University of South Florida Scholar Commons First Choice Monthly Newsletter WUSF 4-1-2008 First Choice - April 2008 WUSF, University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/wusf_first Part of the Broadcast and Video Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation WUSF, University of South Florida, "First Choice - April 2008" (2008). First Choice Monthly Newsletter. Paper 46. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/wusf_first/46 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the WUSF at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in First Choice Monthly Newsletter by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. firstchoice wusf for information, education and entertainment • aPriL 2008 Made in Spain Call him “Mr. Spain.” Call him Spain’s unofficial ambassador to the United States. Call him a world-class chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and media personality. Call him Chef José Andrés. Just be sure to call him ahead of time if you hunger for authentic Spanish cuisine. Better still, check out Made in Spain, his 26- part series continuing this month on WUSF-TV/DT, and learn how to cook Spanish cuisine in your own kitchen. Chef Andrés shares Spain’s rich culinary and cultural heritage as only an insider can. Andrés doesn’t just talk about Spain—he goes there. During each episode he explores his native country’s markets, vineyards Made in and restaurants. The series takes us on a journey through each of Spain can Spain’s 17 regions, introducing us to his favorite chefs, vintners and be seen on artisan cheese makers. After visiting the cultural source, Chef Andrés WUSF TV/DT, brings his lessons home with a cooking segment straight from his Mondays own kitchen in Washington, DC. He shows American viewers how they at 9 p.m. can create the exciting flavors of Spain with easy and informative recipes. That’s what we call tasteful programming — and a television first. While American television has browsed the bistros of Paris and idolized the battling iron chefs of Japan, this is the nation’s first major television series to focus on Spain’s food, wine, and cultural hotspots. WUSF is proud to offer this taste of Spain. We hope you’ll savor it. wusf: FIRST choice WUSF Public WUSF TV/DT April Highlights Broadcasting: A range of In RICHARD BANGS’ ADVENTURES WITH media choices PURPOSE “New Zealand: WUSF 89.7 provides Quest for Kaitiakitanga,” the NPR news and classical father of modern adventure music during the day travel traverses the most and straight-ahead jazz diverse landmass in Polynesia at night. To keep you in the pursuit of an age-old informed and engaged, we Mâori tradition. Bangs seeks combine NPR’s acclaimed answers to questions rooted global reporting with in indigenous wisdom, hoping our own award-winning to unearth the meaning and Florida coverage. origins of “kaitiakitanga,” the responsibility to protect the WUSF 89.72 delivers public radio’s best news natural world. Airs Monday, and information 24 hours April 28, at 10 p.m. a day. Its fresh spectrum of programs includes: Savants are people who Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, possess elements of genius The Diane Rehm Show, in an otherwise severely The Splendid Table, The impaired brain. Up to now, Infinite Mind and On the they have baffled the scientific Media. This channel is world. FRAGMENTS OF available on HD radios GENIUS explores Professor and online. Allan Snyder’s tantalizing theory that the talents of a savant are WUSF TV/DT proudly broadcasts on four digital hidden deep within all of us. television stations which The special includes profiles of are now available on two young savants, jazz prodigy Verizon FiOS: Channel 870, Derek Paravicini, and artist WUSF TV-16, providing Stephen Wiltshire—both of PBS programming; whom have IQs of less than 60. Channel 871, The Florida Airs Sunday, April 13, at 9 p.m. Knowledge Network; Channel 872, Create; In ARTIST’S TABLE, and Channel 873, The acclaimed chef, author and Annenberg CPB Channel. television personality Jacques Pépin and violin virtuoso Itzhak wusf.org WUSF’s Web site offers crystal-clear digital Perlman explore their mutual simulcasts of our radio appreciation for music, food and programming on WUSF wine. The two raconteurs delight 89.7 and WUSF 89.72. On- in lively conversation while they demand podcasting allows plan, present and share meals listeners to download now comprised of their favorite and listen later. Both state- dishes. Airs Monday, April 7, of-the-art services are free. at 10 p.m. WUSF: FIRST CHOICE wusf Armchair Travels WUSF Public Broadcasting takes you around the world and back Smart Travels—Europe host Rudy Maxa pril is here, and although