Consortium Book Blog

TAMU Press author to appear in BBC documentary on May 31

Thomas R. Hargrove, author of Long March to Freedom, is participating in a documentary for the popular BBC series. The show will reunite Hargrove and members of the team who secured his release from Columbian narco-terrorists who kidnapped him in 1994.

The program "Kidnapped" will be broadcast through a new series called "Reunions" — bringing together people who have shared dramatic experiences in the past — on Friday, May 30, over BBC World Service Radio. Broadcasts will be at 3:05 p.m., 6:05 p.m., and 1:05 a.m. (May 31) Central Time.

Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/. Then click on "Listen Live."

"In February, the BBC brought together and interviewed, in its London studios, Claudia Greiner, David Little, and me. The Greiners, a German family, were our next-door neighbors in Cali, and played a key role in the kidnap and negotiations" Hargrove said. "The Greiners now live near Frankfurt. David Little was one of the two professional K&R (kidnap and ransom) hostage negotiators who handled my case. He is former Scotland Yard, and now lives in the UK."

To read more about the book Long March to Freedom visit:

http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2007/hargrove.htm 

The program "Kidnapped" will be broadcast through a new series called "Reunions" — bringing together people who have shared dramatic experiences in the past — on Friday, May 30, over BBC World Service Radio. Broadcasts will be at 3:05 p.m., 6:05 p.m., and 1:05 a.m. (May 31) Central Time.

Texas Music History on a Radio Near You

Gary Hartman, author of The History of Texas Music is involved in a new radio program entitled "This Week in Texas Music History." The 90-second show airs each Monday morning on Austin's KUT 90.5 FM during NPR's Morning Edition at 6:33 a.m. and 8:33 a.m. Hartman expects many other NPR affiliate stations across the state to pick up the show and begin broadcasting it on a weekly basis. Hartman, who writes and hosts the show, is considered one of the nation's pre-eminent scholars on the subject of Texas music.
"'This Week in Texas Music History' has had a very positive response from audiences," Hartman said. "Some listeners have compared it to Garrison Keillor's nationally popular 'Writer's Almanac.'".
To read more about Hartman's book, visit http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2008/hartman.htm

Review of The Country Houses of John F. Staub

"Stephen Fox knows more about Houston than anyone knows about any other American megalopolis. Among historians, he is legend. . . . Richard Cheek, one of the premier architectural photographers of his generation, knows how to highlight both formal and sensuous qualities of buldings. His magnificent color photos bring out qualities of Staub's work that would go unnoticed in standard monographic studies. . . . THE COUNTRY HOUSES OF JOHN F. STAUB . . . stands well out from the crowd. Fox and Cheek have created . . . one of the most beautiful architecture books of the year."—The Architect's Newspaper, 4/16/08