Collaboration Ward Cunningham is the inventor of the web collaboration tool the wiki.
Adam Sisman and Steve Paulson talk about the friendship between poets Coleridge and Wordsworth.
Rold De Heer made a film with an aboriginal community.
Michael Timmins and Margo Timmins reflect on the Cowboy Junkies album “The Trinity Session.”
Jim Fleming talks with Ward Cunningham, the man who invented the wiki in 1995. A wiki is a web page written and then edited and added to by any other user. The collaborative on-line encyclopedia called Wikipedia now boasts several million entries and is entirely written and run by volunteers.
Steve Paulson goes to the Quantocks in Southwest England to tell the story of the remarkable collaboration between 18th century British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We also hear from Adam Sisman, whose book "The Friendship" describes their relationship.
"Ten Canoes" is an Australian film that was made as a collaboration between film-maker Rold De Heer and the aboriginal people of Ramingining. De Heer tells Steve Paulson what an extraordinary process the film-making was, and we hear excerpts from the film.
Michael Timmins writes the music and lyrics that his sister Margo Timmins sings as part of The Cowboy Junkies. Twenty years ago, they recorded a seminal album in Trinity Church in Toronto. Anne Strainchamps talks with the Timmins siblings about "The Trinity Session." And of course we hear some of the music. Their latest album is called "At the end of Paths Taken."
To the Best of Our Knowledge is an audio magazine of ideas - two hours of smart, entertaining radio for people with curious minds.
