This is a very good radio piece. We've heard the story before -- Post Partum Peace Corps Disorder -- but told with audio diaries and some production flourishes it sounds different and fresh. The narrator uses her Thirteen Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawl ("...1: subscribing to music normally only found in a library; 2: salivating to the sounds of polyrhythmic music...") as a framework to move around in time and space. We hear her reflections before, during and after her experience living in Benin, Africa nicely edited with some great African music. There's a lovely description of the proper way to clean a dirt florr. The piece ends beautifully. Newspeg: Peace Corps celebrates 43 years in March 04.
Review of "Home From Africa"
Mary McGrath
Posted on March 09, 2004 at 04:58 PM
This is a very good radio piece. We've heard the story before -- Post Partum Peace Corps Disorder -- but told with audio diaries and some production flourishes it sounds different and fresh. The narrator uses her Thirteen Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawl ("...1: subscribing to music normally only found in a library; 2: salivating to the sounds of polyrhythmic music...") as a framework to move around in time and space. We hear her reflections before, during and after her experience living in Benin, Africa nicely edited with some great African music. There's a lovely description of the proper way to clean a dirt florr. The piece ends beautifully. Newspeg: Peace Corps celebrates 43 years in March 04.