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Hearing Voices (Talk)

  • Genres: Talk
  • Location: Washington, Dc
  • Language: English
  • Networks: NPR
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AIDS Diaries

Sun, Nov 29 Listen
Documenting a disease: "Thembi's Diary" follows a South African teenager as she records her life with AIDS, produced by Radio Diaries. In "LiveHopeLove" poet Kwame Dawes travels Jamaica talking to the many HIV/AIDS sufferers on his small island, produced by Outer Voices for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Barbara and Dori Bryon are a "Family with AIDS," the mother unknowingly passed the virus to her daughter in the womb. African children orphaned by AIDS store keepsakes of their...

To War

Tue, Nov 24 Listen
We get out of one conflict and into another. "Goodbye to Saigon" chroncicles the day of the last US flights out of the Vietnam War, narrated by Noah Adams and produced by Art Silverman. And Scott Carrier travels the country in early 2003 asking people "Are You Ready?" for war.

To War

Sun, Nov 22 Listen
We get out of one conflict and into another. "Goodbye to Saigon" chroncicles the day of the last US flights out of the Vietnam War, narrated by Noah Adams and produced by Art Silverman. And Scott Carrier travels the country in early 2003 asking people "Are You Ready?" for war.

Small Town

Sun, Nov 15 Listen
Spending time in some shrinking rural American townships: The postmistress of "Tomato, Arkansas" describes her community's dwindling population. "X-Town" is four former Massachusetts municipalities, now flooded to make room for a reservoir. "Slab City" in California never did exist, though it's full of folk who live there. And little Talcott, West Virginia has a big claim to fame as home of "The Legend of John Henry: Steel Drivin' Man."

Veteran's Day

Sun, Nov 8 Listen
Voices from the Armed Forces: "Project Healing Waters" teaches wounded warriors, including amputees, to fly-fish; we spend a day catching trout at Rose River Farm in Virginia. "Operation Homecoming" is an NEA book project featuring writings and readings by vets returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. "Winter Soldiers" is testimony by soldiers and marines at the Iraq Veterans Against the War hearings. "Swords to Plowshares" follows a member of the Farmer-Veteran Coalition: farmers...

Bloody Hell

Sun, Nov 1 Listen
An hour of horror for All Hallows' Eve, the first half is bloody, the second goes to hell: ESP, dreams and intuition drip "Blood on the Pulpit" by David Greenberger. La Llorona, the crying woman, is Mexico's bogeyman. ZBS adapts Cherokee writer Craig Strete's "The Bleeding Man." FM Einheit delves in Dante's DivineComedy in a "Radio Inferno." A woman narrates her found-sound trip to hell with Jesus. Shel Silverstein introduces us to "Monsters I've Met." And the 90 Second Cellphone Chillin'...

Home Team

Sun, Oct 25 Listen
For the weeks leading to the World Series, baseball stories from the Public Radio Hall of Fame: Host Gwen Macsai takes a swing at singing the National Anthem. Composer Phillip Kent Bimstein plays ball with the St. Louis Cardinals' "Bushy Wushy Beer Man." Barrett Golding spends a season with the Rookie League. Singer/playwright Terry Allen defines the many meanings of Dug-Out, amid the emerging early 1890s sport of professional baseball.

Predator

Sun, Oct 18 Listen
For hunting season: Hillary Frank's tale of a teenage babysitter who's siblings think he's a werewolf. Mark Allen fears a toy poodle — the most evil entity known to man. Matmos mixes music with North American Mammals. Long Haul Productions witness a PA Spillway, where tourists toss bread, and the carp amass so thickly that ducks walk the fish's backs for a slice. Norman Strung demonstrates the shrill sound and thrill found in calling for elk. A father and son provide a hunter's perspective...

Tony Schwartz

Tue, Oct 13 Listen
Tony Schwartz, media pioneer, audio documentarian, and the most famous radio person you probably never heard of, died June 2008. We hear The Kitchen Sisters Lost and Found Sound-portrait, "Tony Schwartz, 30,000 Recordings Later," and the Tony Schwartz-inspired verite documentary of the town he lived in and loved, "New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places."

Tony Schwartz

Tue, Oct 13 Listen
Tony Schwartz, media pioneer, audio documentarian, and the most famous radio person you probably never heard of, died June 2008. We hear The Kitchen Sisters Lost and Found Sound-portrait, "Tony Schwartz, 30,000 Recordings Later," and the Tony Schwartz-inspired verite documentary of the town he lived in and loved, "New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places."

Caregiver

Sun, Oct 4 Listen
"Bad Teeth at King Drew Dental Clinic" by Ayala Ben-Yehuda: the Dental Divide, South L.A.'s clinic of last resort. "The Breast Cancer Monologues- Three Woman" by Dmae Roberts: surviving breast cancer, perspectives of a Chicana, African America and Romanian immigrant. "A Square Meal, Regardless" by Jennifer Nathan: Two old friends caring for each other into old age. "Dialysis" by Joe Frank: kidney failure and a friend indeed. "Hospice Chronicles" (excerpt) by Long Haul Productions: Volunteer...

Vietnam Vets

Sun, Sep 27 Listen
The sounds of Saigon, 1972: in combat, on the radio, in the streets, were recorded by Claude Johner for the Folkways recording "Good Morning, Vietnam. Doug Peacock, former Green Beret medic, deals with the PTSD of vets, including himself (interviewed by Scott Carrier). Rich Kepler's war experiences were bottled up and about to burst, until he released them in his poetry (producer: Larry Massett). And producer Katie Davis talks with African American vets, a sound-portrait based on the book...

Poland

Sun, Sep 20 Listen
Poland battles against the Germans and then the Russians at the start of the Second World War. A German foot soldier and Polish townspeople recall, differently, the first days of the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and Poland's later battle to fight years of environmental poisoning during the Soviet era. All in a series of stories written by NPR's Alex Chadwick and produced by host Art Silverman.

Shortcuts Thru 1969

Sun, Sep 13 Listen
A 40th anniversary survey of the year in an hour: the Moon landing, Woodstock, Altamont, Stonewall, Vietnam. The year 1969 in speeches songs and soundbites. With comments and clips from John and Yoko, Iggy Pop, the Smothers Brothers, The Firesign Theater, Monty Python, Richard Pryor, Jagger and Richards, Roman Polanski, Richard Nixon, JFK, Buzz Aldren, Neil Armstrong, Walter Cronkite, Ted Kennedy, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Arlo Guthrie, Harry Reasoner, and The Black Panthers.

Nine to Five

Sun, Sep 6 Listen
The work we do, from Wall Street traders to taxi cab drivers. People who work with brassieres, with dead bodies, and off-the-books in an underground economy. A tone-poem by Ken Nordine, a podcast from Love and Radio, and sound-portraits from Radio Diaries, Toni Schwartz, Ben Rubin, David Greenberger, and hosts Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler.

Pen to Paper

Sun, Aug 30 Listen
Writer Charles Bowden reports from the US-Mexico border about the drug wars, the poverty, and the environment. His writing is harsh but unflinchingly accurate. Host Scott Carrier has a sound-portrait of Bowden, told by the people he has written about. Then Susan Stamberg revisits the world of Karen Blixen, aka, Isak Dinesen, when she wrote "Out of Africa." And poet Alex Caldiero ponders the writing and sounding of words, with music by Theta Naught.

Jean Shepherd 2

Mon, Aug 24 Listen
Part two of this two-hour tribute to Jean Shepherd, "A Voice in the Night." Marshall McLuhan called him "the first radio novelist." From 1956-1977 Shep spun his late night stories over WOR radio, New York City. PBS gave him a TV series, "Jean Shepherd's America." In 1983 he co-wrote and narrated the film version of his "A Christmas Story." He inspired a new generation of spoken narrative artists who tap into the American psyche. Among them was Harry Shearer, who hosts this two part tribute,...

Jean Shepherd 1

Sun, Aug 16 Listen
Jean Shepherd used words like a jazz musician uses notes, winding around a theme, playing with variations, sending fresh self-reflective storylines out into the night. Marshall McLuhan called Shepherd "the first radio novelist." From 1956-1977 Shep spun his late night stories over WOR radio, New York City. PBS gave him a TV series, "Jean Shepherd's America." In 1983 he co-wrote and narrated the film version of his "A Christmas Story." He inspired a new generation of spoken narrative artists...

Desert Air

Sun, Aug 9 Listen
Hot & dry Summer soundscapes: Coyotes, owls, frogs and songbirds are part of "Desert Solitudes," recorded by Bernie Krause and Ruth Happel. Host Ben Adair (APM Global Climate Change Initiative) heads to the ghost towns, abandoned mines, and billion-year old boulders along Death Valley's "Mojave Road." Kraut-rockers Faust dial in "Long Distance Calls in the Desert." The Quiet American sound-captures a nuclear Nevada Test Site warning sign rattling in a "Desert Sun." In the early 1990s, SLC...

The Old Country

Sun, Aug 2 Listen
Going back to Vietnam makes Nguyen Qui Duc realize "Home is Always Somewhere Else;" host Neenah Ellis goes looking for her family in Croatia, where "The Old Country is Gone." And Andrei Codrescu's returns to his Romanian home town and stares into the "Eyes of Sibiu."

