Piece Comment

Not too cohesive, but at least they're upfront about it


Summer Soundwave was a truly ambitious Weekday High summer program where kids produced features four days a week during August of 2010. The girls who produced this episode, the last one of the season, are very understandably bummed about the program's end and apologize for the lack of a theme that unifies this episode. They shouldn't--the two features are both very strong: interesting topics, solid editing, and professional-sounding narrator voices. It reminded me a little of This American Life (it covers the cool, small-town stories that get overlooked in hard news shows) but was clearly a youth show in its freshness and the banter between the hosts. Best line: "I'm concerned about the equipment over there getting wet...with your tears."