This week’s HV cast — When the last school bell rings, Pastor Mike Cummings stands in front of Jordan High School in Watts, Los Angeles. Jordan High is next door to the gang-ridden Jordan Downs projects, which students have to pass through to go home — sometimes with Pastor Mike at their side. A story by Queena Kim, “Pastor Mike at Jordan High” (3:22 mp3):
Lesbos, Survivor Slumber Party, and Serbo-Croatian Tongue Twisters, Episode Five of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:31 mp3):
Another Long Haul Productions (Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister) song/story extravaganza on NPR ATC, with an original song written for the radio piece by Tim Fite:
Killer Lion, Killer Peanuts and Gazungo Melons Inside Tube Tops, Episode Four of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:29 mp3):
Just in time for the Holy Days, Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love!. Pigs fly, Ken Lay’s records, and Osama’s competition campaigns in Part Three (7:33 mp3):
Once again this blog becomes a StoryCrops cheerleader; this time it’s Christmas cheers for SC’s latest in which Jerry Johnson intervus his mom, Carrie Conley, about raising six kids by herself (4:18):
Tomorrow on NPR Morning Edition- Hidden Kitchens is Weenie Royale: The Impact of the Internment on Japanese American Cooking, the latest in the Kitchen Sisters series. Here’s a preview of “Weenie Royale” (2:23 mp3):
Weekend America has been running Ann & Kara‘s latest series One Thing, stories of refugees. Last week’s was the sisters Leena and Mariya, and their mother, Shafiqa Sher, “Afghanistan to Amarillo” (8:40 mp3):
Mariya Sher Ali behind the counter of her store, Amarillo International Foods:
This American Life on the radio, on TV, on tour: you never know where Ira’s face might pop up.
Welcome to the World Premiere of the earth-shaking, ass-tounding new old radio show Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! The Producers are the well-known international dateline traders and typhoon tycoons, Artissimmo Silverguy, Ask Amy, The Medium is the Massett, Christ Mantra, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Flowers.
So, you asked for it, and you’re gonna get it. Now, Loadies and Gentrifieds, w/o any further undo, we give you CMFL, Episode One, in which our Chesty searches for Identity (7:36 mp3):
Tune in next week when Chesty gives good headings to the Dog Lovelorn.
The Crossing East project has posted several videos made from their (Peabody winning) radio series. “Refugee Dreams Revisited”:
Other X-East vids: “Chinese Frontier Herbalist” and “Hawaiians and Native Americans.”
NPR Labs published a visualization of U.S. public radio coverage (compiled from data current June 2007). The full-size map is a 3.6MB jpeg. Here’s a scaled down vers:
Douglas Grant of Low Noise Records has this ad-spoof for the US.gov’s radio time channel, “WWV- The Tick” (0:46 mp3):
Anyone interested in anything related to starting and managing a successful radio series needs to read The Program Doctor’s Manifesto in The Transom Review: Jim Russell.
“For over 50 years, outlaw American radio broadcasters exploited a legal loophole and aired powerful pirate radio from the Mexican side of the border. So called ‘border blasters’ – or ‘X stations’ – were true innovators whose influence continues to be felt today. OTM’s Jamie York tells the story.”
With powers as high as 1M Watts — 10X that of the largest legal US transmitters — “locals saw it electrocute birds in mid-flight,” sez reporter Jamie York. From selling goat glands and baby chicks, to live love-making, to giving Wolfman Jack, Woody Guthrie, and the Carter Family an international audience, “The X Factor” (16:49 mp3):
via Kathy: Creative PR.
StoryCorps® this morn (NPR-ME) once again plucked the heartstrings, reminding us what we have to give thanks for. Danielle and Gabrielle Hall remember their mother Martha, who died of breast cancer in 2003. “I have pictures of our last Thanksgiving…” (2:08 mp3):
In this week’s HV cast— A woman sits cross-legged, panhandling on a busy city sidewalk. She takes money only from white folks, and gives it to blacks who pass by. Her sign reads: “200 Years of Slavery in the United States. Reparation payments accepted here.” damali ayo is a street performance artist. “I offer people a convenient opportunity to pay for the unpaid labor of African Americans.” This piece is part of her “living flag” project. A story by Dmae Roberts and damali ayo, “Living Flag- Reparations” (9:02 mp3):
From 2004, a phone message left by a WHYY reporter to laptoplobbyist.com. She was frustrated with their spam. Her apology wasn’t enuf to get her job back after getting fired for (0:16 mp3):
Stephin Merritt stays in NPR studios until he comes up with song. The song is inspired by a Phil Toledano photo (right). Two days later, from a shaky start, he gets a fine tune. The process is all captured on video and in an NPR-ATC report : “NPR Music: Stephin Merritt: Two Days, A Million Faces.”
Memorable quotes from Merritt’s studio incarceration: “Normally I would sit around in a bar…” “The last two snare hits, Agnus and Billy, goes Agnus, Billy, Agnus, Billy…”
A few of us HV types have been working on The DNA Files, along with an army of engineers, producers, journalists, and scientists. The series of five hours are now online and on-air. Lotsa work, lotsa science, and lotsa sound went into these SoundVision productions.