Playlist: Scooby Doo's Favorites
Compiled By: Scooby Doo
Dmae Roberts, Dheera Sujan, Radio Lab, Theory of Everything, and more, including pieces you may have heard on This American Life.
Invisible Ink: Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen
From Roman Mars | Part of the Invisible Ink: Series #1 series | 00:29:01
"Confessions" is a series of interconnected stories about growing up in the South and participating in child beauty pageants.
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
From Dmae Roberts | 00:26:35
Winner of the Peabody award, MEI MEI, A DAUGHTER'S SONG is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Roberts.
RN Documentary: Ode to Josephine - Memories of a Parallel Mother
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Part of the RN Documentaries series | 00:29:30
A personal odyssey into the producer’s childhood in Bombay India, where she remembers her ayah (nanny) Josephine.
The Journey of Lady Buddha
From Dmae Roberts | 00:56:43
A mythological and personal documentary about Kuan Yin, the Asian Goddess of Mercy and Compassion
Don't Drive Like My Brother
From Jonathan Menjivar | 00:15:10
The story of one man in desperate need of a job.
Mardi Gras Indian Music
From 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station | 00:06:43
The Musical Tradition of New Orleans' Black Indians
Civil War Widows
From Radio Diaries | 00:12:59
Alberta Martin and Daisy Anderson are the last living Civil War Widows.
RN Documentary: Durga's Court
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Part of the RN Documentaries series | 00:29:29
One woman is running a very unusual court of justice in a small Indian village where she uses folk tales, religious stories and her own common sense to bring justice to people who can?t find it any other way.
At Home With Mr. Mangus: A Day in the Life of a Home Health Aide
From Rebecca Sheir | 00:04:07
In this job, money isn't the greatest reward.
RN Documentary: A Life of Ashes: Widows in India
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Part of the RN Documentaries series | 00:29:30
A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.
Tossing Away the Keys
From Sound Portraits | 00:27:38
Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate Wilbert Rideau's report on fellow inmates who are serving life terms without the possibility of parole.
Samuel L. Jackson en francais
From Sarah Elzas | 00:05:05
The French voice behind the image onscreen
Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill
From Phyllis Fletcher | 00:28:57
A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves them to learn about him through each other, and through the letters he wrote from prison.
The Street of the Cauldron Makers
From Homelands Productions | Part of the Worlds of Difference series | 00:13:25
A well-known Turkish novelist confronts her country's modern history on a nondescript street in Istanbul.
Deported: Weazel's Diary
From Radio Diaries | 00:26:41
A 26-year-old Los Angeles resident gets deported to his parents' home country of El Salvador, which he has not seen since age five.
The Trouble with Harry (Nilsson)
From Jackson Braider | 00:11:07
Harry Nilsson: The Beatles called him their favorite group, and though he died 12 years ago, there's resurging interest in the artist and his work.
Elvis Presley - He Touched Me: Elvis' Gospel Music
From Joyride Media | Part of the Elvis Presley - Three Part Series series | 00:59:01
One hour radio documentary highlights the gospel music Elvis recorded throughout his career.
The Beatles In America - 1964 (Hour 1)
From Paul Ingles | 00:59:00
First hour of a lively two-hour montage of rare archival audio, concert recordings, and new interviews on The Beatles' first U.S. grand tour (can stand alone without second hour). Originally distributed by PRI, now available to all stations.
Everything Was Right: The Beatles' Revolver
From Paul Ingles | 01:58:00
One, two-hour program in which musicians, writers, and Beatle fans explore what made Revolver one of the top rock albums of all time.
Memorial
From Dmae Roberts | 00:05:51
Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.
Mandela: An Audio History (Hour Version)
From Radio Diaries | Part of the Mandela: An Audio History series | 00:58:44
Hour version of Mandela: An Audio History
The Beatles One-Hour Radio Special: "Help! Is On The Way..." Narrated by Michael Palin
From Nicole Haldeman | 00:48:18
Michael Palin presents a radio special about the Beatles? second movie Help!, which was first released in 1965.
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: FAMILY AFFAIR
From Joyride Media | 00:59:01
One-hour music intensive radio documentary about Sly & the Family Stone, their music, their turbulent history, and the indelible marks they left behind.
Ghetto Life 101
From Sound Portraits | 00:31:06
The audio diaries of LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, two young boys living in one of the most notorious public housing projects in America.
Maxey's Mansion
From Long Haul Productions | Part of the Homeplace Series series | 00:25:07
Alva Maxey-Boyd, now in her nineties, defied race covenants, urban renewal bulldozers, and two Mayor Daleys in a seven-decade battle to get and keep her gorgeous 19th-century mansion. Now, she's left as the last resident on her block of Chicago's South Prairie Avenue.
Cigar Stories: El Lector - He Who Reads
From The Kitchen Sisters | Part of the Lost & Found Sound series | 00:22:34
At the turn of the century until the 1930s in the cigar factories of Tampa and Ybor City, a well dressed man in a panama hat with a loud and beautiful voice sat atop a platform and read to the cigar workers as they rolled.
Radiolab, Show 201: Detective Stories
From WNYC | Part of the Radiolab series | 00:58:53
Forensics, geneology and ancient dumps
In Claudia Roden's Kitchen
From Julie Subrin | 00:16:26
Cooking and chatting with London-based Middle Eastern and Jewish food expert and raconteur Claudia Roden.
Sam Cooke: Bring it on Home to Me
From Joyride Media | 00:59:05
One-hour documentary details the life and music of Sam Cooke.
Humankind: Meeting Hate With Love -- Stories of King and Gandhi
From David Freudberg | 00:58:58
Explorations on the non-violence philosophies shared by King and Gandhi
The Intersection Of Health Care Policy And Politics
From WQLN | Part of the Chautauqua Lectures series | 00:58:50
A Washington Post journalist examines the health care issue.
My Muslim Hairdresser
From Shana Sheehy | 00:06:04
Hairdresser converts to Islam and discusses the dilemma of "covering up her moneymaker."
interview with Bend it like Beckham filmmaker
From Holly Kernan | 00:15:50
interview with Gurinder Ghadha, film maker of "Bend it like Beckham"
Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine
From Adam Allington | 00:04:53
Davy Rothbart founder of "Found" Magazine describes some of his favorite finds
Radiolab, Show 301: Placebo
From WNYC | Part of the Radiolab series | 00:58:56
Radio Lab examines the chemical consequences of belief and imagination.
Radiolab, Show 504: Diagnosis
From WNYC | Part of the Radiolab series | 00:58:55
Humans love to solve problems.
Circus Life: To Catch the Quad
From Helen Borten | Part of the A Sense of Place series | 00:29:31
A trapeze star of the 1920s, his present-day counterpart and a colorful supporting cast reveal the heartbreak and gritty reality behind the tinsel: a story of death and daring under the Big Top.
Skywalkers of Akwesane
From Helen Borten | Part of the A Sense of Place: Third Season series | 00:29:20
How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.
