About Us: TTBOOK Staff

Jim Fleming

Jim Fleming's been a radio junkie all his life, listening to the Cards and the Cubs on his transistor under the pillow, and to Gunsmoke with his Dad in the kitchen on Sunday nights.  For more than 40 years he's been paid for his habit at Wisconsin Public Radio.  His program Guernica won the Ohio State Bicentennial Award.  He and his wife live near Madison and revel in the regular company of their grandson Cameron.
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host

Steve Paulson

Steve is the Executive Producer and one of the founders of To the Best of Our Knowledge. He has been a contributing writer for Salon and has written for Slate, Huffington Post and other publications.  His radio reports have also been broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.  His book, Atoms and Eden:  Conversations on Religion and Science, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
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Executive Producer

Anne Strainchamps

Anne Strainchamps is an interviewer and Senior Producer on TTBOOK.  She co-founded the show, along with Steve Paulson and Jim Fleming, and served as its Executive Producer for five years, taking leave to start a family in 1995.   She’s the Executive Producer of a radio essay series called Wisconsin Life, and has worked in public broadcasting at WAMU in Washington, DC, and at NPR.   She has been, a food and wine columnist, and a chocolatier.
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Senior Producer

Charles Monroe-Kane

Producer Charles Monroe-Kane is also the host of Director’s Cut, a weekly Wisconsin Public Television show that features independent films.   Before TTBOOK Charles spent almost a decade in Europe, where he started an Internet Café in Prague, was an anti-nuke activist in Belgium, ran a record label in Amsterdam and even ran a circus. 
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Producer
Doug Gordon

Doug Gordon

Originally from Vancouver, B.C., Canada (first stop on this planet, anyway), Doug Gordon is migrating southward one country at a time in a concerted effort to make public radio more playful, provocative and postmodern.  Gordon's a big believer in Hugh MacLeod's maxim -- "Stay ahead of the culture by creating the culture." 
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Producer
Caryl Owen is the Technical Director of TTBOOK

Caryl Owen

Caryl Wheeler Owen is a 13th generation New Yorker with a deep fondness for Wisconsin. She attended Ripon College where she pretty much lived in radio station WRPN; later she graduated from NY’s Ithaca College. She worked for Public Television in Milwaukee, then decided to follow her ears into the rock and roll NY netherworld where she engineered album projects with artists including Ian Hunter, the dBs, Al DiMeola and King Crimson.
Technical Director
Sara Nics

Sara Nics

Raised by CBC radio, Sara decided to become a journalist when she realized that asking questions was her accidental hobby. Since then she's worked and lived in Canada, the United States, Kenya and the Netherlands. She's delighted to be the newest member of the TTBOOK team.

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Producer