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- Life Stories - Friendship
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- Jay Allison
These are public radio stories made over many years, by producer Jay Allison -- working together with Christina Egloff, and friends, colleagues, neighbors, strangers and whoever would take the loan of one of his tape recorders. They are are stories about life as we find it, and record it.
HOST: Alex Chadwick
In this hour:
Baseball, Church, Kids (4:42)
You're supposed to be pals with your kids. That means taking them places and doing things together, right?
Carolyn: A Portrait of Race in Boston (27:05)
A story about co-existing with other people, even when it's hard. It's told by Carolyn Wren Shannon from Charlestown, Massachusetts. NOTE: This piece contains the "N-word". The use is important, not trivial, and ties to the central ideas about racism in the piece. Produced with Cecilia Vaisman and WGBH Boston.
Fire and Ice Cream (9:40)
In 1991, when Brent was 14, he was badly burned and ended up in Children's National Medical Center's Burn Unit in Washington, DC. Ten years later he talks about love and pain. Produced with Brent Runyon
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Cpl. Michael Baronowski (20:40)
In 1966, a 19-year-old marine took a reel-to reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War. For two months, until he was killed in action, Lance Corporal Michael Baronowski made 3-inch open reel tapes of his friends, of life in foxholes, of combat. Thirty-four years later, his friend and comrade Tim Duffie found those tapes. Produced for Lost & Found Sound. Lead producer, Christina Egloff.
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(04:43)
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(59:04)
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(59:07)
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(59:03)
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(59:04)
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Butterfiles of Michoacan (A Postcard from Mexico)
(03:17)
From: Jay Allison
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reaches out with a delicate ...
Hotel Isabel (A Postcard from Mexico)
(04:33)
From: Jay Allison
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This piece was produced in 1999, ...
Garden of Eden (A Postcard from Mexico)
(05:57)
From: Jay Allison
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it was recorded in the late ...
San Miguel (A Postcard From Mexico)
(04:17)
From: Jay Allison
In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used stuff she sold. She writes ...
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These are public radio stories made over many years, by producer Jay Allison -- working together with Christina Egloff, and friends, colleagues, neighbors, strangers and whoever would take the loan of one of his tape recorders. They are are stories about life as we find it, and record it. HOST: Alex Chadwick In this hour: Baseball, Church, Kids (4:42) You're supposed to be pals with your kids. That means taking them places and doing things together, right? Carolyn: A Portrait of Race in Boston (27:05) A story about co-existing with other people, even when it's hard. It's told by Carolyn Wren Shannon from Charlestown, Massachusetts. NOTE: This piece contains the "N-word". The use is important, not trivial, and ties to the central ideas about racism in the piece. Produced with Cecilia Vaisman and WGBH Boston. Fire and Ice Cream (9:40) In 1991, when Brent was 14, he was badly burned and ended up in Children's National Medical Center's Burn Unit in Washington, DC. Ten years later he talks about love and pain. Produced with Brent Runyon The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Cpl. Michael Baronowski (20:40) In 1966, a 19-year-old marine took a reel-to reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War. For two months, until he was killed in action, Lance Corporal Michael Baronowski made 3-inch open reel tapes of his friends, of life in foxholes, of combat. Thirty-four years later, his friend and comrade Tim Duffie found those tapes. Produced for Lost & Found Sound. Lead producer, Christina Egloff.
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Review of Life Stories - Friendship
Several first-person recollections, audio verite pieces, and audio letters make up this hour of programming that is tied together by the theme of friendship and produced from a variety of sources. Each of these segments, in their own unusual way, gets at some real, true, human emotions that we're not often exposed to on the radio. The mix of styles that the show brings together makes for engaging listening and you (or your listeners) are sure to emotionally connect to something in each of these pieces. It's the kind of programming that makes listening to public radio on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon the perfect activity.