HV010- All Mom Radio
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Beverly Donofrio · Larry Massett · Sound Portraits · Nancy Updike
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
010 All Mom Radio— For Mother’s Day
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 5/7/2008 – 5/14/2008
All Mom Radio (53:00 mp3):
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For Mother’s Day, maternal tales from producers around the country:
“Travels with Mom” follows Larry Massett and his mother to the Tybee Island, Georgia of today and of the 1920’s, as recalled by Mrs. Massett.
Writer Beverly Donofrio joins her mom for “Thursday Night Bingo,” produced by Dave Isay of Sound Portraits.
In Nancy Updike’s “Mubarak and Margy,” a gay man returns home to care for his mom, and to the “cure” his family plans for his homosexuality.
And comedian Amy Borkowsky shares her hilarious phone “Messages from Mom.”
I don’t know if there is a way to hear this broadcast in the archives but it is VERY hard to find if it is here.
I only listened to a short bit of this on the way home to Chicago from MI and laughed so hard about Amy’s mom’s messages. And the story of Margy was so touching. I wish I could have picked it up from the beginning but had no signal until I got closer home.
[...] suggestion: start with All Mom Radio, because it’s terrific for everyone who has, is, or knows a Mom. (Oh those phone messages! [...]
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