Cowboy

Sun, Jul 26 Listen
Host Josh Darsa of NPR spends nine days with rodeo riders in a rural Wyoming town: Cheyenne Frontier Days is "The Daddy of 'em All." This classic 1980 radio doc from the NPR archives also presents the history of the "Cowboy," underscored by the wild-west symphonies of Aaron Copland.

Outer Space

Sun, Jul 19 Listen
For the anniversary of Apollo 11, the first moon man, launched July 16, landed July 20 1969: Astronauts communicate from beyond earth in "Zero G, & I Feel Fine" and "Last Man on the Moon." President LBJ and Commander Scott Carpenter have a helium-infused confusing phone conversation. Sonic transmissions from deep in our solar system are sent back by Voyager I and II. The Sun and "space weather" emit "Natural Radio" sounds. Christine Lavin laments the loss of planetary status of "Planet X."...

No Place Like Home

Sun, Jul 12 Listen
Scott Carrier has a cultural history of the Great Salt Lake's "West Desert," a land of polygymists, bombing ranges, and toxic waste incinerators. There's chlorine gas in the air, anthrax stored underground, and people who call the place home. Sarah Vowell moves from rural Oklahoma to small-town Montana was for her a change from the middle ages to a modern metropolis. And two Stories from the Heart of the Land: NYC native Natalie Edwards hate grass, bugs, dirt, and trees, but attempts a walk...

Lincoln Monument

Tue, Jul 7 Listen
For Lincoln's birthday bicentennial year and Independence Day, Old Abe, the Civil War, and its still-present aftermath: NPR recreates the "Gettysburg Address." An archival recording of Walter Rathvon, who heard that speech live. Musings by poets Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg. In the 1950s Tony Schwartz recorded an NYC voxpop "Portrait of Lincoln." Radio Diaries of the last "Civil War Widows," one Union, one Confederate. Producer Jake Warga goes to battle with "Civil War Re-enacters."...

Bugs and Birds

Sun, Jun 28 Listen
Jeff Rice of the Western Soundscape Archive hosts an hour of sounds for the start of Summer: an extinct woodpecker revives an Arkansas town, car alarms made from bird calls, breeding moths for their music, a morning walk with poet Jim Harrison, dancing with gnats, the seismic underground sounds of spiders, and the perspective of a pest controller. Stories by Long Haul Productions, M'Iou Zahner Ollswang, host Jeff Rice, and Scott Carrier; and recordings by Nina Katchadourian, Lang Elliot, and...

Talking Dads

Sun, Jun 21 Listen
Sons daughters, and dads: Storyteller Kevin Kling shares pancakes with his "Dad." Sarah Vowell has her story of a gunsmith's daughter, "Shooting Dad." Joe Frank lets us eavesdrop on a father-son phone call between Larry and Zachary Block. Host Larry Massett and several other sons try to get to know their "Lost and Found Fathers."

Educating Esme

Sun, Jun 14 Listen
While teaching fifth grade in a Chicago public school, Esme Codell kept a journal. This radio hour is based on her book Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year, produced by Jay Allison and Christina Egloff for their Life Stories series and Chicago Public Radio.

Getting Out

Sun, Jun 7 Listen
Go to school, keep your grades up, go to college. That's what we tell kids — over and over. What if just leaving your apartment, and walking up the block is risky? What if it feels safer to stay home, keep a low profile. When you do go out, head somewhere safe, like the teen center. That was the world of African American teenager, Jesse Jean. He lived a half block from host Katie Davis in their DC neighborhood. Jesse was lucky enough to get a scholarship to a private boarding school. Katie...

Road Trip

Sun, May 31 Listen
Host Larry Massett spends a "Long Day on the Road" with ex-KGB in the Republic of Georgia. Scott Carrier starts in Salt Lake and ends on the Atlantic in this cross-country "Hitchhike." Lemon Jelly adds beats to the life of a "Ramblin' Man." The band Richmond Fontaine sends musical postcards from the flight of "Walter On the Lam." And Mark Allen tells a tale of a tryst with a "Kinko's Crackhead."

War Memorial

Sun, May 24 Listen
For Memorial Day, two stories recorded in Vietnam: In 1966, a young Lance Corporal carried a reel-to reel tape recorder with him. He made tapes of his friends, of life in fighting holes, of combat, until, two months later, when he was killed in action. His friend and fellow marine remembers him in "The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski" (by Jay Allison for Lost & Found Sound). And host Alex Chadwick's first trip to Southeast Asia was as a soldier in the Sixties. Two decades later, as a...

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