Hearing Voices- Weekly Hours
A few other fine pubradio stations have added HV’s weekly hours to their lineup. WEMC-FM 91.7 in Harrisonburg VA now runs our series Sundays at 9pm. WPTC-FM 88.1 in Williamsport PA has us on a couple times weekly: Saturday 5am & Sunday at noon. And Pittsburgh’s WDUQ-FM 90.5 starts airing HV in July.
Our station list has all the HV times, places, and frequencies, now broadcasting on 41 stations and 38 translators.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
011 Road Trip: Travelers’ Tales
Host: Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2009-5-27 (Originally: 2008-05-14)
“Road Trip” (54:00 mp3):
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®
010 All Mom Radio: For Mother’s Day
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2012-05-09 (Originally: 2008-05-07)
All Mom Radio (53:00 mp3):
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.”
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
009 Shoah— For Holocaust Remembrance Day
Host— Rabbi Samuel Cohon of Temple Emanuel, Tucson
Airdates— 4/30/2008 – 5/7/2008
Shoah (53:00 mp3):
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.”
Somehow our NPR: Hearing Voices Podcast, which debuted last week, has hit #42 on iTunes® Top Podcasts. Right over the NBC Nightly News. Not far from Ask a Ninja and NPR Story of the Day. ‘Course the commanding Oprah and Ira hours hold the #1 and #2 spots, many rows above us, but ‘least we’re on the same list.
NPR has started hosting our HV series podcast (iTunes subscription). And right now it’s being featured on both the front of NPR Podcasts page and the iTunes Podcast Directory
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
008 About Aging—
I Thought You’d Never Ask
Host— David Greenberger of Duplex Planet
Airdates— 2009-04-22 (Originally: 2008-04-23)
“About Aging” (53:00 mp3):
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 LA“.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
007 The Earth Sings: For Earth Day
Host: Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org
Airs week of: 2012-04-18 (Originally: 2008-04-16)
The Earth Sings (53:00 mp3):
Host Dmae Roberts of of Stories1st.org, for Earth Day, presents Sounds for and from Mother Earth:
The Quiet American takes an audio trek through Nepal”s “Annapurna” Circuit.
Host Dmae Roberts records Maori music and culture. We hear Pulse of the Planet’s “Extraordinary Sounds From the Natural World.”
And from Gregg McVicar and the Earthsongs series: Sioux Soprano Bonnie Jo Hunt layers opera over insects (on Robbie Robertson’s Music for the Native Americans), and the band Pamyua mimics creature calls.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
006 Radio Dial: Signals from the Sky
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2010-05-26 (Originally: 2008-04-09)
“Radio Dial” (52:00 mp3):
Radio stories about radio, then stories about radio stories:
These “Dueling Transmitters” are an atmospheric found-sound un-manipulated mix of Spanish ham-radio operators, slow Morse code, data squalls, and the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the Shortwavemusic blog post “The Effects of Radiation.”
An FM radio station in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, is called Urbana. It’s hip, bilingual, plays music from all over the world, and is famous in Uruguay for its 30-second sound portraits featuring the voices of famous people mixed over avante-garde music.
The Cuban a-capella ensemble approximates a radio dial with their vocal chords. From the group Vocal Sampling’s (site | space) CD Una Forma Mas.
Shortwave/music mixes by LA sound artist Myke Dodge Weiskopf, off his 30: a Retrospective 1976-2006
The government’s all-time all-the-time radio station goes commercial, voiced by former WWV announcer John Doyle.
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
Backroads (54:00 mp3):
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.”
Music from Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship.
WFUV-NYC, one of my favorite stations on the planet, just added our weekly series of HV Hours to their Saturday morn sked. Very happy to be on in da apple.
