Hearing Voices - Radio Stories / Travel

Travels with Mom 13:00 Larry Massett

These days, taking mom out for a day-trip doesn’t involve going very far in distance, as it does back in time. Tybee Island, Georgia, now and in the 1920’s, as seen by Mrs. Massett. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 7 2007 on HV PODCAST; Jul 18 2003 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Travel, Family

Angel’s Landing 5:10 Scott Carrier

Utah's Zion National Park draws 2.7 million visitors a year, and a major attraction for hearty hikers is a trek along the Grotto trailhead to Angel's Landing. From the banks of the Virgin River, the yellow-and-red sandstone sides of Zion Canyon rise 2,000 feet. It feels like being inside a huge body. The canyon walls are the rib cage spread open and Angel's Landing is like the heart. [transcript]

Broadcast: Feb 14 2007 on PRX Nature Stories Podcast; Jul 6 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Travel, Environment

Raider of The Lost Ark 8:13 Jake Warga

A modern day quest for the not-so-lost Ark of the Covenant by another Indie (indie producer, that is).
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Broadcast: Feb 6 2007 on NPR All Things Considered Subjects: International, Travel, Religious

Mojave Road 14:59 Ben Adair

"People who spend time in the Mojave start thinking differently about space. Huge stretches of land without a house, a telephone pole, or high-tension wire." The desert is vast in space, and time, ghost towns, some with Opera Houses still standing, century-old abandoned mines, billion-year old boulders in Death Valley. "One hundred human empires will rise and fall in the time it takes Death Valley to notice our passing." The place is perfect for the drifters and artists now living there. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jan 3 2007 on PRX Nature Stories Podcast; Mar 4 2005 on WNYC Radio Lab; Mar 26 2004 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Environment, Travel, Cultural

Camel in the Outback 5:10 Larry Massett & Jake Warga

Competing and eating wild camels in the Northern Australia Territories. [transcript]

Broadcast: Dec 8 2006 on NPR All Things Considered Subjects: International, Travel, Food, Environment, Sports

Side of the bus with letters: Poetry Bus

Poetry Bus 5:33 Jake Warga

Rhyming down the highways, free-versing the freeways, the 2006 Poetry Bus Tour stops in 50 cities in 50 days.

Broadcast: Dec 8 2006 on PRI/WNYC Studio 360 Subjects: Education, Travel, Literature

Canoe in water, with painted sides and paddles

Tribal Journey- Photos Jesse Boggs

A (Flash) photo-audio-essay on the annual aqueous outing of the Canoe Nations of the Northwest.

Broadcast: Nov 24 2006 on HV WebworkSeries: Tribal Journey Subjects: Native, Historical, Travel

Manop Thammadoonpinij, music teacher and luthier, specializing in traditional Lanna music, playing the Pin Pia, at the street market in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Pin Pia 2:46 Jack Chance

In a Thailand market, Manop Thammadoonpinij, a music teacher and luthier, performs traditional songs on a haunting little-known ancient stringed instrument, the Pin Pia. (Collected along the travels of the Mountain Music Project). [transcript]

Broadcast: Oct 20 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: World, Travel, Music

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

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