Series: The Sound of Our Land

Produced by This Land Press

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The Sound of Our Land turns a thoughtful ear to voices who must be heard in Oklahoma.

The series features a wide variety of stories told, almost exclusively, from the mouths of people living them - without the assistance of voice-over narration.

The Sound of Our Land includes stories about Oklahoma's gun culture, mid-western environmentalism and people finding salvation in unexpected locations.


25 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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John Brehm's family didn't discuss art or literature or poetry. Searching for his own way in the world, Brehm began writing. Decades later, he is t...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:03
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For photographer Gaylord Herron, there's "something about trees." He's traveled all over the world photographing different cultures, but he's also ...

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  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting guns and shooting drugs for h...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:26
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Andrew Gumbel, co-author of the book "Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why it Still Matters" (2012, HarperCollins) with Roger Char...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City. As a precaution to listeners,...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:53
  • Purchases: 1
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When Matt O'Meilia was 10 years old, a rock star moved into his neighborhood. And not just any rock star. A hometown boy made good. The rock star...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:14
  • Purchases: 2
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While researching a book, author Richard Hicks was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. He shares the unique perspective that truckers have ...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:04
  • Purchases: 2
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Terry Turner, the Intelligence Analyst Supervisor with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, discusses the investigation of the serial murder...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Steve Almond reads his short story about Oklahoma, "Jeff Keith, Lead Singer of Tesla, Considers Youth."

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:28
Caption: Roberta Roberts Potts and her father, Oral Roberts
Roberta Roberts Potts, the daughter of the late televangelist and university founder, Oral Roberts, recently published a book about her father call...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Kelly Kurt discusses her experience covering executions in Oklahoma during her time as a reporter for the Associated Press. She worked for the wire...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:48
  • Purchases: 1
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LaDonna Osborn spent her childhood traveling around the world with her evangelical parents, T.L. and Daisy Osborn, founders of Osborn Ministries In...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Ginger Strand, contributing editor to This Land Press, discusses Oklahoma's comfort with engineering our environment. Strand explains how the Arkan...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:47
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Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine with artists to provide a fictiona...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:46
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In the late 1970's, Mary McAnally led a poetry workshop for the inmates at Stringtown Prison in Stringtown, Okla. She taught at the prison twice a ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:10:10
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Mary McAnally shares the story of how she organized the only Freedom Bus from Oklahoma during the Civil Rights Movement. She went with 40 Universit...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:06
  • Purchases: 3
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Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center gave Oklahoma public schools a failing grade in instruction about the Civil Rights Movement. But...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The Tulsa Police Department has been using pepper spray since the nineties, but the device made headlines earlier this month after TPD sprayed five...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Alan Heathcock reads us his story "Streetlamps" from our Imaginary Oklahoma series and explains the family history behind the unusual coupling in h...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Oklahoma is considered a conservative state these days. But in the early 1900s, Oklahoma had an active leftist movement. Equally active was the Ku ...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:21
  • Purchases: 2