Producers:

Erica Heilman

Heather Li

Entre Quatro Paredes (Between Four Walls)

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:46:34 +0000

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Year: 2021

Producers:

Simultaneous

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 19:24:52 +0000

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Year: 2021

Producers:

Pamela Z

PMHx

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:34:39 +0000

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Year: 2021

Producers:

James T. Green

Inventions in Sound

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:55:11 +0000

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Year: 2021

Producers:

Monaea, a 2020 Diary

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:38:39 +0000

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Year: 2021

Producers:

Time Bandit

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:18:10 +0000

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Year: 2021

Producers:

Sean Cole

Infinities

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:06:32 +0000

Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.

Year: 2020

Producers:

Boen Wang

Zoha Zokaei

In the Dark: Season Two

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:18:28 +0000

Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.

Year: 2019

Producers:

The Return

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:19:53 +0000

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and his grandparents still live there. But visiting them didn't feel like the home he once knew.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Sayre Quevedo

Punks

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:04:03 +0000

Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Mardi Gras is a State of Mind

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 03:58:16 +0000

A homosexual reflection on an effort to release ourselves from misshapen containers.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Mara Lazer

Death in Illinois Prisons: He Didn't Have a Death Sentence, But That's What He Got

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 03:50:33 +0000

For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Shannon Heffernan

The Earthquake

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:01:03 +0000

About a year ago, producers at KPCC started discussing the inevitable major quake set to hit Los Angeles and wondered how they could get people to not just listen but really prepare. The Big One: Your Survival Guide is what they came up with.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Arwen Champion Nicks

The Audio Guide to Grieving

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:41:10 +0000

Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Melanie Kruvelis

Purple Rain

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:27:14 +0000

“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Wederik De Backer

It Started With Oscar Grant

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:03:41 +0000

A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Sandhya Dirks

Being Siri

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:45:23 +0000

A woman gives away an intimate, personal part of herself—a part of herself that she wasn’t even that crazy about to begin with: her voice. And she gives it away to a total stranger.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Erin Anderson

Re:sound #269 Lefty Disco

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:09:15 +0000

This hour, a mob of rock fans and an erratic limb.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Re:sound #268 Sleep Happy

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:14:38 +0000

This hour, family dramas can span across generations ...or just across the hallway.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Re:sound #267 Kintsugi Whipped Cream

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 06:58:30 +0000

This hour, an unlikely therapeutic duo and a magical journey through the golden age of radio advertising.

Year: 2019

Producers:

Bitchin’ Pitchin’ Panel (Day 2)

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:24:32 +0000

A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session - hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) - pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch...

Year: 2019

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:43:45 +0000

Two lovers share an intimate conversation on the eve of their breakup, exploring loneliness and intimacy.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Sayre Quevedo

Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:04:53 +0000

Where is Cleo? It’s a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1970’s.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Counted: An Oakland Story

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:05:50 +0000

During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Host's Fat

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:55:45 +0000

Meat podcast’s host Jonathan Zenti is an overweight man (technically “obese").

Year: 2017

Producers:

Jonathan Zenti

God + The Gays

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:24:24 +0000

In her first radio piece, Phoebe visits Christians from her past and tries to understand whether queer people and homophobic Christians can have meaningful relationships.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Phoebe Wang

Ear Hustle: Dirty Water

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:08:51 +0000

Ear Hustle is a unique creative partnership between Earlonne Woods, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, and outside collaborator Nigel Poor. Together, along with other men at the prison, they produce stories about daily life behind the walls.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 02:50:29 +0000

Since its founding 15 years ago, Tesla has become one of the most valuable car companies in the country. Tesla is worth tens of billions of dollars, and its all-electric cars have achieved cult status among enthusiasts.

Year: 2018

Producers:

John Thompson vs. American Justice

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 02:12:45 +0000

When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that he had sold drugs to an undercover cop.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Man Choubam (I am good)

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:40:24 +0000

Sharon is a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Sharon Mashihi

Overnight in the E.R.

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:35:28 +0000

For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Sammy Mack

Summer Rain

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:26:13 +0000

To have and to lose control.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Nanna Hauge Kristensen

Uncounted Civilian Casualties in Iraq

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:14:39 +0000

The American-led battle against the Islamic State has been hailed as the most precise air campaign in history. But its airstrikes have killed far more Iraqi civilians than anyone has acknowledged.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Annie Brown

How was President Barack Obama shaped by his years in Chicago as a community organizer turned politician?

Year: 2018

Producers:

Colin McNulty

Re:sound #252 Analog

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:20:49 +0000

This hour, three stories from the annals of analog.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Episode 1 - A Perfect Murder

Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Joe Frank

Larry and Zach

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:43:19 +0000

In Joe Frank's imagined world, a father and son conduct a conversation that appears to center around certain, tangible topics. But it's actually a searing and candid examination of their relationship -- no holds barred.

Year: 2018

Producers:

Joe Frank

Arthur and Eleanor

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:37:13 +0000

Eleanor needs a family -- but the only family she had, her ex-husband Arthur, doesn't really need her anymore.

Year: 1987

Producers:

Joe Frank

Suicide Bridge

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:28:04 +0000

Lines form around the block for the world's most popular suicide spot.

Year: 2000

Producers:

Joe Frank

Minister [Excerpt]

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:19:42 +0000

Joe Frank, master of late night radio, assembled this piece: a phone conversation between himself and a cranky minister.

Year: 2000

Producers:

Joe Frank

Fresh Air: Joe Frank

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:59:21 +0000

"Whatever tragedies might befall you, you can always right away think, 'well that would make a great story for radio!'"

Year: 2018

Producers:

Sweepstakes Winner

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:06:39 +0000

Joe Frank, the original radio maverick, is known for leaving listeners more than a bit uncomfortable.

Year: 2000

Producers:

Joe Frank

Re:sound #249 The Pocket Conference Show Part 2

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 20:00:01 +0000

This hour we're going behind-the-scenes at two top podcasts: The Daily and 99% Invisible .

Year: 2018

Producers:

Re:sound #248 The Twisted Xmas Show

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:01:20 +0000

This hour, Third Coast’s take on the holidays.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Not All Who Wander Are Lost… But Some Definitely Are

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:39:40 +0000

A car is a classic place to realize: "oh, I’m lost."

Year: 2017

Producers:

James Spring

First You Leave and Then You Go

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:18:42 +0000

Karen's dad wanted to pass on his curiosity and his faith to his seven children. Karen inherited that curiosity, but sharing his faith is another story.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Karen Duffin

Chanukah, 1992

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:46:16 +0000

One minute, snatched from a Chanukah party in 1992. Gwen Macsai's party, to be exact.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Dennis Funk

The Big Night

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:41:10 +0000

Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Jonathan Goldstein

Best of the Best 2017 (Part 2)

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:26:01 +0000

This hour, some of the winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, including the Best Documentary: Gold Award winner.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Best of the Best 2017 (Part 1)

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:10:52 +0000

This hour, some of the winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
Featuring...

Year: 2017

Producers:

Re:sound #247 The Meet the Composer Show

Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:41:17 +0000

This hour, we're diving deep into the strange, beautiful world of modern music composition.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Experiments in Generative Sound Design

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 01:45:59 +0000

Sound artist and designer Stephan Moore demonstrates his approach to sound design.

Year: 2017

Re:sound #246 The Mirrored Show

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 21:15:56 +0000

This hour, what we see - and what we want to see - when we gaze into our reflections in the mirror.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Mudslide Part 2: After the Avalanche

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:27:56 +0000

In the era of Donald Trump, journalists have had to adapt as storytellers.

Year: 2017

Bringing Together Narrative and News

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:09:07 +0000

The Daily podcast has brought rich sound production and narrative storytelling together with daily news and New York Times journalism.

Year: 2017

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 16:02:34 +0000

For some friends there's no subject too secret, or content too confronting. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best New Artist Award.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Rosa Gollan

Standing Out From the Crowd at a Trump Rally

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:17:04 +0000

As the Iowa caucuses approached in February of 2016, Donald Trump’s political campaign was gaining traction with voters. One major theme became clear: fear.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Ike Sriskandarajah

Quiet Revolution

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:10:07 +0000

It’s sometimes said you’re never too old to learn something new but is that really sensible advice?

Year: 2017

Producers:

Laura Irving

Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 21:54:12 +0000

In a country where women’s lives are intensely restricted, Majd Abdulghani dreams of becoming a scientist. Meanwhile, her parents want to arrange her marriage.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Los Cassettes del Exilio

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:10:15 +0000

For much of Dennis Maxwell’s childhood, his father was living in exile, communicating with the family via cassette tapes.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Dennis Maxwell

Heavyweight: Gregor

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:46:30 +0000

20 years ago, Gregor lent some CDs to a musician friend. The CDs helped make him a famous rockstar.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Emancipation: A Young Man Leaves Foster Care on His Own Terms

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:33:19 +0000

Days after his 21st birthday, Noel Anaya had one final hearing before aging out of California’s foster care system, and he didn’t want to go through it alone.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Blink Once for Yes

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:55:33 +0000

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:34:36 +0000

In June of 2017, Third Coast hosted a frank discussion about what it takes to make it in today’s podcast landscape, featuring: Jenna Weiss-Berman (Pineapple Street Media), Alex Blumberg (Gimlet Media), N’Jeri Eaton (NPR) and Julie Shapiro (Radiotopia).

Year: 2017

Re:sound #241 The Smash the Binary Show

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:33:06 +0000

This hour, stories that grab hold of our expectations and smash the binary.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Re:sound #240 The Aftermath Show

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:33:46 +0000

This hour two stories about what remains after the fighting stops.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Ear Hustle, Episode 1: Cellies

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:34:59 +0000

"We started with Cellies because we felt that people probably can’t relate to prison but they can definitely relate to a roommate, especially a roommate from hell." Earlonne Woods, co-host of Ear Hustle .

Year: 2017

Producers:

Bartolo's Journey

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:19:36 +0000

Bartolo crossed the U.S. border alone… when he was just 16 years old.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Erika Beras

Zoe Chace

Re:sound #236 The New You Show

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:48:25 +0000

This hour redefinition, reflection... and the new you.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Ruffian

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:47:08 +0000

Some animals might run faster, but none run more beautifully.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Private Black Motherhood and Public White Protest

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:49:42 +0000

"What does it mean to be a woman? This is a trick question."

Year: 2017

Producers:

Stacia Brown

Choose Responsibly

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:56:04 +0000

Choosing a partner is just a game, or is it?

Year: 2017

Producers:

Dennis Funk

Re:sound #235 The "I Do" or "Do I?" Show

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:47:40 +0000

This hour, “I do” or “do I?” the calculus for marriage, for better and for worse.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Where's Richard?

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:43:28 +0000

On February 15, 2014 Richard Simmons didn’t show up to teach the exercise class he had led for 40 years - and he hasn't been seen in public since.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Re:sound #234 The Third Coast Institute of Sound Show

Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:34:23 +0000

This hour we’re coming to you from inside the Third Coast Institute of Sound — a fictional museum we’ve dreamed up where all of the exhibits and artifacts are dedicated to things that make sound and noise.

Year: 2017

Producers:

In The Event Of An Emergency, Put Your Sister In An Upright Position

Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:40:17 +0000

Every year on the day after Christmas, children of divorced parents are shuttled across the United States, from one parent to the other.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Susan Burton

Hana's Suitcase

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:50:21 +0000

When the Children's Holocaust Education Center in Tokyo acquired Hana Brady's suitcase, all they knew was that Hana was born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and died at Auschwitz at age 13.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Karen Levine

Ghetto Life 101

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:50:28 +0000

In 1993, LeAlan Jones (age 13) and Lloyd Newman (age 14) collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to create an audio diary of life on Chicago's South Side.

Year: 1993

Producers:

David Isay

The View From Room 205

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:45:14 +0000

This is a story about some little kids and a big idea.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Linda Lutton

This Senator Saved My Love Life

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:46:21 +0000

You have to give it to some elected representatives — they really will respond to the letters you send.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Anna Sale

Re:sound #233 The Rabbit Hole Show

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:58:11 +0000

This hour, rabbit holes — stories that start exploring one small thing and unexpectedly end up telling a much richer story.

Year: 2017

Producers:

No Bad News

Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:19:18 +0000

Three decades ago, American hypnotist Larry Garrett committed himself to abstaining from the news.

Year: 2017

Producers:

The Season Episode 8: The Worst Part About Our Sport

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:10:44 +0000

How do you go from losing to winning?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ilya Marritz

Re:sound #232 The Baffled Show

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 21:55:27 +0000

This hour the unexpected and inexplicable.

Year: 2017

Producers:

Re:sound #231 The Pocket Conference Show

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:03:20 +0000

This hour we're featuring an episode of our brand new podcast — the Third Coast Pocket Conference .

Year: 2016

Producers:

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:27:42 +0000

From the 2016 Third Coast Conference... celebrated author, filmmaker and radio journalist Alex Kotlowitz talks about the power of a finely crafted intimate narrative.

Year: 2016

Re:sound #228 The Sonic Wanders Show

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:36:00 +0000

This hour we're going on three soundwalks that meander at the pace of real life.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:33:22 +0000

Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Thomas Arent Andersen

Dead Mom Talking

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:58:04 +0000

"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."

Year: 2016

Producers:

Rachel Matlow

Re:sound #227 The 2016 ShortDocs Show — Radio Cinema

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:50:06 +0000

This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!

Year: 2016

Producers:

Envision Yourself Being a Free Man

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:43:05 +0000

Sylvia Ryerson works with family members of those incarcerated in Virginia supermax prisons to capture the sounds, voices & music of home - to be broadcast directly into the prisons.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sylvia Ryerson

Special Feature: Envision Yourself Being a Free Man

Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:03:58 +0000

On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an audio postcard from the Restorative Radio Project plus an interview with the series' producer, Sylvia Ryerson.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sylvia Ryerson

Make Them Care: Crafting Narratives About Entrenched Social Problems

Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:59:11 +0000

In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems.

Year: 2016

Not By Accident - Episode One

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:22:19 +0000

For five years, Sophie Harper recorded nearly every phone call, chat with friends, even her visit to the fertility clinic.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sophie Harper

The Pit of Despair

Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:04:14 +0000

For some people, making great radio is easy. Ben Calhoun has no idea what those people are talking about! For him, making radio is hard, beset by self-doubt -- and he finds it’s often easy to get stuck.

Year: 2016

First Off... This is in Really Good Shape

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:12:31 +0000

In this session for editors - or anyone who wants to help someone else shape a story – Gimlet Media’s Jorge Just explores the delicate art of making good things better.

Year: 2016

Compose yourself: a producer’s guide to working with musicians

Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:09:48 +0000

It’s becoming more common for podcast producers to work with composers to create an original soundtrack. At this session, producer Michael May and composer/producer Nick DePrey share their techniques for bringing a piece to life with music and sound design.

Year: 2016

Storymakers Durham

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:45:05 +0000

The Storymakers project elicits conversations about race and class that are candid, complicated, and as intimate as eavesdropping on someone else's dinner conversation.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:03:09 +0000

This hour, one man who needs to devour as much air as he can and another who's at his best while holding his breath.

Year: 2016

Producers:

The Runway

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:44:29 +0000

Mary Going runs Saint Harridan, a company that makes custom suits catering to butch women and trans men. Her fans are enthusiastic and dedicated, her products are selling out... and she can barely pay her rent.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Luke Malone

Re:sound #223 The Cold Show

Sun, 26 Jun 2016 02:15:13 +0000

This hour audio air conditioning — we’re turning down the thermostat and ushering in stories that give us the chills.

Year: 2016

Producers:

At a Loss for Words

Sun, 12 Jun 2016 22:39:19 +0000

"I want to turn you inside out and fold you into a tiny square..." Sometimes the word 'love' just doesn't sum up how we feel about someone.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Re:sound #222 The Uninvited Guests Show

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 19:07:41 +0000

This hour, uninvited guests like old lovers, irrational fears and the annoying habits that keep us up at night.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Leaf

Tue, 31 May 2016 15:49:18 +0000

A tree wonders why all of its leaves are leaving.

Year: 2016

Wake Up/Spring Strut

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:50:04 +0000

Springtime teases awake a hibernating soul in order to experience it's holy wonders.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sara Curtis

Sex Toy Graveyard

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:46:57 +0000

Burying your past never felt so good.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Kristina Loring

One Way

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:41:57 +0000

A woman in a hurry seeks refuge from a storm and finds something in common with the motel attendant.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Marie Lovejoy

Star of the Sea

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:35:34 +0000

How do we reconcile ourselves to a love we'll never consummate?

Year: 2016

Producers:

Moira Donovan

The Nature of Engagement

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:31:10 +0000

A thought experiment and an anecdote come together to illuminate the challenges of cross-cultural engagement, particularly in conservation work.

Year: 2016

Producers:

James Perla

Badlands

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:23:24 +0000

A paddle down the Red Deer River in Canada's Badlands leads to a reflection on past worlds and the mysteries nature keeps from us.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Molly Segal

Flute on a Ladder

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:09:37 +0000

Chance meeting? Perhaps.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Tim Forrest

The Trophy

Tue, 24 May 2016 21:01:05 +0000

A man returns, victorious, from the hunt. Curious onlookers react to the killing. But they're not all looking at the same animal.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Hannah Colton

Miss

Tue, 24 May 2016 20:55:32 +0000

Outing in the ice storm.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Braeden Doane

Life Drive

Tue, 24 May 2016 20:49:17 +0000

In 1961 during the fascist regime in Portugal, a group of political prisoners escape from a fortress prison in a bullet proof Chrysler Imperial - the car that belonged to the dictator himself.
Voiceover by Jay Buettner; Additional voice by Carlos Patrão.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Carlo Patrao

Aghast

Tue, 24 May 2016 20:42:09 +0000

Fear is the enemy of discovery.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Ignacio Martinez

The Commute

Tue, 24 May 2016 20:38:04 +0000

As she takes the train home from Penn Station, one anonymous woman gets an uncomfortable surprise.
Voice actor: Emily Duncan

Year: 2016

Producers:

Katie Toth

Stolen Threads

Tue, 24 May 2016 20:22:59 +0000

An A.I. detective intercepts emails from a young TV journalist, and attempts to rescue her from the clutches of Big Data.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Two Libraries

Tue, 24 May 2016 20:06:25 +0000

A quiet eavesdropper gets more than he bargained for at the public library.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Noah Levinson

HATCH

Tue, 24 May 2016 16:40:49 +0000

A man, in orbit, going round and round...

Year: 2016

Producers:

Geoff McQueen

Por-cup-i-nes

Tue, 24 May 2016 16:32:56 +0000

Daoud Iskander hunts porcupines in southern Lebanon.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Hugo Goodridge

Under Hell Gate

Tue, 24 May 2016 16:19:02 +0000

When humanity vanishes, Hell Gate will be the last bridge standing in New York City; until then, it watches and waits.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Green Goats

Tue, 24 May 2016 16:13:13 +0000

Larry and Ann Cihanek recount the history of their Rhinebeck, NY-based weed control business, Green Goats, which sends friendly goats to parks across the northeast to destroy invasive plants by simply eating them.

Year: 2016

Producers:

I dream of rattlesnakes

Tue, 24 May 2016 15:54:17 +0000

A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Mrs. Knight

Tue, 24 May 2016 15:50:01 +0000

Two sons recall a night in Los Angeles 60 years ago.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Angie Vorhies

Love after Life

Tue, 24 May 2016 15:43:20 +0000

The story of how love can transgress through all realms of life and death.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Dean Ahern, Michaela Kane & Saoirse Finnegan Sheirdan

Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People

Tue, 24 May 2016 15:24:04 +0000

A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Dear Deer Face Collective

The Life of Bil

Thu, 19 May 2016 22:07:33 +0000

A fictional documentary about the mysterious, elusive wild-man Bil.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Maya Turns 26

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:56:33 +0000

Whether she likes it or not, things are about to change.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Maya Goldberg-Safir

The Hadal Zone

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:48:00 +0000

Two obnoxious city boys take the Giant Squid Safari in the Sea of Japan and end up in deep trouble.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Chain Reactions

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:42:30 +0000

A series of events inside and outside of someone's head.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Tessa Jane Kalinosky

All I Need Now

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:38:22 +0000

A dead friend lives on, thanks to spammers and a willingness to believe in possibility.

Year: 2016

Producers:

I Will Find You

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:33:53 +0000

He was in danger but he had someone whom he can trust, who were wandering in her memories to find the traces of him.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Melike Ceylan

Fembot

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:24:11 +0000

Hear the inner thoughts of Fembot – your ideal, socially-constructed long-distance girlfriend!

Year: 2016

Producers:

Don't Gogh

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:19:21 +0000

Creative inspiration turns to obsession in the life of an artist.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Spivey Knapik

The Noble Gazer

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:13:49 +0000

My dad stares out the window a lot at work - for a while I thought he was being lazy but I don't think he is anymore.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Hans Anderson

Ping Pong & Death

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:07:40 +0000

Alien transmissions, ping pong competitions and the perils of aging.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Raymond Pang

By the Deer's Trail

Thu, 19 May 2016 21:03:24 +0000

An existential monologue of a deer along a journey that happens to be his last one.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Yakov Lurie

Seeing Heat

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:57:14 +0000

The first human with heat-vision talks candidly of her experience, the surgeon explains the science while she's under the knife.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Mia Kukathasan

Starcastic

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:52:29 +0000

Found-sound sculpture.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Coasty McCoastface

One Insomnia To Go, Please!

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:47:22 +0000

After a sleepless night, a strong coffee and a walk lead to an unexpected realization.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sandro Schroeder

The Different A

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:41:46 +0000

Is there something mystical about tuning?

Year: 2016

Producers:

Zach Nichols

ragazzo incontra ragazzo

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:37:56 +0000

A chance encounter brings together an American and Italian boy, not knowing when they'll ever meet again.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Garrett Kling

What Is It Like?

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:34:53 +0000

A look at invisibility, silhouettes, and humanity through a kaleidoscope.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Tree Mabry

Minor Fugue

So we were lied to.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Garrett Tiedemann

Cassius

Thu, 19 May 2016 19:38:35 +0000

To stick with the herd, sometimes you give up everything.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Jessica Klinke

Hey Guys, I'm Sorry

Thu, 19 May 2016 19:26:35 +0000

A YouTube make-up star who suffers from anxiety finds love in an unlikely place.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sandra Bertin

From a Distance

Thu, 19 May 2016 19:18:07 +0000

Standing where she always wanted to be, a woman on the moon looks at life from a distance.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Truck Stop Transformation

Thu, 19 May 2016 19:07:47 +0000

At the World's Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa, nothing is simply what it is.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Jake J. Smith

Chewed-Up Justice

Thu, 19 May 2016 19:03:47 +0000

A young man's gritty investigation of a crime that hit his snack drawer.

Year: 2016

Producers:

James Lindberg

First Kiss

Thu, 19 May 2016 17:00:31 +0000

You never know what will happen on date night...

Year: 2016

Producers:

Ben Kass

2000 Messages

Thu, 19 May 2016 15:45:20 +0000

Robbie, a former lighthouse keeper in Guernsey, thinks he sent as many as 2000 messages out to sea over the years - with some interesting results.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Elisabeth Mahy

It's Coming

Thu, 19 May 2016 15:39:22 +0000

Something is coming for a man struggling to survive - is it Spring, Redemption, Revenge or Death?

Year: 2016

Producers:

Chandler Murray

All Saints Bait and Rifle

Thu, 19 May 2016 15:34:40 +0000

Hubert copes with depression in a culture of guns: A radio poem.

Year: 2016

Producers:

David Merleau

Spaceman Carl

Thu, 19 May 2016 14:55:51 +0000

Captain Sheila gets a little help taming the wild wastes of outer space.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Too Many Miles

Wed, 18 May 2016 21:45:16 +0000

What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?

Year: 2016

Producers:

Party of Special Things to Do

Wed, 18 May 2016 19:33:10 +0000

A bland, unremarkable, "yes" man goes along with everything and doesn't question social customs.

Year: 2016

Producers:

The Hunt

Wed, 18 May 2016 19:01:45 +0000

Carl Miles is a professional hunter who goes after an innocent deer.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Liana Leite

The Chronicle of a Goodbye Foretold

Wed, 18 May 2016 18:50:21 +0000

Harry tells us his chronicle of a foretold goodbye.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Eva Moeraert

One Noir Moment

Wed, 18 May 2016 18:39:39 +0000

The story of a relationship with reference to our relationship to the planet.
Written and narrated by James Whitman.

Year: 2016

Producers:

RJ Phoenix

Fish Out of water

Wed, 18 May 2016 18:34:41 +0000

An Inuit artist on the ritual that connects him with the childhood he lost, and a culture he longs to remember.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Vanessa Greco

A Series of Deaths in the Octopus Level

Wed, 18 May 2016 18:25:26 +0000

This is an adventure that was recorded outside, inside and in-games.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Adriene Lilly

Why Me eM yhW

Wed, 18 May 2016 18:17:51 +0000

Darrell finds out that you can't trust anyone. Not even yourself.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Justin & Anna Neal

William Birdman

Wed, 18 May 2016 18:12:54 +0000

A London eccentric who feeds parakeets in the park.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Pip Swallow

A Saxophone in the Woods

Wed, 18 May 2016 18:04:49 +0000

You don't expect to hear a saxophone walking through the woods, and the encores are unlikely to happen.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Vladimir Kryuchev

Tracy's Lost & Found

Wed, 18 May 2016 15:42:21 +0000

When a strange item is left behind in a motel room, a lost & found coordinator is forced to confront her own life's meaning.

Year: 2016

Producers:

He Gets His Girl

Wed, 18 May 2016 15:19:31 +0000

Barbara & Jim fell in love, got married, and began building their life together, but things didn't turn out exactly as planned.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Abbie Allensen

Bottle Service

Tue, 17 May 2016 22:01:45 +0000

Steve the bellhop knows the champagne goes to someone's room on the third floor, but in this hotel of mystery the question remains: who ordered the bubbly?

Year: 2016

Producers:

Tornado Warning

Tue, 17 May 2016 21:31:11 +0000

A woman and dog hide out from a storm in her mother's strange basement.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Ellie Gordon-Moershel

Out of Order

Tue, 17 May 2016 21:15:01 +0000

A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.

