HV088- Scene of the Crime

Hearing Voices from NPR®
088 Scene of the Crime: Victims, Cops, and Criminals
Host: Jake Warga of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-04-13 (Originally: 2010-03-31)

“Scene of the Crime” (52:00 mp3):

There will be blood:

An archival interview with 1950s NYC crime scene photographer, Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), aka, Weegee. SoundPortraits has more of this July 1945 interview by nationally-syndicated talk show host Mary Margaret McBride (WEAF-New York City). (Music: “Angel of Solitude” by Alias.)

Casey (no first name ever revealed) was crime photographer for the fictional Morning Express newspaper. He and reporter Ann Williams snapped shots, tracked criminals, and solved crimes. This excerpt from episode 330 (of a total 431) of the popular half-hour mystery-adventure series aired 1950-03-02.

A short clip from the third episode (1948-10-10) of this NBC show, starring Van Heflin with a script by Milton Geiger based on the stories of Raymond Chandler.

The This American Life producer spends a couple days riding around L.A. with the professional “Crime Scene Cleaners, specializing in homocides, suicides, and accidental deaths.”

Mark Morze was a CFO involved in one of the biggest corporate frauds of the 1980s. The company he worked for, ZZZZ Best, was a southern California carpet cleaning business founded by a teenage entrepreneur named Barry Minkow. The two men bilked investors for $100M, by creating a paper trail of fake revenue and phony work orders. Morze served 50 months in Federal Prison for fraud. Now he travels the country educating people about the consequences of white-collar crime. (PRX)

Episode 68 (1950-09-28) of this NBC radio police drama series, conceived and produced by Jack Webb, who starred as Sergeant Joe Friday. The series ran September 1949 through February 1957 on radio, and spawned a successful TV series and movies.

Our host takes the saying, “No good deed goes unpunished” to a new level, ending up assaulted, bleeding, and hospitalized.

Music: Belle & Sebastian “Consuelo” Storytelling, Alias “Angel of Solitude (Instrumental)” The Other Side of the Looking Glass, Placebo “Where is My Mind” Placebo, Kodo “Japanese Taiko Drumming” Heartbeat Drummers Of Japan, Princess Mononoke “Taiko Drums” Tatakai no Taiko (The Battle Drums), Wang Yi-Dong “Music For Chinese Drums And Keyboard Percussion” Copper Ideophones Over The Drums.

Jake’s eyeglasses post-crime.

Erie Canal

TAL crossed the 400th episode line with an hour of “Stories Pitched by Our Parents.” Among them was one Nancy Updike did with her dad about the Erie Canal, featuring this addictive original ditty she co-writ w/ musician Dave Hill:

“Nancy’s Erie Song” (3:31 mp3)

HV002- Visiting Hours

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
002 Visiting Hours— In Hospital
Host— Ceil Muller of KQED Public Radio
Airs week of— 2009-03-11 (Originally: 2008-03-12)

Visiting Hours (52:00 mp3):

“The Kiss and the Dying” is host Ceil Muller’s (of KQED) etiquette list for those who may be dying, and for the soon-to-be survivors.

“Fire and Ice Cream” is from Brent Runyan’s book “The Burn Journals,” and Jay Allison’s Life Stories radio series. Brent’s nurse in the burn unit asks the 14-year-old out for ice cream… and a date?

In “Our Father” Brian Brophy documents his dad’s passing, with recordings of his family, the chaplain, the hospital and hospice staff, and the wake.

Carmen Delzell helps heal her “Grandmother’s Hip.”

And Nancy Updike watches patients pass the time with TV in “Channeling Health.”

Music by Pete Fountain, Brave Old World, Peter Ostroushko, Jimmy Smith, and Rotterdam Ska Jazz Foundation.

HV050- Love’s Labors

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):

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).

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HV010- All Mom Radio

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):

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.”