Valentine's Day: Editor's Picks
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Editor's whats? See how we choose the pieces that go on this list.
Check out our entire collection of Valentine's Day radio here!
Hour+ Specials
- Beat Latino 14: Love in a Time of Boleros
Catalina Maria Johnson, 59:00
- This hour presents the most romantic of the genres from the Latin/Latino musical universe, the bolero. Hosted in English and Spanish.
- My Funny Valentine -- A Valentine's Day Special: Jazz and Pop A Capella Sung by the Western Wind with Love Poetry Read by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
William Zukof/Western Wind, 57:59
- A musical celebration for Valentine's Day featuring sophisticated close-harmony arrangements of classic American love songs by jazz and pop songwriters from the 1930s - 1990s.
- ROT: A Gothic Comedy About Love and Monsters
Paul Ingles, 59:00
- A radio adaptation of Juli Hendren's ROT. A one-woman comic performance about a woman who channels the spirit of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley to help her face the challenges of turning 30.
- Love & Radio: Love in Bits
Love & Radio Productions, 58:19
- A collage of internet dates gone awry.
- RN Valentine's Day Special
Radio Netherlands, 59:00
- Radio Netherlands the Dutch international series presents Long Distance Love - two tales of transatlantic romance to warm up your Valentine's Day.
- Love Music, Part 1
Fred Flaxman, 58:00
- Classical love music for on or near Valentine's Day.
- Love Music, Part 2
Fred Flaxman, 58:00
- Classic popular love music for Valentine's Day -- or any day!
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Miguel Macias, 59:46
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Chasing Love explores the ways late capitalism has affected and is affecting the idea of Romantic Love and consequently, the way relationships are handled and viewed in American society.
- Marriage: A History
Talking History, 29:02
- Marriages were not historically speaking, founded on love, Stephanie Coontz discusses the institution of marriage with Talking History's Linna Place. The show features our regular segments.
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- What's the Word? Famous Love Letters
Modern Language Association, 29:00
- Love letters from some very famous couples.
- What's the Word? Petrarch and Love Poetry
Modern Language Association, 29:00
- A look at how many contemporary ideas about love come from the love sonnets of fourteenth-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch.
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Radio Netherlands, 29:30
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A personal portrait of an unlikely international romance. Jonathan is a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn. Dragana is a nice Serbian girl from Bosnia. They live in Holland, a small and sober country that, at first glance doesn't seem suited to either temperament.
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All Coming Years of Peaceful Love
Outfront, 13:19
- The history of the twentieth century told through a love story, a mandolin, and an 81-year-old husband's guide to good sex.
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B-Side Radio, 07:05
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Maybe we're all just suppressing the more carnal reason we chose our mate - because they're beautiful. Marie Mathiesen, tried out a website that cuts to the chase. It's called beautiful people.
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Hillary Frank, 9:50
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"This is an engaging study of character, family, relationship, trust, acceptance, and grace in a community of two. Would be good to air on Valentine's Day..."
Transom Editors / full review
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Radio Diaries, 13:00
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"These stories are SO captivating and eloquently revealed...Both stories waltz to their own music 'til they end...with an insider's quirky coda. This is great for Black History Month, Valentine's Day, and for no good reason other than a good story..." Transom Editors / full review
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Sue Mell, 15:18
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When Jeremy and Virginia met in Santa Fe they joined their lives together immediately. But nothing is ever that easy. They got married once in secret so that Jeremy could get his green card and then once again 9 years later in front of all their friends and family. It's a story of practicality versus romance and the struggle of two firecely independent people to embrace commitment.
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This I Believe: Eve Ensler
This I Believe, 04:00
- The "Vagina Monologues" playwright, and creator of the V-Day movement to stop violence against women, believes that naming things can break taboos and shatter silences.
- A Mathematical Valentine
Joe Bevilacqua, 04:38
- Producer Joe Bevilacqua tracks down his former math professor Ron Reummler to hear how math can explain lost love.
- Gigantic, True Love for Valentine's Day
Nanci Olesen, 02:37
- A commentary by Nanci Olesen about true love for the planet.
- Home Planet: Real Love
Spokane Public Radio, 03:30
- I watched the old man and woman walk slowly down the sidewalk...
- Love is Like an Apple
Youth Noise Network/Center for Documentary Studies, 04:16
- Adrian Boyes poses the simple question, "What is Love?"
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Imakhu Mwt Shekemet, 01:17
- Humorous poem about the hidden personal horrors inside e-mail attachments.
- Home Planet: Love or Something Like It. (Valentine's Day)
Spokane Public Radio, 04:59
- Love doesn't always come with balloons and words that rhyme. True love usually comes to us just like the groceries, mixed with the necessities and wrapped in plain brown paper.
- StoryCorps: Danny and Annie Perasa
StoryCorps, 01:26
- OTB clerk Danny Perasa brought his wife Annie to the booth to reminisce about proposing to her on their first date more than 25 years ago.
- StoryCorps: Philip and Judi Frabosilo
StoryCorps, 02:17
- Judi Frabosilo and her husband Philip remember how they got married.
- StoryCorps: Barbara Paer
StoryCorps, 01:18
- Barbara Paer tells her daughter Shelley Rubin how she got engaged.
- StoryCorps: Debora Barkarz and Michael Wolmetz
StoryCorps, 01:40
- Boyfriend and girlfriend Michael Wolmetz and Debora Brakarz, both in their mid-twenties, interview each other.
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Ali Berlow, 03:01
- "Food writer and cook Ali Berlow muses on food and love and the ingredients in both. This is a thoughtful, commentary perfect for a ME or ATC cut-in..." McGrath / full review
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Jonathan Goldstein, 03:54
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"This is a wonderful exercise in the meeting up of storybook characters within a historical time. The result is droll and entertaining."
Price / full review
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Susan B. Price, 02:12
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"This is very effective radio. Simply done, a story told with just enough ambience to set the scene." Anderson / full review
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HearingVoices, 02:36
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Three couples discuss love, life, and growing old together. Original music by Kels Koch.
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Matthew Cowley, 4:01
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"This was such fun to listen to -- completely entertaining...a story like this would offer such a nice counterpoint to all the romantic stuff..."
Goldstein / full review
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Matthew Cowley, 3:57
- A woman talks herself out of ending a relationship, in the midst of writing the Dear John email.
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Evan Roberts, Salt, 7:08
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"...a singles rotating 8-minute date scene (like musical dates...) great ambient sound so we get to feel like we're hovering over the scene..." Merrick / full review
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Dmae Roberts, 02:45
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"This is a cute (but not sappy) vignette about simple and universal expressions of love." Nuzum / full review
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Dmae Roberts, 03:41
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From Dmae Roberts: "I first did this vox collage in 1986 and it aired at the end of All Things Considered. It's very romantic, sweet and funny and set to "I Only Have Eyes For You..." (the old '50s version). Still holds up... appropriate for Valentine's Day... oh yes..."
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WFUV, 4:53
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For some single commuters, the Subway is just another part of the dating scene...how mass transit can be used for mass flirting.
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Sandra Sleight-Brennan, 4:47
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This feature explores people's memories of a very human event- their first kiss. You can't listen to this feature without smiling - and remembering YOUR first experience.
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