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Mountain Music Project Jack Chance

HV Producer Jack Chance is off on another guerilla ethnomusicology recording expedition. He's in Thailand, headed for Tibet, starting the Mountain Music Project (blog) (A Musical Odyssey from Appalachia to Himalaya) with sounds, images, and video.

Broadcast: Sep 27 2006Series: Hearing Voices- News Subjects: Blue Grass, Music, Travel, World

Lewis & Clark: Yellowstone Geysers 4:13 Barrett Golding

On the Trail of Lewis & Clark: On their way home, the L&C Expediton took a side-trip up Yellowstone River, and witnessed the "boiling springs." So, we should too: Rick Hutchinson is research geologist for Yellowstone. His main job is minding the more than 120 thermal features in the park: geysers, fumeroles, mud pots, steam vents. He tour us thru the geyser basins -- step carefully, the crust is thin and the water is boiling just under the surface. [transcript]

Broadcast: Sep 27 2006 on PRX Nature Stories Podcast; Aug 12 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Environment, Science

Ground Zero Man 4:08 Kelly McEvers

Harry John Roland is a self-appointed tour guide at the World Trade Center. He calls himself the Ground Zero Man, and he's hauled himself down there almost every single day -- for the last five years. He worked as a tour guide in the South Tower. Then, it was his job. Now, it's his obsession. (photo © Andrew Hetherington) [transcript]

Broadcast: Sep 11 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Historical Anniversaries, Education

Window broken in schoolhouse, photo by Adam Dolnick

Beslan, Russia: 2004 School Siege- Part 2 7:46 Kelly McEvers

The conclusion of this two-part series on the 2004 takeover of a school in Beslan Russia by Chechnyn militants. Could negotiations could have prevented the tragic end to the siege? (See the Beslan Timeline: How the School Siege Unfolded.) [transcript]

Broadcast: Sep 1 2006 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Russian School Siege- 2004 Subjects: War, International, Historical, Religious

Beslan, Russia: 2004 School Siege- Part 1 7:46 Kelly McEvers

A two-part NPR series: In 2004 Chechnyn militants seized 1,200 hostages at School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. More than three hundred hostages died, mostly children, in explosions and battles between militants and Russian soldiers. The series relives the three-day siege: traveling to where the militants planned the attack, examining their demands, and exploring authority's refusal to negotiate. (See the Beslan Timeline: How the School Siege Unfolded.) [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 31 2006 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Russian School Siege- 2004 Subjects: International, Religious, War, Historical

Song & Memory: Jules Shear 8:18 Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler

Musician Jules Shear, of Jules and the Polar Bears and MTV's Unplugged, recalls his first public performance, for his school principal on a train, singing Chris Kenner's "Something You Got."

Broadcast: Aug 12 2006 on APM Weekend AmericaSeries: Song & Memory Subjects: Music, Rock, Youth

Oddio Art Eli 5 Stone

ODDIO ART- Create your own dream-themed audio art automatically, interactively and instantly.

Broadcast: Aug 1 2006 on HV Webwork Subjects: Art, Spoken Word, Music

Magic Mushrooms for Health 11:02 Ben Adair

Doctors told Pamela her Stage 4 cancer was terminal, and her death would likely be painful. She joined a study that uses psychedelic drugs to help ease the pain and trauma of a terminal illness.

Broadcast: Jul 15 2006 on APM Weekend AmericaSeries: Pacific Drift Subjects: Health

Hitchhiker Along a Lonely Utah Highway 4:10 Scott Carrier

The producer gives a ride to a middle-aged man he saw limping along a Utah highway, with an unusual, sad, lonely tale -- and also the spark of hope he still carries. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 10 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Travel

Nina playing air guitar on badmitten racket as a kid

Song & Memory: Only the Lonely 8:18 Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler

The song "Only the Lonely" reminds sound artist Nina Katchadourian of her of childhood summers with her brother in Finland.

Broadcast: Jul 8 2006 on APM Weekend AmericaSeries: Song & Memory Subjects: Children, Youth, Music