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An American journalist in search of his family roots provides an intimate look behind the scenes in Iran. In part 1 of a five-part series, Steve Zind arrives in Iran finds Tehran to be a foreign and intimidating place, despite his family ties to the country and lengthy preparation.
This series is appropriate to air daily during an NPR news magazine (Morning Edition or All Things Considered); each part runs approx. 5 minutes and requires local host to read a live Intro and Outro.
The series oringially ran on Vermont Public Radio as a daily feature July 19-23, 2004.
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An American journalist in search of his family roots provides an intimate look behind the scenes in Iran. In part 1 of a five-part series, Steve Zind arrives in Iran finds Tehran to be a foreign and intimidating place, despite his family ties to the country and lengthy preparation. This series is appropriate to air daily during an NPR news magazine (Morning Edition or All Things Considered); each part runs approx. 5 minutes and requires local host to read a live Intro and Outro. The series oringially ran on Vermont Public Radio as a daily feature July 19-23, 2004.
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Review of Part 1: ArrivalWouldn’t it be great to be sent on assignment to Iran and put together a multi-part audio journal of your experience? I hope Vermont Public Radio picked up all the bills on this one. I listened to the first part of this five-part series. There were some very nice scenes from arriving at the Iran airport and coming face to face with a swarm of humanity on exiting the terminal to hearing his brother call out the Iranian pronunciation of his name when he came to pick him up. For those who like audio travel-logs, this is a very competent production. It covered a lot of territory. Almost to quickly for me. I wanted more substance than such a treatment provided. The production was nicely voiced and presented and the audio quality was exceptional. |
Broadcast History
Part 1 of a five-part series aired on July 19, 2004 on Vermont Public Radio. (Stories in the series aired daily for five days.)
Transcript
(Host) For many Americans, the Islamic Republic of Iran conjures images of a hard-line theocracy at bitter odds with our own government. Because of the tense relations between our two countries, relatively few Americans have visited Iran since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
But Steve Zind of Vermont Public Radio is descended from the eighteenth century dynasty that ruled Iran, so he went in search of his family history. In the process he discovered another side of Iran. All this week, Steve Zind shares the experience in his series: "Iran Journal." Today: arrival and first impressions.
(Zind) It's 2 a.m. and I'm standing in Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. The high ceiling and tiled floors and walls of the cavernous old terminal reverberate with the voices of the passengers on my crowded flight from Frankfurt. They disappear somewhere up ahead while I'm trying to answer the q...
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Rocky McCulloch
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 01:39 PM | Permalink
Great Story
It's to short, I would like to hear more.