Hearing Voices - Radio Stories / Labor

Housekeepers’s POV 5:18 Jake Warga

Fran Peters, Director of Housekeeping, Paramount Hotel- Seattle: "I mean it takes a lot of labor to pick up a sofa, take it through a sliding glass door, and throw it over a balcony into a swimming pool." Rock star’s rooms, toilet-seat sanity seals, and that hotel sheet smell.

Broadcast: Sep 26 2003 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Labor, Business, Travel

Detial of painting: Shearing Sheep at the Hutterites

Counting Sheep Barrett Golding

COUNTING SHEEP– A year on a sheep ranch, from lambing to culling to killing. Accompanied by paintings by (former sheep shearer) Jerry Iverson.

Broadcast: May 1 2003 on HV Webwork Subjects: Food, Environment, Labor

Four Generations Fishing 3:30 Barrett Golding

Our series The Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later continues in Central Washington, on the banks of the Walla Walla. Louis Butler, his daughter, grand-daughter and grandsons are "trying to catch a few catfish." Mr. Butler’s life is filled with a nuclear family at home, and nuclear weapons and waste at work. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jan 1 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Public Affairs, Travel, Environment, Labor

1930s Florida Folklife 22:20 Barrett Golding

1930s WPA recordists (among them, author Zora Neale Hurston) hauled a portable disc-recorder across Florida, from the Cross City turpentine camps near to the Clara White Mission soup kitchen in Jacksonville, gathering the musics of the region. A document of the depression era African-American life and culture. The Library of Congress archival recordings, from the American Folklife Center’s Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, are narrated by recording-expedition leader Stetson Kennedy. [transcript]

Broadcast: Feb 1 2002 on NPR All Things Considered Subjects: Music, Business, Cultural, Labor

1930s Florida Folklife Barrett Golding

FLORIDA FOLKLIFE- Web accompaniment to the radio program: ‘Proposed Recording Expedition into the Floridas’ by Zora Neale Hurston &ndash a 1940 proposal to the Library of Congrees that instigated their Florida Folklife collection.

Broadcast: Jan 31 2002 on HV Webwork Subjects: Music, Labor, African American, Historical