Charles Monroe-Kane is a Peabody award-winning radio producer who spent 24 years as a senior producer and interviewer for the national public radio show <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/">To the Best of Our Knowledge</a> which WGCU aired on Saturday mornings until about a month ago when it ended at least in part due to recent funding cuts across the public radio world.His 2024 audio documentary, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/show/spirit-jim-thorpe">“The Spirit of Jim Thorpe,”</a> was awarded first place by the Indigenous Journalists Association and in 2025 he produced the “Climate Narratives” audio documentary series in Greenland.Charles’s 2016 book <a href="https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/L/Lithium-Jesus2">"Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania"</a> recounts many of his you could say far-out life stories: including being a teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler, liberation theologian, ladder-maker, squatter, halibut hanger, grifter, environmental warrior, and circus manager—all the while wrestling with schizophrenia and self-medication. SONG 1: "Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)" by Tom Waits from his 1975 album Nighthawks at the Diner. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPN2vtn-0s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPN2vtn-0s</a>SONG 2: “Trucker Speed” by Fred Eaglesmith – it was released in 2012 on the album 6Volts. Live – The Fred Eaglesmith Travelling Steam Show on Sept. 30, 2012. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFr0CzZti2M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFr0CzZti2M</a>SONG 3: Massive Attack’s “Protection” ft. Tracey Thorn from the album of the same name released in 1994. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo</a>

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