Hearing Voices - Radio Stories / Jay Allison

002 Visiting Hours 54:00 Jay Allison, Carmen Delzell, Barrett Golding, Ceil Muller, Brent Runyon, Nancy Updike & [Hearing Voices]

"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."

Broadcast: Mar 11 2009 on NPR Hearing Voices; Mar 12 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Health

052 Circus Blood 52:00 Jay Allison, Joe Frank, Larry Massett & [Hearing Voices]

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Broadcast: Feb 25 2009 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Entertainment

The dog Nippy looking towards the Rocky Mountains

051 Dog Tales 52:00 Jay Allison, Scott Carrier, Barrett Golding, David Greenberger, Dmae Roberts & [Hearing Voices]

A canine compilation -- the dogs have their day. More...

Broadcast: Feb 18 2009 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Family

041 Christmas Mashup 52:00 Jay Allison, Barrett Golding, Todd Melby, StoryCorps & [Hearing Voices]

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

Drawing of Pilgrims sharing food with Indians

038 Let's Eat 54:00 Jay Allison, Scott Carrier, Joe Frank, Larry Massett & [Hearing Voices]

An audio Thanksgiving feast. We binge on fattening stories, then purge with a documentary on refusing food. More...

Broadcast: Nov 19 2008 on NPR Hearing Voices Subjects: Holidays, Food

028 Vox Pop 54:00 Jay Allison, Scott Carrier & [Hearing Voices]

Jay Allison of Transom hosts. The stars of this show are Americans, expressing their opinions, participating in our democratic discussion. We travel 8000 miles of America gathering "Vox Pop", roam the streets of New York City in the hours during and weeks after 9/11, hitting "Golf Balls" and spending our "Last Night in New York." And "Amber" provides an illegal alien p.o.v. via a radio call-in line. Works from Transom.org by producers Scott Carrier, Christopher Lydon, Matt Lieber, and Australian Wednesday Kennedy.

Broadcast: Sep 10 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: War, Historical

021 Tony Schwartz 54:00 Jay Allison, Katie Davis, Kitchen Sisters, Marjorie Van Halteren & [Hearing Voices]

Tony Schwartz, media pioneer, audio documentarian, and the most famous radio person you probably never heard of, died June 2008. We hear The Kitchen Sisters' Lost & Found Sound-portrait, "Tony Schwartz, 30,000 Recordings Later," and the Tony Schwartz-inspired verite documentary of the town he lived in and loved, "New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places" (thanks to Transom.org).

Broadcast: Jul 23 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Spoken Word, Youth

015 Father Figures 54:00 Jay Allison, Scott Carrier, Viki Merrick, StoryCorps & [Hearing Voices]

Paternal praise, pride, disappointment and love, hosted by Jay Allsion (This I Believe): Scott Carrier gives his son Milo a "Ski Lesson." From Animals and Other Stories we hear "Reflections of Fathers," aka, Bugs & Dads (producers: Jay Allison & Christina Egloff, music: Ben Verdery & Rie Schmidt). Comic strip artist Lynda Barry wishes her divorced dad a "Happy Father's Day." A doctor tells his daughter about her granddad in "Story Corps- Dr. William Weaver." "Grilling Me Softly" is how host Jay Allison describes his daughter's questions about his love life. Dan Robb's family remembers the day "Dad's Moving Out" (from Jay Allison's Life Stories). "Doc Merrick" and daughter Viki go through some girl problems. David Greenberger tells David Cobb's story "Because of Dad" (music performed by Bangalore, composed by Phil Kaplan). Deirdre Sullivan's father advises "Always Go to the Funeral" (from This I Believe). And Dave Masch wants to be "A Better Father" (produced by Viki Merrick).

Broadcast: Jun 11 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Holidays, Family

009 Shoah 54:00 Jay Allison, Barrett Golding & [Hearing Voices]

Rabbi Samuel Cohon of Temple Emanuel, Tucson & 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."

Broadcast: Apr 30 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Historical, Religious

Father Figures 54:00 Jay Allison, Scott Carrier, Viki Merrick, Sound Portraits & [Hearing Voices]

For Father's Day, hosted by Jay Allison, stories of paternal praise, pride, disappointment and love: Scott Carrier gives his son Milo a "Ski Lesson." From Animals and Other Stories, we hear "Reflections of Fathers," aka, Bugs & Dads. Comic strip artist Lynda Barry wishes her divorced dad a "Happy Father's Day." A doctor tells his daughter about her granddad in "Story Corps- Dr. William Weaver." Jay Allison describes his daughter's questions about his love life as "Grilling Me Softly". Dan Robb's family remembers the day "Dad's Moving Out," from Life Stories. "Doc Merrick" and daughter Viki go through some girl problems. David Greenberger tells David Cobb's story "Because of Dad." Deirdre Sullivan's father advises "Always Go to the Funeral," a This I Believe essay. And from producer by Viki Merrick, Dave Masch wants to be "A Better Father" (

Broadcast: Jun 17 2007 on HV SpecialSeries: Hearing Voices- Specials Subjects: Spoken Word, Holidays, Family