Hearing Voices from NPR®:
020 The Old Country— The Homeland
Host— Neenah Ellis of If I Live to Be 100
Airdates— 7/16/2008 - 7/23/2008
Three hearts searching for home: Going back to Vietnam makes Nguyen Qui Duc realize “Home is Always Somewhere Else,” from Crossing East; host Neenah Ellis goes looking for her family in Croatia, where “The Old Country is Gone.” And Andrei Codrescu returns to his Romanian home town and stares into the “Eyes of Sibiu.”
Forgot to post this when it aired, 1/1/08 on NPR ATC— A travel writer’s upside-down Australian dilemma of drop bears and hoop snakes, swag and snores, knee-clicks and star clusters, by Jake Warga “Hike Australia” (7:50 mp3):
Trailer for new fish film w/ (my kid) Jess Atkins and some great music— “A new fly fishing documentary, ‘Raising the Ghost,” chronicles 7 epic days of fly fishing in a remote region of British Columbia’s Skeena River system. The Fly Boys team attempts to catch Steelhead eating dead-drift dry flies.”
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
011 Road Trip— Travelers’ Tales
Host— Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 5/14/2008 - 5/21/2008
Host Larry Massett spends a “Long Day on the Road” with ex-KGB in the Republic of Georgia. Scott Carrier starts in Salt Lake and ends on the Atlantic in this cross-country “Hitchhike.” Lemon Jelly adds beats to the life of a “Ramblin’ Man.” Writer/singer Willie Vlautin with his band band Richmond Fontaine sends musical postcards from the flight of “Walter On the Lam.” And Mark Allen tells a tale of a tryst with a “Kinko’s Crackhead.”
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.”
HV doubled down with two pieces on NPR Day to Day, the first— There’s history and politics hidden in the songs of Tibet, which has been under Chinese control for half a century. A music recordist visits during Losar, the Tibetan New Year, looking for traditional music (produced for KGLT-Bozeman), “Song of Tibet” (3:30 mp3):
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.
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.