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The Boomtown Chronicles: Reflections on a Changing California

From Rachel Anne Goodman | 00:59:02
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A documentary from the epicenter of California's housing crisis. Two versions available: 59 minute and NPR-Clock Friendly with cutaways.

A Look at the California Housing Crisis

It's no secret that the most populous state in the U.S. also has the highest housing costs. This one-hour radio documentary explores what life is like for every day people trying to make a home amidst a time of dizzying change and skyrocketing housing costs. From residents, politicians, writers, immigrants, ranchers, scholars, and soccer moms on California's Central Coast, we hear what happens to a community when few can afford to live there. How California solves its housing crisis is a harbinger for how the rest of the nation approaches that most basic of needs; a roof over one's head. The show weaves personal narratives, music, analysis, and lots of sound into a story that is part love-song to California, part snapshot of an era, and part plea for solutions. Choose from a 59 minute version with two music breaks, or a NPR-Clock friendly version with billboard, news cutaway and breaks at :20 and :40. Note: The latter downloads in segments. Hide full description

A Look at the California Housing Crisis It's no secret that the most populous state in the U.S. also has the highest housing costs. This one-hour radio documentary explores what life is like for every day people trying to make a home amidst a time of dizzying change and skyrocketing housing costs. From residents, politicians, writers, immigrants, ranchers, scholars, and soccer moms on California's Central Coast, we hear what happens to a community when few can afford to live there. How California solves its housing crisis is a harbinger for how the rest of the nation approaches that most basic of needs; a roof over one's head....
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Broadcast History

Will air in California January of '05

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The Boomtown Chronicles: Reflections on a Changing California
A one-hour documentary from the epicenter of the housing crisis

Track: (59:00)
1. Program

Time: Cues:

00:00: Program starts:
In: 3 5 sec. music bed, ...”Welcome to The Boomtown Chronicles: Reflections on a Changing California. I’m Rachel Anne Goodman...”

17:20-17:46: Music Break (:26)
In cue: ...Stay tuned.
Out cue: Juan Mendoza…

27:31-28:31 Midshow Break (music bed)
In cue: “Coming up on The Boomtown Chronicles, a fifth generation rancher talks about old California and the key it holds to our future.”
Out cue: “Back in the Spanish land grant days…”

Ending/Credits:
Outcue: “I’m Rachel Anne Goodman, and this has been a Coastridge Production.”

59:00: Music fades out

Track 2.
Promo 1

Track 3.
Promo 2

RUNDOWN THE BOOMTOWN CHRONICLES-REFLECTIONS ON A CHANGING CALIFORNIA

NPR-CLOCK FRIENDLY VERSION

TIMINGS AND CUES:

TRACK TIME CUES

1. BILLBOARD (:59) IN: MUSIC ; “California is a place of”(GOODMAN)` OUT: “….Stay tuned.”

2. MUSIC FILL (:30) GUITAR MUSIC (Fill)

Program start: ( 3 segments designed to roll straight through, no pauses between tracks. :59 minute music beds at end of segments A and B)

3. SEGMENT A (13:33) IN: MUSIC; “Welcome to the Boomtown Chronicles…” OUT: seg.. ends after :59 sec. MUSIC BREAK

4. SEGMENT B (19:55) IN: “This is the Boomtown Chronicles” OUT: seg. ends after :59 sec. MUSIC BREAK

5. SEGMENT C (19:05) IN: AMB/MUSIC “Over at the Golden Torch …”
OUT: CREDITS “…this has been a Coast Ridge Production

6. Promo 1 (:30) IN: MUSIC… “Last year the price of a house..”
OUT: Music fades
7. Promo 2 (:15) IN MUSIC…”What does it do to a community…”
OUT: Music fade sharp

Contact: Rachel Anne Goodman: rachel@well.com

Musical Works

"The Old California Waltz" by Joe Weed
Original Music lisenced for this show.
"Boomtown" by Greg Brown, Poet's Game, Red House Records "10 secs.
"Houses in the Fields" by John Gorka, Jack's Crows, Red House, 10 seconds
"Do Re Mi" Woody Guthrie, Dustbowl Ballads, Smithsonian, 10 seconds

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