Adolescence

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March 06, 2005

What do you do when your seventh-grade gym teacher orders some of your classmates to pile on top of you and wallop you as you leave the locker-room showers?  If you're Paul Feig, you turn your adolescent misadventures into a critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning television series called "Freaks and Geeks."  In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, Paul Feig talks about turning his teen years into a television show.

Paul Feig on "Freaks and Geeks"

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Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.

Chelsea Vargas on Students and Teachers

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Chelsea Vargas of Youth Radio provides a commentary about keeping in touch with teachers.

John McNally on "The Book of Ralph"

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John McNally is the author of “The Book of Ralph: A Fiction.” McNally tells Steve Paulson about the real life kids who served as the models for his character Ralph, a trouble-maker.

Steven Mintz on the History of American Childhood

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Historian Steven Mintz tells Jim Fleming that the idyllic, carefree American childhood never existed.

Curtis Sittenfeld on "Prep"

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Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of a novel called “Prep.” She tells Steve Paulson what she has in common with her lead character and why she feels protective of her.

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March 06, 2005
May 07, 2006
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Paul Feig

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Chelsea Vargas

John McNally

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Steven Mintz

Curtis Sittenfeld

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