Year: 2016

Producers:

La Cosa Preziosa

The Drumming Trip

Tue, 17 May 2016 21:09:31 +0000

A famous Romanian music therapist invites his clients deep into the wild where they express their most intimate feelings in a very original way.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Cezar Florea

TAPE_003

Tue, 17 May 2016 21:02:53 +0000

A man searches through his tapes looking for a lost memory.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Oliver Morris

The Fringe Door

Tue, 17 May 2016 20:55:53 +0000

A meditation on the paradox of connection/disconnection, explored through the eyes, words and minds of two strangers - one in Tokyo and one in Rome.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Dominica Roebuck

Swimmers

Tue, 17 May 2016 20:41:42 +0000

A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Michelle Macklem

Behind the Tinted Windows

Tue, 17 May 2016 20:27:55 +0000

When it comes to modern-day private investigation, there's more than meets the (private) eye.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Fiddlehead Island

Tue, 17 May 2016 20:07:43 +0000

1 goof. 100 internet people. 50 000 fiddleheads.

Year: 2016

Producers:

The Disappearance of George

Tue, 17 May 2016 19:48:28 +0000

The true story of a disappearance in the NDG neighborhood of Montreal.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Tally Abecassis

Paper Plane

Tue, 17 May 2016 19:39:37 +0000

Abstract psychodrama collage: Noir cadence through psychological meandering.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Laura Reid & Mark Limacher

Anxiety

Tue, 17 May 2016 19:32:36 +0000

The world is strange outside
I’m a stranger in the landscape
As a bad edition of
Alice in Wonderland

Year: 2016

Producers:

Rikke Mia Skovdal

Longing

Tue, 17 May 2016 19:23:04 +0000

Waiting for a long-departed lover.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Mara Maracinescu

Cloudy the Pigeon

Tue, 17 May 2016 19:09:32 +0000

A story of a pigeon that kept returning to a family's home almost like an omen.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Erik Mangrum

Love Means Never Having To Say You're Coleslaw

Tue, 17 May 2016 18:59:24 +0000

A group of Cantabrigians reflect on the weekly potluck that brings them together.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Nick Andersen

Birding 101

Tue, 17 May 2016 18:53:52 +0000

This ShortDoc takes a walk in a local cemetery as you hear the typical dialogue between fellow birdwatchers and follow one birder in particular.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Nick Russo

Galactic Gala

Tue, 17 May 2016 18:49:57 +0000

What does an alien prom sound like?

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sienna Barstow

A Meditation on the Femme Fatale

Tue, 17 May 2016 18:33:52 +0000

This piece presents two powerful women: the original femme fatale, Lady Macbeth, and presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, to meditate on society's fixation with the archetype in both fiction and real life.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Alex Gonzalez

The Fall

Tue, 17 May 2016 18:26:51 +0000

A story about nature's power. Special thanks to Elise Neuscheler.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Katrine Hedegaard

Re:sound #221 The Writing Out of Trouble Show

Mon, 16 May 2016 21:35:28 +0000

This hour we're featuring two stories of love through loss... plus an interview with the producers who've written their way through these troubled moments.

Year: 2016

Producers:

An Escape to Nature

Wed, 11 May 2016 20:49:08 +0000

A city goer escapes the loudness of the city to find peace in nature.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Megan Kolopsky

The Legend of Crazy Woman Creek

Wed, 11 May 2016 20:44:35 +0000

The origin story of how Crazy Woman Creek in Wyoming got its name, as told from the perspective of a mountain man named Johnson.

Year: 2016

Roger, that!

Wed, 11 May 2016 20:41:17 +0000

Roger, produced in multiple dimensions, must struggle with the production of his life and his life production "in space, or anywhere else."

Year: 2016

Producers:

Evelyn Bottando

And Through We Went

Tue, 10 May 2016 21:59:53 +0000

A hidden note begins an adventure in a strange house in Logan Square.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Elisa Shoenberger

Ant Farm

Tue, 10 May 2016 21:40:14 +0000

This nature documentary explores the world of the formicarium or ant farm with expert Claire Craig.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Rachel Gelfand

CRASH

Tue, 10 May 2016 21:08:52 +0000

A true story of an irresponsible night out in London many years ago.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Roland Denning

Dryden Fringes

Tue, 10 May 2016 20:57:40 +0000

A kid in a town in North Ontario on the prowl for something supernatural finds it where he didn't expect to.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Jess Shane

Should've Stopped

Tue, 10 May 2016 20:42:30 +0000

A ghastly scene takes a hardboiled detective by surprise, but something even more unexpected lurks in the shadows of deception that hang heavy in this picturesque suburban home.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Samantha and Jacob LeBas

Plant Hunters

Tue, 10 May 2016 20:24:26 +0000

A thorny challenge to find a rare plant.

Year: 2016

Producers:

David Boose

Dysfunctional Friendship

Tue, 10 May 2016 19:44:55 +0000

In the idyllic first days of college, two friends are startled in their new surroundings.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Austin Frederick

The Man in the White Shirt

Tue, 10 May 2016 19:28:27 +0000

Many houses are robbed - but how often does someone camp both outside and inside your house waiting for his or her opportunity to pounce?

Year: 2016

Producers:

Sam Turken

The Storm

Thu, 05 May 2016 21:24:53 +0000

Five years ago Erik embarked on "the project" - a last ditch attempt to harness the demons of his past.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Kirsti Melville

The Real Dean Scream

Thu, 05 May 2016 20:47:44 +0000

In 2004, Howard Dean's presidential run fell apart, punctuated by an incredibly strange sound he made onstage at the Iowa caucus.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Jody Avirgan

Gravitation and Other Graces

Thu, 05 May 2016 20:18:56 +0000

Part documentary, part rumination, and part fairy tale.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Stephanie Rowden

Where's Abel?

Thu, 05 May 2016 20:03:15 +0000

Abel's fate is confirmed by an eyewitness who survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Year: 2016

Producers:

John Bechtold

The Rumble

Wed, 04 May 2016 17:47:10 +0000

The story of the rumble.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Benedict Jones

So Then I Was Like, I Love You

Wed, 04 May 2016 16:59:41 +0000

Three university students recall their first loves.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Haley Amster

Static

Wed, 04 May 2016 16:23:49 +0000

A man wakes up caught in the memory of a movie he watched the night before.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Roland Denning

The Intersection

Mon, 02 May 2016 20:21:28 +0000

The Intersection takes an unflinching look at a changing Bay Area through the lens of a single neighborhood corner.

Year: 2016

Producers:

David Boyer

Brennan Mercer

South 400 West

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 16:22:10 +0000

A man tells a story about meeting a woman.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Charlie Beck

The voice of my inner goddess

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:16:06 +0000

A clash of meditation and everyday life.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Rikke Mia Skovdal

In Praise of Love

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:49:52 +0000

A woman grapples with the leap into love.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Stephen Lacey

Burma’s Rohingya: Easy Prey for Traffickers

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:49:40 +0000

Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Betrayed by Silence

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:38:55 +0000

Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Britney

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:27:13 +0000

Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Starlee Kine

Mayday Mayday

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:09:55 +0000

During the dying minutes of April 2003, as the Cornish town of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Becky Ripley

Colin McNulty

Fighting for The Promised Land

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:03:19 +0000

Shirley Sherrod's name was thrust into the headlines in 2010 when she was fired from her post at the United States Department of Agriculture, accused of anti-white bias.

Year: 2016

Producers:

Tina Antolini

Sight Unseen

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:44:04 +0000

In December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded.

Year: 2015

Producers:

A Long Distance Solution

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:45:34 +0000

The story of how a reclusive biologist living in the Yukon Territory helped free four women wrongfully imprisoned in San Antonio, Texas.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Janna Graham

Introducing... The Sarahs

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 21:25:30 +0000

Let the audio fiction revolution begin! The Sarah Awards has the not-so-little goal of transforming radio drama worldwide.

Year: 2015

Producers:

A Portrait of Horace Parlan

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 21:05:34 +0000

For years, Horace Parlan played jazz with some of the biggest names, including Charles Mingus and Archie Shepp. Now, at 84, his long piano fingers are stiff, and he lives in a nursing home outside of Copenhagen.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Rikke Houd

Anchor Dreams: The Passion of Scoop Nemeth

Sat, 21 Nov 2015 18:39:58 +0000

Brian 'Scoop' Nemeth has a singular goal: to become "the black Bill O'Reilly."

Year: 2015

Producers:

The Updates

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:40:17 +0000

When Sophie Townsend’s husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, she started the Russell Updates, a weekly email that laid it all bare for friends and family.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Sophie Townsend

An American Life

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:00:59 +0000

Vaughn Hood was a 118-pound barber when he was drafted into the Vietnam War.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Larry Massett

Re:sound #208 The Behind the Headlines Show

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:39:08 +0000

This hour stories of black lives caught in the cross hairs of injustice.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Re:sound: #207 The Oops!... Who Dunnit Again Show

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:35:58 +0000

This hour two mysteries: one involving an obscure novel and Britney Spears, and the other a real life murder most fowl.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Looking For Love

Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:28:54 +0000

M. is six years old and transgender. Marlo is her single mom and chronicles their life together in her podcast How to Be a Girl .

Year: 2014

Producers:

Marlo Mack

What's in a hand?

Thu, 21 May 2015 20:57:58 +0000

Their daughter has twelve fingers, twelve toes, some fused together and some set askew – ain't nothing but a family thing.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Nellie Gilles

What does your name mean?

Thu, 21 May 2015 20:27:18 +0000

A mother and father reflect on what their child's name means and the incredible story of the destiny of the name.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Dan Gummel

What Mad Pursuit?

Thu, 21 May 2015 01:56:54 +0000

Scientists speak about discovery.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Susan Byrnes

What is Etched in Stone?

Thu, 21 May 2015 01:23:47 +0000

My Grandfather and Uncle recount their days as hand carving monumental sculptors in Ireland.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ciara O'Conner

Where Did Cheney Put the War Heads?

Thu, 21 May 2015 00:55:50 +0000

John Perry Barlow and Dick Cheney were on different sides of the MX missile proposal during the Cold War, and after years of retrospect, Barlow credits Cheney for helping prevent nuclear holocaust.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Will Rogers

What is it about girls?

Thu, 21 May 2015 00:46:37 +0000

The life of getting ready.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Vickie Ly

What is your Mexico Story?

Thu, 21 May 2015 00:34:37 +0000

Two students of Mexican heritage have the opportunity to travel to different parts of Mexico to explore their roots.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Malia Stephens

What do the signs say?

Thu, 21 May 2015 00:19:15 +0000

A disconnect with connections.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Mark Daterial

What Happened at Camp Bucca on June 9, 2007?

Thu, 21 May 2015 00:01:31 +0000

We reminisce on Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Caleb Nelson

What's Your Mexico Story?

Wed, 20 May 2015 23:41:00 +0000

My dad buys a ridiculous leather jacket in Mexico which leads to trouble with the local youth.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Marika Snider

What's behind the laugh?

Wed, 20 May 2015 23:23:45 +0000

A dark look at the role fake laughter plays in our lives.

Year: 2015

Who's making that sound?

Wed, 20 May 2015 21:51:27 +0000

An adventure in how sound affects different people.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre

What's in a name?

Wed, 20 May 2015 21:42:01 +0000

How does the movie Fargo resonate within the people of Fargo?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Meg Luther Lindholm

Who Are You and What Do You Do?

Wed, 20 May 2015 21:24:32 +0000

A short conversation about monks & music with Taraka Larsen of Prince Rama.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Brendan Mattox

Why don't kites tell you?

Wed, 20 May 2015 21:09:49 +0000

A blind girl accidentally ruins a hand-made kite.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Lindsey Wu (Zhaoqianmeng Wu)

What happened during the 1967 tornado?

Wed, 20 May 2015 20:49:23 +0000

An unforgettable story of survival, loss, and gratitude from a traumatic small town tornado.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Peggy Keiner

Where Have All the Cars Gone?

Wed, 20 May 2015 20:26:20 +0000

Becca and Hunter discover CicLAvia, a place where no cars go.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Hunter Bermudez and Becca Grumet

What happened to my car?

Fri, 15 May 2015 01:17:55 +0000

A St. Paul woman's 1997 Honda is in high demand around her neighborhood.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Steve Nelson

What Grandad didn't tell us.

Fri, 15 May 2015 01:04:13 +0000

A look at the relationship between grandfather and grandson, and the stories people leave behind.

Year: 2015

Producers:

What's Your Number?

Fri, 15 May 2015 00:52:07 +0000

How many sexual partners is anyone prepared to admit to?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Marnie Chesterton

What is beyond both dream and sleep

Fri, 15 May 2015 00:20:35 +0000

One man's spiritual journey, made possible through chanting.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Stephanie Smith and Eugenia Viti

When Nothing Turns Out the Way We Would Ever Expect

Thu, 14 May 2015 23:56:33 +0000

Mixed with found hums from a used voice recorder, a furniture repair and vintage store-owner recollects his father's diversions, weaknesses, and love for people.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Meheriet Fesseha and Gaelin Monkman-Kotz

When you follow two children on the most chocolatey day of the year

Thu, 14 May 2015 23:46:41 +0000

Aoife (6) and Aoibhinn (3) were followed around with a microphone, and at times took matters into their own hands!

Year: 2015

Producers:

Lisa Madden

Who is Little Lulu?

Thu, 14 May 2015 23:30:42 +0000

A 5th grade girl interviews a classmate about his interest in Little Lulu.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Where to get a bagel

Thu, 14 May 2015 23:14:17 +0000

In this exploration into the bagel feud between bagel shops St-Viateur and Fairmount, I speak with customers, employees and bagel connoisseurs alike to try and discover why people choose one bagel shop over the other.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Michelle Macklem

Where were you last night?

Thu, 14 May 2015 22:52:05 +0000

A short story.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Kate Landers

What happened that time I don't remember?

Thu, 14 May 2015 01:44:17 +0000

I ask my mother about the moment that defines her life and mine that I don't remember.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Meredith Turk

Where It's Not Junk

Thu, 14 May 2015 01:29:30 +0000

This is a story about what we sometimes do with the stuff that we don't use anymore.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Jackie Sojico

Who works harder than this immigrant?

Thu, 14 May 2015 01:01:29 +0000

Zamina, originially from Trinidad, is a seamstress by day and a restauranteur by night.

Year: 2015

Producers:

@Jenniferpossible

Where do pigeons go when they die?

Thu, 14 May 2015 00:46:35 +0000

There are so many pidgeons in London, but why do you never see a dead one?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Why Are You Wearing Roadkill?

Thu, 14 May 2015 00:08:30 +0000

The remarkable hat worn by a man on a park bench in Santa Fe plaza begs an explanation.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Siohban McHugh

What was it like meeting JFK?

Wed, 13 May 2015 23:41:26 +0000

Interview with my grandma Jane about when she met JFK and how his assassination affected her.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ellie Nakayama

Why did you cut your hair?

Wed, 13 May 2015 21:43:50 +0000

The humour, the pain, and the liberation of a simple haircut.

Year: 2015

Producers:

When does life begin?

Wed, 13 May 2015 21:15:57 +0000

Two women go to the hospital with pain in their stomach but each one is on a very different journey.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Adriana Cargill

Where are all the flowers from?

Wed, 13 May 2015 20:55:25 +0000

A little seaside town on the West Coast of Ireland wears floral posies for the children of Gaza.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ellen Cranitch

What was your first love?

Wed, 13 May 2015 20:35:36 +0000

A teenage girl recounts freshly ended first love.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Michaela Prell

What Happened to the Pencil Case?

Wed, 13 May 2015 00:08:41 +0000

A small metal box comes to represent loss.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Katie McMurran

When did I get turned around?

Wed, 13 May 2015 00:02:06 +0000

An exploration of the cacophony and cyclical nature of life.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Tom Harrison

What do you think?

Tue, 12 May 2015 23:52:28 +0000

Studs Terkel put to music.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Dave Langton

Quien soy yo, Quien era yo, Quien será él (Who I am, Who I was, Who He Will Be)

Tue, 12 May 2015 23:07:38 +0000

Jimmy Arteaga, a street juggler from Ecuador, reflects on his childhood and his child.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Sayre Quevedo

What will she read tonight?

Tue, 12 May 2015 22:58:34 +0000

Three of the founders of the Women's Prison Book Project in Minneapolis talk about their memories and experiences in the early years.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Dixie Treichel

Re:sound #204 The Stories From Childhood Show

Fri, 08 May 2015 02:47:50 +0000

This hour some of our favorite childhood icons: from the man who gave us Thing One & Thing Two... to Dorothy, the Tin Man and Toto too.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Where Do We Go...

Fri, 08 May 2015 02:35:00 +0000

Audio impression of racial tensions.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Catie Talarski

What-er

Fri, 08 May 2015 02:23:15 +0000

Experimenting with sound, lots to be found.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Bishnu Khatiwada

Who Brings the Heat?

Fri, 08 May 2015 02:13:20 +0000

In this mockumentary piece, June Jensen must find a way to keep her hot dish hot on the way to the church potluck.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Alex Ward

What is a Food Desert?

Fri, 08 May 2015 02:05:26 +0000

Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Justin Zullo

What Darko Said

Fri, 08 May 2015 01:49:23 +0000

My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Erik DeLuca

Why Not?

Fri, 08 May 2015 01:40:54 +0000

I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Erik DeLuca

Who's Howling at OwlHoot Station

Fri, 08 May 2015 01:26:27 +0000

Bill talks about OwlHoot Station and its neighbors.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Leah Lemm

What we doing now, Misi boy?

Fri, 08 May 2015 01:15:45 +0000

Two seniors in Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii share their tender voices and cries of laughter as they sing us the story of their friendship and community in Hawaii.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Reem Alfahad

Who's Afraid of Idaho?

Fri, 08 May 2015 00:56:43 +0000

I'm in awe of my new roommate Lina. But she's from Idaho...

Year: 2015

Producers:

Maya Goldberg-Safir

Why Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

Fri, 08 May 2015 00:48:52 +0000

Brian thinks maths is beautiful, and would like to tell you why.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Brian Mackenwells

What does that do?

Fri, 08 May 2015 00:40:24 +0000

Dr Christine Blancher, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, talks us through one of the big DNA sequencers they use to produce the string of letters (A, T, G, and C) which is your unique genetic code.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Brian Mackenwells

What If Is True

Thu, 07 May 2015 07:59:33 +0000

Hilary Clinton, Aliens, Angels.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Wilfredo Rivera

What is it like to be one of the first?

Thu, 07 May 2015 07:44:33 +0000

When Sergeant Carrie Lopes joined the Provincetown Police Department, she was one of the only women on the force; thirty years later, she reflects on sexual harassment experienced at the beginning of her career.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Annabel Lang

What Do You Know About Meat?

Thu, 07 May 2015 07:39:10 +0000

A butcher reflects on his work.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Bria Dolnick and Gus Coliadis

Where Liberated Library Books Go

Wed, 06 May 2015 22:01:23 +0000

A window into the mind of a library thief.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Who Is Nina West?

Wed, 06 May 2015 21:30:07 +0000

Andrew was working as an artist and performer for years before he decided to tell his family about it.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Michael De Bonis

Who I Was and Why I Was

Wed, 06 May 2015 21:09:34 +0000

In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Stephen Rowe and Mike Massey

When is there nothing to see?

Wed, 06 May 2015 20:56:57 +0000

Sometimes attention to detail is not part of the job description.

Year: 2015

Producers:

What was left?

Wed, 06 May 2015 20:43:57 +0000

Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Indaia Whitcombe

What Happens to Orphan Photos?

Wed, 06 May 2015 00:44:26 +0000

Photographs are some of our most treasured objects, leagues of people are dedicated to their preservation, but what happens to the pictures that've lost their way?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Qathi Hart

What was it about marriage anyway?

Wed, 06 May 2015 00:30:46 +0000

A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Austin Mitchell

What does smart working mean?

Wed, 06 May 2015 00:21:05 +0000

In and out about working nowadays [in Italian!]

Year: 2015

Producers:

Alessia Rapone

What?? No way...

Tue, 05 May 2015 22:08:08 +0000

The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."

Year: 2015

Producers:

Tim Nakayama

What happened to Greg? And what happens to him next?

Tue, 05 May 2015 21:44:42 +0000

Sometimes the way we respond to a suicide says more about us than the person who died.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Emily Guerin

Why they scream

Mon, 04 May 2015 23:33:33 +0000

By the end of the century half of the world's languages will no longer be spoken, this is one scream of resistance.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Tika Simone

What do you think of when you think of stars?

Mon, 04 May 2015 23:27:05 +0000

A love story that begins over the phone and under the stars.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Jessi LeMay

Where did the ice come from?

Mon, 04 May 2015 23:25:27 +0000

Three generations of women discuss ice and death in the Amana Colonies.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ellie Gordon-Moershel

Where's My ACL?

Mon, 04 May 2015 23:16:58 +0000

A young man loses his ACL but gains it back and much more.

Year: 2015

Producers:

James Min

Why Wasn't I Named Smith?

Mon, 04 May 2015 23:06:29 +0000

A family talks about what it was like to have the same name as the most hated person in America.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Debra Oswald

When will the nervousness float away?

Mon, 04 May 2015 23:01:23 +0000

Trying to find comfort in a basement apartment.

Year: 2015

Producers:

What Do You Need to Know?

Fri, 01 May 2015 01:29:33 +0000

The bread guys pay a visit to a busy Brooklyn deli.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ilya Marritz

Where did we come from?

Fri, 01 May 2015 01:02:50 +0000

My mother tells me our immigration story.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Siva Vijenthira

Who would do that?

Fri, 01 May 2015 00:51:36 +0000

A man, a bird, and a hose.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Vanessa Lowe

Why Eat Ice Cream For Dinner?

Fri, 01 May 2015 00:40:27 +0000

Sometimes, getting lost and having ice cream for dinner is the best thing that can happen.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Katherine Kibler

What Do Role Models Have To Tell Us Today About Living Well?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:02:21 +0000

How a simple timeless truth can create intimacy, transform relationships and improve our lives forever.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Tony DiLeonardi

What does spring sound like on your side?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:49:13 +0000

A Trans-Canada Conversation.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Braeden Doane and Chelsea Jeffrey

Where You Live?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:36:47 +0000

A meditation on the perceptions of Chicago as a violent city.

Year: 2015

Producers:

David Dault

Why, willie wagtail, why?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:23:22 +0000

House arrest by willie wagtail.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Jessica Minshall

Who Took Mom to the Prom?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:08:17 +0000

2015 ShortDocs Winner! A story of girls who say 'yes' that is 100% true.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Emer Horgan

What could be bad about this?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:29:08 +0000

2015 ShortDocs Winner! What if you could learn to stop listening to other people?

Year: 2015

Producers:

John-Michael Forman

When Bad Jobs Happen to Good People: "After Working, Crap & Go"

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:07:52 +0000

The life and hard times of a truck-stop attendant in the spirit of a Studs Terkel encounter.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ned Simonson

When The Blind Meet

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:53:49 +0000

A man struggles through a blind date at a resturant.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Steve Krysak

What Do You Hear When A Plane Engine Dies in the Air?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:37:08 +0000

Robin Holleran's life was forever changed the day she survived a plane crash.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Jonathan Hirsch

What is Indiana?

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:23:10 +0000

In three scenes and a whole life spent in and out of the state, I attempt to answer the question, "What is Indiana?"

Year: 2015

Producers:

Evelyn Bottando

When we lose our breath

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:11:59 +0000

I placed a large resonating tube in a public library for a full day and invited people to stick their heads in, hold their breath, and then answer the question: “What makes you breathless?”

Year: 2015

Producers:

Justin Zullo

When was the Freest You Ever Felt in Your Life?

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:34:54 +0000

I asked many people when was the freest they'd ever felt in their lives. This is one person's story.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Meg Ritter

What is Alpha-1?

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:25:49 +0000

What is the personal experience of having Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1)?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Garrett Tiedemann

Why would anyone, in his right mind, jump into Lake Michigan in the middle of a Chicago Winter?

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:50:53 +0000

The polar plunge: a story of cold water and warm hearts.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Fallon Schlossman

What Lies in a Voicemail?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:57:05 +0000

We can measure distance in miles, but the heartache it causes is indefinable.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Jesse Dembo

What's happening to me?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:49:50 +0000

An unwelcome visitor and a meeting in the desert.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Edgar Maddicott

What's in a name?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:42:39 +0000

One man decides the best way to break from the past is to change his name.

Year: 2015

Producers:

David Chong

Where is the Extinction Capital of the World?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:37:34 +0000

A wildlife biologist shares a surprising fact about Hawaii's native species.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Laurie Sumiye

What's Your Favorite Sport?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:49:46 +0000

My 8 year old nephew's first undercover journalism gig.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Michael Ferstenfeld

When did you know?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:41:41 +0000

Two people. Two stories. Two significant moments when everything changed: discovering sexuality and surviving sexual assault.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Nicholas Pencak

Where would you go?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:28:31 +0000

For young people who live in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the western hemisphere, the passage north is often just as hard as staying.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Watson Hartsoe

When We March Into The Arctic of the Unknown

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:20:26 +0000

One in a million... Maria's chronicle of shameless acceptance.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Vivianne Cardenas

Why Do I Know so Much and Nothing at All?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:15:06 +0000

The sounds of my cellphone - talking to me.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Walter Petrichyn

Who doesn't like an ear hole?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:06:03 +0000

A brief message from an eligible man.

Year: 2018

Producers:

John Wilson

When Will We Lose It?

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:54:56 +0000

Between sea level rise and a disappearing coastline it feels inevitable that life as we know it in New Orleans is on a limited run, but how much time do we have?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Eve Abrams

Where Did He Go: Ogichan, Grandad?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:46:04 +0000

A granddaughter tells us about her grandfather's funeral.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Eloise Stevens

Where Do I Even Start?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:29:41 +0000

A working interview for a smart phone society.

Year: 2015

Producers:

What makes a good marriage?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:12:06 +0000

2015 ShortDocs Winner! My grandparents, now in their 90s and married for nearly 70 years, tell me about when they met and give their advice on a long and happy marriage.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Olivia Humphreys

Where the Hell is My Paper, Ms. Gerdes?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:55:42 +0000

During my first year in the classroom I misplace a student's paper but find a little bit of humility.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Abby Gerdes

What is a Bear Cat?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:19:13 +0000

Bluff and Family describe the horrors of the Georgian Legend of The Bearcat.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Wolff and Zach Bowden

Why the supernatural is always natural in cultural sociopsychological context

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:02:50 +0000

Science has severe problems dealing with the supernatural...

