05/08/01

Passing for Black
S1 E3 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 04/24/01

The Secrets of a Fire King
S1 E2 Length 25:39 Premiere Date 04/17/01

The Memory of Old Jack
S1 E1 Length 26:02 Premiere Date 04/10/01

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Clotel, or, The President's Daughter - S4 E2

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss the first novel published by an African-American writer. A former slave himself, Kentucky-born William Wells Brown blended true stories with a fictional account of an enslaved woman. A 2002 KET production.

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Home and Beyond - S4 E3

Premiered On: 03/09/2002

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss a collection of short stories by Kentucky authors compiled and edited by Morris Grubbs. Tales by Bobbie Ann Mason, Barbara Kingsolver, Jesse Stuart, Wendell Berry, Robert Penn Warren, Guy Davenport, and others explore the tension between the longing to leave home to explore what is beyond the familiar and the yearning to return to those comforting roots. A 2002 KET production.

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Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions - S4 E4

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Maurice Manning's "Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions," a cycle of poems that takes the reader on a wild ride through the life of a man of the rural South. The book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2001. A 2002 KET production.

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Aging with Grace - S4 E5

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss University of Kentucky researcher David Snowdon's report on health, hygiene, and Alzheimer's disease among elder members of an order of Catholic nuns, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. A 2002 KET production.

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Payne Hollow: Life on the Fringe of Society - S4 E6

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Harlan and Anna Hubbard's simple life on the Ohio River in Trimble County. Eschewing electricity, telephones, and other trappings of the 20th century, the Hubbards tended their garden, fished the river, and lived lives akin to those of settlers a century earlier. A 2002 KET production.

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