March: Her Story ♀
Private Investigator
—Erica Heilman
1 A private investigator and radio producer share skills: you ask questions, try to figure what happened, then make a report. (11:10)
Cancer Monologs
—Dmae Roberts
2 Three women, a Chicana, African American and Romanian immigrant, describe their different approaches to surviving breast cancer. (8:43)
Paintmixers
—damali ayo
3 A performance artist heads to hardware stores looking for paint in shades of dark brown… her own: face, inner thigh, left breast. (5:09)
Story of Stuff
—Chase Sbicca
4 Annie Leonard spent a decade researching where consumer stuff comes from, how it’s manufactured, who that effects, and where it ends up. (7:01)
Surrounded by Lights
—Erin Mishkin
5 A very busy day with Amy Jo, a single mother of two toddlers. Everyday she strives to fulfill the promise for a better life she made to her daughter. (6:46)
Jan and Jack Kerouac
—Marjorie Van Halteren
6 A father-daughter dialog: Jack Kerouac’s daughter Jan, reads her an ode to her rarely seen dad; intertwined with Kerouac’s speeches and prose. (6:04)
Kiss and Dying
—Ceil Muller
7 An etiquette list if hospital behavior, and misbehavior, for those who are dying, and for the soon-to-be survivors. (7:45)
Miracle on the Streets
—Dmae Roberts
8 Miracle Draven was a homeless girl on the streets of Portland, Oregon. She recounts a day in her life as a crystal meth addict. (2:25)
Off the Bus
—Carmen Delzell
9 Let off the bus form Mexico at 5 a.m., with $5 in her pocket, at the 24-hour supermarket in Texas. The producer wonders "What’s next?" (4:30)
Office Yoga
—Rebecca Flowers
10 A more realistic approach to spiritual awareness: yogo for oppressed office corporate clones (2:10)
Memory Box Project
—Sandra Rattley
11 African AIDS workers share the insides of "memory boxes," keepsakes for orphaned children to remember their parents. (4:10)
PNG Women
—Skye Rohde
12 Tradition and culture collide in Papua New Guinea, as women try to balance gender roles and having choices. (4:04)
Quiet Kids
—Hillary Frank
13 Our loud world leaves little room for those who can’t shout. Listen closely as four teens talk about why they are quiet. (3:23)
Horse Therapy
—Dmae Roberts
14 Kids with disabilities are working with horses in a new kind of therapy that’s both physical and emotional. (5:01)
Cringe Love
—Nancy Updike
15 A look back at relationships you can’t believe actually happened. You stayed too long, put up with too much, said such nasty things. (11:21)
Living Without
—Sarah Vowell
16 The alienation and embarrassments caused by wheat-allergies reveala secret obsession with a magazine devoted to food sensitivities." (6:50)
Julie the Amtrak God
—Jenny Asarnow
17 An existential interaction with an automated Amtrak voice. (2:16)
After The Forgetting
—Erica Heilman
18 A Vermont family changes as their mother’s dementia progresses. What happens to love when there is no memory? (10:45)
Persistence of Memorex
—Ceil Muller
19 We go on an audio tour of the producer’s memory palace, made with bits of unused tape recordings gathered over the years. (8:29)
White Temple
—Dmae Roberts
20 A Taipei woman’s song leads the rock steps of the White Temple. There, high in the clouds, 100 voices sing salutations to the Buddha. (1:51)
Song and Memory— Eleanor Rigby
—Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler
21 What music from your past brings back a strong memory? Kelly Kinsey remembers a song that saved her. (3:24)
Song and Memory— Family of God
—Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler
22 Reverend Ruth Shaver has faith in the power of prayer and song. She is the new minister at the United Church of Schellsburg PA. (5:27)
Song and Memory— Harrigan
—Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler
23 A woman with a special recollection of a song heard frequently around St. Patrick’s Day: the popular Irish standard, "Harrigan." (3:33)
Song and Memory— Only the Lonely
—Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler
24 The song "Only the Lonely" reminds sound artist Nina Katchadourian of her of childhood summers with her brother in Finland. (8:18)
My Father’s Music
—Rebecca Flowers
25 Going in and out of cool, in syncopated time. A daughter and dad’s ever-changing relationship moves to the beat of a jazz standard. (7:18)
Dayenu (for Passover)
—Judith Sloan
26 A 1000-year-old Jewish Passover song tells of Egyptian first-borns and parted Red Seas (music: Frank London, of the Klezmatics). (5:03)
Credits
- 1 "Private Investigator": Erica Heilman works with the Vermont Folklife Center.
- 2 "Cancer Monologs": Dmae Roberts produced this for MediaRites Productions.
- 3 "Paintmixers": Dmae Roberts produced this piece with damali ayo, an author and performance artist.
- 4 "Story of Stuff": Chase Sbicca works at Sports Management Worldwide; Annie Leonard runs The Story of Stuff Project.
- 5 "Surrounded by Lights": Erin Mishkin is Membership Director of The Association Of Independents In Radio.
- 6 "Jan and Jack Kerouac": Marjorie Van Halteren is at MarjorieVanHalteren.com.
- 7 "Kiss and Dying ": Ceil Muller is a KQED Technical Producer.
- 8 "Miracle on the Streets": Dmae Robert’s site is DmaeRoberts.com.
- 9 "Off the Bus": Carmen Delzell’s piece debuted at Transom.
- 10 "Office Yoga": Rebecca Flowers wrote the novel Nice To Come Home To.
- 11 "Memory Box Project": Sandra Rattley produced this with interviews from Bushradio of South Africa.
- 12 "PNG Women": Skye Rohde is a freelance reporter and producer living in Los Angeles.
- 13 "Quiet Kids": Hillary Frank wrote several novels and is an independent radio producer.
- 14 "Horse Therapy": Dmae Roberts and MediaRites Productions produced this for the Heart of Nature series.
- 15 "Cringe Love": Nancy Updike is one of the original This American Life producers.
- 16 "Living Without": Sarah Vowell is a bestselling author and was contributing editor for This American Life.
- 17 "Julie the Amtrak God": Jenny Asarnow co-manages RadioActive for KUOW-Seattle.
- 18 "After The Forgetting": Erica Heilman wrote about "After the Forgetting" at Transom
- 19 "Persistence of Memorex": Ceil Muller is a KQED Technical Producer.
- 20 "White Temple": Dmae Roberts produced the Peabody Award-winning series Crossing East.
- 21 "Song and Memory— Eleanor Rigby": Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler are AnnKara,org.
- 22 "Song and Memory— Family of God": Kara Oehler’s goal is to "Remake the Internet" via Zeega.
- 23 "Song and Memory— Harrigan": Ann Heppermann is a Sarah Lawrence College teacher and WNYC producer.
- 24 "Song and Memory— Only the Lonely": Nina’s site is NinaKatchadourian.com.
- 25 "My Father’s Music": Rebecca Flowers wrote the novel Nice To Come Home To.
- 26 "Dayenu (for Passover)": Judith Sloan is part of the Earsay project.