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Hearing Voices- Hour Show
HV050- Love’s Labors
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Scott Carrier · Amy Dickinson · David Greenberger · Kitchen Sisters · Kevin Kling · UbuWeb · Nancy Updike
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
050 Love’s Labors— For Valentine’s Day
Host— Amy Dickinson of Chicago Tribune “Ask Amy”
Airs week of— 2009-02-11
Love’s Labors (52:00 mp3):
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Affairs of the heart, and the intricacies of intimacy:
Lovelorn letters to an advice columnist, our Host, “Ask Amy“.
A “Valentine” from Kevin Kling (from his Stories from the Shallow End CD).
The Girls Glee Club of New Palestine High School, Indiana singing the theme from “Midnight Cowboy” (off the out-of-print Poly High – School Bands Play The Classics).
Women’s tales of true but tainted love, what Nancy Updike calls “Cringe Love”, from This American Life.
One of the “6 terrific teen-age tunes sung by Barbie and Ken (and you can sing along, too!),” a 45-rpm record from Mattel Toymakers (mp3 at UBU.com’s 365 Days Project- May 31).
HV049- Palestinian Dreaming
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
049 Palestinian Dreaming— Arabs and Jews
Host— Sandy Tolan of Homelands Productions
Airs week of— 2009-02-04
Palestinian Dreaming (52:00 mp3):
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In Israel, in Palestine:
“Waking Up” from a nightmare in a city split by three religions, as dreamt by an Jewish soldier, an Arab bomber, and a Mississippi minister; from Joe Frank’s hour Time’s Arrow. [Music: Air "Alone in Kyoto" Talkie Walkie
“The Lemon Tree,” on the property of the same family home, in the same family homeland, shared by an Israeli and an Palestinian family; from Sandy Tolan of Homelands Productions. [Music: Dorothy Wang.]
HV048- Juarez, Mexico
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Charles Bowden · Julián Cardona · Scott Carrier
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
048 Juarez, Mexico— City on the Edge
Host— Scott Carrier of Hearing Voices
Airs week of— 2009-01-29
“Juarez, Mexico” (52:00 mp3):
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We go to a war zone, just to our south (photo © Julián Cardona):
Four years of reports on life in the Mexican border-town of Ciudad Juarez, with poverty and corruption, with daily drug-cartel murders and military violence. Told by photographer/Juarez resident Julián Cardona, author Charles Bowden, and host Scott Carrier.
HV045- Shortcut Thru 2008
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
045 Shortcut Thru 2008—
The Year in Speeches, Songs, and Soundbites
Host— Peter Bochan of WBAI-FM
Airs week of— 1/07/200901-07
“Shortcut Thru 2008″ (52:00 mp3):
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An hour-long audio scan of Year 2008, from the the Olympics to oil prices, from the elections to the economy. A memorial to those who passed, including Studs Turkel, Eartha Kitt, George Carlin, Bo Diddley, and Paul Newman. And a tribute to the changing of the presidential guard. (Produced by Peter Bochan of All Mixed Up).
The retrospective includes the collapse of Wall Street, financial and political scandals, the wild fires, the ice storms, and one of most memorable political campaigns in history, ending with a personal tour of the White House (conducted by past, present and future Presidents) all mixed up with answers to the question… “What will you remember about 2008?”
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HV044- Memory Book
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
044 Memory Book— Looking Back at Life
Host— Ceil Muller of KQED-FM
Airdates— 12/31/2008 – 1/07/2009
Memory Book (52:00 mp3):
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Recollections, remembrances, and mnemonics for recalling time:
Lester Nafzger recalls his life as a litany of “Lynchpins” (10:19), as told to Joe Frank, excerpted from his hour Performer.
Host Ceil Muller takes us on a tour of her own memory palace, made with bits of unsued of tape recordings she’s gathered over the years, in “Persistence of Memorex” (8:20).
“Death in Venice” (26:30) roams the beach with retired folk in Venice, Florida, finding seashells, shark’s teeth and distant memories; written and produced by Larry Massett, narrated by Joe Frank.
Music: The Moving Star Hall Singers “Remember Me” Been in the Storm So Long: A Collection of Spirituals, Folk Tales and Children’s Games from Johns Island, SC
Drawing: Phrenology Symbolized, © 1895– by Prof. Wm. Windsor: The Symbolical Phrenological Head, Showing the Location of the organs of the Brain; from his book How to Become Rich (1898).
HV043- Go By Train
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Jenny Asarnow · Ann Heppermann · Calvin Johnson · Kara Oehler · Sound Portraits · StoryCorps
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
043 Go By Train— Riding the Rails
Host— Calvin Johnson of K Records
Airdates— 12/24/2008 – 12/31/2008
Go By Train (52:00 mp3):
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Musician Calvin Johnson (of the band Beat Happening, and owner of K Records) hosts train tales: More…
HV041- Christmas Mashup
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Barrett Golding · Todd Melby · Tony Schwartz · StoryCorps · Jake Warga · rx
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
041 Christmas Mashup— Holy Days & Silent Nights
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 12/10/2008 – 12/17/2008
Christmas Mashup (52:00 mp3):
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A mix of lotsa holiday stories, found-sound, and sprinkling of sampled songs:
A home-recording of a “Christmas Gathering 1947″ (4:08 excerpt), on an unlabeled 7″ Wilcox Gay Recordio Disc, was found by Bob Purse. The complete recording is posted at the 365 Days Project, “Christmas Gathering 1947″ (6:32 mp3):
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John Beltran remixes Bing Crosby “The First Noel” (5:02), on the compilation Holiday Chill – The Christmas Remixes
“Dad and Sam” (4:43) is Jay Allison’s story of father and brotherhood, from his series Life Stories. More…
HV040- Spirit World
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Carmen Delzell · Larry Massett · Ceil Muller
HV040- Spirit World
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
040 Spirit World— Angels on the Line
Host— Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 12/03/2008 – 12/10/2008
Spirit World (53:00 mp3):
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Paranormal sound-portraits (photo: © Rachael Anne Ryals):
A preacher/prank-caller conjures “Alice of the Spirits” (6:07 & 8:07).
Carmen Delzell samples the “Ritual Magic” (4:09) of a voodoo Santera, soaks in a spirit bath; she prays for sex, adventure, and central heat.
Ceil Muller visits the town of “Cassadega” (2:16) Florida, known as “The Psychic Center of the World.”
And host Larry Massett spends “A Night on Mt. Shasta” (25:04).