Year: 2015

Producers:

Who lives, who dies?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:48:05 +0000

Ten years later, a survivor reflects on the fragility of life and the random ruin caused by the worst natural disaster in living memory, the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, a day when nearly 250,000 people perished across 14 countries, one third of them, children.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Deborah Bauer

What Hairy Moments Have You Had?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:34:18 +0000

Every motorcyclist you ever speak to has a story to tell.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Geoff McQueen

Who's A Good Girl?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:25:15 +0000

My mother's trials as a pet owner—and as a parent—go on the record when I do a story about “puppy kindergarten.”

Year: 2015

Producers:

Kate Stein

What can I do? Please not my daughter too!

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:08:46 +0000

Many women's voices become one experience of abuse.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Regina Botros

Why does my Dad have ten clocks?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:58:49 +0000

I find out why my Dad, David, is so fascinated with clocks and explore what makes him tick.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Michael Dale

Who Remembers My Father's Voice?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:46:14 +0000

2015 ShortDocs Winner! I ask my family members if they remember what my father sounded like.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Pablo Duarte

Why Mr. SKREEJEE?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:32:53 +0000

An interview concerning a tale of trial and tribulation from the heart of Mr.SKREEJEE – a half-dog, half-gorilla, half human member of a fictitious landmine lookout patrol.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Joseph Amodei

Who is Betty?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:20:32 +0000

Carol found Betty abandoned in rural Utah and gave her a new, loving home.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Benjamin Bombard

Why were you in a wheelbarrow?

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:21:03 +0000

A night of regrets.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Miles Martignoni

Who's Bayview's Last Saint?

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:24:20 +0000

Times are changing and some people lament this.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Todd Whitney

Why Did You Come Here?

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:04:32 +0000

A bike lesson adventure.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Sydney Beveridge

Where do I find you now?

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:06:39 +0000

2015 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Sara Curtis

What Minnie Mouse Knows

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:28:29 +0000

My aunt, Debby Wurster, is making the most of her retirement.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Katie Klocksin

What's It Like Inside Your Head?

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:16:33 +0000

This dreamy short doc considers people's inner worlds, and asks whether we even have total access to our own.

Year: 2015

Producers:

What happened when you caught a toadfish?

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:01:03 +0000

Liam tells Sam about his adventures on a trip to Bali and Sri Lanka.

Year: 2015

Producers:

What do you look forward to, Aai?

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:41:51 +0000

The producer's grandma reflects on growing old in a country that's not her home.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Neena Pathak

What made him do something different?

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:23:53 +0000

A teacher on the first day of the job encounters an 8th grader with a swastika tattoo.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Jessica Cheung

Where's The Amstel Heavy?

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:20:35 +0000

In a domestic sea of Amstel Light, Where's the Amstel Heavy?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Laine Kaplan-Levenson

What's up with the house next door?

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:04:29 +0000

A tale of growing up in Uptown.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Quin J. McCarthy

Who Would End It?

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:46:19 +0000

A brother & sister discuss euthanasia.

Year: 2015

Producers:

E. Nakano

What Do They Want?

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:28:36 +0000

A Chicago nanny stumbles upon an existential dilemma while buying Christmas gifts for her charges.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Jake J. Smith

Los Frikis

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:55:07 +0000

How a group of 80's Cuban misfits found punk rock and went into exile without ever leaving home.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Re:sound #203 The Rivers Show

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:42:09 +0000

This hour we meander our way down three rivers in search of solace, spiritual healing and, of course, total domination.

Year: 2015

Producers:

When I Couldn't Sleep

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:22:06 +0000

A prisoner of an antebellum asylum express his horror in a letter to his sister.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Cynthia Morrison

Why did leaving the armed forces nearly kill you?

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00:56 +0000

Leaving the armed forces had serious consequences for Paul Boucher's health.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Andy Parnell

Why You Should Interview Your Girlfriend

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 23:31:33 +0000

Prudence finds her Beau cheating on her.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Cynthia Morrison

What's The Worst Pain You've Ever Experienced?

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:09:59 +0000

Irukandji; an invisible, thumbnail sized jellyfish whose sting causes unimaginable pain.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Joel Werner

What can I do now that they've chopped me up little by little?

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 00:25:14 +0000

Carlos Cardenas finds hope after losing a leg to diabetes.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Francesco De Salvatore

Where did they ghost?

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 23:55:05 +0000

The story of “ghost” through interviews, films, music and instructional videos.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Adriene Lilly

What happens when a statistic becomes your life?

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:57:36 +0000

Over 44 million people live with dementia worldwide, but it is not until it affects you directly that you realise the impact the disease can have on your life.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Cristina Parry

What's in a car?

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:27:19 +0000

Lourdes Mello's late husband bought her a Mustang convertible in 1989; the car is badly broken now, but she holds on to it for the memories.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Lily Doron

When in doubt?

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:00:59 +0000

How to survive your first parachute jump.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Elizabeth Friend

What Should I Get?

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:37:43 +0000

Megan Williams talks to a Jewish vendor who sells Catholic objects in Rome.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Megan Williams

What Makes a Good Wife?

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 21:10:28 +0000

According to Tía Nora, things have changed since the 1950s.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Erin Leyson

When Women Go Gray or Dye

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 20:53:34 +0000

Women contemplate and celebrate the choice to let their hair go gray.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Nancy Camden

What Kind of Relationship Did You Have With Your Dad?

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 20:31:16 +0000

A mother shares the unusual way she came to learn her father loved her.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Alexis Stember

What Makes A Bird Shape Your Life

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:04:07 +0000

Richard Browne speaks about his life and passion as a falconer.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Steven Ahlman

What happens when a horn and dog get together?

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:33:28 +0000

An unexpected jam session with a dog and an alto saxophone.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Elisa Shoenberger

The End of the World

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:06:36 +0000

The idea was to drive around and talk to people about the end of the world. As producer Scott Carrier says, "There's no law against it."

Year: 2015

Producers:

Scott Carrier

Who Drank From That Cup?

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:34:40 +0000

Does a guy at Antique Roadshow have The Holy Grail?

Year: 2015

Producers:

Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Rose McBride

Why is the siren still singing?

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:42:28 +0000

An evocative documentary about the sound and history of the foghorn at Lizard Point in Cornwall, UK.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Ellen Wiles

What if we gave heroes hot chocolate?

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:36:33 +0000

Eight-year-old Lydia was a customer in a jewelry store when robbers stormed the counter.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Barbara Dundon

Who Do I Come From

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:07:14 +0000

My grandfather, John Frank Noyes, is the only person who remembers our family's homestead in Wyoming; he died this winter.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Anne Noyes Saini

This Proves Everything

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:54:13 +0000

Introducing a posse of smart, hopeful, boy band conspiracy theorists... and the civilian caught in their midst.

Year: 2015

Producers:

Re:sound #202 The To Heal A Sick Nation Show

Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:34:35 +0000

Lu Olkowski

Re:sound #199 The Nineteen Eighty-Four Show

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:44:46 +0000

This hour we head back in time to 1984.

Year: 2015

Producers:

The Amazing Radio Vertikalisator

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:48:29 +0000

Inspired by a Lego time machine her son built, Iceland-based independent producer Rikke Houd created a tool to help producers take advantage of the vast space radio offers.

Year: 2014

Public-powered Journalism

Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:08:08 +0000

Learn how sharing the mic and megaphone can expand your beat, your stories, and your craft.

Year: 2014

Re:sound #198 The Off Course Show

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 03:25:49 +0000

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:33:55 +0000

Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!

Year: 2014

Producers:

2014 Winners

Burroughs at 100

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:22:23 +0000

Rock legend Iggy Pop presents an intimate portrait of William S. Burroughs on the 100th birthday of America's most cataclysmic author.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Colin McNulty

Re:sound #196 The Breaking the Silence Show

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 02:13:35 +0000

This week, Israeli soldiers speak out to advocate for Palestinian rights.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Dennis Funk

Help Wanted

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:52:51 +0000

There is currently no formal treatment or support for non-offending pedophiles who want help managing their attractions.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Chicago to Mexico, by Bus

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:42:57 +0000

Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Linda Lutton

100 Songs in a Day

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:26:30 +0000

One way to earn money selling music is boring: write one hit and live off the royalties for the rest of your life.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Here I Am and Here Be Danger

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:19:04 +0000

Here I Am and Here Be Danger is a non-narrated experiment in heartbreak.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Annie McEwen

Lance and Nina: An Unlikely Story of Recovery and Redemption

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:00:20 +0000

At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Karen Brown

Leaving a Mark

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:50:40 +0000

Emily Hsiao reads a Craigslist post about a man who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes to meet him.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Emily Hsiao

Dmitry Nikolaev

Re:sound #195 The Dinner Table Show

Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:59:35 +0000

This hour: the dinner table and all that it inspires.

Year: 2014

Producers:

We've Forgotten James Powell

Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:21:47 +0000

As we near the end of a violent summer of 2014, we look back to the summer of 1964. Late afternoon, New York City: a group of kids hangs out on a stoop after a day of summer school, just kicking it, like they always do.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Nate DiMeo

Re:sound #194 The Driving Show

Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:20:31 +0000

This hour we buckle up and hit the road.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Woman Found Dead By Lake Shore

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:07:37 +0000

The body of a woman - violently injured - is found on the shore of a lake northeast of Loftahammer, Sweden. The prime suspect? Her husband.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Hugo Lavett

The Golden Room

Year: 2014

Producers:

Why Oh Why? With Andrea Silenzi, episode #2

Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:25:53 +0000

Andrea Silenzi's new podcast holds up a mirror to contemporary love and relationships, revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly within.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Andrea Silenzi

The Third Coast ShortDocs: Appetite Show

Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:59:54 +0000

This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The Cabinet of Animosities

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 02:05:04 +0000

The things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at each other when it all goes wrong.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Cathy FitzGerald

Re:sound #186 The 2013 Short Docs Show

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 04:49:36 +0000

This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge: Appetite!

Year: 2014

Producers:

Chance

Sat, 08 Feb 2014 01:28:36 +0000

Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

The Ghosts of Fire Island

Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:27:16 +0000

Fire Island, only sixty miles from New York City, has long served as a safe and vibrant mecca for gay men and women. But in the early 1980's, the haven faced a new and lethal threat.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Myke Dodge Weiskopf

Four Failing Lungs

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:38:06 +0000

For Beth and Brian, a lung transplant could extend their lives for years. Or, it could lead to rejection and continued suffering.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Catie Talarski

Re:sound #185 The Chance Encounters Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:58:29 +0000

This hour: when two people meet, sometimes extraordinary things happen. And sometimes extraordinary things happen in order for two people to meet.

Year: 2014

Producers:

The Failure of Flight Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:07:29 +0000

This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The Kid's Secret Places Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:04:52 +0000

This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The Texas State Pen Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:02:09 +0000

This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul - the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The It's Complicated Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:00:29 +0000

This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.

Year: 2013

Producers:

The Taking Care Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:58:15 +0000

This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The Letters Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:54:30 +0000

This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letterto letters.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Katie Mingle

DUPLICATE RESOUND The List Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:51:36 +0000

This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The Night Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:47:36 +0000

This hour: Listening to the night.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The Colors Show

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:41:58 +0000

This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Katie Mingle

Re:sound #184 The Failure of Flight Show

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 03:26:55 +0000

This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11-year-old walks away.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Mike and Victor: A Family Story

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:57:37 +0000

In 1993, Mike Checuga was a 24 year-old working obsessively long hours until his boss ordered him to take a day off each week.

Year: 2014

Producers:

Re:sound #183 The Kid's Secret Places Show

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:40:48 +0000

This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Dear Santo Toribio

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:36:54 +0000

After Oklahoma passed the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, a Catholic church in Tulsa was looking for help, so they created a shrine to Santo Toribio, the patron saint of immigrants.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sarah Geis

Best of the Best 2013 (Part 2)

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:32:22 +0000

Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2013 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Best of the Best 2013 (Part 1)

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:28:10 +0000

Year: 2013

Producers:

Re:sound #182 The "It's Complicated" Show

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:04:17 +0000

This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.

Year: 2013

Producers:

2013 TC/RHDF Competition Winners

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:35:35 +0000

Behold! The 2013 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition winners - a most stellar batch of radio documentaries from around the world.

Year: 2013

Producers:

2013 Winners

Modern Day Scarlet Letter A

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:48:56 +0000

Many teenagers live half of their lives on social media sites and they're writing the rules as they go.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Harper High School

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:41:08 +0000

In the 2011 -2012 school year, Harper High School, located in one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, saw 29 of its current and recent students shot.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jack and Ellen

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:32:23 +0000

Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway "sandwich artist" (yes, that's a real thing.)

Year: 2013

Producers:

Keep Them Guessing

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:36:54 +0000

As a young boy, producer Jesse Cox discovered a set of old cassette tapes which turned out to be a hugely popular BBC radio show featuring his grandparents.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Woman Emerges from the Dark

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:27:58 +0000

After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2013, power outages covered large swaths of the city.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Marianne McCune

No Greater Love

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 02:06:41 +0000

London's little-known Memorial of Heroic Self-Sacrifice commemorates ordinary men, women and children who made a split-second decision to rescue another person – and died as a result.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Cathy FitzGerald

Re:sound #181 The Texas State Pen Show

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:34:44 +0000

This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul — the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Remembering Andrew

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:33:41 +0000

On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Miami-Dade County changing the landscape of South Florida forever.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:20:43 +0000

The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl seemed like a straightforward custody dispute: a birth father and a couple at odds over who would raise baby Veronica.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Tim Howard

Parts of Speech

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:12:42 +0000

Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He was a street poet in Boston and protested the Vietnam War in D.C. There was a time he could say "I love you" in a dozen languages.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Emily Kwong

Re:sound #180 The Tit for Tat Show

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 00:53:28 +0000

This hour: the story of Sandra Willson.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Voices Lost and Found

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:46 +0000

An old cassette, tucked away for years in the back of a drawer, magically brings a lost voice back to life.

Year: 2013

Producers:

KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:26:11 +0000

At the stroke of 10am PT on August 17th, 2013, producers around the world lept into action.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Re:sound #179 The Dreams Show

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:02:41 +0000

This week: dreams and dreamers of all kinds - lucid, fictional, public and elusive.

Year: 2013

Producers:

The Whale's Choice

Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:08:56 +0000

In certain waters, moments of connection between humans and whales do happen... but not often.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jennifer Kingsley

2013 ShortDocs Winners

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:07:39 +0000

We have winners!

Year: 2013

Producers:

Re:sound #178 The Matriarchy Show

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:55:08 +0000

This week: the mother reigns supreme.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Language Bites!

Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:39:19 +0000

You may have been a "freelancer," or hired one, at some point in your work life, but have you ever wondered how the term originated?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Colette Kinsella

Soul of a Man

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:28:24 +0000

Ramblin' Jack Elliott has played music with legends like Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Re:sound #177 The Symphonies Show

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:25:09 +0000

This hour: what happens when we open our ears to the surprising symphonies all around us.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Persevering Rick

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:51:13 +0000

Growing up in Australia, deaf in one ear, Rick had a rough time learning.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Re:sound #176 The Tiny Towns in Texas Show

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:11:00 +0000

This hour: we explore two struggling Texas towns through the beautiful and mournful voices of those who remain.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Umami and Daddy too!

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:32:00 +0000

Olga likes borscht. Ryan Poli at work, and Leah Cowen asks the musical question "Can You Feed My Appetite?"

Year: 2013

Producers:

Frank Karall

Don't Forget to Feed Your Soul... Food (A Salty Reminder)

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:31:28 +0000

My mom, some crystals and an unexpected appetite.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sally Herships

Umami English

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:15:13 +0000

How to prepare the best English class in Paris.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jane Weston's English class

A Bitter Life

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:29:17 +0000

Helping to create a conscience, informing people of the world's biggest injustice, and promoting social responsibility.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Mohammed Nagi

COMPETITIVE EATING = UMI? OR UMAMI

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:21:32 +0000

Legend has it that on July 4, 1916, four immigrants had a hot dog eating contest at Coney Island to determine the most patriotic; Crazy Legs Conti is the ultimate American.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jeng-Tyng (Jen) Hong

Locusts!

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:32:49 +0000

There's a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm of insects.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lulu Miller

Sweet and Sour Coffee

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:26:48 +0000

A story about the emotional coupling of love and coffee.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Three Bitter Stories of Food and a Cruel Song

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:06:03 +0000

Three stories in French: poison, horrible cookies and a cannibal.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Laurence Courtois

Sweet Or Sour

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:59:39 +0000

Our passions win out in the end when we choose our future careers.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lucas Nielsen

That's So Sweet You Shouldn't Have

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:20:06 +0000

What happens when you stop eating dessert but can't bring yourself to say "No" to people's generosity?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Maxine Bergevin

My Bitter Self-Discovery

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:49:20 +0000

A personal narrative attempting to better understand my relationship with food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Henry Cohn-Geltner

Home Bitter/Sweet Home

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:36:40 +0000

Martha, a half-Chinese, half-Uruguayan Italian citizen, finds home where she least expects it.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Carly Nix

Lunch Club: A Salty Manifesto

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:09:07 +0000

There are only 3 Rules to Lunch Club...

Year: 2013

Producers:

Ian Davis and Mwende Hahesy

Sweet Nothings

Thu, 30 May 2013 23:01:07 +0000

An interview with Lara Moreau, inventor of "ALI."

Year: 2013

Producers:

Shelby El Otmani

A Sweet Illusion for the Bitter Tuition

Thu, 30 May 2013 21:40:26 +0000

Sofia is working on an unusual scholarship.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Mickey Capper

Sweet Sister Sarah Steps Out On Faith

Thu, 30 May 2013 21:00:14 +0000

Sarah Riley leaves Los Angeles to help out her sister in Oklahoma but not before her neighbor Tim has Sister Sarah over for some spaghetti.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Tim Forrest

How Sweet it is to be a Piece of Meat

Thu, 30 May 2013 20:50:24 +0000

A look at how our appetites can take perverse shapes and make us see our bodies in a completely different way.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kerry Gilfillan

Sweet Dreams

Thu, 30 May 2013 20:42:40 +0000

You need a lot to accomplish your dreams, but it is your choice to pursue it or not.

Year: 2013

Producers:

The Bitter Journey of a Chicken

Thu, 30 May 2013 20:34:51 +0000

A chicken goes on a journey to find his life's destiny and succeeds.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Salt On the Lips

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:36:55 +0000

2013 ShortDocs Winner! David channels his frustrated desires into detailed fantasies for the perfect sensual feast.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jenny Asarnow

Home Sweet Home

Wed, 29 May 2013 02:31:27 +0000

Robert Lipman, a freshman at the University of Chicago who also runs an underground pop-up gourmet restaurant in Hyde Park, discusses the surprising, nearly fatal reason for his insatiable appetite to serve high-end food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Tanya Basu

A Juicy Trip from Bitter to Savory

Wed, 29 May 2013 02:26:25 +0000

A milestone birthday inspires an extreme juice quest.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sydney Beveridge

Ooo, Mommy

Wed, 29 May 2013 02:00:43 +0000

My name's Julie, and I'm a licorice addict.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Julie Caine

For Maine's Francos, Food Memories Are Bittersweet

Wed, 29 May 2013 01:39:56 +0000

Three Franco-Americans in Maine still have an appetite for their culture's humble cuisine, which isn't esteemed like fancy French food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Laura McCandlish

Very Sweet with Edge of Tartness

Wed, 29 May 2013 01:24:50 +0000

Rachel Steinhardt encounters an unexpected memento of her grandmother's life.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Will Coley

Sweet Deals & Salty Licks

Wed, 29 May 2013 01:14:24 +0000

Behind the scenes at a dairy cow auction in Old Chatham, New York.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sweet Innocence

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:55:27 +0000

One day of meals on a memorable occasion.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Whitney Henry-Lester

This Umamican Life

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:46:45 +0000

Three acts of This Umamican Life here in Austin, TX in the style of This American LIVE, the live theatre show inspired by This American Life.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Umami for the Finish: MRs. TasTy Breaks Down Kimchi

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:43:03 +0000

MRs. TasTy LanDed hEr Vegetarian SPace StaTioN in the MidWesT and StarTed heR CooKing ShoW; ToDaY ShE TeACheS uS AbOuT KimChi.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lauren Kirby

Sweet Dream

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:36:17 +0000

A long-time hunger is satiated by a dream.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Maham Khan

Lemon, Lime and Bitters

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:26:45 +0000

One man has an appetite for alcohol.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Tawar Razaghi, Miles Martignoni and Lucie Robson

Misophonia: The Bitter Sound Of Food

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:09:09 +0000

The struggles of a Philophonic with Misophonia.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Carlo Patrao

A Vegetarian's Umami Dilemma

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:00:03 +0000

Katherine was a vegetarian and thought she hated meat -- until she tasted elk.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bittersweet Muffins

Tue, 28 May 2013 20:46:59 +0000

A young veteran shares stories of appetite during his years in the military.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Wenjing Zhang

A Sweet Ear

Tue, 28 May 2013 20:39:04 +0000

The case for why we crave pop music as part of our musical diet.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jackie Sojico

Love Tastes Like Umami Poutine

Tue, 28 May 2013 20:26:49 +0000

A love story about food, a food story about love in three courses: poutine, foie gras, bone marrow.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sara Ananda Badger

Bittersweet Forevers

Tue, 28 May 2013 20:21:49 +0000

Some decisions are easily forgotten, well others will stick with you always.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Paige Sutherland

Bittersweet; Butter Up

Tue, 28 May 2013 20:14:44 +0000

A story about my dad, and how life eventually altered his appetite.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Grant Buhr

Bland Is Sweet

Tue, 28 May 2013 19:59:53 +0000

Erica Bland wishes she didn't have to travel so far to eat at her favorite restaurants.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Susie An

Bottled Zeitgeist: The Bitter Spirit of the Times

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:16:16 +0000

What if you could bottle time, shove it in a cellar for twenty years and break it out at dinner parties?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Ryan McLeod

The Sweet Bitter End

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:07:11 +0000

Raima Fernald's two sons were born with a debilitating neurological disease - one found a way out.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Peter Frick-Wright

Love is Sweet Among Non-Human Animals

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:58:57 +0000

Love is delicious; love is disgusting.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Liz Wason

Sweet Nothings

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:47:56 +0000

A lady lacking a sweet tooth does her bit for those with malnutrition, by losing - and finding - her appetite.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kirsty McQuire

BuzzyNumbingElectricSourSpice

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:20:40 +0000

The Sichuan Peppercorn provides a confusing, disorienting and compelling flavor to the spicy cuisine of Sichuan.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jeff Towne

Life Is Sweet - as Long as It's Smeared with Skippy Peanut Butter

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:23 +0000

What happens when the only foods you'll eat are French fries, peanut butter, and pizza - but you're a grown-up? - an exploration of adult extreme picky eating.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Half Too Sweet

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:52:32 +0000

Trying to pull back with one hand the one you pushed away with both.

Year: 2013

Producers:

John Manini

The Bitter Story of the Saddest City in the World

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:45:47 +0000

The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Paul Zenke & Adam Malecek

Umami Sunshine

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:21 +0000

An exploration of the role of appetite in elderly health as well as the scientific basis of umami (also known as L-glutamate or glutamic acid), with ukelele accompaniment.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Patricia McMillen

The Sweet Life On Tour (or Ben Eats A Lobster Roll)

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:29:05 +0000

My friend Ben eats his first lobster roll while we're on tour in Portland, Maine.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Salt, Interrupted

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:18:52 +0000

A couple remembers an unexpected illness.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Katie Klocksin

Bitter Knowledge

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:13:07 +0000

Elise Pepple learns a hard lesson about knowing.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kelsey Padgett

Sweet Restraint

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:45:31 +0000

Danny can't eat wheat, barley, rye, oats, corn, potatoes...

Year: 2013

Producers:

Paula Friedrich

Sweet, Salty, Umami Love

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:36:04 +0000

A candid conversation with a former lover about my appetite for romance, relationships, and love.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Brian Cauley

Sweet Baby June Eats the World

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:58:38 +0000

One night in the life of our 8 month old daughter, June.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Matt Largey

The Bitter Taste of Reality

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:47:11 +0000

Matthew is like every normal teenager with a hunger for independence, but he faces a few unique challenges.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Manda Lillie

Sweet Order

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:06 +0000

An insatiable passion for keeping lists brings order to each new day... and prepares for the next.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bittersweet Grief in 3 Courses

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:30:52 +0000

Writer Zarina Zabrisky talks about her family's history and how it informed her relationship with food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sayre Quevedo

Sweet Stalking the Wild Rhubarb

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:15:35 +0000

After generous winter rains the Sonoran Desert offers up wild rhubarb, and ethnobotanist Martha Ames Burgess knows where to look for it and how to turn it into a juicy desert dessert.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Laura Markowitz

Salty Import

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:59:29 +0000

Our curiosity begs the question, "How did I get here?" and our eating habits answer it.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Caryn Berman

An Injection of Sweetness

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:48:44 +0000

When Joanne decided to spice up her diet, she got a little more than she bargained for.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jessica Miller

Summersault featuring Lumberjockey

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:33:36 +0000

Scott Barber aka Lumberjockey discovered at 15 that he needs to pay close attention to everything that goes into his body.

Year: 2013

Producers:

The Sweet and Kind Benton House Pantry

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:51:08 +0000

A visit to the weekly Friday Food Pantry at Benton House.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Alyssa Moxley

Re:sound #175 The Love and Persistence Show

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:28:49 +0000

This hour: stories of people in love, who just wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Prunes, Eggs, and Sweet Marshmallows: Eating with My Grandmas

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:00:54 +0000

Instructions on how to recreate my grandmothers' favorite meals.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jennie Lennick

The Soul is Bittersweet

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:31:08 +0000

The Hare Krishna Temple offers a free meal, in the hopes that those who visit will leave with a satisfied appetite; physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Erin Connolly

The Sour Taste of Appetite

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:45:18 +0000

After listening to friends give their ideas on the word 'appetite,' I realized just how much anorexia has changed my view.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Emma French

The Bitter Loss of Flavour

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:13:57 +0000

The sunny bike ride that taught one young woman the painful difference between taste and flavour.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Charlotte McDonald

This Sweetness is Metaphysical

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:56:00 +0000

This is a story about adventuring, eating vegan food and smoking weed with your partner.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sour Stomach: Where's the Bathroom?

