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George Carlin

045 Shortcut Thru 2008 {format} 52:00 (((Hearing Voices))) & Peter Bochan

The Year in Speeches, Songs, and Soundbites. More...

Broadcast: Jan 7 2009 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Politics, Public Affairs, Music


Phrenology of the Brain drawing

044 Memory Book {format} {format} 52:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Joe Frank, Larry Massett & Ceil Muller

Recollections, remembrances, and mnemonics for recalling time. More...

Broadcast: Dec 31 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Family, Senior


Mexico - Railroad scenes: Train crossing bridge at Crucitas, Photo by W.H. Jackson

043 Go By Train {format} {format} 52:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Ben Adair, Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler, Sound Portraits & StoryCorps

Musician Calvin Johnson (of the band Beat Happening, and owner of K Records) hosts train tales. More...

Broadcast: Dec 24 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: African American, Travel


Marj Sharrow photo

After The Forgetting {format} 9:00 Erica Heilman

A Vermont family changes as their mother's dementia progresses. What happens to love when there is no memory? An evolution of relationships reveal themselves in these conversation between Gregory Sharrow, his mother Marjorie, and Greg's husband Bob Hooker. (Music by Karinne Keithley. Check Transom for more on this story.)

Broadcast: Dec 18 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Gay & Lesbian, Family, Health


Curie Youth Radio group photo

Wish We Could Tell Our Parents {format} 2:21 Curie Youth Radio

The secrets teenagers will never reveal to their parents.

Broadcast: Dec 17 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Youth, Family


Virgin Mary painting

042 Yes to God {format} {format} 52:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Noah Adams, Beverly Donofrio & Sound Portraits

Sound portraits of Mother Mary and Thomas Merton. More...

Broadcast: Dec 17 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Religious, Holidays


Crowded Juifen, Taiwan city street

Travel Tips {format} 4:30 Jake Warga

A travel writer's tips for international travellers via an audio postcard from Taiwan. See Jake's Taiwan photos.

Broadcast: Dec 15 2008 on PRI/WGBH/BBC The World Subjects: Travel


Beatles Christmas record cover, 1963

041 Christmas Mashup {format} {format} 52:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Jay Allison, Barrett Golding, Todd Melby & StoryCorps

A mix of lotsa holiday stories, found-sound, and sprinkling of sampled songs. More...

Broadcast: Dec 10 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Music, Holidays, Family


Story of Stuff logo

Story of Stuff {format} 7:38 Chase Sbicca

Annie Leonard spent a decade researching where our consumer stuff comes from, how its made, who the manufacturing effects, and where it ends up. Among the results is a 20min. video, The Story of Stuff (also in chapters on YouTube), made by Free Range Studios, the same folk who exposed The Meatrix: "From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view." The video came out on the web a year ago and has since been viewed four-and-a-half million times. Time Magazine named Annie Leonard a 2008 Hero of the Environment.

Broadcast: Dec 6 2008 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Environment, Business


Christmas tree farm

Brooklyn Christmas Trees {format} 2:36 Lizzy Cooper Davis

Vincent van Rhyn has been selling Christmas trees since he was 16. He's been on the same Brooklyn corner every Holiday season for 30 years. Or, A Christmas Tree Grows in Brooklyn. (Photo: cc ARKNTINA)

Broadcast: Dec 4 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Business, Holidays, Religious





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