Invisible Ink: Other People's Stories
Series: Invisible Ink: Series #1
From: Roman Mars
Length: 00:29:00
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Piece Description
To quote the Other People's Stories website "these stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time. They do not shy from hearsay, gossip, myth or guys we knew in high school." Devin Friedman, OPS creator and editor, talks about the time honored tradition of stealing other people's material. Chuck Klosterman retells the curious case of the suit gnome. Max, Mae, Angela, Aaron, Jesse and I tell stories of juvenile deliquent fathers, Serbian millitants, world champion fathers, public radio karma, prescient grandmothers, and teens with brilliant hiding places. This program was originally broadcast as Invisible Ink #44 on 12/03/03 on 91.7 KALW in San Francisco. It also aired in March 2003 on WZBC in Boston.
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Review of Invisible Ink: Other People's StoriesListen to find out what happens to Skippy and the lime zoot suit in downtown Fargo! Listen to find out why Kim rear-ends a car full of Germans just to avoid a public radio pledge drive. Listen to find out what happens to Bill and Steve in Serbia. Listen and find out what the world smells like. Listen. Entertaining. Great radio. |
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Review of Invisible Ink: Other People's StoriesThis quite unexpectedly made me laugh outloud all alone in front of my computer. It also taps into that special delicacy that public radio listeners must covet, that pleasure in the narrative, what I might personally term "the story gesture." You don't get it anywhere else besides in reading, do you? Plus this is young, passionate and professional. The next generation. |
Broadcast History
This program was originally broadcast as Invisible Ink #44 on 12/03/03 on 91.7 KALW in San Francisco. It also aired in March 2003 on WZBC in Boston.
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Todd Taliaferro
Posted on December 18, 2008 at 02:48 PM | Permalink
Shows like this are why I listen to radio
Why? Why did I have to find this program? I listened, I was completely hooked from the start, I was elated that I had found such a great series to start following...then I noticed the production date. Did a little more digging and found out that the program ended years ago. Rats!
Now I have to work out a plan to listen to the remaining episodes in intervals so that I can make the series last as long as possible. The anticipation of listening mixed with the dread of reaching the end is a brutal combination.
Bravo, Roman Mars. Excellent work. Incredible program.