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:45:44 +0000

IBS is gross, funny and crappy (pun intended) to live with and it tries to dictate my life.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kristofor Husted

Inside The Leaf It's Bittersweet

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:05:47 +0000

The Dolemouse: a nutty study on optimal foraging theory.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jane Cramer

The Sweet Tweet Suite

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:37:46 +0000

When your appetite is for nature and for unusual sounds then you have to go on the odd adventure...

Year: 2013

Producers:

Geoff McQueen

Sweet Chili Baby

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:30:15 +0000

A talk with Amos and Ruth in their kitchen as they share their excitement for food and speculate on how it will be passed on to the next generation.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Dea Cisar

Enrich the Sweetness

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:17:39 +0000

Mental and physical acts of eating, how are you satisfied?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Carly Kenneally

The Bitter-Sweet Story of a Migrant Worker

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:09:01 +0000

Somchai Sriweawnetr's quick thinking and courage helped to save 5 Americans in 1979 Iran.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Catherine Louli

A Bittersweet Experiment

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:45:30 +0000

Two producers explore the hungers generated from living on an island in Alaska and some attempts at satisfying them.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Elise Pepple and Ellen Frankenstein

Fear Tastes Like Salt Feels

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:53:10 +0000

A tale, fearsome and salty, of restricting restrictions told from the safe side of a youth, that is, beyond it.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Julia Murphy

Umami Grease

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:14:05 +0000

In three courses, we discover the relationship between man and grease: the history, the culture and the conflict.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jackson Stanton

Smells like Umami: I Can't Quite Put My Finger On It

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:48:24 +0000

Alex Lane subjects himself to a five alarm chili shock treatment in an effort to resurrect the olfactory system that he's never known.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bec Feldhaus & Shelly Baskin

Barry Chung's Sweet n' Sour Home

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:19:38 +0000

Once the child of a family living in poverty in Hong Kong, Barry Chung is now a professor at Indiana University.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lena Morris

Sweet Ratio(n)

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:28:36 +0000

As he pursued a pro cycling career, the formula that helped J also hurt him, too.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sarah Lu

My Sweet Brother

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:22:17 +0000

Elaine Taylor's brother Clark has kidney disease - and it's been progressing for years.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Elaine Taylor and Clint Holgate

The Problem With Salty Water

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:57:15 +0000

An automated teller machine discusses awkward moments, consumer culture and why she needs it to survive.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Aoife Allen

All Foods Lead to Home (Sweet Home)

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:49:51 +0000

Road Rage is transformed by Passionately Prepared Comestibles.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Phyllis Janik

Bitter Yellow Pills

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:37:10 +0000

Lorraine explores what happens when the body gets an appetite for itself.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lorraine Boissoneault

U-mami My Life

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:19:53 +0000

Having a long distance relationship is like having the best yet never satisfying three-course meal over and over again.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Maja Mackintosh Johansen

The Bitter Taste of Nicotine

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:14:39 +0000

My life as a smoker.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kay Collins

The Sweetest Love

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:07:39 +0000

One new mother explains how her eating habits have changed as she develops her unborn baby's appetite.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Morgan Davis

Sweet at Sea

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:53:10 +0000

A sweet encounter on the Irish Sea, retold at table.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sean Mullervy

The Road to Umami

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:26 +0000

The fate of every farm animal, in three parts: life, death, and consumption.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Carla Green, Vanessa Vyvial and Anthony Abbondanza

One Man's Sour, Another Man's Sweet

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:37:14 +0000

Kerry Klein brings reclaimed food to a potluck - and doesn't tell anyone.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kerry Klein

Sounds Tasty, Salty Too

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:29:28 +0000

Bartleby's appetite for fun sets he and his brother Artemus on their way for their smallest adventure yet, into the game room for an unexpectedly flavorful time.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Isaac Bluefoot

The Last Morning was a Sweet One

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:17:35 +0000

2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)

Year: 2013

Producers:

Alix Blair

Savoring the Salty Ritual

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:56:29 +0000

Marinating in the kitchen.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sara Curtis

Salty Relocation

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:07:53 +0000

Chronicling my love for snacks amidst my relocation from the U.S. to Cairo, Egypt.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kim Fox

Bottling Hell: Remembering Mr. Murphree and the Spicy-Sweet Datil Pepper of St. Augustine

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:01:20 +0000

"Bottled hell" is a local term for the blow-your-socks off spicy datil pepper sauce ubiquitous in St. Augustine, FL.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Anna Hamilton

Passing on Sweet

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:43:40 +0000

How do recipes get passed on?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Feast and Famine: A Bitter Cure to Finally Forgetting Your Ex

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:35:14 +0000

Kurt Callum woke up one morning and realized he had gone fourteen days straight without thinking even once of his ex or their bitter break-up.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Maxine Bergevin

Sweet, Sweet Solitude

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:22:13 +0000

A young girl rants about annoyances that are brought up frequently in her daily life while listing why her way of living is superior to most others.

Year: 2013

Producers:

One Man's Sour is Another Man's Sweet

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:15:50 +0000

Maximus Thaler has an interesting relationship with food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Umami to the Ears

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:57:17 +0000

Weirdo Records is a closet-sized vinyl shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Angela Sawyer hosts experimental music concerts, for those with a unique and unorthodox musical taste.

Year: 2013

Producers:

A Sweet Boy That Can't Savor

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:47:44 +0000

For most New Yorkers being surrounded by food is a blessing, but for one boy in Queens it's tormenting.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Will Denselow

No Appetite for Bitter Old Men

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000

Christ! I smoke cigarettes! Leave me alone!

Year: 2013

Producers:

Ruslan Kulski

Chocolate is a Sweet Distraction

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:08:19 +0000

The founder of Patric Chocolate finds his way to love and sweets in an unexpected way.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Scott Pham

My Mommy's Umami Latkes

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:51:38 +0000

Once a year my extended family comes together for three courses in tradition: making latkes, dinner conversation and finally, the ongoing memories we create together during our annual Hanukkah party.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bari Finkel

Bittersweet For Left Hand Only

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:38:12 +0000

The ways hands make us human.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Magdalen Jenne

Suite for a Salty Standard

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:17:16 +0000

My neighbor Ellen swings a classic (from the I Hate to Cook Book, circa 1960.)

Year: 2013

Producers:

Stephanie Rowden

Bitter Herbs, Sweet Freedom

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:05:59 +0000

At a Passover dinner, two friends celebrate their exodus from a fundamentalist Hasidic community.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Frimet Goldberger

Sweet In Action

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:40:41 +0000

When we feel bad we often make ourselves feel worse when better is so much easier than we think.

Year: 2013

Producers:

AnnMarie Miller

Home Sweet Homemade Bread

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:57 +0000

My mom has been making homemade bread for as long as I can remember; here is her recipe.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Caytlinn Strickland

Bitter and In

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:26:52 +0000

Based on excerpts from a diary of an anorexic 16-year-old.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bridget Doherty

A Bitter Betrayal

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:02:07 +0000

What happens when you try to order 'the usual' at your neighborhood joint - and can't?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jennifer Kirby

Sweet, Sweet Victory

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:21:52 +0000

A regular at Victory's Banner restaurant in Roscoe Village, Marge Stumpf doesn't show up one day.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Logan Jaffe

A Bitter Fight Against Child Hunger

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:13:40 +0000

Shannon Coffin of Good Shepherd Food Bank talks about the fight against child hunger in Maine.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Leah Kaliher

The Farm-Fresh Egg: A Sweet Return

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:03:43 +0000

The locavore movement is sweeping the nation - and cookbook author Jennifer Thompson and a farmers market vendor explain why fresh eggs are the best eggs.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Casey Kuhn

Me, Myself and Umami

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:04:52 +0000

When it comes to appetite, our bodies can have several personalities and each part wants its say.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sharlene Newman

A Bitter Sweet Horse Tale

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:14:50 +0000

A horse adventure in 3 courses.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Angela Shackel

The Bitter, Sweet Taste of Life

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:46:26 +0000

Three chapters about different cravings of life told by three different people.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Shahd Saleh

Diana and the Bacon: a Chef's Last Salty Cravings

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:25:51 +0000

A dying French chef's insatiable appetites.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Thalia Gigerenzer

Life With Cows is Sweet

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:08:33 +0000

Three quick angles of life in the cattle business.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sarah Kmon

A Sweet Journey Around the World

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:53:16 +0000

Get a taste of sweetness of three desserts from three different continenets around the world.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sarah Saad

The Low, Slow 'n' Sweet Times of Clyde Biggins

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:27:52 +0000

Clyde Biggins lost everything, but now he's back to reclaim his spot among barbecue legends.

Year: 2013

Producers:

My Umami Gas Mask

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:47:06 +0000

2013 ShortDocs Winner! A bleak future with nothing good to eat... except your gas mask.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sam Agee

Bittersweet Courses for Horses

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:03:07 +0000

Man's appetite for money may mean the end of three courses for horses.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sweet and Low-Down in My House

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:42:23 +0000

A documentary story of hating, loving, wanting and making sound.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Elena Guobyte

Salty Ceebu Jen

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:32:59 +0000

Ceebu Jen, a traditional dish in the West African country of Senegal, is not as simple to make as it might seem.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jeff Tyson

Dear Sweet Mike Levey

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:05:09 +0000

An ode to the late great infomercial host and to the realization that we all hunger for something.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Heather Kitching

Ethiopian Coffee - The Sweet Ritual of Togetherness

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:37:24 +0000

Guenet Sebsibe shows how she keeps an important Ethiopian cultural tradition alive.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Salt in the Air

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:26:18 +0000

The prairie is hard to find and harder to lose.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Megan Clark

The Sour Taste of Potlucks

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:10:40 +0000

My mom and I don't agree on much, but we can agree on one thing - potlucks are the pits.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lauren Ober

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (3)

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:56:54 +0000

Karen Pearl, CEO of God's Love We Deliver, explains the mission of the organization, and Hassan Mazyan Jr., a client, describes its impact on his life.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Eric Winick

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (2)

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:50:34 +0000

Lisa Zullig and her team of dietitians at God's Love We Deliver provide nutritional assistance to a diverse clientele around the metro-New York City area.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Eric Winick

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (1)

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:23:17 +0000

Chuck Piekarski, Baker at God's Love We Deliver in New York, came to his job after experiencing a personal tragedy -- and now he's giving back.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Eric Winick

Sweet Julia

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:09:01 +0000

Marion Kane explores what awakened Julia Child's passion for food and sparked her celebrity as a chef.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Marion Kane

My Cheesecake, My Sweet Self

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:17:38 +0000

As a teenager, Marion Kane wanted nothing more than to fit in with her peers.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Marion Kane

Julia and the Bag of Sweet Buns

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:00:15 +0000

Broadcaster Marion Kane travels to Julia Child's home to join her for breakfast.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Marion Kane

Bitter Destruction, Sweet Return

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:50:06 +0000

Six people working at restaurants near the Boston Marathon explosions share their experiences as they re-open their doors to customers hungry for the city to return to normal.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Emily Files

The Sweet Taste of Imagination

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:40:36 +0000

You can eat a sumptuous three-course meal when you're sick if you use a little bit of imagination.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Nacha Raman

Everything Sounds Episode #11: Microphone Museum

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:15:57 +0000

The invention of the microphone changed many aspects of modern life beginning in the late 1800's, but today most of us take these simple machines for granted.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Remembering Our Sweet Food Pain

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:36:38 +0000

Multimedia letters on memories of food pain.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Ellie Gordon-Moershel

Bayou Umami

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:29:14 +0000

A people striving to retain their livelihood and culture.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kay Collins

Essen, My Sweet

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:20:14 +0000

A visit to a Jewish assisted living facility to record memories of what people hunger for over the courses of their lives.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Deena Prichep and Joanna Stein

When you are 4 all you want is some sweet sweet YUM

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:10:25 +0000

A conversation with my four-year-old son about what would be his favourite dinner and what flavours he would like in it.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Euan McAleece and Ossian McAleece

The Bittersweet Taste of Sports Gambling

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:02:36 +0000

Steven, a 20-something living in Chicago, shares his appetite for the tough world of sports gambling.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lisa Carter

The Smell of Salt

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:49:35 +0000

The story of an acclaimed chef and mothers journey searching for finding and understanding success.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Truck Wild and Ramped Umami Stories

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:34:25 +0000

Former coal miner and mountain man extraordinaire Jay Spencer hunts for aromatic wild leeks in the forest outside Richwood, West Virginia, a lumber town and Ramp Capital of the World.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Joanna Greer

The Sweet Taste of Couscous

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:16:03 +0000

My grandparents had very little in common except for their appetite for couscous.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Marie Telling

From Sweet Appetite to a Healthy Appetite

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:03:02 +0000

If you want to be healthy and fit, you must well inform your appetite.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Yomna Khallaf

Sweet Mudames

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:56:45 +0000

Egypt's national dish is called Ful Mudames.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Nada Gabr

Salt of the Earth

Fri, 10 May 2013 01:17:57 +0000

A group of well-known East Coast sous chefs tell of their humble beginnings and love of life in the kitchen.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Alyssa Pagano

Bittersweet Apostrophe's

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:59:38 +0000

The story of a lifelong relationship with fast food and the consequences that come with it.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Tim Needles

Appetite of English Umami

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:26:47 +0000

How to prepare the best English class in Paris.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jane Weston's English class

The Sweetest Meat

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:43:16 +0000

A cannibal finds that she no longer has the appetite for the things she used to.

Year: 2013

Producers:

The Umami of Customer Service

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:24:53 +0000

Yeah, we all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Veronica Simmonds

Sel: Trois Façons (Salt: Three Ways)

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:25:45 +0000

2013 ShortDocs Winner! No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kelly Jones

There's No Umami in the Army

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:09:07 +0000

Former military chef Danny Davis takes us through a 24-hour ration pack.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Benedikte Granvig

Sweet Elizabeth

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:50:46 +0000

An audio portrait detailing the effects of a lost appetite on friendship.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Hana Walker-Brown

Salty Eyebrows

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:31:33 +0000

Tessa has Multiple Sclerosis and is running for her life.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Tessa Dowdell

Life Is Sweet Again

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:18:37 +0000

Lucy Beesley's determination to fight off cancer and live normally has resulted in a life even sweeter than before.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bryony Hawkins

Sweet Muscles

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:04:30 +0000

70% of Tamara's life is about her diet, with one aim: to become the best female bodybuilder in the country.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Julie Thing

Sweet and Sour Tiffany: Chinese Naming Menu

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:48:14 +0000

If you could pick your own name what would you choose? Three Chinese students living in Australia explain their name choices.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Zena Kells

A Bagel's Bitter End

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:14:21 +0000

I almost burned down Dunkin' Donuts trying to cook a bagel for my sister.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Amy Kraft

Old Captain Salt

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:18:02 +0000

Dreaming of Old Captain Salt and his sushi boat.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Dixie Treichel

Sweet Empty Calories: HEART DISEASE

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:24:25 +0000

How an appetite for the wrong foods can kill you, and the role it plays in heart disease (the number one killer of women).

Year: 2013

Producers:

She's Not Bitter

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:34:27 +0000

Haley's long list of food allergies have changed her life, but not her positive attitude.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Michela Tindera

The Sour Side of Volunteering

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:19:51 +0000

Two insiders talk about the underbelly of a documentary film festival, the world of volunteer victuals.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jagmeet Mac

Journey to Umami

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:10:48 +0000

Traveling the on road to Umami, she wondered who or what she would meet along the way.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Dixie Treichel

In Search of Bitter Greens

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:11:30 +0000

With the guidance of an outdoor educator, the producers learn to forage for their supper.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Minnesota Sweets

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:46:23 +0000

Sweet corn - a great way to get fat and sleepy - is the subject of this true tale of animal, man and machine.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Becky Moonitz

The Unexpected Sweetness

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:38:28 +0000

Flowed mellow audio file that is down tempo but upbeat at the same time.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bernard Capistrano

I Still Prefer the Sweet

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:25:08 +0000

Educational & funny experiences with food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Salma El Kerdany

Sweet Cheesecake Heartbreak: Three Dates

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:20:11 +0000

Spicy kielbasa, sweet cheesecake, and a glass of merlot: the foodstuffs of great and horrible dates.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Catie Talarski

Mornings Are Not Sweet, Just Scrambled

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:10:39 +0000

Wilson Sayre shares her mornings.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Wilson Sayre

The Sweet and Sour Craving for Risk

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:50:39 +0000

Risk presented in three different courses: 1) Craving 2) We Can't Help It 3) Living Life to the Fullest.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Evie Salomon

Sweet Dreaming Orchid

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:43:22 +0000

You will see things you never even dreamed were there - or how an appetite for orchids is edifying.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Rosy Rickett

Bitter Sweet

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:29:55 +0000

Recorded in one take, with only minor effects added.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Youssef Azmy

Sweet as Pie

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:19:31 +0000

A true story: when we bought the crack house, we got more than we'd bargained for.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Elizabeth Friend

Anatomy of a Sweet

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:08:28 +0000

An expert baker attempts to conquer her greatest fear: funfetti.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Hannah Krakauer

My Mom, the Sweet Tomato

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:00:17 +0000

The one thing I still need from my mom.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Morgan Dusatko

Sweet Chlorine

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:47:40 +0000

Julia Campbell needs to swim, like most people need to eat.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jessica Campbell

Sweeter Memories

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:23:57 +0000

The story of a young man who has an appetite for adventure and tries to leave home as fast as he can.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Kurt Santana

Sweet Treats for Romy

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:07:53 +0000

For Romy Klecker, who spent her childhood in the GDR, sweet food was scarce, but in 1989 when the wall fell, a whole new world of treats opened up to her.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Jennifer Collins and Tam Eastley

Umami Love

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:39:56 +0000

A girl with a voracious appetite for chefs samples a taste of true love.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Belinda Lopez

Sweet Taste of Shelbyville

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:14:59 +0000

One small town's claim of fame is a local bakery whose pastries have created a strong tradition.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Gabrielle Reed

Blackbird Pot Pie: Not the Pie Umami Made

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:49:37 +0000

2013 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! For some South Jersey residents, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is more than just a nursery rhyme; it's supper.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Mary T. Diorio Schilling

Re:sound #174 The American Icons Show

Fri, 03 May 2013 02:02:15 +0000

This hour: the American Icons series from WNYC's Studio 360.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Salty Snails For Christmas

Fri, 03 May 2013 01:04:34 +0000

People are shocked when we tell them snails are delicious.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Suzanne El-Cheikh

Sweet Jesus

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:13:06 +0000

A mission for lamb leads to an awkward encounter with an affluent neighbor - and Jesus is to blame.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Nicole and Mark Jolly

Bitter Starts, Savory Endings

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:01:04 +0000

An exploration of identity through food experiences.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Ricardo Marinez

An Appetite for Affirmation: The Bittersweet of Pleasing Your Parents and Pleasing Your Self

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:47:28 +0000

Most of us go to college to make our dreams happen, but what do you do when what you want might not be the same as what your parents want?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lyndi Hollis

The Sweet Taste of Second Street

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:37:08 +0000

Three courses of the Second Street Market at the University of Dayton - the market, the consumers and the producers.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Torie Schumacher

Beer & Food, Neil & Eric: Two Sweet Pairings

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:47:52 +0000

An underground supper club pairs beers with dinners, served in a Mission District apartment kitchen in San Francisco.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Alison Byrne

Not So Sweet on New School Lunch

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:27:11 +0000

Michelle Obama's new school lunch program gets sour reviews from Paonia High School students.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Eros the Bittersweet: An Edible Riff

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:05:46 +0000

An audio prose poem, mixing chocolate with desire.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Richard Fox and Patricia McMillen

Umami Can't Cook Like Mine

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:55:53 +0000

The tradition of cooking has been passed down in my family through three generations: my grandma, my mom and me.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Lexia Banks

D Minor: The Ice Queen

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:51:51 +0000

If D minor were a person, who would she be?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Umami Office

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:47:01 +0000

Researchers from the Egyptian TV show Al Bernameg are trying to lose weight, stay fit or just enjoy food at the office.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Christine Iskander

Sweet Dream

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:03:41 +0000

A man remembers a dream, a snack and an idea about sound by filmmaker Robert Bresson.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Wolfgang Hastert

A Sweet Martini Memory

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:43:26 +0000

A dry martini in the afternoon proved effective in helping a widowed mother navigate the lonely shoals that lay between 4 and 6 p.m.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Ed Cohen

The Good, the Bad & the Umami: If your life was a food dish...

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:09:21 +0000

A proverbial potluck of the soul is prepared by asking local Arcata artists, "If your life was a food dish what would it be?"

Year: 2013

Producers:

Isaac Bluefoot

The Bitter End

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:53:06 +0000

The quest to follow the chain of meat production - what happens to that steak before it gets to the plate?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Pursuing Sweet Success: Running the Krispy Kreme Challenge

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:42:48 +0000

Julie and Stacy run the Krispy Kreme Challenge: 5 miles, 12 donuts, 2,400 calories, one hour.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Julie Thomson

The Umami Canon

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:26:24 +0000

Reflections on food for thought.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Casey Miner

There's No Saccharine in this Sweet School

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:58:56 +0000

Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bowl of porridge.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sierra Ponthier

Sweet Smell O' Mine

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:04:14 +0000

The story of how anosmia (lack of a sense of smell) affects my appetite.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Pauline Dunne

The Sweet Taste of India

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:47:58 +0000

Chicken Tikka Masala, the taste of India.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sin, Stanzas and Sweetness: A Las Vegas #ShortDoc

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:28:40 +0000

What are folks on the Las Vegas Strip hungry for?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Aaron Mendelson

Sweet to Bitter

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:50:36 +0000

A guy really wants to get to know a girl.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Youmna Mohamed

Sweets... A Guilty Pleasure

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:35:12 +0000

Sitting at home, on the last day of the weekend, what can one do but eat everything sweet in the kitchen.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Nada El-Tobgy

A Bitter Truth

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:18:30 +0000

One man's addiction to his music.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Mostafa Elezaby

Sour Food Slam

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:05:17 +0000

A poetry slam poking fun at the absurd "foodie" culture.

Year: 2013

Producers:

The Sweet Pursuit

Wed, 01 May 2013 01:51:42 +0000

It's only human to crave more than the bare essentials in life, but for these vinyl collectors the hunt has become pure addiction.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Alex Kress

The Bitter, the Sour and the Sweet

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:53:32 +0000

My sleeping habits compared to a restaurant menu, including three courses; starter, main dish, dessert.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Basma Abdelhafiz

Salty Weekend Memories

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:26:14 +0000

Slowly reaching a picnic in the park.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Mara Maracinescu

Deep Sweet Roots

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:16:36 +0000

Moi is a third generation Hawaiian who runs a shack by the side of the road.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Myra Dettelbach

Sweet Discoveries: One Man's Life as a Dumpster Diver

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:01:45 +0000

Elizabeth goes on a walk with Andy, her former housemate, and asks him about living off of food from dumpsters.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Elizabeth Delaquess

The Sweet Note

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:42:21 +0000

My father expresses his long-lasting appetite for the guitar and finding that sweet note.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Callie Stewart

Sweet Aunt Nuska

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:26:23 +0000

Aunt Nuska has lost her appetite and the whole family bonds together to find a remedy for her.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bittersweet

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:59:02 +0000

A golfer's drive and hunger to be great.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Zac Strohfus

A Sister's Sweet Victory

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:47:26 +0000

My passion, hunger and desire to find my sister; strangely connected through food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Taste of Bitter Love

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:52:20 +0000

Coffee roaster Hans-Erik discusses taste associations and developing a taste vocabulary.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Michael James Lewis

I'm Salty

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:16:25 +0000

I'm Salty -- Put me in your mouth!

Year: 2013

Producers:

Adam Lee

A Bitter Taste Memory

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:06:15 +0000

A mother remembers her troubling, unshakeable food addiction.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Julia Scott

Sweet Memory Rooh Afzah

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:35:18 +0000

Eva Panjwani was five years old when she emigrated from Pakistan to the United States.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Madeline Miller

Bitter Taste of Murder

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:21:25 +0000

Will the intrepid detective solve the murder most foul at Tragedy Castle?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Selling Sweet and Salty

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:02:32 +0000

How does light, sound and language change the perception of food?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Bittersweet TV

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:35:12 +0000

A television studio executive is challenged to dream up a ludicrous reality TV show idea and succeeds.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Between Two Buns: The Sweet Story of Burger Sobriety

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:17:47 +0000

For Andrew's sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Andrew Norton

Umami (or Oooh-Mommy); The Mother of All Appetites

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:08:32 +0000

We all start out with one appetite, the appetite for our mother's breastmilk.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Sukey Lewis

Umami in the Dark

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:22:39 +0000

Hungry for the unknown, a New York City couple experiences their first taste of umami.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Amelia Parenteau

Bitter Sweet Beginnings

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:26:36 +0000

Faced with their impending graduation, three Duke seniors reminisce about their freshman days and remember how a unique community was created around food.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Dillon Buckner

Alone Like a Stone in the New World (aka All These Things)

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:32:40 +0000

Writer Margy Rochlin wonders why her family is selling her grandmother's house in Arizona.

Year: 1989

Producers:

Appetite for Home: Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:03:29 +0000

Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Anne Noyes Saini

Sweet Madness: A True Story

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:57:32 +0000

A dramatic monologue about one woman's obsession with tea.

Year: 2013

Producers:

Scott Priz

Making a Bitter Beast into a Sweet Meat

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:06:02 +0000

How do you take an animal once on the endangered species list, and turn it into dinner?

Year: 2013

Producers:

Tina Antolini

Re:sound #173 The Colors Show

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:46:56 +0000

This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.

Year: 2013

Producers:

American Student Radio

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:40:56 +0000

American Student Radio (ASR) is cultivating your future radio heroes.

