Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Finding Our Bootstraps: Americans Deal With Recession
SHOW RUNDOWN AND DETAILS
00-00:59 – Billboard
01– 06:00 news (silence)
06:00 -06:29 – music bed :29 seconds
[music – Cavedweller by The Reflecting Skin from The Synchronicity Suite on Ghostly International/ Mood Gadget Records (:29)]
:06:30 to 19:00 - SEGMENT A
incue: I’m Jennifer White
Opening: Visit to barber shop on West Side of Detroit and theme montage. (Theme music an instrumental version of "Only Human" by Khalid Hanifi courtesy of the composer*.)
A1: Sarah Hulett – ”Hard Times Harder in the Motor City”
A look at the extent of the recession as it radiates out from Detroit.
PRODUCER: Sarah Hulett lives in and reports on Detroit for Michigan Radio.
[music - Sabertooth Tiger Breath by Owl Breath from Ghost Glacier on Earthworks Music (:14)]
A2: Adrian Hill - "The Etiquette of Unemployment" Being without work can raise a whole host of financial and emotional problems. It’s also raising questions of etiquette.
PRODUCER: Adriene Hill is a Business and Economy Reporter for Chicago Public Radio
A3: Excerpt from “Hard Working: When Unemployment Benefits Run Out” Carole Cantrell has been out of work for more than a year.
[music – Boat by Breath Owl Breath from Ghost Glacier on Earthworks Music(:16)]
A4: Abdel Mutan “My Plate Full” Abdel Mutan's family was going hungry, but… he didn't know it.
PRODUCER: Abdel Mutan produced this piece as part of Curie Youth Radio a writing and radio production class at Curie High School on Chicago's Southwest side.
[music - From Creation by Thievery Corp from The Richest Man In Babylon on Eighteenth Street (:35)]
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Outcue “PRX.ORG -The Public Radio Exchange.” @ 18:59
19:00:00 – 19:59:00 - Station Break
[music - Wheel of Fortune by Landau Orchestra from The Nocturnal Suite on Ghostly International/ Mood Gadget Records (:59)]
:20:00 to 38:30 - SEGMENT B
In cue: theme music – (Theme music an instrumental version of "Only Human" by Khalid Hanifi courtesy of the composer.*)
B1: Tena Rubio - “Living on a Beach” With the economy in crisis, American families once considered middle income are now living on the edge. Some have lost their homes. We meet one family who has been living on a beach.
PRODUCER: Tena Rubio is the executive producer/host of Making Contact
B2: Charles Manley – “Life After Layoff” Jim Manley is using the time between jobs as a chance to downsize so he wouldn’t need to be tied to a high paying job.
PRODUCER: Charles Manley is an Ann Arbor MI based independent producer.
[music - Pretty Take by Elm From Arm from The Synchronicity Suite on Ghostly International/ Mood Gadget Records (:20) ]
B3: Interview: Michael Bernstein. Jennifer White talks with Michael Bernstein, Provost and Historian at Tulane University, about how people dealt with recessions in the past and how we are confronting this one.
[music - Lazy Boys & Girls from Pacific Ocean by Tokyomorose on Squareroot Records (:13)]
B4: Jesse Duke - “Entrepreneur” Adam Johns digs for worms in Mid-Coast Maine to make ends meet.
PRODUCER: Jess Duke is an independent producer in Charlottesville, Virginia
[music - Visible Light Eater by Outlier from The Synchronicity Suite on Ghostly International/ Mood Gadget Records(:27)]
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Outcue “PRX.ORG -The Public Radio Exchange.” @ 38:29
38:30 - 39:59 - Station Break
[music – “The Shape of Things to Come” by Syntaks from Ylajali on Ghostly International (1:30)]
40:00 TO 58:30 SEGMENT C
In cue: theme music – (Theme music an instrumental version of "Only Human" by Khalid Hanifi courtesy of the composer.*)
C1: Julie Rose “Helping Workers” Small business owners often talk about how their employees are like family. And that can make layoffs tricky . We meet a business owner who says she's doing what she can to ease the pain.
PRODUCE: Julie Rose of WFAE produced this piece for the NPR Economy Training Initiative
[music –“Ashes to Asheley” by 4 For Smoking from Pesi on Four For Smoking (:16)]
C2: Rebecca Sheir - “Bucking the Dollar With Local Currencies” The recession combined with the go-local movement has inspired some people to create their own local currencies.
PRODUCER: Rebecca Sheir is an anchor, host, and reporter at WAMU
[music – “The State of the Union” by The Thievery Corp from The Richest Man In Babylon on Eighteenth Street (:21)]
C3: Interview – Michael Mandel – Jennifer White talks with Former Business Week Chief Economist Michael Mandel about the expectations for the economy through 2012.
[music - One Thing by Jen Sygit from Leaving Marshal Street, on Earthwork Music (:12)]
C4: Mayra Jimenez “Senior Weighs Options” Youth Radio contributor Mayra Jimenez has the motivation to go to college - she just hopes she can afford it.
PRODUCER: Mayra Jimenez produced this essay for Youth Radio.
[music - Un Simple Histoire (A Simple History) by Thievery Corp from The Richest Man In Babylon on Eighteenth Street (:17)]
CLOSE: Return to Barber Shop on Detroit’s West Side.
Credits
This documentary is a production of Michigan Radio, a broadcasting service of the University of Michigan on behalf of PRX.ORG The Public Radio Exchange
'Finding our Bootstraps' was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Digital Collaboration on the Economic Crisis, a project involving public TV and radio stations and networks. Additional support and guidance comes from the Public Radio Exchange, an online marketplace connecting stations, producers and listeners at PRX dot O-R-G.
Outcue: PRX.org + :music fade
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2008 Khalid Hanifi
Theme music is an instrumental version of "Only Human" by Khalid Hanifi.
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