Charles Monroe-Kane

Charles Monroe-Kane

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Producer/Interviewer

Producer Charles Monroe-Kane is the author of Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania. Before To The Best Of Our Knowledge, Charles spent almost a decade in Europe, where he started an internet café in Prague, was an anti-nuke activist in Belgium, managed a record label in Amsterdam and even ran a circus.

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Works
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Interviews
Did God Talk to Me?

"To The Best Of Our Knowledge" producer and interviewer Charles Monroe-Kane started hearing voices when he was a child. He became a child preacher once he thought God was talking to him. 
Start of an amateur boxing match, Rayne, Louisiana. 1938. Photographer Lee Russell Debating the Ethics of 'America's Tragic Theater'

In light of recent boxing tragedies, Charles and Steve are grappling with the ethics of boxing. It’s a debate that’s probably going on in a lot of places and will – unfortunately – continue.
Fire man The Terminal Bar: A Tale of Smuggling Money to Post-Communist Prague

TTBOOK producer Charles Monroe-Kane is a great storyteller who's led an adventurous life. Here's a wild story from his memoir "Lithium Jesus" about smuggling mob money when he lived in Prague in the 1990s.
"The most important colour in alchemy was red. It was a symbol of life, blood and the Sun." The Buried Secrets of Czech Alchemy

Alchemy left its mark on Prague — and on our producer, Charles Monroe-Kane, who lived there as a young man. He says the Czechs are still uncovering alchemical secrets.
"You're not ok, that's ok" yard sign The story of a pandemic yard sign

During the height of the pandemic, producer Charles Monroe-Kane made a yard sign — 300 of them, in fact. They read "You're not ok. That's ok." He put a few in his yard and the rest on his porch. Soon they were gone.
A raven on a tree The Indelible Myth and Meaning of Ravens

Our producer Charles Monroe-Kane has a passion for ravens.  The raven has meaning for him from legend and art, to the point where he’s had one tattooed on his forearm.
Shows
cemetary Our Time of Mourning
a pyramid among gold Secrets of Alchemy
Needle and vial Vaccine Wars
Boxers Why We Fight
God Talk
Towering radio Our Favorite Radio Stories of 2017
Typewriter Telling A Life
Charles Monroe-Kane in Center of the World Center of the World
Websites
charlesmonroekane.com
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