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Getting Lost
2 contrasting experiences of getting lost in the wilderness. The producer, as a young hippie on her first trip out west, gets lost overnight in Big Sur. Thirty years later, as a seasoned hiker, she gets lost in Negro Bill's Canyon in Southern Utah and meets the many faces of Coyote the Trickster.
Hidden Waters: In two short pieces the producer explores the once abundant salmon fisheries that were once waterfalls and rapids, now inundated behind the dams of the Columbia River. In a third longer piece, she tries to discover the course of a culverted river in her New England hometown on the morning of her father?s funeral.
This first installment of Radio Tales for the Road first aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting and KBOO-FM in July 2000 and has since aired on about 25 stations around the country.
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Getting Lost 2 contrasting experiences of getting lost in the wilderness. The producer, as a young hippie on her first trip out west, gets lost overnight in Big Sur. Thirty years later, as a seasoned hiker, she gets lost in Negro Bill's Canyon in Southern Utah and meets the many faces of Coyote the Trickster. Hidden Waters: In two short pieces the producer explores the once abundant salmon fisheries that were once waterfalls and rapids, now inundated behind the dams of the Columbia River. In a third longer piece, she tries to discover the course of a culverted river in her New England hometown on the morning of her father?s funeral. This first installment of Radio Tales for the Road first aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting and KBOO-FM in July 2000 and has since aired on about 25 stations around the country.
Transcript
Last winter I overheard my 24-year-old nephew, who had just returned from SE Asia, giving this travel advice to his 16 year-old cousin: ?Don?t get lost and don?t get killed.?
A Native American ceramics artist gave me a pin that she made of a stick Indian. She told me that the stick Indian will whistle to guide a person to safety if they are lost in the woods, but they will lead a bad person deeper into the forest. When I think of all the times that I?ve gotten lost, I think this is a gift that I can use.
I?m Barbara Bernstein and you?re listening to Radio Tales for the Road. In the first part of this hour we?ll hear two stories about getting lost. Part one: ?Big Sur or Bust.?
When I was a college student I took my first trip out west and got lost in the woods in Big Sur. I was exploring Big Sur with a Long Island school teacher named Carol Luccini. Carol and I had met a...
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Review of Getting Lost/Hidden Waters
I like Barbara's unsinging voice, storytelling voice, interesting and energetic, without the danger of putting me to sleep. The sound effects (sparse) and music were very appropriate is choice, tone, and level. I'd say the demo would be roughly a baby boomer, but not just a baby boomer. At 57 minutes, this piece is an easy hour to drop in, with even a natural break at 27:00 minutes when the show transitions from Getting Lost to Hidden Waters. If you like this piece, you might ask the producer to provide it as multiple individual pieces, as well. This piece could work as several different pieces.
There is some long songs in the piece, too, something that may affect your placement on your station.