Year: 2013

Producers:

John Cage and the Question of Genre

Hamish Sewell

The Story as Walkabout

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:32:47 +0000

Smartphones and other gadgets have detached our listening experiences from the radio, and are making another kind of attachment possible - to where the stories actually take place.

Year: 2012

Sure-Handedness: Radio That Knows What It's Doing

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:06:14 +0000

The best audio work has a feeling of mastery about it.

Year: 2012

Own Your Thing (Day 1)

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:46:29 +0000

Independent producers have always had to fend for themselves, but today the building blocks for independent success - creating great work, reaching real audiences, making money, controlling your destiny - are falling into place in new ways.

Year: 2012

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:32:58 +0000

Robert Smith

AuRa: The Chemistry of Sound

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:46:41 +0000

Our digital age has catalyzed a kind of chemical reaction: the fission of radio into two related but distinct media, Audio and Radio.

Year: 2012

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:39:25 +0000

In early 2012, Third Coast teamed up with the neighborhood-centric website EveryBlock, and issued a wide-open invitation to make radio.

Year: 2012

These Are a Few of Jad Abumrad's Favorite Things

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:42:34 +0000

Drawing from radio and beyond, Jad Abumrad shared the stories, sounds, people and projects that have most inspired him over the years, and talked about some of the creative challenges he's faced (and embraced) along the way.

Year: 2012

Late(ish) Night with Ira Glass

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:10:59 +0000

Ira Glass brought the first day of the 2012 Third Coast Conference to a close with an audio night cap, by sharing his favorite moments from the year's Third Coast winners and other stories.

Year: 2012

Re:sound #165 The Enemies to Friends Show

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:14:52 +0000

This hour: people who start out as bitter enemies and end up in places you could never predict.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Wireless Nights: Overnight Delivery

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:44:59 +0000

Each week on Wireless Nights, pop star Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark, finding stories of the night people.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Laurence Grissell

The Battle Over Billing Codes

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:34:06 +0000

There are two main things that happen when you go to the doctor - you deal with your health concerns and you fill out a small mountain of paperwork.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Gregory Warner

My Parents' Extreme Tango Makeover

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:21:44 +0000

When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Yowei Shaw

Big Ship Diary

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:31:41 +0000

Each year, over 100 million tons of iron ore, coal, limestone and other products travel through the Great Lakes navigation system on huge cargo ships.

Year: 2012

Producers:

She Sees Your Every Move

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:52:09 +0000

While traditional street photography usually catches strangers passing by in a public space, the photographer Michele Iversen has been catching strangers passing by in their own private spaces, without their permission.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jonathan Mitchell

Living 9/11

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:32:34 +0000

A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.

Year: 2012

Producers:

String

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:22:02 +0000

Ever noticed it's the hard decisions that are often the easiest ones to make, and the inconsequential ones that can twist you into a knot?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Natalie Kestecher

What Happened at Dos Erres

Spin class gets personal.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jonathan Mitchell

Orange Pigeons at the Legion Post

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:22:19 +0000

For the first time, I visit the neighborhood skeet shoot at the American Legion Post across the road.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Sam Fuqua

A Coral Chain

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:06:22 +0000

I'll interview you, then you interview someone else.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Zak Rosen

(Blue) Locker Partners

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:59:09 +0000

What it's like to be neighbors in a space that's nine inches wide.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Linda Lutton

Who's Sleeping on the Green Couch Tonight?

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:49:05 +0000

I currently live in a studio apartment (see photo) with two of my closest girlfriends--Jenni Fenton and Nikki Jolin, and this is what our humble home sounds like.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Becky Vevea

Everyone Forgets the Grey Horizon

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:46:53 +0000

A disgruntled renter writes the landlord.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jack Gobillot

Orange Blossom and the Continuous Cut

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:42:08 +0000

From Lake Shore Drive to Tokyo... surviving the Continuous Cut.

Year: 2012

Producers:

John Lietzau

Black and White and Read All Over

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:38:35 +0000

Cub reporter Leila is keeping a keen eye on Drake Avenue, especially one particular family.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Julie Shapiro

Rudy's Gray Area

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:34:59 +0000

Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other residential neighborhoods.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jennifer Brandel

Blue Skies, Black Fences

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:29:32 +0000

What does it mean to be a good neighbor? And do we actually know the people living around us?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Catie Talarski

Duck. Duck? (Black) Goose!

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:24:36 +0000

A morning walk leads to neighbours never thought of in a neighbourhood much bigger than it seems.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Colm Coyne

The Red Cardigan

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:20:32 +0000

The legendary Mr. Rogers was everybody's favorite neighbor... except for maybe my friend Sarah.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Milos Balac

How to Realize that Far-off, Poverty-stricken, Deathly Ill, Brown People Are Your Neighbors, too

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:15:35 +0000

From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Mateo Hinojosa

Paint The Amish Horse Black and White

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:09:59 +0000

Much more than black or white, the story of a painted horse told around an Amish table.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Emily Newton

Yellow Beaks, Black Feathers, Red Blood

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:06:05 +0000

It's bloody, it's loud, and it smells like manure — Madani Halal is an unlikely gathering place, yet dozens of New Yorkers flock to the Queens business daily

Year: 2012

Producers:

Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato

72 Steps Above the Green

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:01:54 +0000

Sometimes it's a blessing to have noisy neighbours.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Geoff McQueen

The Invisible Neighborhood - The Making and Unmaking of Home

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:56:35 +0000

A voice collage with the words and ideas of three of my neighbors currently living near a peninsula that is about to be developed for a new minor league basketball arena, hotel, parking garage, and possibly even a nature trail in Portland, Maine.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Caroline Losneck

Some White Noise

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:52:57 +0000

Navid, my little neighbor.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Kim Fox

Revived Ivory: A Musical Instrument Lending Library

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:49:17 +0000

Sometimes, the greatest musical treasures are in our own backyard.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Chris Trimmer

Shadows of Grey in the Corner of Your Eye: Your Universe is Not My Universe

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:45:38 +0000

Cities are crowded, busy places, so crowded and so busy that parallel universes can occupy the same spaces, and when they overlap, it can be problematic, or even catastrophic.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Kimberly Haas

Look Toward the Blue

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:41:12 +0000

As a new resident of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, Maine, I set out one day armed with a recorder and mic in hopes of meeting some of my new neighbors.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Laura Candler

Gold Dust

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:36:55 +0000

What is the most expensive thing in the world?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Laurence Yeung

Rear Window, Black & White, 1954

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:32:06 +0000

Hitchcock's Rear Window revisited through my own rear window.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Caterina Clerici

Anthony and the Green Goats

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:28:00 +0000

Anthony explains the economics of the Goat Farm.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jenny Ament

The Commons Green

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:24:10 +0000

A homeless man is a modern day town crier in downtown Boston.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Katharine Broida

The Purple and the White: What's up with Talley's Alley?

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:20:17 +0000

The first in an occasional audio documentary series exploring the history, people, places and traditions of North Shore Country Day School (NSCDS) in Winnetka, IL.

Year: 2012

Producers:

David Green

Hearing Red

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:15:56 +0000

We explore the subtle effects of noise pollution on our daily lives.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Andy Cox

Control the Blue

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:12:26 +0000

I visited my old elementary school and went to an art class full of second graders .

Year: 2012

Producers:

Stephen Key

Behind Pink Walls: In Search of a Sound

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:07:28 +0000

Neighbors on a New Orleans street corner investigate a peculiar noise that everyone hears, but no one can find it.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Laine Kaplan-Levenson

Missing White Cat

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:04:06 +0000

When our cat, Cake, went missing, we immediately suspected our elderly neighbor, Mary.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Sarah Bromer

Coffee and Cream

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:00:21 +0000

A Nigerian woman discusses how science and coffee have provided stability amidst all her struggles.

Year: 2012

Producers:

David Hovar

How Chicago Hip Hop Went Platinum

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:47:21 +0000

The unlikely story of one man's role in the rise of Chicago hip hop.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Sophia Posnock

Red Van Refuge

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:43:45 +0000

Teri La Roca looks out for the peeps in our hood, especially our neighbors that some disregard and would rather forget.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Tennessee Watson

Shades of Blue

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:39:18 +0000

Martha White interviewed her friend Jessica Chapin at Santa Monica's Step Up on Second, a psychosocial rehabilitation and support program for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Sara Harris

Her Beautiful Brown Burden

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:35:24 +0000

Little did I know that my neighbor has a special gift, which I'd like to call a beautiful brown burden.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Ashley Kim

A Silent Tornado. A Long, Black Night.

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:31:51 +0000

Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Mary Helen Miller

The Tyranny of the Orange Ticket

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:27:31 +0000

Twice a week, New York City car owners participate in a bizarre ritual that pits neighbor against neighbor in a competitive fight for parking spaces.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Elizabeth Harball

Drawing the Purple Line

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:21:52 +0000

Being a neighbor can mean having a duty, but it's not always that simple.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Natalie Rothfels

Aphrodite's Black and Blues

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:15:49 +0000

Try to understand where people are coming from before you decide about them.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Diedra Roesijadi

Black and Blue, Not Pink

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:11:39 +0000

Every week, my roommate Olivia goes to the gym down the street to punch people and while she may be like one of the guys when she's in the ring, friends and family don't quite understand.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Lindsey Kratochwill

Greenness Envy

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:05:52 +0000

It's a terrible, beautiful affliction, with no known cure.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Eileen Heyes

Someone's Screaming Outside

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:42:55 +0000

Someone's Screaming Outside revisits the rainy Florida night George Zimmerman met Trayvon Martin, using only 911 calls from that evening and musical samples from YouTube videos reacting to the tragedy.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Mad Genius

The Red, White, and Blue Bus

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:44:24 +0000

2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Luke Eldridge

Crimson Cries, Blue Echoes

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:39:53 +0000

A neighborhood rooster searches for his lost mate and awakens fresh grief.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Mary T. Diorio Schilling

Peacock Blues

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:35:20 +0000

Warfare breaks out between neighbors when a burgeoning battalion of peacocks ravish the countryside.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Ellen Stewart

Green Slime to Dark Days: Neighbors in 4D

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:30:36 +0000

I take one place, look at what or who lived there over a very very long period of time, and give you the edited highlights.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Marnie Chesterton

Eight Beige Floors

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:25:32 +0000

A brief look at a neighborhood many have lived in, but no one stays in for long.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Abigail Keel

The Internet in Sepia

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:21:04 +0000

The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past...

Year: 2012

Producers:

Helena de Groot

Random Ghost Behavior: The Center is Always White

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:15:41 +0000

Do spirits exist?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jacob Gigler-Caro

Threat Level: Red Light

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:11:14 +0000

Looking down the block on a street in east Africa, one can see much farther than one might expect.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jefferson Mok

That Banana is Yellow

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:07:19 +0000

But what is yellow?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Aleis Murphy

Murder at the Abandoned Red Paint Factory

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:55:34 +0000

A neighbor is murdered, but the other neighbors can't figure out who he was.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Laura Mayer

Gray Day Gin and Juice

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:51:12 +0000

A former suburbanite shares a pint of gin and juice on her front porch with her new neighbor in the city.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Miracle in Gray and White

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:45:58 +0000

Neighbors investigate an apparition.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Katie Klocksin

Red, White, and Black With Little Bit of Gold

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:40:43 +0000

The nature of the current relationships between neighbors in Egypt and how it changed from how it used to be in the past.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Gehad Mahmoud

Out of the Blue

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:36:02 +0000

A college student describes the two sides of herself in her struggle with bipolar disorder.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Bianca Giaever

A Dash of Eastern Grey

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:31:20 +0000

A discussion amongst neighbors one late night at the non-stop market on the corner street.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Mara Maracinescu

Man With a Blue Truck

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:26:59 +0000

Who knew a hit and run could end in friendship?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Eve Abrams

Black Coffee

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:22:07 +0000

A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Joanne Lam

White Gold--Fridge Politics of a Student House

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:17:44 +0000

A look at what happens when nine individuals have to share one small fridge, and the challenges and issues that come up as a result.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Chris Pearson

The Gray Wisteria of Gilman Terrace

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:12:32 +0000

When we bought our dream fixer-up home on Gilman Terrace, my husband and I knew that it came with sad past--but we weren't prepared, when we unlocked the door, to find a house full of someone else's life.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Katherine Perry

We Do Know There's a Red Shelf in Their Living Room

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:07:18 +0000

How little we know of the people who share our roof.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Alison Broverman

Purple Purpose

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:57:42 +0000

FNSS (Friendly Neighborhood Surveillance System) delivers a report to Charles on Mrs. Smotherson, Mr. Eggerly, and Bruce & Denny.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Zachary Baiel

All Grown Up Blues

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:52:38 +0000

A portrait of a mother and daughter, born forty years apart.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Yarn AudioWorks

Loving Charcoal

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:43:38 +0000

A portrait of Anna, who lives one floor below me, and her hamster.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Yarn AudioWorks

Battleship Grey

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:39:32 +0000

This is the story of why you should never, ever, ever paint your balcony battleship grey.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Danielle Nerman

Faded Red Valentines

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:34:03 +0000

College students in my dorm recount how their parents met.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Bianca Giaever

Past the Brown Rice on Aisle 6

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:28:15 +0000

While at my nearby Key Foods gathering ambient sound, I happened upon this neighbor family drama set to the grocery store's soundtrack.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Audrey Quinn

Caught Red-Handed

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:12:19 +0000

Someone's been smoking in my building, and I want them to stop.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Chris Berube

Ray, White, and Blue

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:07:24 +0000

Over ten years ago, two strangers were drawn together by a neighborhood handball court in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Marisa Wong

Green Convenience Store

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:03:16 +0000

How one convenience store and its singing proprietor can change the atmosphere of a street.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Rosy Rickett

Neighborhood Crimes: When Black and White is Grey

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:57:22 +0000

Now living in a comparatively peaceful community in Fargo, ND, Ermina Jelovac from Bosnia exposes the almost overnight change in her neighbors during the war.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Meeting in a White Stairs

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:51:37 +0000

Just a little of my world in encounters with neighbors on the white stairs of my building that has no elevator!

Year: 2012

Producers:

Pedro Garbellini da Silva

Coloring In the Great White North

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:46:14 +0000

Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Midnight Blues

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:40:12 +0000

A night like any other in an unusual life.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Black Cat in the Room

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:33:49 +0000

Moving in with strangers in a new city can be difficult but building a relationship with their pets can be an experience in itself, even if that pet is named after a famous actor.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Mike Williams

Sepia Elsie

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:27:17 +0000

90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Aaron Sand

Green Pilings

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:07:51 +0000

Hell and high water came, but Hurricane Katrina couldn't knock out one strong-willed Mississippi family.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Emily Liner

Mother Nature's Blues

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:01:32 +0000

We posed the question "What would you do if you were mother nature?" to our teenage neighbors and our piece features a compilation of the diverse answers we received.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Blue Radio Day 2012

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:22:43 +0000

Children voices calling to radio days.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Chuse Fernandez

#0000ff is Blue

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:11:01 +0000

No music, no human voices, computers are the future.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Chris Pollard

The Green Tree Dervish

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:05:07 +0000

Photographer Gaylord Herron has traveled all over the world photographing different cultures, but he's also found fulfillment in his own backyard.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Abby Wendle

Glass, Not Glitter

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:55:09 +0000

2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Abby Wendle

Whitey's Rules

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:26:36 +0000

Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- in this darkly comic piece.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Redbricks and Weatherboards

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:19:11 +0000

I've lived in Melbourne's suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to listen until now. This is my street.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jaye Kranz

Doggie House Blues

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:12:20 +0000

There are two types of neighbors: those with dogs and those without dogs.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Zena Kells

Scaredy Cats (in Grey Scale)

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:00:04 +0000

While many people find their small feline neighbours endearing, this is the story of a man who finds them frightening.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Michael Savic

The Red That's Left Behind

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:54:06 +0000

The house on the corner has an eccentric paint job. Who's behind it?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Blue Blood on the Boulevard

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:44:47 +0000

Blue Blood on the Boulevard is a short story highlighting the light and shade of a neighborhood; the sociable, family-orientated neighbor on one side and the cheating, scheming one on the other – with horrific consequences.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Michael Boland

I Still Dream of My Grandfather's Red Roses

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:38:12 +0000

Asking people from her community to make a statement beginning with the words "I dream of," Australian documentarist Phoebe Hart curates these fragments and creatively envisages the literal and figurative world of dreams, arresting our collective hopes, desires and fears.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Phoebe Hart

If Bob Was a Fruit, He'd Be a Yellow Quince

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:29:54 +0000

Sometimes neighbours impact our lives -- even when, at first, we don't notice.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Helen Kost

Green Fingers Gather

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:45:42 +0000

"Reflections on gardening, allotments, and community in a Garden Sunday event at Plot 22 - a nature space, allotment garden, meeting circle, and learning resource."

Year: 2012

Producers:

Vaska Trajkovska

Black Box

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:39:32 +0000

"Black Box" is a performance art piece based on a confidential survey asking both local and international participants, 'What would your metaphorical black box say?'

Year: 2012

Producers:

Pascalle Burton

On the Day I Died It Was Mostly Blues

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:33:29 +0000

I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Alix Blair

Sunset Ridge Brown

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:26:52 +0000

One morning I looked out my front door and...oh, my, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Bill Ratner

Oh, Where Have You Been, My Blue-Eyed Son?

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:44:48 +0000

Liza introduces her new love, Jonah.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Belinda Lopez

The Yellow Living Room

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:26:30 +0000

Somebody gets a friendly new neighbor!

Year: 2012

Producers:

Pretty in Pink

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:19:46 +0000

The girls upstairs are loud and fun, and one of them is Miss Wicker Park.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jessica Speer

Unobstructed Pink and Blue

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:13:23 +0000

A landlord and a tenant inhabit the same building on West 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jennifer Swann

Fwd: Have You Red the 'Welcome Back to the D' Thread?

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:05:05 +0000

My neighbors read their own words in this piece which spotlights excerpts from an e-mail thread that went out on our neighborhood list-serve, a source of fascination for all involved.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Laura Herberg

The Man With the Long White Beard

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:56:15 +0000

He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Scott Pham

Dancing Away the Teaching Blues

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:48:39 +0000

Life experiences told by my neighbor and colleague: Chris Nho, the breakdancing math teacher.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Julie Ma

White Noise

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:38:27 +0000

White Noise is about what happens to the residents when several construction projects invade one block at the same time.

Year: 2012

Producers:

New Neighbor Blues

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:30:04 +0000

Susan and Joe discover just how much the ocean they grew up with meant to them when they are 3,000 miles from home.

Year: 2012

Producers:

The Color of Somebody's Skin

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:22:33 +0000

My neighbor Eddy Jr. shares his love and lament for the neighborhood he's called home all his life.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Andy Mills

From Green to Gone

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:15:24 +0000

A tree is a precious thing in a city...but does anyone care when a tree in their own backyard is cut down?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Hannah Ayers

Red Beeps

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:05:48 +0000

A recollection of my aunt's past and current home.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Aaron Arreguin

The White House

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:05:22 +0000

Living next door for years, they soon learn each other's ways, not only to be nosey but also for support.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Daniel Baker

Romance at the Red Line Tap

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:41:58 +0000

Characters come out of the woodwork to take the stage at a weekly open mic at The Red Line Tap in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Tricia Bobeda

Crown the King: Red Takes Black

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:24:29 +0000

2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Adam Kampe

Logan Square's Brown Bread Underground

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:07:05 +0000

On one block in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, an unnamed baker whips up artisan sourdoughs to sell to his neighbors.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Annie Minoff

Mike Schmidt on a Purple Bike

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:52:40 +0000

Old friends and newly neighbors, Andy and Amanda stalk their Brooklyn block to uncover the mystique of a neighborhood legend who curiously resembles one of baseball's greatest Hall of Famers.

Year: 2012

Producers:

The Wine-Dark Sea

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:09:33 +0000

Homer's Odyssey re-imagined through my neighbors' experiences on the wine-dark sea.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Whitney Jones

Red Brick Houses

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:03:08 +0000

Here's a conversation with my 92 year-old neighbor Liza about how our neighborhood has changed since 1959, with "Mack the Knife" played on ukelele by fellow neighbor Tom Bassett.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Carol Spindel

Behind Black Bars

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:56:39 +0000

Neighbors discuss the safety of where they live in Pavas, San José, Costa Rica.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Kyle Greufe

The Gray Area

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:49:03 +0000

After a grueling 35 min dance entitled "Little Mortal Jump" by Alejandro Cerrudo, resident choreographer of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, dancers Kevin Shannon and Alice Klock reflect on not only their young love duet but the thoughts that cross their mind after the lights have gone out.

Year: 2012

Producers:

The Black Dog: If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:37:09 +0000

A simple neighborly gesture means a lot, in a time of need.

Year: 2012

Producers:

At First Blush: The Case of the Girl in the Purple Hoodie

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:27:33 +0000

When you ask someone an impossible question, be prepared to listen closely for your answer.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Erin Davis

The Red House on Maple

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:21:43 +0000

At the Red House on Maple, ten best friends (including me!) relish in each other's companionship, as the time they have together comes to an end.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Josh Freund

The Green Door to the Future

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:12:33 +0000

In a corner of Santa Monica, CA, the Village Trailer Park and its residents face an uncertain future.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Will Coley

Red Envelope Fairy

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:06:36 +0000

Across the street from my apartment, Elaine Autwell delivers Freedom of Information Act requests to every department in the City of Evanston, a job which has earned her the title of the "Red Envelope Fairy."

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jonah Newman

Re:sound #160 The Fate vs. Accident Show

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:05:20 +0000

This hour: two stories of regular old days that started out static and ended up seismic.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Ten Daughters One Dairy, The Brown Family Farm

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:58:55 +0000

The Brown Family farm was run by ten daughters.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Emily Newton

False Teeth, True Love, and Blueberry Pie

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:52:43 +0000

My neighbor Earl has been a logger all his life; Betty, who lives up the mountain tells me those logging men are known for their sweet tooth, and Earl tells me about his sweetheart.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Emily Newton

Yellow Short Pants

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:32:54 +0000

Daily life can be tough for a foreigner living in Japan but luckily Ueko and Hitomi, my neighbors from down the road, are always on hand to offer advice....even when it involves a missing pair of yellow shorts.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Julien Clancy

Roses are Red, Sandwiches Are Yellow

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:14:47 +0000

Neighbors of Bushwick, Brooklyn are asked, "Which do you prefer, the perfect love or the perfect sandwich?" -- vox pop-style.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Sejan Yun

Whistler in Blue (Sweater)

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:07:07 +0000

In a tiny village the rhythm of life is surprisingly loud, and one neighbour keeps time with his whistle.

Year: 2012

Producers:

The Signing

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:45:24 +0000

The bureaucracy surrounding support for the unemployed is often mindless and ultimately de-humanizing for everyone involved.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Black, White and Green

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:11:31 +0000

A woman makes her 'home' at a bus stop across the street from my office, this is my fantasy of what her seemingly miserable life could be the result of.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Frank Karall

Fire Engine Red

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:55:36 +0000

This is a story about getting to know your neighbour, when your neighbour is a sound.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Veronica Simmonds

Bye Bye Blue Bird

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:37:43 +0000

Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip mall on Cape Cod face eviction.

Year: 2012

Producers:

JP Davidson

Bee a Good Neighbor - They'll Give You Gold

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:18:08 +0000

The story of how I helped a neighbour move thousands of his tiny friends to a new home.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Tom Allan

Game, Set and Tennis Whites

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:08:06 +0000

Jo's boys love living on Elliswick Road because of the Tennis Club on the corner, where neighbor Veronica does her bit to help keep things running smoothly.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jo Coleman

Yellow Bellied White Woman Fights the Blues (Sat 11-5)

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:08:18 +0000

Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jane Cramer

Grey Skies and Packed Basements

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:57:03 +0000

A Canadian arrives in London to find herself living with a Swiss Italian and a Brit who have some quirky secrets; after one week she learns more about what her new neighbours are like.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Britt Wray

We Thought He Had a Black Heart

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:23:35 +0000

Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is much more to their neighbours than they think.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Clemence Petit-Perrot

Happy in Black and White

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:09:57 +0000

This is the story of a triangular-shaped green – bordered by busy commuter roads in Dublin, Ireland – which offers a place of sanctuary to more than just people.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Nancy Previs

Coach Class Up in the Wild Blue Yonder

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:53:16 +0000

13D meets her neighbors 13C and 13E.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Melissa Gerr

True Blue - The Story of Anzac Day

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:43:44 +0000

Here's the untold story of the origins of Anzac Day.

Year: 2012

Producers:

David Stephenson

A Golden Summer

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:28:45 +0000

Benct and Rosie are German backpackers who became my neighbours for a weekend when they parked their camper van, "Bussy", outside my house. This is the story of their travels so far...

Year: 2012

Producers:

James Vyver

Duke's Street Corner Blues

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:19:26 +0000

Duke, one of the many artists in the historic African American arts district of the Fillmore neighborhood, discusses his surprising first step in becoming an artist.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Kristina Loring

Bing Fu is Not Blue

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:09:28 +0000

Bing Fu is an ESL teacher in Toronto, and she tells her story about misunderstanding a word in spite of looking it up in the dictionary.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Julia Grant

Orangey Brown Meets Yellow and Black

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:51:09 +0000

Two neighbors discuss the thing that inspires fear, sweetens our lives, and keeps food on the table.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Emily Eagle

Strawberry Margaritas

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:26:32 +0000

Your neighborhood Mexican restaurant may have a deeper history than you know.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Kerry Klein

True Blue Light

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:11:30 +0000

A man with a microphone meets a small town neighbor on a mission.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Greens at Gloria's

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:59:28 +0000

Gloria's Kitchen feeds the neighborhood.

Year: 2012

Producers:

(Gold)en Age of the Newspaper Business

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:06:53 +0000

Experience the almost-lost memories of a team of journalists from St. Catharines, Ontario.

Year: 2012

Producers:

An Extraordinary Affair

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:11:02 +0000

The time: Ireland, mid 1700s. Young Eleanor Butler is from one of the most notable families in the country and lives in a grand castle.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Being Green Is Easy

Wed, 23 May 2012 01:02:10 +0000

Envy is difficult to avoid... especially between two friends.

