This week’s HV cast is in support of Burmese demonstraters: The popular Burmese rock band Iron Cross is using music to challenge the nation’s infamously repressive regime. In the great tradition of rock and roll, Iron Cross is taking on Burma’s military government with song. A story by Scott Carrier, “Iron Cross Battles Burmese Repression” (7:39 mp3):

That Rock, Paper, Scissors could be so complex?

AARP Prime Time Radio has posted a photo-audio gallery of Gordon Hempton’s Sounds of Silence. Hempton is aka Sound Tracker , “an international acoustic ecologists,” and instigator of the One Square Inch project.

Magician Raymond Crowe, “Australia’s only unusualist,” offers this hand shadow vers of Satchmo’s “What a Wonderful World:”

For the preceeding Murrow mp3, I tried out the new Zamzar - Free online file conversion. Submitted an online real-audio file thru Zamzar’s eb form; received an email w/ an mp3 attached. All went well. They can do the same for image, audio and video formats.

Edward R. Murrow, CBS-TV See It Now, March 9, 1954, “A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy” (0:53 mp3):

“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.”

via Jim Russell’s Transom Manifesto.

Truth in advertising? Check this (anyone know who did this?) mock radio spot for Baltimore’s “Big Bill Hell’s Cars” (1:00 mp3; and definitely NSFW– Sensitive Ears Shouldn’t Hear This):

via Art da Nipper.

Catch This American Life this weekend? Here’s the Nike vid of Luis “TRIKZ” da Silva from Act One: