Hearing Voices from NPR®:
010 All Mom Radio— For Mother’s Day
Host— of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 5/7/2008 - 5/14/2008
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.”
Rabbi Samuel Cohon of Too Jewish Radio, presents stories of survivors, for Holocaust Remembrance Day: In “Descended from the Holocaust” Dr. Alan Berkenwald records his trip with his parents to the Holocaust Museum — it was first time they talked openly about their experience in the concentration camps; this audio diary is of Jay Allison’s Life Stories. “Yom Hashoah 1994″ is Shoah services in Billings MT and Cleveland OH, survivor interviews, and the story of the Billings communities united “Not in Our Town” response that stopped a series of anti-Jewish crimes. The Rhino Records documentary project “Voices of the Shoah: Remembrances of the Holocaust” is drawn from interviews with 180 survivors. Also survivors sing Hebrew, for the first time in years, in a live May 1945 BBC report by Patrick Gordon Walker from the just liberated “Belsen Concentration Camp.”
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
008 About Aging— I Thought You’ve Never Ask
Host— of Duplex Planet
Airdates— 4/23/2008 - 4/30/2008
Host David Greenberger of Duplex Planet presents glorious moments and observations from people in the last years of their lives: Dave Alvin discusses the song he wrote about his dying father, “Man in the Bed,” from the Western Folklife Center’s What’s in a Song? series. Comedians Bob & Ray are “The Whirleys”. From StoryCorps comes a remembrance from Richard Craig of his days as a dance host on cruise ships. In Sound Portraits “The Ground We Live On” journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality in recordings she made during her father’s last months alive. And host David Greenberger shares some stories told him over the years by the elderly, including “Growing Old in East L.A.”
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
005 Backroads — For Station Pledge Drives
Hosts— The Kicthen Sisters, Scott Carrier, John Rieger, Larry Massett
Airdates— 2008.04.02-09
Audio excursions from the early eighties: Four traveling stories from public radio’s past, hosted by the independent producers who made them, Scott Carrier attends a native service of “Navajo Pentacostalists.” The Kitchen Sisters ride with the “Road Ranger,” an American auto-mechanic hero. John Rieger samples small-town life “Fifty Miles Out of Gerlach.” And Larry Massett takes a nitrous-oxide fueled “Trip To the Dentist.”
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
004 Comedy with a Beat— SUBTITLE
Host— David Ossman of Firesign Theatre. and Otherworld
Airdates— 2008.03.26-04-02
Master mixes of comedy bits with music beats, from Wally Cox yodeling to Peter Sellers singing while shaving, from Jack Kerouac crooning “Ain’t We Got Fun” to Charles Mingus jazzing up Jean Shepherd’s “The Clown” to comedian Greg Giraldo layered over Lazyboy. “Lenny Bruce Gets Busted” in Jonathan Mitchell’s documentary. And we hear rare and classic bits from host David Ossman’s Firesign Theatre.
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
002 Her Stories— For Women’s History Month
Host— Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org
Airdates— 2008.03.19-26
The Kitchen Sisters go to “Tupperware®” parties. A supermarket checker checks out her life, in ZBS’s radio soap Saratoga Springs. Jenifir returns “Home From Africa” with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal, produced by Jake Warga. Host Dmae Roberts has a collage of and about “Sisters.” In a new syntax of whispers and words Susan Stone tells the story of “Ruby” and her husbands. And Sonia Sanchez, Tracie Morris, Jill Battson and Meryn Cadell perform short poems.
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002 Visiting Hours— In Hospital
Host— Ceil Muller of KQED Public Radio
Airdates— 2008.03.12-19
“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’sLife 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.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
Episode001: Street Map- The People Next Door
Host: Katie Davis of Neighborhood Stories
Airdates: 2008.03.05-12
Scott Carrier walks around the Salt Lake City blocks, talking to people in “The Neighborhood.” Host Katie Davis, of Neighborhood Stories, contemplates changes at the “Corner Store” on the DC street where she grew up and still lives. Larry Massett helps his friend bid “Goodbye, Batumi” to his hometown in the Republic of Georgia. And a modern day Romeo and Juliet is staged, amidst a growing number of homicides, in “Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community” by Youth Radio and poet Ise Lyfe.
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
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.”
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Audio excursions from the early eighties: Four traveling stories from public radio’s past, hosted by the independent producers who made them, 
Master mixes of comedy bits with music beats, from Wally Cox yodeling to Peter Sellers singing while shaving, from Jack Kerouac crooning “
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