Year: 2012

Producers:

George Drake Jr.

Re:sound #159 The Protest Show

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:16:51 +0000

This hour: whether it is a mob of millions or one single voice, nothing changes unless someone stands up and says, "No more."

Year: 2012

Producers:

Seeing Red

Tue, 08 May 2012 02:45:12 +0000

What happens when a skylight lets more than light into your apartment?

Year: 2012

Producers:

Tori Marlan

Passing Stranger

Thu, 03 May 2012 23:15:12 +0000

Ron Padgett and Andrei Codrescu recall a night in 1968, when fellow poet Kenneth Koch was assassinated, or so it seemed, during a reading at St. Mark's Church in New York City.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Pejk Malinovski

She?s Hearing Mauve

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:49:22 +0000

An off-kilter treasure hunt for ideas.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Black Paris Spleen, American Mouths

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:30:19 +0000

Journalist Ajai Raj muses about art, fact, and truth with his metaphysical neighbors, the notorious dramatist Mike Daisey and Charles Baudelaire, the renowned poet.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Ajai Raj

...And the Dumpster is Blue

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:18:36 +0000

Just a typical day in "The Southgate."

Year: 2012

Producers:

Michael Abramczyk

Red White & Bruised

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:57:07 +0000

2012 ShortDocs Winner! Don Floyd looks back on his life of eighty years, after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Year: 2012

Producers:

That Mill House Yellow

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:44:08 +0000

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Nick Andersen

The Purple-Spotted Sock

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:03:34 +0000

A story about a neighbour, which turns out also to be a story about another neighbour – and when all comes to all: about the narrator herself.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Sigrid Saabye

Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Lutheran?

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:54:54 +0000

I challenged my neighbors to a good old fashioned college chant off!

Year: 2012

Producers:

Bradley Campbell

Re:sound #158 The Night Show

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:15:43 +0000

This hour: Listening to the night.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Barmy Banff Blackout Bingo!

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:45:19 +0000

Welcome to Thursday night $1,000 jackpot bingo at The Royal Canadian Legion in the small Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Alyssa Moxley

A Black Tie Affair

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:39:24 +0000

In Ireland where the tradition of waking the dead is strong in rural areas, we go behind the scenes of this centuries old tradition.

Year: 2012

Producers:

softirishrain

Forget Me Not Suburban St. Louis, For You Are The Site of My Sexual Liberation

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:27:45 +0000

St. Louis kinksters demonstrate that an history of lab-based human sexuality studies in the city can be recast as communal, playful, and liberating in the suburbs.

Year: 2012

Producers:

East Oakland (in Blue)

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:19:19 +0000

East Lake Neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood mixed in with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist DO D.A.T.'s album "Oakland in Blue".

Year: 2012

Producers:

Dash Hay

White Picket Pretense

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:10:16 +0000

The truth behind the white picket fence: A story of neighbors at odds, egos at war, and kids at play

Year: 2012

Producers:

Our Blacktop

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:21:48 +0000

A recollection of simpler times with the friends I grew up with.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Noah Vandercook

Ernie's Green Free Tree

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:04:50 +0000

Under Ernie's Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger's possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, remembering a generous man who began life as a poor cast-off to become a neighborhood treasure.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Nancy Camden

Romantic Red Love, But Not in Sweden

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:33:18 +0000

With the couple next door constantly fighting and my friends failed marriages in good memory I started to wonder why Sweden seems to fail in loving until death do us part.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Leni Günther

Beginnings

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:12:03 +0000

"A new start for the start."

Year: 2012

Producers:

Roger Beebe

Pink Pong

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:04:55 +0000

Louise tries to teach me singing, and Philip speaks about silence and writing.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Daniel Martin-Borret

Soft Footsteps Fade to Black

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:46:26 +0000

Soft footsteps fade to balck is abstract in relation to the conventional form of neighbours, however flashing thoughts and the path can be seen as comfort akin to the world next door.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Matthew Wilmott

Recollections Dream in Blue

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:10:05 +0000

This audio captures the essence of Matthew Wilmott's internal neighbours - silence and recollections/dreams (per say those that that drift dark and heavy in the mind just before sunrise).

Year: 2012

Producers:

Matthew Wilmott

Ordinary Brown Frogs

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:28:35 +0000

A couple from Amsterdam East talks about the brown frogs they introduced to the neighborhood. (You might find this english transcript handy!)

Year: 2012

Producers:

Maartje Duin

Grey Areas

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:34:44 +0000

Grey Areas is about how close Dave Pickering is to his dad, in a literal sense; it's also a tribute to the the neighbour they buried in his back garden.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Dave Pickering

Re:sound # 157 The Children of Sodom and Gomorrah Show

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:59:25 +0000

This hour: Children try to survive in, and escape from, a Ghanaian slum called Sodom and Gomorrah.

Year: 2012

Producers:

American Dad

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:11:43 +0000

Growing up poor in Mexico City, Pilar dreamed of reuniting with her father who had moved to America years before.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Stephanie Foo

Through the Perforated Tan Walls

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:39:27 +0000

A community of music lovers share their experiences with the practice rooms at Allen Hall, a Living and Learning dorm at University of Illinois.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Kim Peterson

The Green Controller

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:29:18 +0000

Typical day at the dormitory - the usual sounds that are heard across the hall.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Alejandro Remigio

My Blue Bucket

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:40:05 +0000

A simple scene of sharing language, laughter, songs and daily chores with my neighbours in Kigali, Rwanda.

Year: 2012

Producers:

On the Orange Dusty Streets

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:45:28 +0000

Meet Juma, a Rwandan street boy, whose dream is to become a singer, and Bosco who spends his days fixing broken plastic buckets, casserole pots, shoes, radios and umbrellas to earn a living for his family.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Helene Thomas

Me and Run Like a Dream

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:46:33 +0000

Here's your typical love story, except for one small detail: the husband is a race horse.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Re:sound #156 The Russia Show

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:11:29 +0000

This hour: The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

Year: 2012

Producers:

Bullied: Teen Stories from Generation PRX

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:38:31 +0000

Bullying isn't a new story, but lately, it's all over the news.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Flecks of Grey (by Pidgey)

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:31:11 +0000

One pigeon's emotional journey to understand his neighbors: the seagulls.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Jocelyn Peirce

Zak Rosen

The Glass Piano

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:02:33 +0000

At the tender age of 23, Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria (1826-1875) was observed awkwardly walking sideways down the corridors of her family palace.

Year: 2012

Producers:

Re:sound #152 The Sports Show

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:58:03 +0000

This hour: the drama of sport, the history of sport, the sound of sport and more...

Year: 2011

Producers:

All in Time

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:26:48 +0000

The clock ticks; the moon waxes; the autumn leaves turn crimson.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

Re:sound #151 The Little Feet / Big Adventures Show

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:09:12 +0000

This week: Little feet on big adventures.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Re:sound #150 The Fear of Poland Show

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:03:03 +0000

This hour: Facing fears in faraway lands.

Year: 2011

Producers:

2011 TC/RHDF Competition Winners

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:53:57 +0000

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!

Year: 2011

Producers:

2011 Winners

The Five Percent Rule

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:27:13 +0000

Soldiers smoke more than civilians.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Sally Herships

Patriot Games

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:12:47 +0000

Best friends Rich Carlson and Tom Swenor got so fed up with the political process in America that they decided to form their own Tea Party chapter in Petoskey, Michigan.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Ben Calhoun

Finding Emilie

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:55:28 +0000

While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Deportations Before Reform: Anatomy of an Immigration Bust

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:32:47 +0000

As lawmakers continue to debate immigration reform, the Obama administration is pushing for a path to citizenship for those here illegally.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Marianne McCune

Heel, Toe, Step Together

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:58:52 +0000

Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 years old.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Katie Burningham

Kohn

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:48:14 +0000

Most people find hearing their own voices (on voice mails or other recordings) strange, unfamiliar, or even discomforting.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Andy Mills

Re:sound #149 The Piano Show

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:42:24 +0000

This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man's obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Dallas, Pitiless Universe

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:07:50 +0000

Dallas, the 1980s prime-time soap opera, may have disappeared from American television 20 years ago, but like J.R. Ewing, the show never really died.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Julia Barton

Signal to Noise

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:36:49 +0000

What happens when you work with sound everyday -- listening to it, recording it, manipulating it -- and then one day, one of those sounds sticks around for good?

Year: 2011

Producers:

Paolo Pietropaolo

Re:sound #148 The Buying and Selling Show

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:15:20 +0000

This hour: selling, swapping, buying and trading.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Re:sound #147 The Sense of Duty Show

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:51:13 +0000

This hour: A dark secret that threatens to tear apart a family.

Year: 2011

Producers:

The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:40:56 +0000

Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Re:sound #146 The Nomads Show

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:17:01 +0000

This hour: From the highest fresh water lake in the world to one of the lowest spots on the bowery, we bring you stories of nomadic cultures, peoples and spirits.

Year: 2011

Producers:

A Sense of Duty

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:47:48 +0000

This story is a tale of love, betrayal, and a secret.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Heather Stewart

The Pigeon Race

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:07:06 +0000

We may be a bit biased subject-wise, but here's a delightful, sound-rich exploration of an endangered sport and community in Maine that's got it all: history, suspense, expertise and devoted participants both human and winged.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Rachel James

Resound #145 The Fathers Show

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:35:22 +0000

This hour: Dads, in all their glory.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Multiple producers

Children of Sodom and Gomorrah

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:56:22 +0000

Sodom and Gomorrah is a hellish place in Accra, Ghana, where children eke out a living on a scrap heap of discarded computers that the West no longer needs.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Re:sound #144 The Letters Show

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:15:27 +0000

This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letter to letters.

Year: 2011

Producers:

99% Invisible: A Designed Language

Wed, 18 May 2011 18:58:42 +0000

What would it be like if, in addition to our native languages, we could communicate across cultures in a neutral second language?

Year: 2011

Producers:

Roman Mars

I Didn't Know That (Ryan)

Tue, 17 May 2011 21:55:58 +0000

A college student reflects on an important lesson learned not in the classroom but in the bedroom.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Emma Miller

To Begin With

Mon, 16 May 2011 21:28:34 +0000

A few stories told at once.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Emily Hilliard

I'd Like to Straighten You Out

Mon, 16 May 2011 21:16:54 +0000

A musician, a living legend, attracts pilgrims, then gives them trouble.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Joseph Decosimo

Chain of Missing Sounds

Mon, 16 May 2011 21:05:17 +0000

A sonic piece about the absence of sonicness.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Caleb Winebrenner

The Small Person Acquisition Project

Mon, 09 May 2011 19:33:29 +0000

This is a story about two men and a little baby... well, a big baby actually.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Kristin Nelson

Re:sound #143 The Centenarians Show

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:29:30 +0000

This hour: Stories about people who lived to be 100, and reflections from producer Neenah Ellis on what she learned from these remarkable centenarians.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Cognitive Dissonance: Lightning in a Bottle

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:02:06 +0000

What was the earliest sound ever recorded, or "bottled"? The First Sounds (FS) project, organized by a group of audio historians, scientists, and archivists, is dedicated to exploring these pioneering sounds, and sharing them with the world.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Chris Trimmer

The Auctioneer

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:57:10 +0000

More than 20 years ago, musicologist Ned Sublette attended the Missouri Auction School in Kansas City, and brought along his tape recorder.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Ned Sublette

Re:sound #142 The Book Odds Show

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:01:18 +0000

This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds, and talk to the organizer of the project, Third Coast Artistic Director Julie Shapiro about the rules, the incentives, and our collaboration with widely-acclaimed musical duo, The Books.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Multiple producers

Practice, Practice, Practice

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:26:13 +0000

Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there?

Year: 2011

Producers:

Stanzi Vaubel

Re:sound #141 The Hustling Show

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:10:05 +0000

This hour: Hustlers. Some are straight-up con artists, and others are just doing what they have to do to get by.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Downtown Avant Garde

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:26:47 +0000

Composer, label owner and multi-instrumentalist John Zorn is one of the most beloved (and provocative) American masters of free jazz, improvisation, and musical innovation.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Steve Shepherd

Re:sound #83 The Going Up Show

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:35:33 +0000

This hour: climbing, flying and facing your fears.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Planet Kaleigh

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:23:36 +0000

Cindy Harasen is not the first the first mother to think that her daughter might be from another planet.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Re:sound # 140 The Country-Western Show

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:29:18 +0000

This week: every country song tells a story and has a story behind it.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Basement Story

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:37:12 +0000

When his mother decided to sell his childhood home, Austin Bunn returned to help clean out the basement and rediscovered traces of a childhood game that never really ended.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Austin Bunn

Finding Miles

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:18:09 +0000

A few years ago, radio producer Sarah Reynolds was privy to an intimate confession: her friend Megan told her that she was about to undergo a transition in gender from female to male.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Sarah P. Reynolds

Lucia's Letter

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:52:40 +0000

Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Amy Tardif

Breaking Away

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:36:07 +0000

Luzer Twersky was raised as a Hasidic Jew. At the age of 23 he decided to leave his family and everything he'd ever known to move into secular society. His upbringing had been strict -- no school, no movies, no dates, no jobs. Otrasized from his community, he entered a world he knew very little about.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Josh Gleason

We Believe We Are Invincible

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:19:03 +0000

In sports, the margin of victory can come down to just thousandths of a second. Ben Rubin interviews several famous track and field stars to explore the mental edge athletes try to develop as they prepare for competition.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Ben Rubin

Resound # 139 The Metamorphosis Show

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:43:16 +0000

This hour: two people shed old skins and resurface in foreign territory.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Multiple producers

Dear Z,

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:18:51 +0000

By way of a love letter, Julie Shapiro recounts the incredible racing history of the astonishing, record-breaking mare named Zenyatta. Zenyatta captured the hearts and imaginations of millions and shined a bright spotlight on the American horse racing industry in 2009-10.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Julie Shapiro

Runner

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:14:11 +0000

One of the most remarkable marathon finishes in recent history was recorded in 2009 in Boston. There, Kenyan runner, Salina Kosgei had her sights set on the finish line, having traveled half way around the world to get there.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Jonathan Miller

The Artangel Podcast: Memory

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:15:54 +0000

Inspired by three art works from the London-based art organization Artangel, producer Francesca Panetta offers an immersive sonic exploration through the subject of memory: personal, geographical, musical, architectural...

Year: 2011

Producers:

Re:sound #138 The Running Show

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:30:48 +0000

This hour: Running on two legs, running on four, but most importantly, running with all your might.

Year: 2011

Producers:

The Hunter

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:43:05 +0000

They say one man's trash is another man's treasure... Well, in Darren Atkinson's case, it's also his job.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Dominic Girard

Resound #137 The Jazz and Freedom Show

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:33:40 +0000

This hour: Jazz and the struggle for civil rights in South Africa and the U.S.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Multiple producers

Best of the Best 2011 (Part 2)

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:41:40 +0000

Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF Competition.

Year: 2011

Producers:

Best of the Best 2011 (Part 1)

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:39:39 +0000

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:54:27 +0000

There are some 14,000 people living on the streets of Las Vegas, and Nevada ranks second in the nation in homeless population per capita.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Adam Burke

The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:39:58 +0000

British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Adam Fowler

The Sleeping Fool

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:30:19 +0000

Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Sofia Saldanha

The Lonely Funeral

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:19:59 +0000

Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. They are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who cut off all social contacts.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Michele Ernsting

Capturing the Brief Life and Death of an Infant

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:11:04 +0000

Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Mary Beth Kirchner

This Can Go On Forever

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:54:36 +0000

Eighteen years after Carol gave up her son for adoption, she still believed they would meet again.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:25:32 +0000

On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman.

Year: 2010

Producers:

An Interior Life

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:10:45 +0000

A meditation on love, loss and loneliness in south London, An Interior Life tells the story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who has been alone since the death of his long term partner.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Laurence Grissell

The Too Hard Basket

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:24:28 +0000

Only in the last 60 years or so have people begun to talk openly about sex, but one group is often left out of the discussion.

Year: 2010

Producers:

John Blades

Re:sound #135 The Taking Care Show

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:58:46 +0000

This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.

Year: 2010

Producers:

One Way Ticket to Mars

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:13:11 +0000

NASA is figuring out how to take the next great leap into space. The difficulty is, if we leap to Mars, we might not make it back.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Roman Mars

First Steps

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:03:14 +0000

Raising kids is one of life's biggest and most complicated adventures. Sometimes a basic task can present a monumental challenge - especially for new parents.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Re:sound #134 The Consequences Show

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:52:33 +0000

For every action there is a reaction. This week we look at consequences, both micro and macro.

Year: 2010

Producers:

After the Wars: Bill Stenberg

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:45:20 +0000

Bill Stenberg says he was just "standing on the corner with a friend, the way guys do" when he decided to enlist in the military.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Ben Calhoun

Re:sound #133: The Food Show

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:36:27 +0000

This hour: Food. It's delicious. It's complicated.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 18

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:57:31 +0000

We remember some events as shockingly impossible, and yet just as easily, they could have happened to any one of us.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Sue Muldowney

Chain of Missing Links (and beyond)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:10:58 +0000

Beginning is always a challenge but thoughts once thought unconnected create a story.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Dixie Treichel

All You Need is a Wall (A Wall With You)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:59:47 +0000

Symphonic punk country disco.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Nick van der Kolk

All You Need is a Wall (Snoreasurus)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:48:47 +0000

Recordings of not sleeping.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jeremy Reichardt

Chain of Missing Links - 36

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:30:57 +0000

A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links.

Year: 2010

Producers:

A Cold Freezin Night - 15

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:13:45 +0000

A detective story. "There was a murder of a young man, who had three mistresses. Which of them is a murderer?"

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chain of Missing Links - 35

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:52:28 +0000

After learning of the bike shop's impending eviction, R.U.B.A.R.B. (Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes) volunteers share their memories and discuss possible future locations.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Milissa Orzolek

Chain of Missing Links - 34

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:38:23 +0000

A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Neil Sandell

All You Need is a Wall (For A Classroom)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:21:06 +0000

A few late students help us understand why the classroom is a special place.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Aaron Sand

All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:04:22 +0000

2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Niall Farrell

(For) A Cold Freezin Night

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:33:50 +0000

Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Brendan Baker

Chain of Missing Links (El Pájaro Volador)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:16:02 +0000

Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Brendan Baker

A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:04:45 +0000

2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Andrea Silenzi

A Cold Freezin Night - 14

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:45:05 +0000

A stranger moves slowly through town and reflects on all that has happened.

Year: 2010

Producers:

David Newman

All You Need is a Wall (or at least one good idea...)

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:27:31 +0000

Producer Catie Talarski and her eleven-year-old brother get to work creating their annual Thirdcoast Shortdoc.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Catie Talarski

I Didn't Know That - 14

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:17:46 +0000

An improvised scene by Brendan Pelsue and Natasha Haverty, set in an imagined seaside town.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Natasha Haverty

A Cold Freezin Night - 13

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:11:48 +0000

Austin, Texas based experimental performance art group Happiness is a Choice use improvisation and their unique style of meta-theater to learn about each other and about the moments that they share on stage.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Michael Ferstenfeld

Chain of Missing Links - 33

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:05:36 +0000

Peter Wallace left the village of Leenane in the west of Ireland for the building sites of England and Germany in 1969 at 19 years of age; he came to live in Leeane once again in 2004.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Colm Coyne

All You Need is (gum on) a Wall

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:58:12 +0000

A monster grows while attracting tourists in downtown Seattle.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Emily Eagle

A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:52:35 +0000

In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Sarah Bromer

A Cold Freezin Night - 12

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:45:04 +0000

A nostalgic recollection of a late night out driving around and swimming with friends a few summers ago back on Cape Cod, where I grew up.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Matthew McVickar

I Didn't Know That (art)

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:36:38 +0000

When an elementary school teacher who has never taken an art class is asked to be a presenter at an art awards ceremony, she enlists the help of students and parents to explain to her what art actually is.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Peggy Keiner

Chain of Missing Links - 32

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:29:36 +0000

An experimental jam using circuit-bent toys, laptop, and vocoder created at the weekly eSymposium hosted by Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot and held at Lizard's Liquid Lounge.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Steve Schwarz

Chain of Missing Links - 31

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:16:36 +0000

A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 17

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:07:27 +0000

There he stood, stout and smirking, with a handlebar moustache - I felt like he was looking right at me.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Lauren Kirby

Chain of Missing Links - 30

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:41:48 +0000

Twin Peaks to Tanzania: an aural stream of conscious.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Lauren Kirby

All You Need is a Wall - 16

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:24:43 +0000

2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Frances Willick

I Didn't Know That - 13

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:15:16 +0000

I realized after the fact that this is basically a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On," for chorus of female voices.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jennifer Deer

Chain of Missing Links - 29

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:04:50 +0000

A quarky upbeat piece playing with the idea of broadcasting emotions through computer screens and loving each other via satellite.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Erik Laar

All You Need is a Wall - 15

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:53:51 +0000

A young man, lost in sound, finds his way through the wall.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Alexander Stephens

I Didn't Know That (Whozaphone)

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:01:08 +0000

Shelley seeks solitude with her hand-cranked whozaphone, but instead finds a friend in the Outer Limits.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Lacy Roberts

Chain of Missing Links (& More)

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:27:55 +0000

Jennifer Brandel Just when you're convinced someone is gone as you knew them...

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jennifer Brandel

I Didn't Know That - 12

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:01:19 +0000

In a small, urban forest hidden inside San Francisco's Tenderloin district, a curious group of nine and ten year old children are learning to sew.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Kendall Taggart

Chain of Missing Links (Objects and Their Owners)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:46:33 +0000

This piece is an audio documentary centering on the stories of how people become connected to objects and about how we let these objects go at a garage sale.

Year: 2010

Producers:

David Keto

All You Need is a Wall - 14

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:09:34 +0000

Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Linda Besner

All You Need is a Wall (Memo)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:00:12 +0000

Nothing makes sense when these things happen.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Alix Blair

I Didn't Know That - 11

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:47:14 +0000

An innocent (?) bystander observes a traffic accident and is surprised by his reaction.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Tony Green

Chain of Missing Links - 27

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:36:01 +0000

A mother and daughter assess the plight of a neighbor.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 13

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:21:00 +0000

A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Mia Lobel

I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:04:13 +0000

A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Stephanie Coleman

I Didn't Know That - 10

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:51:32 +0000

On a rare sunny day in Seattle, we walk around the neighborhood and learn from strangers what we don't know.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 12

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:39:48 +0000

A journey of discovery, passion, nature, and conscience.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Ben Pagac

I Didn't Know That - 9

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:19:24 +0000

A man drives through rural Illinois to find an answer to future questions.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall (of Noise)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:52:45 +0000

A personal account of Hendrick's adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, is arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience to help create a perception of what it's like to live behind a wall of noise.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chris Trimmer

A Cold Freezin Night - 11

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:37:18 +0000

Jay came with me to a whiskey convention thinking that he was going to have a blast...but someone from his past throws his night into a painful meditation on love and whiskey.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Stephanie Foo

I Didn't Know That (I Was an Albino)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:46:46 +0000

Thomas Bryant Jr. grew up as an African-American with albinism in Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement--a very complicated time to be in between.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Stephanie Foo

All You Need is a Wall (The Infamous Elevator Story)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:36:23 +0000

The close quarters of an elevator make for a particularly suffocating ride after someone, um, passes gas. If only there was a gas mask on board, or a protective wall to block or at least deflect the pungent odor.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Adam Kampe

All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:20:33 +0000

A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Adam Kampe

Chain of Missing Links - 26

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:50:09 +0000

This audio story is about seeking happiness away from home.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Kajsa Kvaale

Chain of Missing Links - 25

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:27:28 +0000

The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 11

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:06:54 +0000

Divorce brings about unimagined ramifications.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Katie Ball

Chain of Missing Links (of Art)

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:14:04 +0000

What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jakob Lisbjerg

All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:54:57 +0000

The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Sam Greenspan

I Didn't Know That...(a different kind of romance)

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:39:06 +0000

Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Kaitlin Prest

Chain of Missing Links - 24

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:27:33 +0000

The author recalls an incident from the past but wonders how much of it is real in this 3 minute piece about memory, ice cream and Lou Reed.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Ruth Lopez

All You Need is a Wall - 10

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:11:00 +0000

Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.

Year: 2010

Producers:

A You Need is a Wall - 9

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:50:45 +0000

A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Patrick Skahill

A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:34:57 +0000

You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Julien Clancy

I Didn't Know That - 8

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:56:04 +0000

Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chain of Missing Links (with the Fourth of July)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:37:56 +0000

Recordings of celebration in a distant land.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Zachary Baiel

All You Need is a Wall - 8

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:00 +0000

Mike shares the story of his start in the black market after he began dating a hippie woman named Samantha.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Zachary Baiel

Chain of Missing Links - 23

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:04:26 +0000

Can you believe there were this many things on top of the ground? Some of them have been worked and are beautiful.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Katherine Wells

All You Need is a Wall - 7

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:09:38 +0000

The problems regarding journeying through a metaphorical landscape.

Year: 2010

Producers:

A Cold Freezin night - 10

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:53:16 +0000

This song is a story about the magestical feelings and memories related to going fishing as a child.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 6

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:34:21 +0000

How to listen to a dance... with a wall.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jane Cramer

Chain of Missing Links (for a nervous kitty)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:09:55 +0000

Jenn Hartmann was moving from New York to Los Angeles, but she had to find a way to bring her nervous kitty. Unfortunately, she decided to fly.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Tom Horan

Chain of Missing Links - 22

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:05 +0000

A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jessica Grosman

I Didn't Know That (Blindwalking)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:26:49 +0000

It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chain of Missing Links - 21

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:18:49 +0000

Unheard conversations of axons and dendrites.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Foster Gesten

All You Need is a Wall - 5

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:07:29 +0000

Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Wil Crisp

Chain of Missing Links - 20

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:54:30 +0000

In a world of billion dollar 'stimulus packages' and Web 2.0 consumer profiling how can you break free of the chains of commerce (and get cheap kicks at the same time)?

