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Morning Stories, Show One expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a significant moment in their lives, with commentary by host/producer Tony Kahn and his assistant, Gary Mott.
In this the first of three half-hour programs, host Tony Kahn invites listeners to hear stories about a father's courage, growing up in the segregated South, going to work in Bangkok and walking every street in Manhattan.
Morning Stories, From the Street was produced by Melaina Spitzer. Tony Kahn, Senior Producer.
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Piece Description
Morning Stories, Show One expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a significant moment in their lives, with commentary by host/producer Tony Kahn and his assistant, Gary Mott. In this the first of three half-hour programs, host Tony Kahn invites listeners to hear stories about a father's courage, growing up in the segregated South, going to work in Bangkok and walking every street in Manhattan. Morning Stories, From the Street was produced by Melaina Spitzer. Tony Kahn, Senior Producer.
Broadcast History
Program broadcast once on WGBH Radio, 2/18/07
Timing and Cues
Timings & cues for Morning Stories, Episode I
for air: Sunday, February 18, 2007 on WGBH 89.7 at 11:00pm
length of program: 28:58
INCUE:
0:00 (music) "Hi, I'm Tony Kahn..."
OUTCUE:
28:59 (singing) - "...make a wish and then it's gone."
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Morning Stories, hosted by Tony Kahn, feature stories of personal significance and revelation from everyday people.
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Posted on March 16, 2007 at 07:53 PM | Permalink
Review of Morning Stories, Episode I
This series, along with StoryCorps and This I Believe is an example of Public Radio's version of reality TV....only we were doing reality long before TV discovered it!
This is a half hour promo for a series that originally aired on WGBH, Boston. I'm sure these stories worked well as drop-in segments during Morning Edition and I don't doubt that the podcasts have been popular yet I have a hard time imaging this half-hour program on the air of a radio station other than WGBH. From what I could tell, there is no real theme linking the stories.
While some of the stories are quite charming, perhaps engaging, I found listening to a half hour of them to be quite tedious. I think they must work best in their original context. A good example of the bromide, "Less is more." This presentation would work very well as a demo to be played for prospective underwriters or as an awards competition entry.
Another issue for me is the fact that, despite the mention that this program has grown to a point where "our neighborhood is the world" all this material sounds like Boston or the East Coast to me. Even in the original form of individual short stories, these would sound out of place in Peoria, Omaha or Santa Fe.
Host Tony Kahn has a charming Kasey Kasem style and the narration accomplishes its mission well. The stories are artfully linked with music. The technical aspects of this piece are executed very well.
I recommend that programmers listen to as many of these stories as you can handle and use them as food for thought about how we could do something similar in our local communities.