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The Natural Man

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss author Ed McClanahan's comic coming-of-age novel set in a small Kentucky town. A 1999 KET production.
Season 1 Episode 5 Length 26:01 Premiere: 05/15/01 Visit the Official Website

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Season 1 Episodes

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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Deaf Hearing Boy: A Memoir - S8 E3

Premiered On: 03/25/2006

Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss R.H. Miller's memoir of his childhood and adolescence as the oldest of four hearing boys born to deaf parents. A 2006 KET production.

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A Garden in Kentucky/A Simple Human Motion - S8 E4

Premiered On: 04/15/2006

Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss poetry by Jane Gentry and Jeff Worley. A 2006 KET production.

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Lonesome Road - S8 E5

Premiered On: 05/13/2006

Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss Martha Bennett Stiles' novel about a mother whose child has been kidnapped. A 2006 KET production taped before a live audience at the London branch of the Laurel County Public Library.

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Of Woods and Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader - S8 E6

Premiered On: 06/10/2006

Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss an anthology edited by Ron Ellis that celebrates the Kentucky outdoors by bringing together fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from many of the state's most famous writers. A 2006 KET production.

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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War - S8 E7

Premiered On: 07/08/2006

Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss Richmond author Charles Bracelen Flood's book about the personal lives, war exploits, and friendship of Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. A 2006 KET production.

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Deaf Hearing Boy: A Memoir - S8 E3

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On the Right Side of a Dream - S8 E2

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter - S8 E1

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A Parchment of Leaves - S6 E11

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Dancing on the Edge of the Roof - S6 E10

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