Year: 2010

Producers:

Wil Crisp

A Cold Freezin Night (on which people have the lamest conversation ever)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:30:34 +0000

This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Dennis Conrow

I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:14:02 +0000

A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Tali Singer

I Didn't Know That - 7

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:55:42 +0000

A first- hand account of a strange event overheard on a bus.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Rowan D G Corkill

(I Wish That) I Didn't Know That

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:33:49 +0000

Several years after a life-threatening accident, Elizabeth understands what most of us can't.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jamie Courville

I Didn't Know That Students Had Two Lives

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:18:56 +0000

A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Aaron Sand

A Cold Freezin Ni(g)ht

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:58:40 +0000

Spelling Bee Champion Sheena needs to track down, and bring back, the missing letter G for her new town in this radio drama for kids.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Shubha Bala

All You Need is a Microwave

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:34:30 +0000

Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.

Year: 2010

Producers:

David Schultz

I Didn't Know That - 6

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:09:33 +0000

I Didn't Know That is a sonic exploration of state-controlled "truths," created almost entirely from appropriated public domain educational and military-training films.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Tom Tenney

A Cold Freezin Night (On the Chain)

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:50:44 +0000

Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Aviva Hirsch

Chain of Missing Links - 19

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:20:47 +0000

A story of love found, and lost, and the spaces in between.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Julia Grant

(Bicycle) Chain of Missing Links

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:20:20 +0000

2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Matt Purdy

Chain of Missing Links (de Unamuno)

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:52:39 +0000

Miguel de Unamuno is a very important figure in Spanish history. However his great grandson is much further away from him than any other person in Spain.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Sofia Saldanha

Chain of Missing Links - 18

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:55:22 +0000

A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.

Year: 2010

Producers:

I Didn't Know That - 5

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:29:03 +0000

A woman realizes that her partner isn't all she thought he was.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 4

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:10:46 +0000

An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Philip Smith

A Cold Freezin Night - 9

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:51:19 +0000

It gets cold in the desert at night and sound travels from really far away.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Anna Boiko-Weyrauch

All You Need is The Wall

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:37:20 +0000

Audio collage pieced together from sound effects in Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall."

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chris Sewell

All You Need is 4 Walls

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:14:46 +0000

What 9 people need to make their houses feel like home.

Year: 2010

Producers:

V. Dougherty

Chain of Missing Links - 17

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:31:56 +0000

A brief look at the issue of substance abuse among Alaskan youth.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Max Jungreis

All You Need is a Wall (or Rat Shootin')

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:16:12 +0000

A micro-doc of a man's love of shootin' rats, while absorbing the laid back city life from his back porch.

Year: 2010

City Nights: Star for Sale

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:32:56 +0000

A man visits a star sale, where auctioneers are selling off the cosmos to the highest bidder. The Southern Cross, Orion's Belt, the Big Dipper -- they're all up for grabs.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Gretchen Miller

I Didn't Know That (I was capable)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:27 +0000

One man's struggle with himself and his family while trying to maintain his faith in God.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Joe Johnson

Chain of Missing Links - 16

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:36:51 +0000

A conversation between a middle aged man living near the Lincoln tunnel and his new friend Mr. Army.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Rob Chabebe

I Didn't Know That (about hotel housekeepers)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:18:54 +0000

Learning the A, B, C's of housekeeping.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Mieke Anderson

All You Need is a Wall (And I will find a way to walk right into it)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:59:40 +0000

A young woman's attempt at boosting her "street cred" goes horribly, awkwardly wrong.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Mira Burt-Wintonick

I Didn't Know That (Why They Make Us Laugh)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:40:42 +0000

A piece which explores the psychological aspects of stand-up comedy and offers insight into the seemingly simple world of the comedian.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Adam Rose-Levy

I Didn't Know That - 4

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:14:57 +0000

A sea-side story of what seagulls might eat, or not.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Elena Botkin-Levy

I Didn't Know That (Un Hombre, su Perro, su Caballo, y Cielo)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:56:14 +0000

Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jesse Ricke

Chain of Missing Links - 15

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:38:08 +0000

In which Calvin reflects on the meaning and measure of fatherhood.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Dan Weissmann

Re:sound #132: The Lost Show

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:04:42 +0000

This hour: looking for the intangible. What's lost and what might be found.

Year: 2010

Producers:

A Cold Freezin Night - 8

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:49:41 +0000

An evening walk gives one man more than he bargained for.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chain of Missing Links - 14

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:05:36 +0000

A story of what might have happened that night in the dark alleyways of the dingy part of Helsinki.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Pauliina Motturi

Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:51:58 +0000

Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.

Year: 2010

Producers:

(Bon Jovi) Didn't Know That

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:38:48 +0000

When up and coming pop singer Alison Scott loses the chance to open for Bon Jovi, there's only one person who can help.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Steve Nelson

I Didn't Know That (I'd Have a Child)

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:21:56 +0000

For most of her life, Caitlin didn't want to have children, but after thirteen years with Devin and a change of heart, she is expecting a son.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Michael De Bonis

I Didn't Know That (An Artist's Story)

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:02:42 +0000

A young husband and father leaves behind the (relative) security of his corporate cubicle to pursue life as a full-time artist.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Diane Bock

A Cold Freezin Night - 7

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:24:46 +0000

Eventhough the cold causes fear and loathing in Finland, simplicity is found from the soul of the Finns: Sauna.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Katri Puro

All You Need is a Wall - 3

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:12:25 +0000

In which the author, at a low point, embarks on a relationship with his housemate -- only to learn that she is bipolar and prone to some odd behavior.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Eric Winick

A Cold Freezin Night - 6

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:26:04 +0000

Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Nan Floyd

I Didn't Know That (road trip)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:57:23 +0000

A journey to find a specific house by a lake. Recorded in the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario, Canada.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Zoe Irvine

I Didn't Know That (Eyeborgs Really Exist)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:40:08 +0000

A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Britt Wray

Chain of Missing Links - 13

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:43:00 +0000

This is a story about human love, fear, loneliness and self perception in the neverending journey of life in the modern world.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Ioana Baldea

I Didn't Know That - 3

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:59:09 +0000

A 14 year old Somali boy describes a method of killing a lion by hand.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Glenn Simonsen

A Cold Freezin Night - 5

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:50:17 +0000

Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Glenn Simonsen

Chain of Missing Links - 12

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:33:47 +0000

In which Dr. Robert W. Smith, University of Nebraska Chemistry professor, describes the enormity of distance between an organic molecule and the smallest living cell.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Glenn Simonsen

All You Need is a Wall - 2

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:01:48 +0000

Nathan James tells the story of digging his first underground tunnel.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chris Bolton

All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:34:12 +0000

A riff on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

A Cold Freezin Night - 4

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:07:14 +0000

In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Eric Winick

Chain of Missing Links - 11

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:49:19 +0000

In which, following a rock concert, the author is accidentally left by friends at an outdoor amphitheater ninety minutes from his home town.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Eric Winick

A Cold Freezin Night - 3

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:13:05 +0000

A bone cold dusk brings the icy adventures of a third grader to a close as his babysitting-tween sister selfishly examines mortality.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Carolina Wheat

I Didn't Know That (A Father's Conversion)

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:49:34 +0000

A man who would later become a priest describes the day of his conversion.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Tina Antolini

The Dead News Network

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:40:03 +0000

Anne is a 37-year-old mother of two. Her husband Paul is a carpenter. She lives in an ordinary house, in a medium-sized Irish town, about a half-hour drive from Dublin. From the outside, Anne's life couldn't look more normal.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Colette Kinsella

Chain of Missing Links - 10

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:40:10 +0000

The pastor in this fictional drama is the main character in a half-completed short story.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Andrew Hood

I Didn't Know That (Lost on Lost)

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:16:37 +0000

Justin McLachlan talked with some Lost super fans waiting to watch the series finale about all the things he didn't know he didn't know about the show.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Justin McLachlan

Re:sound #131: The Space Show

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:08:46 +0000

This hour: a one way mission to mars, a Russian cosmonaut's favorite music, the Voyager golden record, the sound of the northern lights, and more.

Year: 2010

Producers:

I Didn't Know That - 2

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:16:10 +0000

Tamzen Moulding didn¹t know what was really happening behind the illusionary side of showbiz.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Sofia Saldanha

Chain of Missing Links - 9

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:36:15 +0000

Sharla Cooper of www.wholefoodies.org explains how whole food is greater than the sum of its refined parts.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Masaki Araya

I Didn't Know That - 1

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:25:19 +0000

A working man spots a beautiful woman in a restaurant while waiting for his food.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chain of Missing Links - 8

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:03:56 +0000

Incorporating fictional and non-fictional elements, this is the story of a stripper, a carpenter in drag, a house wife and their chain of interactions.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Andrew Parsons

I Didn't Know That (Hell's Calliope)

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:46:42 +0000

Antoinette Jacobson, a sculptor from Norwich, VT, demonstrates her "pyrophone" (fire organ) on a chilly October night on the quad at Colby-Sawyer College in New London NH.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Hester L Fuller

Chain of Missing Links - 7

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:17:20 +0000

A dreamer offers a peek into the quirky logic of her sleeping mind.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Claire Caldwell

Chain of Missing Links - 6

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:50:39 +0000

An age-old story told by ex-slave Alice Gaston, speaking of her former masters, and hearing the constant rattle of long-gone chains.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Josh Gibbs

Silent Knight

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:17:48 +0000

It's hard enough drumming up public support for saving whales or spotted owls - but what about trying to preserve something less tangible in nature, like the peacefulness of a quiet forest?

Year: 2009

Producers:

Andi McDaniel

A Cold Freezin Night - 2

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:22:00 +0000

Was it just a dream? I can't remember now.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Katie Mingle

Chain of Missing Links - 5

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:00:16 +0000

The non-fiction scattered story of Devin Hildebrand's family Christmas '95, when his sister received a real kitten, Jodi, just like she wanted, among other things.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Devin Hildebrand

Chain of Missing Links - 4

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:44:03 +0000

A three hour span of time, boys, and awkward breaks in life.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Anne Katherine Lesser

Chain of Missing Links - 3

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:22:37 +0000

Mary Amoroso, who just had her ninety-fifth birthday, leaves a confused message on her boyfriend's answering machine.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Molly Bennett

Chain of Missing Links - 2

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:05:02 +0000

Eve Abrams was inspired by the heartfelt reactions of her first grade students to the tragedy currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico and in their coastal communities.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Eve Abrams

Re:sound #130: The Chicago Show

Fri, 28 May 2010 03:01:49 +0000

This hour: Chicago. Hogbutcher to the world, jewel of the Midwest, and everything inbetween.

Year: 2010

Producers:

I Didn't Know That (about windows)

Wed, 26 May 2010 20:55:50 +0000

Megan Williams' friend Lorella talks about the social experiment she conducts on a bus in Milan, Italy each August.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Megan Williams

A Cold Freezin Night - 1

Wed, 26 May 2010 20:45:25 +0000

A stranger wanders into a rural village, seeking warmth and shelter from a sharp January night. Unfortunately his reception at the local watering hole is just as icy as the wind he's trying to escape.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Geoff Storm

Last Words from Hopi High

Wed, 26 May 2010 03:17:26 +0000

For nearly a thousand years the Hopi people of Arizona have lived on the same three mesas and for all that time they've spoken the Hopi language. But now elders and youth alike say the language is dying.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Brett Myers

Re:sound #129: The Nerve Show

Sat, 22 May 2010 02:17:28 +0000

This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a ____.

Wed, 19 May 2010 20:31:36 +0000

Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chain of Missing Links - 1

Mon, 17 May 2010 20:40:38 +0000

Randy Morton of Pacific Piano Supply in Chatsworth, California talks as he prepares to re-string the Myrow family Steinway.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Rachael Myrow

Chosen People

Fri, 14 May 2010 00:47:52 +0000

At least forty thousand African Americans are practicing Jews. They call themselves Hebrew Israelites and their style of worship inspires a variety of reactions: enthusiasm, curiosity, and sometimes even outright hostility.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Eric Molinsky

A Clothing Frenzied

Wed, 12 May 2010 22:29:54 +0000

Ben Zimmerman ran The Books' samples through a sequenced Peavey Pro-Fex, created the track in Ableton, mastered it, ran it through several custom dynamic pitch and time-scaling effects (a different program for each submission) and mastered it again.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Ben Zimmerman

Re:sound #128: The Willie McGee Show

Sat, 08 May 2010 02:32:39 +0000

This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee.

Year: 2010

Producers:

All You Need is a Wall - 1

Tue, 04 May 2010 03:35:57 +0000

Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jill Strauss

Two Wheels to Nowhere

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:26:03 +0000

One man, one motorcycle, 13,843 miles, 89 days, 37 states, 166 interviews.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Aengus Anderson

Re:sound #127: The Urban Dreamers Show

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:00:56 +0000

This hour: the experience of the city -- from the bicycle seat, the planner's map, and the poet's pen.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Re:sound #126: The Scam Show

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:11:36 +0000

This hour: the capital of scamming.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Re:sound #124: The Kids Show

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:15:12 +0000

This hour: kids sing opera, they talk about life on a remote island, and they opine about running the world.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Children's America

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:51:54 +0000

Imagine an America ruled by children. They staff the post offices, run the schools, oversee the military, and decide on the form of government.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Alessandro Bosetti

The Books

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:57:35 +0000

Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, otherwise known as the Books, incorporate an array of sound fragments and miniature stories into their music.

Year: 2003

Producers:

The Books

Studs & Jimmy

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:47:13 +0000

Jimmy Yancey, the blues pianist and White Sox groundsman, and Studs Terkel, the broadcaster and author, may have lived at different ends of Chicago but they're both as integral a part of the city as the El...

Year: 2009

Producers:

Alan Hall

The Big City

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:33:50 +0000

For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Sean Hurley

Riding Through the Summer

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:23:56 +0000

Pilsen, 2009: Chicago summer is full of life and full of sound - you can hear it best on two wheels.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Katie Mingle

Beat Street

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:18:40 +0000

An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Chris Sewell

Elevated (Grand Chicago)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:01:09 +0000

An onomatopoetic memory of Chicago.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Aaron Ximm

Couple Two Tree

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:54:22 +0000

A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Sean Cole

Carl, with an El

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:29:07 +0000

Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Neil Sandell

Dawn at Chicago's Magic Hedge

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:16:44 +0000

Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Noe Cuellar

Re:sound #123: The Textbook War Show

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:14:14 +0000

This hour: one woman's comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Cooler by the Lake

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:03:14 +0000

A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Lovable Losers

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:56:23 +0000

Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Rich Halten

Re:sound #122: The Three Records from Sun Ra Show

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:51:18 +0000

This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Chicago's Gangster

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:43:32 +0000

Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Heather Radke

Fidele Musafiri: Miner

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:55:33 +0000

Cell phones and laptops rely on a particular mineral called colombite tantalum – coltan for short - and the growing demand for the material in the west has had ramifications in some pretty distant corners of the world.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Gregory Warner

Forbidden Love: Genetic Sexual Attraction

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:25:02 +0000

Ontario is the most recent province in Canada to open up adoption files in order to help birth families and adoptees find one another. But there is a disconcerting, though rare, consequence of adoptive reunions.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Re:sound #121: The Death Comes Home Show

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:13:58 +0000

This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Death Comes Home

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:51:10 +0000

Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home.

Year: 2009

Producers:

April Dembosky

Gone

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:36:21 +0000

About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Linda Lutton

A Lucky Wind

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:19:53 +0000

Do we live in a world where there is magic and meaning, or is it all just chance?

Year: 2009

Producers:

Three Records From Sundown

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:22:52 +0000

Nick Drake died in 1974, an unknown songwriter with three failed folk albums to his name. But fast forward to the present, and Drake is considered among the most important musicians of his time.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Charles Maynes

Battle Flagging Father

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:59:40 +0000

In 2009, Brisbane-based writer and documentarian Hamish Sewell traveled to Alabama to meet his estranged father for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Hamish Sewell

My Way or the FBI Way

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:14:17 +0000

A year ago, a swat team broke down the door of a home in downtown St. Paul and found eight Molotov cocktails inside.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Michael May

Re:sound #125: The Justice Show

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:55:00 +0000

This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Re:sound #120: The Poetry Show

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:46:51 +0000

This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more.

Year: 2009

Producers:

PCAF

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:09:48 +0000

A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Zachary Baiel

I've Never Lived in Chicago

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:02:57 +0000

A docu-song about a broken dream, made from interview tape.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Jonathan Mitchell

Listening to Ghosts

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:50:37 +0000

In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all art forms - it slipped by the ear and then vanished into the air forever.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Tom Morton

Scrape

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:50:40 +0000

An up-and-coming executive and his car have a very bad day.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Baggage

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:37:56 +0000

On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her marriage might be a mistake.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sue Mell

Debt Collector

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:54:51 +0000

A sci-fi melodrama about the abusive relationship between debt collector and collectee.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Roman Mars

Take Me Out

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:33:00 +0000

This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?"

Year: 2008

Producers:

Carma Jolly

Weird Little Plan

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:21:42 +0000

A revenge plot goes awry when a woman ropes in her estranged best friend.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Hillary Frank

Sweeping Statements

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:48:04 +0000

Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you've flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Judith Sloan

Cohabitation: Jacob & Angelina

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:22:48 +0000

Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation: Sylvester & Barry

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:13:53 +0000

Year: 2005

Producers:

Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation: Olive & Jack

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:06:15 +0000

Year: 2005

Producers:

Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation: Apricot Wensleydale

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:55:56 +0000

Year: 2005

Producers:

Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation: Roberto and Rosa

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:32:15 +0000

Year: 2005

Producers:

Jill Dorothy Summers

Theory of Everything #3: Cell Phones

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:55:44 +0000

Your pet can now own a cell phone -- what's the world coming to?

Year: 2004

Producers:

Benjamen Walker

Voices in Your Head

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:42:08 +0000

Voices in Your Head is an audio segment from Voci, a performance work Pamela Z created in 2003.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Pamela Z

Geekspeak

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:45:41 +0000

The origins of Geekspeak lie in a 1995 artist residency Pamela Z participated in at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Pamela Z

Our Day Will Come

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:32:00 +0000

Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Lex Gillespie

The Last Voice of an Ancient Tongue

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:58:44 +0000

Elsie Vaalbooi was the last speaker of !Auni, the ancient language of South Africa's first peoples. Producer Siven Maslamoney tells the story of how languages die and how Elsie's people have been driven to extinction.

Year: 2003

Producers:

ABC Ulwazi

How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:14:22 +0000

For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Brenda Hutchinson

Mind, Body, Soul

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:04:44 +0000

An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Gregory Whitehead

Ice Music

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:59:38 +0000

What if sounds could be frozen into ice cubes, then released upon their melting? Everyday movements and actions might become rich musical performances...

Year: 2002

Producers:

Gregory Whitehead

Marinade a la Tete

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:35:33 +0000

A cerebral yet refreshing exploration into the question "where do creative ideas come from?"

Year: 2002

Producers:

Gregory Whitehead

Brain Mash

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:14:07 +0000

How to create a human brain -- from a bowl of mashed potatoes.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Gregory Whitehead

"Diamond" Jimmy Roy

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:32:37 +0000

At one time "Diamond" Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Dan Collison

The Graying of the Convent

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:40:25 +0000

Documentarian Mary Beth Kirchner lived in a Chicago convent to produce this intimate portrait of aging Catholic nuns.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Mary Beth Kirchner

Educating Esme

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:08:42 +0000

Esme Cordell shares a year's worth of classroom anecdotes and musings, culled from a journal kept throughout her first year teaching in Chicago.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Esme Cordell

Various producers

Various producers

Re:sound #29: The Losing and Finding Show

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:22:34 +0000

This hour: a father with aphasia, an elusive bird, and more.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Various producers

Re:sound #30: The Invisible Ink Show

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:58:55 +0000

This hour: two stories from Roman Mars's Invisible Ink.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Various producers

Re:sound #31: The Transmissions Show

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:22:40 +0000

This hour: spies, pirates, mysterious broadcasts, and a bold acoustic experiment.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Various producers

Re:sound #32: The Hollywood Show

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:48:36 +0000

This hour: an obscure director frets his way through Sundance, the accidental genre known as film noir, and more.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Various producers

The Lemon Tree

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:06:52 +0000

Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Year: 1998

Producers:

Sandy Tolan

Re:sound #63: The Conference Show

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:49:07 +0000

This hour: excerpts from some of our favorite Third Coast Conference sessions from years past.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Roman Mars

Adam Phillips

Tin Man

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:23:38 +0000

Part Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, part absurdist radio theater, and part anti-corporate musical, this 20-episode podcast follows the Tin Man (but not necessarily the one you're thinking of) on a bizarre and venturesome journey through landscapes familiar and unknown.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Matt Sahr

Circling the Center of Creation

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:09:40 +0000

Scott Carrier joins the ranks of thousands of religious pilgrims who have been circling the base of Mount Kailash in Tibet for centuries.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Scott Carrier

90 Degrees North

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:59:51 +0000

From the exact top of the world, Elizabeth Arnold reflects on being so far away from the rest of it.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Elizabeth Arnold

This Ain't No Walk in the Park

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:44:13 +0000

City dweller Natalie Edwards confronts her distaste for all things green. Reluctantly.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Natalie Edwards

The 2002 TCF Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Studs Terkel (INC)

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:12:45 +0000

The Third Coast Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (now the Audio Luminary Award) is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2002 recipient, Studs Terkel.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Studs Terkel

The 2003 TCF Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Joe Frank

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:42:49 +0000

The early days of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition included a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Joe Frank

The 2008 TCF Audio Luminary Award Recipient: Chris Brookes

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:13:16 +0000

The Third Coast Festival Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2008 Audio Luminary, Chris Brookes.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Chris Brookes

Tornado Prom

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:12:02 +0000

Susan Burton reports on Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas, a town of about 3,000. While the seniors danced, a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Susan Burton

Learning to Live: James's Story

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:02:33 +0000

James, an ex-felon, narrates the story of his transition from prison-life to self-sufficiency.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Dan Collison

Rip, Rift, and Panic

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:47:40 +0000

Rip, Rift, and Panic weaves together stories, archival tape, and sound to create a portrait of the emotional and logistical aspects of living along an earthquake fault line.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Susan Stone

Jay's Kids

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:44:48 +0000

Blues musician Screamin' Jay Hawkins had 57 children, some of whom were happier than others to learn of their father's prolific paternity.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Alix Spiegel

Von Trapped

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:41:31 +0000

Von Trapped is a story about a woman obsessed with The Sound of Music, as well as other things Austrian.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Natalie Kestecher

Heroin

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:36:11 +0000

In Heroin, teenager Janesse Nieves confronts her father about his heroin addiction, and eloquently shares her own feelings of confusion, anger, embarrassment and disgust.

Year: 2001

Producers:

The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:17:32 +0000

The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowki presents the recovered tapes of a young marine who kept an audio diary of his war experience in Vietnam until his death.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Corrections, Inc.

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:11:05 +0000

The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America.

Year: 2002

Producers:

John Biewen

Affairs of the Mind

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:03:49 +0000

Affairs of the Mind is a personal and confrontational story exploring the nature of jealousy and the parameters of infidelity.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Kyla Brettle

Annapurna: Memories in Sound

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:00:05 +0000

Annapurna: Memories in Sound is an impressionistic sound portrait of the Ximms' trek through the Annapurna Circuit, a popular three-week hiking trip through the Himalayas to Nepal.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Grey Ghost

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:36:55 +0000

Grey Ghost is the story of one man and a bird -- or possibly just of one man. It is also the story of an obsession.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Allan Coukell

My So-Called Lungs

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:31:00 +0000

Laura Rothenberg is 21 years old, but likes to say that she's already had her mid-life crisis. Laura has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs and other organs.

Year: 2002

Producers:

If

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:48:35 +0000

A young patient reinvents his experience of being in the hospital through metaphor and allusion. Responding to "what if" questions, Andrew exemplifies the transformative qualities of fantasy, empathy, and humor.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Yes, There Is a Baby

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:34:11 +0000

In the 1940s, when he was 16 years old, Myron Jones was allowed to stay up late any night of the week and hang out at bars or wherever he pleased, but his mother barely let his older sister Carol out of the house at all. So the siblings devised a plan.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Tracking

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:31:15 +0000

Jaimita Haskell was given the opportunity to take advanced classes at her high school, an experience she found stimulating and rewarding.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Can You Say Haa?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:55:10 +0000

As a girl, Reena Katz learned one story about the history of Israel and the people who lived there. As she grew up, an interest in cartography and her father's rare books about Palestine prompted her to dig deeper to understand the landscape of the Middle East.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Reena Katz

The Dribble-Down Effect

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:32:30 +0000

Blending satire, drama, and interviews, this Australian documentary portrays a not-so-distant future where robots care for children and parents agree to live apart from their families during the work week.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Eurydice Aroney

Come Back to Afghanistan

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:14:34 +0000

In the summer of 2002, 17-year-old Hyder Akbar traveled from California with his father to their home country of Afghanistan. He took a tape recorder along on the trip to record his thoughts and experiences.

Year: 2003

Producers:

The Sonic Memorial Project

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:09:24 +0000

The Sonic Memorial Project is an intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood, through audio artifacts, rare recordings, voice mail messages, and interviews.

Year: 2003

Producers:

The Kitchen Sisters

The 2004 TCF Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Susan Stamberg

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:54:03 +0000

The Third Coast Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (now known as the Audio Luminary Award) is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2004 recipient, Susan Stamberg.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Susan Stamberg

Hard to Say

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:29:31 +0000

State park ranger Ed Werler lives alone in a quiet, isolated area of Maine. At the age of 90, Ed reflects on his second marriage, revealing a relationship characterized by love, loyalty, and uncertainty.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Bente Birkland

In So Many Words

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:13:29 +0000

Stephen Goff's life changed dramatically after a stroke left him with aphasia. Previously an outspoken father and salesman, the condition reduced his vocabulary to just a few words.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Teresa Goff

Thirteen Ways

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:01:43 +0000

Writer Sam Swope visits a class of restless, imaginative 11-year-olds in Queens, New York, where he embraces the challenge of teaching them Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Year: 2004

Producers:

Pejk Malinovski

A Map of the Sea

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:42:17 +0000

For centuries, Newfoundland fisheries were hailed as the greatest in the world. Then, in 1992, their main export, the codfish, disappeared.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Chris Brookes

The Ring & I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:00:08 +0000

The grandeur and power of Wagner's monumental work, The Ring Cycle, has permeated our culture to the point that "Wagnerian" is used as an adjective.

