Radio Curious (Series)
Produced by Barry Vogel
Most recent piece in this series:
Alloy Orchestra: New Music for Silent Films
From Barry Vogel | Part of the Radio Curious series | 29:01
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The Alloy Orchestra is a group of multitalented musicians with widely diverse abilities, based near Boston, Massachusetts. This group provides live, in house orchestral backup to the Chaplin, Keaton and other classic silent films of the 1920s.
Our guest in this edition of Radio Curious is Terry Donahue, an Alloy Orchestra partner, a skilled player of the accordion, musical saw, drums and bells, to name only a few.
Terry Donahue and I visited by phone from his home near Boston Massachusetts, on May 10, 2013, and began with his description of the composition of the Alloy Orchestra.
The orchestra’s website is alloyorchestra.com.
The book Terry Donahue recommends is “Accordion Crimes,” by Annie Proulx, and “Delicatessen” a French film.
WBEZ's Clever Apes (Series)
Produced by WBEZ
Most recent piece in this series:
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From WBEZ | Part of the WBEZ's Clever Apes series | 08:16
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First off, this episode is sort of a goodbye. I will be departing my beloved WBEZ shortly to strike out for new adventures. I’ll include my weepy valedictory at the bottom of this post. But the story this week is important, so before your attention wanders …
As kids, we usually learn about nature from a decidedly human point of view. The world exists in relation to us. People are the stars in this scenario: We are Hamlet, while nature is like Denmark – the place where we happen to be. The conventional wisdom has been that this is a universal way the mind develops its awareness of the natural world.
But an eclectic group of researchers are challenging that. The team is made up of psychologists from Northwestern University, and researchers from the Menominee Reservation and the American Indian Center of Chicago. They started looking carefully at the way Native and non-Native children come to learn about nature. They found some distinctive differences.
Namely, Native kids tend not to have that anthropocentric view in the early years. They come to see the biological world in terms of relationships and connections – what psychologists call “systems-level thinking.” Non-Native kids, on the other hand, generally think more in hierarchical categories like taxonomy – kingdom, phylum, species, etc. So the human-centered learning may not be universal after all, but instead flavored by the culture we grow up in.
This goes deeper than just having different beliefs. The scientists say those distinctive worldviews actually change the way we think, learn and reason. Over the last decade or so, the team has been designing experiments to tease out the ramifications of that change. It has major consequences for education, and might (this is my speculation!) influence our attitudes about the environment.
So, this will be my final episode of Clever Apes. We are hopeful that it will continue in some form, so you may not have heard the last of WBEZ’s science experiment. Creating this series has been a rare privilege – I have had one of the greatest gigs in media. My deepest gratitude goes to my editor Cate Cahan, whose gusto and keen mind have long inspired me. Michael De Bonis has been a fantastic collaborator, friend and co-conspirator, without whom the Apes would be far less clever. And Sally Eisele has shown great vision (or folly) in supporting this weird project from the get-go.
Encounters (Series)
Produced by Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Most recent piece in this series:
Encounters Mountain Sheep
From Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North | Part of the Encounters series | 29:00
On this blustery day, head up the steepest mountains above the Alaska Highway near the Canadian border to get a super close up view of a group of Rams.
Snap Judgment hosted by Glynn Washington (Series)
Produced by Snap Judgment
Most recent piece in this series:
Snap Judgment #408: Choosing Sides
From Snap Judgment | Part of the Snap Judgment hosted by Glynn Washington series | 53:57
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Second to Last
Yes, Glynn can play kickball. In fact, he has serious game. But his sworn enemy is standing between him and playground glory.
Producer: Pat Mesiti-Miller
False Guru
Filmmaker Vikram Gandhi--a New Jersey native--wanted to prove the absurdity of blind faith. So he put on Indian clothes, adopted a fake accent, started his own fake spiritual movement, and called himself "Kumare."
Producers: Glynn Washington and Nick van der Kolk, with Anna Sussman
Far From Home
A young Inuit girl lives the violent transition between traditional and modern societies.
Producer: Anna Sussman, Sound design, Renzo Gorrio
Waiting for a Miracle
What do you do when you need a doctor, but your church doesn't believe in doctors?
Producer: Renzo Gorrio
Sherlock Hound
Kirby Verret’s grandpa was a Houma Indian who just wanted to hunt and be free on the Louisiana bayou. He couldn’t be bothered by anyone...except for his best friend, Brown the dog.
Producer: Stephanie Foo
State of the Re:Union Fall 2010 Season (Series)
Produced by Al Letson
Most recent piece in this series:
Veterans Day Special
From Al Letson | Part of the State of the Re:Union Fall 2010 Season series | 53:53
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STATE OF THE RE:UNION
Veterans Day Special
SOTRU explores the challenges veterans face as they return home from war
HOST: Al Letson
DESCRIPTION: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are sending our veterans home with wounds and obstacles not always clearly visible to the rest of the country. These two current wars also illuminate how veterans of previous eras are still trying to come home years after returning from war. In this episode, State of the Re:Union explores how veterans are serving each other after they come back home from serving the country.
