Tuesday on RadioWest, we're telling the strange story of an 18th century experiment in education. Thomas Day was a wealthy poet and philosopher who ran in all the right circles, but he also dressed terribly, could hijack a conversation and had extreme ideas about women, even for the time. Not surprisingly, he didn't have a lot of luck with the ladies … so he decided the only way to find a mate was to train her himself. Journalist and author Wendy Moore joins guest host Elaine Clark to talk about her book How to Create the Perfect Wife.

Aired live on NPR affiliate KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City, Utah - July 9, 2013 - with one rebroadcast and podcast.

RadioWest: How to Create the Perfect Wife

Elaine Clark hosts KRCL's RadioActive. Author Daniel Wolff joins her to talk about the history of education through the personal stories of great Americans. Aired November 11, 2009

RadioActive (11/11/09): How Lincoln Learned to Read

Radio producers Elaine Clark and Whittney Evans explore Utah's complicated relationship with alcohol - and how the state may not have survived without it.

CLARK - EVANS - UTAHS WILL TO IMBIBE

This weekend, the Utah Symphony will perform Mozart's final composition - his Requiem in D Minor. Mozart died with the piece uncompleted - and the work that came down to us from the 18th century was likely not what Mozart had in mind. (Aired on KUER 90.1 on April 26, 2012)

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