All Pieces for Lu Olkowski

 
The Cutting Place
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
From Lu Olkowski
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A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.

Bought by KFAI, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:03
  • Purchases: 5
Just a Girl
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
From Lu Olkowski
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A documentary poem about an afternoon spent with Billie Jean Hill at the Flag Day parade in Troy, New York. Billie Jean is a 25-year-old woman with...

Bought by KFAI, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound, New Hampshire Public Radio, BBC Americana and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 00:04:59
  • Purchases: 6
In the Office of Temporary Assistance
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
From Lu Olkowski
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A documentary poem about an afternoon that poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett spent with Billie Jean Hill at the New York State Office of Temporary Ass...

Bought by KFAI, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound, New Hampshire Public Radio, EconomyBeat Podcast and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 00:04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Choosers, Not Beggars
From Lu Olkowski
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Two men more or less allow themselves to become homeless in order to dedicate their time to writing poetry

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2008
  • Length: 00:29:05
  • Purchases: 2
Life In A Dream, Life On Film
From Lu Olkowski
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A profile of Jeremiah Zagar whose award winning documentary, "In a Dream" opens in theaters Spring 2009. http://www.inadreammovie.com/

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 00:08:40
  • Purchases: 1
Grandpa
From Lu Olkowski
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A father and son have a contest to take the best pictures of their dying grandpa, the result is an up-close portrait of death.

Bought by KUOW, Public Radio Remix, KUT, KVNF, KFAI and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: 00:08:46
  • Purchases: 6
Meet the Bees
From Lu Olkowski
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How I roped my parents into becoming characters on Creature Comforts, a claymation show on CBS. (Come on, listen to it... my parents are funny peo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and KFAI


  • Added: Jun 20, 2007
  • Length: 00:06:35
  • Purchases: 3
J Walter Hawkes
From Lu Olkowski
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Trombonist J. Walter Hawkes, who now plays with Norah Jones, almost quit music. He was going to pursue a more regular-guy path in computer programm...

Bought by KUOW and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2007
  • Length: 00:05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Physics for Poets
From Lu Olkowski
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People often depict scientists as coldly rational. Physicist Michael Salamon takes issue with that. He explains how Walt Whitman misunderstood th...

Bought by KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2007
  • Length: 00:07:16
  • Purchases: 4
Cell Tower
From Lu Olkowski
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Don Ingber is a cell biologist from Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture and was inspired to mak...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2007
  • Length: 00:06:16
  • Purchases: 1
I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One at the Holiday Inn
From Lu Olkowski
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A former heroin addict realizes that he wants to help other addicts kick their habits. The problem is, he wants to do this using a hallucinogenic d...

Bought by KUOW, Remix Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Jun 16, 2007
  • Length: 00:16:27
  • Purchases: 3
Born Into Brothels
From Lu Olkowski
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Several years ago Zana Briski, a photographer, found herself giving photography lessons to children living in the brothels of Calcutta's red light ...

Bought by KTNA and WBEZ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2006
  • Length: 00:06:31
  • Purchases: 2
A Painting a Day
From Lu Olkowski
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Profile of artist, Harry Orlyk, who has painted a landscape every day for the last 30 years.

Bought by The Nature Podcast and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Feb 15, 2006
  • Length: 00:06:20
  • Purchases: 2
Joe Davis
From Lu Olkowski
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A look at an artist who believes we're sending the wrong messages to extraterrestrials.

Bought by KMRE-LP


  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 00:06:28
  • Purchases: 1
Barbara
From Lu Olkowski
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An exploration of the relationship between photographer, Andrea Modica, and her subject, Barbara, who she photographed for 16 years.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 00:07:17
Tractors
From Lu Olkowski
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An exploration of the tractor and why people collect them.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 00:06:06
  • Purchases: 1
Quidditch, Anyone?
From Lu Olkowski
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Audio postcard from a Quidditch match

  • Added: Jul 17, 2005
  • Length: 00:02:16

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