SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From Claire Schoen | 00:29:00
This is a chilling and powerful documentary with a strong point of view. Americans so easily say 'throw 'em in jail and toss away the key.' Well, this piece and this powerful New Yorker article by Atul Gawande explain the consequences of solitary confinement. A timely topic because of the debate about what to do with the detainees in Guantanamo Bay.
Claire Schoen's program goes beyond the New Yorker article--the powerful sensations of sound bring the issue to life. And so do the painful voices of men and women who have survived this form of detention.
A Shortcut Back To 1969 -"The Lunar Module"
From Peter Bochan | 00:12:13
Wow---this brought back so many memories of an amazing summer. What a fantastic montage.
Scared
From John Biewen | 00:03:00
This is one my favorite pieces because it always causes me to tear up. And I don't even HAVE kids. It is beautiful and evocative; it captures what parental love must be like. This piece also demonstrates a real commitment to capture sound -- it covers YEARS in Harper's life. Jon did this for Third Coast and won a deserved award. I can listen to this every week and not get tired of it.
Saving Jungle Souls
From Homelands Productions | Part of the Vanishing Homelands series | 00:21:13
First, the audio is incredible--sounds we likely will never hear in person; but the layers of sound from a South American jungle are so foreign. Contrast this with the sound of your daily life.
And here is the first world meeting...the ancient world. The ruining of the old, in the name of good intentions. A horror. "The plane was a winged spirit...it was the dead flying..."
It's Just A Matter of Time
From Ryan Scammell | 00:13:59
Everything's stuck in the past when Liza Minnelli plays a concert in Coney Island.
Bastille Day Commentary: "Mercy Buckets"
From Diana Epstein | 00:02:53
Commentary on growing up with a French mother. Very funny
Bjork in Concert (59-minute version)
From NPR Music | Part of the NPR Concerts series | 00:59:00
The wildly imaginative, exuberant and always unpredictable Bjork in concert. A co-production from NPR Music and WNYC.
What's Divorce Like for You?
From Vermont Folklife Center Media | Part of the Youth Radio Vermont series | 00:02:55
And you don't think teens can produce compelling radio? Listen to this and re-evaluate.
Singing Salvation Army Bellringer
From 2 below zero | 00:04:54
One of my all time favorite holiday pieces. I can feel the cold. Love the raw sound of this....a StoryCorps story without a studio.
Rheb's Candies: A Charm City Holiday Tradition
From Aaron Henkin | 00:10:54
a VERY sweet holiday story...
There's Always Big Fun and Laughs at the Comic Con
From Zak Rosen | 00:06:37
A comic-book version of the comic-book artist, Marty Hirchak takes the reader/listener on a tour of the "Comic Con" circuit.
Story in Sound: Indigenous Radio in Oaxaca, Mexico, a presentation for the Fulbright Fellowship
From Megan Martin | 00:11:57
Indigenous radio in Mexico
Garbage Finds New Life in Queens Office
From Kenan Davis | 00:04:37
The story what happens to the belongings of someone who dies
The Industrial Musicals Hour
From Jon Kalish | 00:58:37
A fictional weekly music show celebrating Industrial Musicals on a fictional public radio network
Fabuphilitis PSA
From New Hampshire Public Radio | Part of the Fundraising Pieces series | 00:01:11
An affliction that disproportionately affects public radio listeners.
May Your Days
From Julie Shapiro | 00:10:44
Ghana sounds like everything you might imagine, and some things you never could.
Dark Side of Teenage Popularity
From With Good Reason | 00:29:42
Explores the messages to teens that to be popular you must buy the best in brand-names and outshine your peers in all ways, including destructive behaviors.
Fouta-Toro, Senegal: An Audio Postcard
From Emma Jacobs | 00:04:11
A report on daily village life from Northern Senegal.
A Mind of Winter
From Benjamin Winter | 00:01:41
Poetry..remixed. "That's life!" and, yes, that is good poetry.
RIP T-shirt Segment
From Jacob Fenston | 00:05:55
This is a segment of a longer piece about T-shirts.
Cogito Ergo Sum
From Amy Conger | 00:09:03
An abstract sound collage dealing with identity and mental states
Standing on the Line Between Interrogation and Torture
From Dan Epstein | 00:06:03
An interrogator's inside view on the debate over interrogation and torture
Thinness and Salvation
From Sarah Yahm | 00:28:39
a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture
Sagebrush to Steppe(short)
From Western Folklife Center Media | 00:13:53
Music bridges the language barrier as a group of cowboy musicians trek across the Mongolian steppe on horseback, making friends & singing songs with the nomadic herdsmen of this vast country.
Rural voters and Obama: How can he win them over?
From WKSU | 00:08:31
Barack Obama needs all of Ohio, but campaigning in rural areas presents special challenges
Goat Auction in North Carolina
From Alix Blair | 00:08:04
Curtis Ring sells off all his goats: this story presents an intimate look at what is happening to farmers across the country
State of the Re:UNION Episode 1 Welcome to DC
From Al Letson | Part of the State of the Re:Union series | 00:58:55
Episode 1 of State of the Re:UNION
Ghost Bikes
From Mark Saldaña | 00:04:26
In Portland, OR, and across the United States, Ghost Bikes mark the sites of fatal bicycle-autombile collisions.
Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs
From The Kitchen Sisters | 00:53:55
From The Kitchen Sisters and PRX, a Black History Month Special: "Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs," with host, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress, Alfre Woodard. These stories come from The Kitchen Sisters collection -- stories of black pioneers, self-made men and self-taught women, neighborhood heros and visionaries. People who said "yes we can" and then did.
Physics for Poets
From Lu Olkowski | 00:07:16
People often depict scientists as coldly rational. Physicist Michael Salamon takes issue with that. He explains how Walt Whitman misunderstood the beauty of the universe. And how Maxwell's Equations gave him his first "cerebral orgasm"
The 2009 Boston Handbell Festival
From Jackson Braider | 00:05:40
I am a Jackson Braider fan and this piece has what makes his work distinctive: musicality, gorgeous tones and recording, his authoritative but engaging narration and his wit.
"these words, forever"
From Nate DiMeo | Part of the the memory palace series | 00:03:17
in which Guglielmo Marconi, the Father of Radio, dreams of a super radio that would allow him to hear every sound ever made. Melancholy ensues.
Writers on a New England Stage - David McCullough
From New Hampshire Public Radio | Part of the Writers on a New England Stage series | 00:59:00
I am a huge McCullough fan. I am a huge Virginia Prescott fan. This evening with a great writer, recorded live, is sublime. Smart, smart, SMART.
99% Invisible (Series)
Produced by Roman Mars
I work with Roman so color me biased. But 99% Invisible is brilliant in its originality: pacing, range of topics and ideas and the power of audio to tell a story. Roman is one of THE best.