BILLBOARD (:59)
Incue: From PRX and NPR...
Outcue: But first, this news.
NEWS HOLE: 1:00- 6:00
Segment A (12:29)
Incue: From PRX and NPR...
Outcue: ahead on State of the Re:Union
A. VETERAN'S BOOK PROJECT: Riley Sharbonno returned from a year in Iraq with thousands of digital images that he took, but with no memory of the events the photographs captured. So when artist Monica Haller approached him, the two embarked on a project that ended up as a book of Riley's photographs and writing. This book sparked the Veteran's Book Project, a bookmaking workshop for people who have experienced the wars through many different perspectives. While each book tells a different story, together the books are creating a library of honest conversations about what happens during war.
BREAK: 19:00- 20:00
SEGMENT B (18:59)
Incue: You're listening to State of the Re:Union
Outcue: P-R-X.O-R-G
A. O's GUITAR: Richard O'Connor left for Vietnam with his father's old Montgomery Ward guitar. In between fighting and attacks, he played songs for his fellow marines in order to keep a sense of sanity and calm amidst chaos and devastation. Now, 42 years after returning home, Richard is using his music to welcome back recently returning veterans. But he's also finding his own way home.
BREAK: 39:00- 40:00
SEGMENT C (18:59)
Incue: You're listening to State of the Re:Union
Outcue: This is N-P-R
A. TEAM SEMPER FI: On a foggy Sunday morning in Santa Cruz, California, a team of injured marines take the same camaraderie and strength from the battlefield, and bring it to the competitive sports track.
B. FARMER VETERANS: The country is having a hard enough time dealing with the unemployment rate, so imagine returning home from war, and then having to find a job. But a growing movement of veterans are finding their stride by creating a new mission once they return home: Feeding the country. SOTRU visits two farms that are on this mission.
C. REFLECTION: Al reflects on a country dividing its attention between two wars and their own lives.
D. VOX: A montage of voices of those who have experienced the challenges of coming home, from veterans to family members, of all services, of all eras.
PROGRAM OUT @ 59:00
The fall season of The State of the Re:Union is available now on PRX and the ContentDepot without charge to all public radio stations, and may be aired an unlimited number of times prior to May 31, 2012. The program may be streamed live on station websites but not archived. Excerpting is permitted for promotional purposes only.
The State of the Re:Union is produced by Al Letson, and presented by PRX. Major funding for the State of the Re:Union comes from CPB, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Thanks for your consideration of this season of SOTRU. Please contact Israel Smith at ismarketing@yahoo.com or 612-377-3256 with questions or to confirm carriage.
99% Invisible (Standard Length) (Series)
Produced by Roman Mars
Most recent piece in this series:
99% Invisible #76- The Modern Moloch (Standard 4:30 Version)
From Roman Mars | Part of the 99% Invisible (Standard Length) series | 04:29
On the streets of early 20th Century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside, and play in the streets. All day.”
And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year.
(Credit: New York Times, Nov 23, 1924)
Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine. One newspaper cartoon even compared the car to Moloch, the god to whom the Ammonites supposedly sacrificed their children.
Pedestrian deaths were considered public tragedies. Cities held parades and built monuments in memory of children who had been struck and killed by cars. Mothers of children killed in the streets were given a special white star to honor their loss.
The horrors of peace appear to be appalling than the horrors of war. The automobile looms up as a far more destructive piece of mechanism than the machine gun. The reckless motorist deals more death the artilleryman. The man in streets seems less safe than the man in the trench. The greatest single lethal factor is the automobile. It left shambles in its wake as it coursed through 1923.
(From left: poster by Harry de Bauffer, reproduced in “Poster Wins Second Prize,” Milwaukee Journal, September 28, 1920; poster by George Starkey, reproduced in “Winning Safety Poster,” Milwaukee Journal, September 25, 1920.)
Too Much Information (Series)
Produced by WFMU
Most recent piece in this series:
It's All Over
From WFMU | Part of the Too Much Information series | 54:02
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G.S. recalls how bad karma took him from Devon, England to the C.U.T. bomb shelters in Montana. Author Robert Brockway explains how everything is going to kill everybody, and Matt Jarvis explains what it means to be a prepper. Pamela Walt has bad vibes in general, and our DC correspondent "Chris" has a bad feeling about the Tea Party. Also, astronomer Chris Impey explains how dark energy is the ending of all endings.
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Series)
Produced by Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage
Most recent piece in this series:
Social Security
From Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage | Part of the Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow series | 29:00
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Prior to 1935 our society, as a general rule, did not foster programs that tried to aid the elderly as the aged beyond 65 years. With the passage of the Social Security act of 1935, our society and culture began to revere our older generation and set in place a financial security net that has served the Lost, the GI and the Silent generations very well; but what about the Boomers and beyond?
The Stream (Series)
Produced by Wendy Levy
Most recent piece in this series:
Episode #11: 5 Minutes with Peter Broderick
From Wendy Levy | Part of the The Stream series | 05:00
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5 Minute Mix
