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By BG 2008.10.20 HV/Series/Episode/ tags: , , , ,

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
034 To War— Getting In and Getting Out
Host— Scott Carrier of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 10/22/2008 - 10/29/2008

To War (53:00 mp3):

We get out of one conflict and into another:

Host Scott Carrier travels the country in late 2001 asking people “Are You Ready for War?”

“Goodbye to Saigon” chronicles the day of the last US flights out of the Vietnam War, narrated by Noah Adams and produced by Art Silverman.


UH1 helicopters at sunrise in Vietnam, photo by Lowell Eneix, 121st Assault Helicopter Company, US Army (from Vietnam Helicopter online gallery).

Features work by: Adams, Noah · Carrier, Scott · Silverman, Art ·

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
027 Poland— A Ghost Story
Host— Art Silverman of NPR
Airdates— 9/3/2008 - 9/10/2008

Boy sits among bombed buildings, photo by Julien BryanPoland battles against the Germans and then the Russians at the start of the Second World War. A German foot soldier and Polish townspeople recall, differently, the first days of the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and Poland’s later battle to fight years of environmental poisoning during the Soviet era. All in a series of stories written by NPR’s Alex Chadwick and produced by host Art Silverman.

Poland (53:00 mp3):

Features work by: Chadwick, Alex · Silverman, Art ·

By BG 2008.08.25 tags: , , ,

At NPR’s blog is a wonderful short film & essay by Art Silverman about Sundays, stories, friendship, coffee, cooking, and “Smokin’ Larry” Massett.

“Larry changed my concept of what could be done on radio.”Larry in China

Features work by: Massett, Larry · Silverman, Art ·

By BG 2008.08.25 HV/Series/Episode/ tags: , , , , ,

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
026 Prime Candidates— Portraits of Past Presidential Primaries
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 8/27/2008 - 9/3/2008

Politicians who fancy themselves president tromp thru the New Hampshire mill town of “Claremont,” produced by Larry Massett, Art Silverman and Betty Rogers.

The media spin myths out of misquotes in “Democracy and Things Like That” by Sarah Vowell and This American Life.

The Language Removal Service concocts the world’s first wordless political debate in their “California Recall Project.”

And all this years primary losers re-appear in “Super Tuesday Mixdown” (w/ music by Robert Wyatt and Bruce Springsteen), from Peter Bochan’s series Presidential Shortcuts.

Prime Candidates (53:00 mp3):

Features work by: Blumberg, Alex · Bochan, Peter · Massett, Larry · Silverman, Art · This American Life · Vowell, Sarah ·

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
006 Radio Dial— Signals from the Sky
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 4/9-16/2008

Radio Dial (54:00 mp3):

KPRKRadio stories about radio, then stories about radio stories:

Jake Warga paints sound-portraits of “Urbana FM” in Uruguay and “Radio Gondor” in Ethiopia.

ShortWaveMusic blog records “Duelling Transmitters” (also check his CD 30: A Retrospective 1976-2006).

“WWV- The Tick” comes from Douglas Grant (voiced by former WWV announcer John Doyle).

We premiere Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love!.

Larry Massett interviews the “Language Removal Services.”

Recordist Steve McGreevey captures the solar sounds of space weather, the northern lights, and “Natural Radio.”

The Android Sisters lament the loss of great “Ray-Dee-Ohh.”

And Scott Carrier reports to work for “The Friendly Man.”

Shortwave/music mixes from Myke Weiskopf’s CD 30: A Retrospective 1976-2006.

Features work by: Carrier, Scott · Golding, Barrett · Grant, Douglas · Massett, Larry · Silverman, Art · Warga, Jake · Weiskopf, Myke · ZBS ·