Caption: Mr. Bennett bikes The Broadwalk, Credit: ?
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Mr. Bennett bikes The Broadwalk 

Summer on the Hill

Series: Letter From A. Broad
From: Muriel Murch
Length: 00:10:29

Who do we meet, who do we see when we walk through the city village, the park or even just in the street where you live? Read the full description.
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Piece Description

Who do we meet, who do we see when we walk through the city village, the park or even just in the street where you live?
In this program there are workmen on the street, women in the park and citizens in the community. 
 

Broadcast History

Good Morning West Marin 9.am Host Susan Deixler
Epicenter 11 a.m. host Lyons Filmer
Monday July 6 on KWMR

Transcript

June 2009
Summer on the Hill,

As I pass the two men beginning their work at the top of the road I smile a good morning.
“‘ow are you young lady?” The older man calls out. He yearns for the old patterns of his youth and a witness to his memories. He is standing, barely upright, and holding tight to the railing that is protecting the pavement repair from the pedestrians and the pedestrians from the repairs. Though it is only eight in the morning the day is already hot. It will be another scorcher in this week of high temperatures. If the old man wasn’t holding on to the rail he would be keeling over from a life time of smoking three plus packets of Woodbine cigarettes a day and his resulting emphysema. A young Ukrainian man, one of the eighty percent of ‘foreigners’ who reportedly have taken the manual jobs in England watches as we exchange our morning greeting. It is the Ukrainian who...
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Timing and Cues

.30' music intro and .15' after the credits at the end

Additional Credits

Music composed and performed by Pete Horner

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