Radio stations broadcasting the HV weekly hour series:
| Station | City | State | Day(s) | Time(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMXT-FM | Kodiak | AK | Wed | 11pm |
| KAZU-FM | Pacific Grove | CA | Sat Sun |
3pm 9pm |
| KWMR-FM | Pt. Reyes Station | CA | Sun | 10pm |
| WGCU-FM | Fort Myers | FL | Wed | 7pm |
| WEPS-FM | Elgin | IN | Fri | 12pm |
| WVPE-FM | Elkhart | IN | Sun | 6pm |
| WZAI-FM | Martha’s Vineyard | MA | Sun | 7pm |
| WNAN-FM | Nantucket | MA | Sun | 7pm |
| WCAI-FM | Woods Hole | MA | Sun | 7pm |
| KGLT-FM | Bozeman | MT | Sun | 4pm |
| WFUV-FM | New York City | NY | Sat | 6am |
| WHSS-FM | Hamilton | OH | (TBD) | |
| OPB Access Net | Portland | OR | Thu | 5pm |
| KUT2-HD | Austin | TX | Sun | 8pm |
| KXOT-FM | Seattle | WA | Sat | 12pm |
| KUWA-FM | Afton | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KBUW-FM | Buffalo-FM | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWC-FM | Casper | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KDUW-FM | Douglas | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWG-FM | Gillette | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWJ-FM | Jackson | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWR-FM | Laramie | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWN-FM | Newcastle | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWX-FM | Pinedale | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWP-FM | Powell | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWZ-FM | Rock Springs | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KSUW-FM | Sheridan | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWD-FM | Sundance | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWT-FM | Thermopolis | WY | Sat | 5am |
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
004 Comedy with a Beat—
Comic Bits with Music Beats
Host— David Ossman of Firesign Theatre
Airs week of— 2009-04-08 (Originally: 2008-03-26)
Comedy with a Beat (54:00 mp3):
Laughs and lyrics:
Wally Cox yodels. Peter Sellers sings while shaving.
Jack Kerouac croons “Ain”t We Got Fun.”
Charles Mingus jazzes up Jean Shepherd”s “The Clown.”
Comedian Greg Giraldo is layered over Lazyboy.
“Lenny Bruce Gets Busted” in Jonathan Mitchell“s documentary.
And we hear rare and classic sketches from host David Ossman’s Firesign Theatre.
“Underwear Goes Inside the Pants” Lazyboy fea. Greg Giraldo:
The 14-station Wyoming Public Radio network just added our weekly hour to their sked. Which means we now have more stations in WY than all other stations in the universe combined. Our thanks to the Cowboy State for more than doubling our carriage.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
003 Her Stories: For Women’s History Month
Host: Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org
Airs week of: 2012-02-29 (Originally: 2008-03-19)
“Her Stories” (52:00 mp3):
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 (produced by Steve Rowland of Shakespeare Is), Tracie Morris, Jill Battson and Meryn Cadell perform short poems.
Music from Tara Key’s Ear & Echo.
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
002 Visiting Hours— In Hospital
Host— Ceil Muller of KQED Public Radio
Airs week of— 2009-03-11 (Originally: 2008-03-12)
Visiting Hours (52:00 mp3):
“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.”
Music by Pete Fountain, Brave Old World, Peter Ostroushko, Jimmy Smith, and Rotterdam Ska Jazz Foundation.
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
001 Street Map— The People Next Door
Host— Katie Davis of Neighborhood Stories
Airs week of— 2009-03-04 (Originally: 2008-03-05)
“Street Map” (52:00 mp3):
A walk around the block:
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.
Music by Eva Cassidy, James Brown, and Parazitii.
Hearing Voices is now a new weekly hour series. We’re calling it The Best of Public Radio; a sixty-minute stream of “driveway moments” all connected by a weekly theme. We listen to broadcasts and podcasts; we dig through audio archives; and we scour the web to find the best stories, sound-portraits, slam poets, docs, radio dramas, features, and found-sound.
Each week a new Guest Host steers the show home. About 15 stations all already on board — broadcast schedules coming soon. Here’s a sample from our very first hour, airing next weekend, and hosted by Katie Davis of Neighborhood Stories; it’s called “Street Map” (9:24 mp3):
Good news: Last week we signed a deal w/ NPR®. They take care of our distribution and podcast. We take listeners for wild weekly radio rides. Good deal, huh? Reminds us of Car Talk’s disclaimers, “And even tho Robert Siegal spills his soy cappuccino over his Opera Divas Disrobed calendar every time he hears us say it, this is NPR, National Public Radio.”
So we ask you a simple question; which you, in turn, might pose to your local station: “Are your Hearing Voices?”
HV Series Promo 1 (0:30 mp3):
HV Series Promo 2 (0:30 mp3):