summer vacation is still months away, travel is on our minds. For some of us, though, the nearest we’ll get to a train, boat or plane is nestled in a comfortable armchair watching or listening to any number of the outstanding travel programming A offered by WUSF Public Broadcasting. Thanks to these award- winning radio and TV programs, that armchair is all you need to travel the globe. Let’s start with our televised offers. Your journey begins with Made in Spain. This new, 26-part PBS TV series explores Spain’s culinary and cultural treasures with Chef José Andrés as your guide. First, he takes you to his native Spain to investigate its captivating traditions of food and wine. Then, he takes you back to his kitchen and shows you how to recreate the flavors of Spain in your own kitchen. Andrés’ recipes are easy to follow. The results will capture your imagination. Airs Mondays at 9 p.m. continued on following page WUSF: FIRST CHOICE Armchair Travels WUSF Public Broadcasting takes you around the world and back continued from preceding page Globe Trekker The world is a big place Europhobia. Rick Steves, your genial host, is no innocent and it helps to find the right 10 guides abroad. In his guidebooks, TV series, radio programs to get through it. Each of these intrepid and on his Web site, Steves has made a career of offering travelers offers vast intelligence and practical travel advice (where to stay, what to see, experience, and a unique point of view. how to get there) for Americans setting forth upon that Each prefers the road less traveled. And that’s exactly where continent. Airs Fridays at 9 p.m. they’ll take you—from the hidden corners of sparkling cities Smart Travels—Europe with Rudy Maxa to remote, indigenous villages that are not on the usual tour- brings an investigative reporter’s ist packages. It’s a whole new season of epic journeys, and sensibility to the problem of a hassle- proof that it’s not just the destination that counts—it’s who free European vacation. How do you go with. Airs Fridays at 10 p.m. you find the heart of Paris in a three- The Ride of Our Lives takes you on day trip? Where are the best estates on the outskirts of an RV odyssey across America with London? Maxa (who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize Mike Leonard, a Today correspondent, for his political reporting as a Washington Post reporter) his elderly parents, three of his grown is just as adept at digging up the answers to these children, and his daughter-in-law. The questions. Airs Mondays at 8:30 p.m. trek is filled with laughs, priceless memories and abundant Some of WUSF’s other extraordinary life lessons—offering up a poignant, witty look at life, family journeys are waiting for you on the radio or Internet. and the American landscape. Airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Our sonic excursions, on WUSF 89.72, include: Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions The Splendid Table Lynne Rossetto If your guide is having fun, chances are Kasper celebrates food and its power to you will, too. If he knows the place like feed both body and soul. Kasper hosts the back of his hand, that’s even better. discussions with a variety of writers and That’s Burt Wolf in a nutshell—your personalities who share her passion for unstoppable host. His lively tours explore a world of local culinary delights from near and far. Once you listen, you’ll history, food, folklore, arts, festivals, theater and curiosities. share it, too. Airs Sundays at 3 p.m. Next month, some lucky WUSF viewers and listeners will be getting out of their armchairs and joining Wolf in person National Geographic World Talk This as he films the “Cruising the Rivers of France” episode. talk show features guests who do more Airs Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. than talk. Host Patty Kim speaks to the people who continue to revolutionize our Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe experience of the world. Today’s leading presents a 30-year retrospective of the scientists, photographers, writers and explorers share their photographer’s work. Wolfe has recorded latest discoveries, adventures and inventions. It’s only an the planet’s wildlife, landscapes and hour, but it’s definitely a trip. Airs Sundays at 7 p.m. indigenous cultures; the beauty of his The Changing World, hosted by Lisa images has inspired people to try to preserve the beauty of Mullins, is a weekday radio news the real thing. In this 13-episode series, viewers experience magazine offering a mix of news, fea- that beauty for themselves as the photographer’s lens tures, interviews and music from around captures the world—from the wild grizzlies of Alaska to the the planet.