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Playlist: Summertime

Compiled By: PRX Editors

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Listen in the sun.

Below are picks chosen by PRX editorial staff. You can see all potential summertime pieces by using our search.

For summer-themed pieces from great youth producers, check out Sounds of Summer: Youth Radio.

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WVR - Show 342 (One Hour) - Vacation Getaway Special

From World Vision Report | Part of the World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour series | 00:58:59

Summer tourism with a twist. In Nepal, we follow a street vendor who sells an exotic musical instrument to support his wife and four children. If you’re in Shanghai this summer be sure to go see “Peasant DaVincis.” That’s an art exhibit of robots made by farmers.
And we discuss “poverty tourism” -- tours through slums to see and experience how people live in much of the developing world.

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Jazzing the Cool

From WFIU | Part of the Night Lights Classic Jazz series | 00:59:02

One-hour program of classic jazz. Ted Gioia, author of THE BIRTH AND THE DEATH OF THE COOL, joins the program for a look at the relationship between "cool" and jazz. Music of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan is featured.

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Southern Slices: Summer Institute Stories from CDS

From The Center for Documentary Studies | 00:53:57

Radio-making isn't just for professionals. Every summer, several dozen people from across the country converge on the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to learn the skills of audio documentary work -- recording, shaping and crafting a piece, and mixing it on the computer. From Center for Documentary Studies.

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Summer Grilling Extravaganza

From WFIU | Part of the Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living series | 00:59:00

An hour-long program of thoroughly entertaining and tasty-to-the-ears grilling tips, recipes, music and more! Makes a wonderful summertime special.

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Compact Discoveries 38: Summer Music

From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56

Music inspired by the summer season. From Fred Flaxman.

PPR #6- The Jellydots, School's Out!

From Pied Piper Radio | Part of the Pied Piper Radio series | 00:59:02

Celebrate summer with music just for kids and the grownups who love them.

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HV- Road Trip

From Hearing Voices | Part of the HearingVoices- Specials series | 00:54:00

Host Larry Massett spends a "Long Day on the Road" with ex-KGB in the Republic of Georgia. Scott Carrier starts in Salt Lake and ends on the Atlantic in this cross-country "Hitchhike." Lemon Jelly adds beats to the life of a "Ramblin' Man." The band Richmond Fontaine sends musical postcards from the flight of "Walter On the Lam." And Mark Allen tells a tale of a tryst with a "Kinko's Crackhead. From Hearing Voices.

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Summer Camp

From Helen Borten | Part of the A Sense of Place series | 00:29:03

From the mouths of kids and the memories of grownups comes a rambunctious portrait of a peculiarly American institution. From Helen Borten.

Fly Fishing in Montana

From Helen Borten | Part of the A Sense of Place series | 00:30:01

The producer takes lessons from one of Montana's legendary fly fishers and in the process visits the towns, streams, history and indoor watering places (saloons), hears whopping fish stories and catches a trout in the Land of the Big Sky. From Helen Borten.


Segments (9:00-23:59)

Testing the Waters: The Young Women's Summer Institute Research Project

From WAMC | Part of the The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering series | 00:14:36

Research suggests that the experiences girls have with science during their middle school years are the most critical in determining whether they choose a career path in science. The Young Women's Summer Institute at Ohio State University was designed with this in mind. From WAMC.

B-Side: Summer Fun

From B-Side Radio | 00:22:57

A cure for the dog days of summer, this edition of B-Side bring you the best of the season of watermelon and warm nights. From B-Side Radio.


Cutaways (5:00-8:59)

Funtown

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies | 00:06:50

Funtown/Splashtown USA is the largest family-run amusement park in the Northeast. Half a million people visit the park in Saco, Maine every summer.

Boredom

From KBOO Youth Collective | 00:07:15

A summer day gone wrong. From KBOO Youth Collective.

Mud

From Hans Anderson | 00:08:47

Jake and Camille search the mud for lost treasure every day each summer until a life-changing moment. From Hans Anderson.


Drop-Ins (2:00-4:59)

Be Whatever You Want

From Sara Curtis | 00:05:00

On a hot summer afternoon three ten year old kids push around a soccer ball style sorbet maker and concoct elaborate stories to make their mundane task more interesting. Immerse yourself in the playful, imaginative, and humorous logic of young friends.

Record Bin Roulette - The Long Hot Summer

From John Kessler | 00:03:41

A weekly musical excavation of rarities, classics & oddities, this week it's songs about Summertime with Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin, Baz Luhrman and a special appearance by Mrs. Miller.

Baking Christmas in August

From Sarah Elzas | 00:03:39

Explore the pastry kitchens of the Grande Epicerie de Paris in August, where — with the help of giant industrial freezers — pastry chefs prepare Christmas pastries in the heat of summer.

Summer With Kara and the Swing

From Dmae Roberts | 00:04:04

A courageous grandmother near Witchita, Kansas, with humor and sensitivity goes in quest of a swing set so her severely disabled eight-year-old granddaughter can enjoy the outdoors. From Dmae Roberts.

Dead of Summer and other poems.

From Marjorie Van Halteren | 00:09:15

A poem about summer from Marjorie Van Halteren.

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Summer Jobs

From Alaska Teen Media Institute | 00:02:41

One teen looks into options for summer jobs. From Alaska Teen Media Institute.

Hip Hop Hamlet at 75th season of OSF

From Dmae Roberts | 00:04:55

Oregon Shakespeare Festival kicks off its 75th season with a fresh take on Hamlet.

Hip-Hop Summer Camp

From Next Generation Radio | Part of the NPR's Next Generation Radio series | 00:04:08

Jenee Darden reports on the hip-hop leadership camp, which is a free summer program where kids learn the business side of the hip-hop industry. From Next Generation Radio.


Interstitials (Under 2:00)

StoryCorps: Mark Sullivan

From StoryCorps | Part of the StoryCorps series | 00:01:52

Mark Sullivan remembers working summers on a tobacco farm in the late 1950s. From StoryCorps.

Summer on 64th

From Curie Youth Radio | 00:01:58

Tonette sends an audio postcard from her favorite Chicago block: we eavesdrop on the guys at the corner, see Ms. P come out onto her porch, and hear the birds announce summer's arrival. From Curie Youth Radio.


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