The Transom Radio Hour - Family Interviews

Part of Series The Transom Radio Hour Series
Length 53:00
Licensor Atlantic Public Media
Producer(s) Pejk Malinovski with Viki Merrick
Formats Essay, Interview, Limited Series
Topics Family, Instructional, Media
Produced June, 2006
Added to PRX June 26, 2006
 

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Summary:

One of 6 hour-long programs on the art and craft of radio with host Jay Allison, creator of the website Transom.org. This hour focuses on family interviews with special guest David Isay.

Website:

http://www.transom.org

Additional Credits and Funding:

Producers, Pejk Malinovski with Viki Merrick. Host, Jay Allison. Production assistance from Emily Sapienza and the staff of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole Massachusetts, including Helen Woodward and Sydney Lewis. Thanks to the Cape and Island NPR stations. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by the Ford Foundation.

Tones:

Informational, Personal, Thoughtful

Language:

English

Description:

This hour (newscast compatible) has special guest David Isay(Storycorps and SoundPortraits) in conversation with host Jay Allison discussing the ways of recording family. Works include excerpts from Isay's work Ghetto Life 101 and StoryCorps as well as Transom pieces, "The Day My Mother's Head Exploded" from Hanna Palin and "Family Sentence" produced by Jeanine Cornillot and Viki Merrick.

The Transom Radio Hour grows out of the web site Transom.org which is devoted to the art and practise of public radio. It's the first and only stand-alone website ever to win the Peabody Award. It's an open master class for story-telling in sound. Like the site, the radio series has a practical and instructional tone, encouraging people to do it themselves.