Year: 2005

Producers:

The Wire, Episode 5: The Sound Around

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:00:41 +0000

Somewhere between a documentary, a remix, and a music show, the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, reflects on changes in both the composition and consumption of music over the past century.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Hearing Voices

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:42:40 +0000

Hearing Voices is a compelling and adventurous exploration of languages on the verge of extinction.

Year: 2005

Producers:

John Wynne

Dear Birth Mother

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:14:04 +0000

After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) and experiencing years of fertility treatments, Suzanne, a single woman in her 40s, decides to adopt an African-American baby.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Between Friends

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:42:44 +0000

"Between Friends" is the story of one woman's coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Muriel's Message

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Memories of a much beloved grandmother resurface when a box of unlabeled audio cassettes is discovered in the basement.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Mira Burt-Wintonick

Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:21:42 +0000

This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Roger Dowds: Millionaire Winner

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:48:54 +0000

Roger Dowds wasn't exactly an obvious pick for a game show contestant. He'd lived a quiet, sheltered life and had little faith in himself.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Ronan Kelly

Honoring the Body: Taharah

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:36:50 +0000

The Jewish burial ritual places great importance on treating the deceased with the utmost honor and respect. This is especially important during the ceremony of taharah, which involves the physical cleansing of the dead body.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Rebecca Sheir

Rhapsody in Bohemia

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:24:33 +0000

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is one of the most ambitious and enduring pop songs of all time.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Alan Hall

Thembi's AIDS Diary

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:07:31 +0000

In South Africa more than five million people are living with HIV/AIDS, including a young woman named Thembi Ngubane.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Goat on a Cow

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:57:56 +0000

Laura Starecheski finds herself figuratively falling down a rabbit hole (microphone and all) as she embarks on a journey that begins with the story of a goat, a cow, and a box of old letters.

Year: 2006

Producers:

My Lobotomy

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:41:41 +0000

My Lobotomy explores one of medical history's most controversial chapters -- when transorbital lobotomies were widely condoned -- through one man's personal journey.

Year: 2006

Producers:

2007 TC Audio Luminary: Peter Leonhard Braun

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:08:16 +0000

The Third Coast Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2007 Audio Luminary - widely esteemed producer, teacher, and mentor Peter Leonhard Braun.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Peter Leonhard Braun

The Dead Can't Do You Nothin'

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:55:43 +0000

Producer Katie Mingle narrates her quest to find ghosts in a "pauper's graveyard" in New Orleans.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Katie Mingle

The Ground We Lived On

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:28:55 +0000

The Ground We Lived On documents the loving relationship between journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and her father, Adrian Leon LeBlanc, in the last months of his life.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Before the War It Was the War

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:13:33 +0000

In the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and the state of Israel, one man took it upon himself to "resist with his pen," to bear witness for his people and bring the world, in his words, "the real news from Beirut."

Year: 2007

Producers:

Anna Burns

American Icons: The Great Gatsby

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:58:18 +0000

F. Scott Fitzgerald's tale of old money, new money, drinking, and adultery - a thin little book that critics panned - is still the best novel about the American Dream and its discontents.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Emily Botein

The Search for Edna Lavilla

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:31:10 +0000

In 1942, Edna Lavilla Haynes died from a backyard abortion. After her death Edna was never mentioned again.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Grandpa

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:15:24 +0000

How do we deal with dying? Most of us look away, but in the case of the Zagar family, they look closer.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Lu Olkowski

A Fragile Son

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:04:52 +0000

Surjit Sachdev grew up in a conservative family in India. Surjit's father was an engineer, and he's an engineer, but the family tradition ended when Surjit's son was born with a severe mental disability.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Don't Hang Up 2: Nightlines

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:58:54 +0000

Would you pick up a ringing payphone and share your life with a complete stranger? Alan Dein hopes so.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Except Me

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:15:10 +0000

Andrew Skillings is eleven now, but he was first diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, when he was just two.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Erin Davis

The Diary of Leanne Wolfe

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:54:56 +0000

Leanne Wolfe, an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Cork, Ireland, committed suicide in March, 2007. On the morning of her funeral, her older sister Treena discovered Leanne's diaries.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Ciaran Cassidy

Shattered School

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:47:31 +0000

Among the victims of the powerful earthquake near Chengdu, China, are hundreds of young students who are feared dead after being trapped in the rubble of their middle school.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Dreaming of Osama

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:32:49 +0000

Dreaming of Osama explores the ever-moving boundaries of the "war on terror" and its influence on the collective unconscious. Osama Bin Laden has a way of lying low -- then, just as the public begins to forget about him, he makes an unexpected reappearance.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Pejk Malinovski

Searching for Farming's Future in Its Past

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:57:31 +0000

Searching for Farming's Future in Its Past is part of a series produced by Rachel Leventhal about the impact individuals can make on their world.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Rachel Leventhal

The Giant Pool of Money (INC)

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:51:34 +0000

This documentary, a special collaboration between This American Life and NPR News, deconstructs the current housing crisis.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Hearts, Lungs, and Minds

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:38:43 +0000

Hearts, Lungs, and Minds is a "composed documentary" by sound artist John Wynne, who spent a year as an artist in residence at Harefield Hospital, one of the world's leading centers for heart and lung transplants.

Year: 2008

Producers:

John Wynne

Growing Up in the System

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:29:23 +0000

At age 21, Shirley Diaz is on the brink of aging out of the foster care system. Her life isn't easy now, and soon she'll be on her own, facing a new set of daunting issues.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Dr. Phil

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:14:08 +0000

In the wake of a break-up, writer Starlee Kine finds so much comfort in break-up songs that she tries to write one herself, even though she has no musical ability whatsoever.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Starlee Kine

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:33:12 +0000

It's common enough to learn about youth culture through the observations of experts and adults, but so much more intriguing to hear it straight from the hearts and minds of the teenagers navigating through their own worlds.

Year: 2004

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:04:57 +0000

This session explores "found narration" - archival tape, interviews, audio diary entries - and sound that can all be used to perform the job of the narrator. What do you gain and what do you give up when you throw away the script?

Year: 2006

Die, Mediocrity, Die!

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:45:43 +0000

Do your own radio scripts ever bore you? Or frustrate, confuse, and deflate you?

Year: 2006

Bring Extra Batteries

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:22:17 +0000

Attention new producers! Before heading out into the world with headphones on and mic facing forward, what do you need to know? Here's where you find out.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Rob Rosenthal

These Are a Few of Robert Krulwich's Favorite Things

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:00:41 +0000

What inspires those who inspire us? Robert Krulwich reveals a few especially memorable pieces, presenting a sampler of radio stories that he adores, has learned from, and wants to share.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Robert Krulwich

Presenting the 2006 TCF ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:34:54 +0000

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:24:54 +0000

Year: 2007

With a Bird's Eye

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:59:07 +0000

Flying across the last 50 years of international feature production is like looking out of an aircraft at night. Looking down you see the illuminated cities, the many shining villages, but far more than everything else you see the sparkling spots of individual talent.

Year: 2007

Emancipation of Sound

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:35:25 +0000

The established elements of Feature productions have been words, music, actualities, and effects.

Year: 2007

Documenter and Documentee -- Part Two

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:07:36 +0000

Documenting somebody else's life is one of the hardest challenges producers face in their work. Over an extended period of time relationships intensify, stories often change drastically, and the line between personal and too personal blurs easily.

Year: 2007

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:05:19 +0000

All around the country college students are asking for and receiving new courses that teach audio production. They're intent on finishing college with multi-media skills, and, lucky for us, they want to help shape the future of documentary audio.

Year: 2008

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:08:42 +0000

Maria wants to be married in every state.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Andy, Tourist in the City

Sister Christy

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:03:33 +0000

A brother reflects on his turbulent relationship with sister after hearing a phone message.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jody Melto

Accident Avalanche

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:57:50 +0000

It's an Eastern Romance action-surrealist film, but He and She, they didn't get along so well.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Liz Bustamante

My God

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:43:43 +0000

Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty? (Milton)

Year: 2006

Producers:

Tim Forrest

The Big Cookoff

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:35:59 +0000

Each year, the football teams from the U of California and Stanford U. play in The Big Game; now for the first time, they meet in the arena of cooking in The Big Cookoff.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Nico Savidge

The Indian Ocean

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:27:42 +0000

How did the mammoths die? Where did the Indian Ocean come from?

Year: 2006

Producers:

Charlie: Boston's Freedom Fighter

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:09:35 +0000

A call for the folk hero of a 1948 protest song to rise up against the misuse of his name, which is being slathered across the very thing he fought against.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Kristopher Carter

Trouble in Vietnam

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:40:31 +0000

Robert McNamara, the Soviet Ambassador and President Lyndon Johnson face off in a historical remix.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Theo Lipfert

Big Bang

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:29:47 +0000

Two lousy-sounding atoms can't get along, cause the Big Bang, and disrupt present-day international harmony.

Year: 2006

Producers:

David Polk

Blind Date

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:24:34 +0000

A G-Rated ice-breaker that would be told during a female bonding session.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Kay Collins

Dust Bowl Revisited

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:14:34 +0000

Woody Guthrie backs up an interview with a Virginia National Guard soldier at an American base in Mosul, Iraq during early 2005.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Steve Walsh

Disrupted

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:08:39 +0000

I'm just trying to get some information.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Seth Lind

Saul and Joshua

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:57:12 +0000

They play well together, but . . .

Year: 2006

Producers:

Seth Lind

Best Friends

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:46:53 +0000

A conversation on the incapacity to communicate.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Keith Brand

The Woo-Zits and Was-Zits

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:28:57 +0000

What wacky ways we work with words!

Year: 2006

Producers:

Sara Truesdale

Sixes

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:11:25 +0000

Eavesdropping on a traditional Canadian Christmas.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Julia Grant

Time for Change

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:05:36 +0000

Boston Common + drum + activist + drunken panhandler = police intervention.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Justin Grotelueschen

Courtney and Catherine

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:54:11 +0000

Two girls don't see eye to eye on what defines a bright future.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Katie Day Good

Ligeti Was in My Apartment

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:47:27 +0000

What happened when Ligeti's ghost helped me create a sound piece.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jeffrey Letterly

Deep-Fried Gravy

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:14:55 +0000

Mabel and Dexter prove that one can experience culture clash and true love simultaneously.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Reel Noise

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:57:45 +0000

Surreal as it may seem, this rock band became very famous.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Derek Simons

Dancing

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:33:29 +0000

You have to ask someone to dance with you, and you have to accept when they ask you to dance.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Julia Grant

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 99 Ways

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:26:58 +0000

Remember when we were paranoid?

Year: 2006

Producers:

Sound and Territory

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:20:21 +0000

Apartment sounds reveal a roommate crisis, the unwanted sharing of a territory.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Don't Take the Girl

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:16:02 +0000

Musical murder trial with a twist.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jessica Gonzalez

The Dwayne Split

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:09:16 +0000

The answering machine traps a surprising revelation from an "old friend."

Year: 2006

Producers:

Lawrence Dolton

Naptime

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:04:27 +0000

What does he remember from three months ago?

Year: 2006

Producers:

Julia Barton

Hearing Things

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:57:51 +0000

A narrator tackles disembodied voices; admitting she seeks out the strange while actual Electronic Voice Phenomenon reverberates in a surreal background.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Carolina Wheat

Strictly Vegetarian, or, Something Happened During That Trip to Malacca, Malaysia

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:51:02 +0000

She is now pregnant!

Year: 2006

Producers:

And Plenty of Others Never Got Along

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:45:40 +0000

A whisper of memory to transcend the frame of context and the boundary of plot.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jamie Proctor

The Cat and the Boyfriend (INC)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:57:23 +0000

Through diary entries, the relationship between a cat and the new, live-in boyfriend is revealed.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Mark A. Tolstedt

Gobble Gobble

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:52:08 +0000

A new kind of resolution to Thanksgiving conflict.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jane Cramer

The Interloper

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:42:58 +0000

The story of a woman's fifth breast biopsy.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Kay Collins

Micro-Sonic

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:32:57 +0000

Mourning and a smaller memorial.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Stacy Bond

Bring on Jesus!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:21:46 +0000

Superstition, money, rules, bullshit, loud guitars, talking Moses and Jesus, and Santa!

Year: 2006

Producers:

Big Swifty

The Long Way Home

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:04:55 +0000

New light on the wanderings of Odysseus provided by the discovery of Penelope's answering machine tape.

Year: 2006

Producers:

David Henderson

The Mime

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:32:39 +0000

The sounds of Turkish pop star Tarkan melds with possibly the most annoying roommate ever.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Perfect Founders

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:26:22 +0000

The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton rearranged for laughs and life lessons.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Paula Rogers

Eagle 202

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:19:02 +0000

The true story of Chris, who thought it would be a fun intellectual challenge to try to write a piece of air traffic control software his company had abandoned -- and what happened next.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Heather Kitching

Computer Drama

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:14:11 +0000

The computer talk show meets Saturday morning cartoons; featuring real live computer expert, Sarah Millen.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Heather Kitching

Henry Ford Wouldn't Have Called in Sick

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:05:54 +0000

Feuding co-workers in an auto parts factory conpsire to assemble the big one.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Tammy Terwelp

Do What You Fear and Fear Disappears

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:00:40 +0000

Screams, thoughts on fear, screams, spooky music, more screams.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

Evolution

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:54:56 +0000

In a piece that captures the history of (aural) technology, text-to-speech engines prove that computers really can befuddle man.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Dennis Conrow

The Iceberg

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:49:23 +0000

An old man fights his demons for 30 years.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Thelon Oeming

Sweetheart, I Hate You

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:44:07 +0000

Two e-lovers meet in the flesh and the thrill is gone.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Antonio Almeida

Canned Love

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:38:32 +0000

A fawning profile of Charles Baker and Audrey Malone, the greatest voice talents of our generation.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Deepthi Welaratna

Louise

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:31:59 +0000

A young man runs away from the circus.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Deepthi Welaratna

Want Some Sushi?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:23:32 +0000

An awkward office interaction at a temp gig gets even more awkward.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jonathan Menjivar

We Can All Hear You Now

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:19:30 +0000

Yeah, they're handy, but cell phones sure are annoying.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Nancy Tyler

Both My Houses (Ma Maison En Deux)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:42:39 +0000

You live in media you watch and listen to. I live in France, listen in Britain and dream outside.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Marjorie Van Helteren

9/8 (INC)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:35:27 +0000

A direct reaction to the submission criteria without prior rehearsal.

Year: 2006

Producers:

London Concrete

Icing Adversity

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:27:54 +0000

The story of how the Canadian Women's hockey team overcame the odds and poor officiating to win the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Sherry Shute

Tapeletter From Denmark

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:20:07 +0000

A man misses his sister.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Soren Prehn Jensen

Good Behavior

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:58:23 +0000

A man, a car and freedom . . . or so he thinks.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jack Jackson

From Glasgow to Basra

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:38:29 +0000

A mother misses her son.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Anna Norberg

99 Fluffys

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:29:27 +0000

Fluffy is a mysterious creature surrounded by bees and sweets but confronted by a hysterical mechanical animal which initially causes some angst in the surreal world of imagined adventures of Fluffy.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Alice McNamara

mishmash

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:23:50 +0000

Many different stories make this whole.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Regina Botros

Oakiedale Train

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:15:43 +0000

An historic train puts on the grease paint and starts serving murder mysteries.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Ceil Muller

School Mothers

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:01:19 +0000

While their daughters play on the school playground, two women become acquainted and share tales of sex and marriage gone awry.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Nicole Schultheis Walton

Kitchen Confidential

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:52:46 +0000

Thai Red Curry that has a bit of a kick.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Kelly McCarthy-Maine

Looking at Topsy

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:34:18 +0000

A radio story about a movie by Thomas Edison that is very hard to watch.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Brett Beyer

The Priscilla Tapes: An Introduction (INC)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:18:16 +0000

A story of a collection of taped letters.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Zoe Irvine

Distilling Stiller

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:05:06 +0000

A man walks into his own neuroses.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Zak Rosen

Personal Message: No Commercial Value

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:54:02 +0000

Sinister entertainment with a tape recorder: a found message left for a girlfriend degenerates into drunken squabbling over a reading of a Burn's poem.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Mark Vernon

A Bug in the Works

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:36:09 +0000

Found tape diary of a family holiday recorded for Grandma and Grandpa; a six-legged intruder spoils the fun.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Mark Vernon

Liberals (With Thomas Frank and Rush Limbaugh)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:23:45 +0000

As the story continues, we finally learn that conservatives share some sort of nostalgia with liberals.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Alfred Koch

No More Bad Luck (Tess Gallagher Meets Raymond Carver)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:12:40 +0000

Woman meets man.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Alfred Koch

Zelda vs Ernest

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:01:51 +0000

A virtual verbal boxing match between literature's leading man of men and feisty feminist flapper Zelda Fitzgerald.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Amber Cortes

Shaq + Kobe (Time Is Running Out)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:51:11 +0000

This piece retells (and remixes) the NBA soap opera of Shaq + Kobe in an audio cartoon created with the on-the-court assistance of the talented Kevin Smith and amplified by music from Shaquille O'Neal, sampled game sounds, and press conference audio clips taken wildly and egregiously out of context.

Year: 2006

Producers:

David Schulman

Natalie, Alone, in New York

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:08:38 +0000

A woman tries to come to terms with a breakup and a package of bacon.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Sue Mell

As if -- or, 99 Minus 1

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:58:56 +0000

As if / to discuss the world / John Cage / Joseph Beuys

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jean-Claude Kuner

Levitating Stone

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:47:32 +0000

In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jeanette Werkhoven

This Was a Crucial Place

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:07:37 +0000

A former inmate (John McCullough), a former guard (Donald Vaughn) and Steve Buscemi guide the listener through 1960's prison reform via the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Peter Crimmins

The Secret Life of an Australian Mother

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:00:04 +0000

Domestic duet for mother and six year old.

Year: 2006

Producers:

The Gulf

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:15:51 +0000

How can we make sense of the communication and resource problems identified long before Hurricane Katrina that led to such tragic consequences for many residents of New Orleans?

Year: 2006

Producers:

Christine McKenna

Where My Ears Have Been

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:04:03 +0000

Composed from sounds recorded during a residency at the National Science and Technology Museum, Taiwan, this is a story about communication.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jayne Fenton Keane

And I Think There Is Something There That Will Stand the Rain

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:53:23 +0000

A woman remembers the most important person in her life.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Lee Fuoco

Train Wars

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:36:17 +0000

Jayne Fenton Keane talks with India's former Socialist Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, and former President of the Socialist Party of India, Ms. Jaya Jaitley, about the Railway Strikes of 1975 that brought down Sonia Ghandi's government.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Jayne Fenton Keane

The Yakuza Codes

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:28:22 +0000

Will Midori and her brother Yoshitoro overcome their antipathies and meet again?

Year: 2006

Producers:

Christian Gasser

They Didn't Get Along

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:59:53 +0000

An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator.

Year: 2006

Producers:

. . . Cos It's Not

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:41:59 +0000

Please hear what I don't say...

Year: 2006

Producers:

Grace Yoon

Sometimes . . . (INC)

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:32:06 +0000

When I try from Zen sickness to fly . . .

Year: 2006

Producers:

Grace Yoon

Next Message

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:17:33 +0000

Mike won't return Alexander's messages.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Thelon Oeming

Stupidity Realized

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:21:52 +0000

Drummer relates previous evening's adventures with keyboard-playing brother.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Nic Beery

Just Read My Cards

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:10:33 +0000

Rude tarot card reader gets really angry.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Briana O'Higgins

Niiimogmoa!!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:55:58 +0000

After one year of social work experience: autism / misuse / to society.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Martin Kolber-Jaskulski

Missing

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:45:35 +0000

June and Alison are missing . . .

Year: 2006

Producers:

Shannon Quinn

O Happy Dagger

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:33:39 +0000

A man and his dagger part ways after the dagger has second thoughts.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Allison Schuette-Hoffman

Christmas With Grandma

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:18:30 +0000

With Grandma, things start bad and get worse.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Ken Cormier

I Like the Way You Talk

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:12:09 +0000

Baglama begins and ends chopped interviews with seniors about love and death and music.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Eric Markowitz

Respectacle

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:27:28 +0000

Children in a behavior program speak up about respect, against the metaphorical soundscape of the Institution.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Susan B. Price

I Don't Know. I Know.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:18:37 +0000

To begin, restating rules is used to avoid actually following rules, just as this more-than-one-sentence description avoids the request for a single sentence through the misuse of the semi-colon; later, mundane answering machine messages become menacing, as the producer manipulates their meaning with music.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Neil Sandell

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:35:12 +0000

A radio producer deals with a case of 'broadcaster's block' by asking the question "What would Johnny do?"

Year: 2006

Producers:

Kent Hoffman

Mother Love

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:30:08 +0000

A woman decides to sober up for her daughter.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Shannon Quinn

The First Attraction

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:22:27 +0000

The myth of Narcissus reimagined: the north pole of a magnet bar falls tragically in love with the north pole of another magnet bar.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Sold 'Em Way Up High at 1200 (INC)

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:13:00 +0000

Melds the incredible auctioneering skills of Dan Skeels, the 2004 World Livestock Auctioneering Champion, with the electronic sounds of Nick Freilich, aka Epicte the Elemental.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Cyrus Farivar

Talk to Me About Love

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:51:59 +0000

2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Boris the Mover

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:42:11 +0000

2006 ShortDocs Winner! A crush on a telemarketer results in betrayal.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Carma Jolly

Au Debut

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:08:10 +0000

2006 ShortDocs Winner! Translation -- Sylvain, Bruno, Zoe, and Youssef at the PRIM Centre in Montreal, summer 2006.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Zoe Irvine

'Til Death Do Us Part

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:58:56 +0000

2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Sasha Aslanian

Living off the Land

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:57:50 +0000

A Labor Day homage to women.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Nanette Drake Oldenbourg

Gone Mousin'

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:48:38 +0000

In the Last Frontier, sometimes it isn't "Go Fish," it's "Go Mouse."

Year: 2007

Producers:

Rebecca Sheir

The Assassin's Bell

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:35:41 +0000

A young Soviet 'Pioneer' (i.e. boy scout) squares off with the CIA -- will he live to tell the tale?

Year: 2007

Producers:

Charles Maynes

An Orchestra of Bicycles

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:24:04 +0000

Richard Lerman reflects on Travelon Gamelon, a piece he wrote in 1970 for amplified bicycles.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Rene Gutel

Elizabeth's Mug

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:48:23 +0000

Elizabeth sits at her kitchen table, contemplating a recent coworker's gift and wrestling with the advice it gives her.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Dirk van der Duim

The Angel and the Mourning Cloak

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:12:02 +0000

Chance encounters on an April morning show it's the little things in life that can make all the difference.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Jim Barfuss

Ayla

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:58:18 +0000

Here's a story of newness and wonder and remembering experience before language.

Year: 2007

Producers:

WJ Carlton

Little Voices, Far Far Away

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:47:49 +0000

Context is a bitch -- just ask mice. On earth they're seen as pests and carriers of disease, but space is another story altogether.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Feisty Mama

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:38:20 +0000

A daughter finds an old picture of her mother and sees her mother differently.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Melissa Canciller

How to Cheat on Your Wife

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:31:43 +0000

A short, poetic instruction manual for the man who wishes to philander or have an extra-marital affair, but doesn't know where to begin.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Elizabeth Bloom Albert

Buddhist Mice

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:14:31 +0000

Buddhist teachings and mouse death.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Karen Michel

Hot Lips

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:06:46 +0000

Hot Lips was my role model.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Yuko Kodama

Well Behaved Women

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:01:33 +0000

Janet gives new meaning to birthday gifts.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Juanona Brewster

Instant Coffee

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:53:58 +0000

A son remembers a woman who loved instant coffee and who may or may not have enjoyed being a housewife.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Dennis Conrow

Me and Mousetraps

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:28:03 +0000

I overcome my fears and manage to rid our home of a mouse.

Year: 2007

Producers:

David Daskal

Mugs With Messages

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:20:31 +0000

The thoughts of a creative woman of valor, who might never make history.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Suzy Kahn

Frenchie Movie

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:11:16 +0000

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1572-1631)

Year: 2007

Producers:

Hickory Dickory Mouse

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:02:50 +0000

A story of nursery rhymes and life with mice.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Karen Michel

Bike Bell Bandito

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:56:50 +0000

A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved -- and mom hated!

Year: 2007

Producers:

Darlene Dennard

Daisy Chaining

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:42:06 +0000

A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Joe Giovannetti

The Mousetrap Enthusiasts

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:14:59 +0000

My brother and I thought the greatest Christmas gift we ever gave each other were mousetrap stocking stuffers . . .

Year: 2007

Producers:

Jamie Dell'Apa

Bicycle Belles

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:05:59 +0000

On the boardwalk, in search of the sound of bicycle bells.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Stephanie Rowden

Actionwomen

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:28:00 +0000

Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Thrown

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:16:11 +0000

A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Stood There Ringing

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:33:07 +0000

A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Lapsed Trappist

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:26:37 +0000

The gripping tale of a troubled Buddhist as he struggles with morals and mice in this short radio fiction based rather loosely on a true story.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Of Mice and Music

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:20:23 +0000

Tragic kitchen incident inspires manic musings on singing mice.

Year: 2007

Producers:

David Swatling

Mug Stories

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:13:42 +0000

A coffee mug holds a special place in the heart of its owner.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Audrey Berns

My Bike Had a Burger Bell: A Tragic Tale of Loss and Woe

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:05:46 +0000

This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Mia Lobel

Tea for Matilda

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:58:06 +0000

Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Catherine Stifter

Invasion

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:52:30 +0000

One mother's attempt to fight off an invasion of mice just after her two-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Robert McGinley Myers

I've Got a Question for You

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:45:09 +0000

Making cold calls, in search of warmth.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Zak Rosen

Well Behaved Women (RUS)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:38:30 +0000

All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?

Year: 2007

Producers:

Alexander Soleev

Hong Kong Song

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:34:59 +0000

The sounds of the city resonate as Hong Kong comes to life through audio mosaic and three voices: a traveler remembers, newscasters rattle off facts and statistics, a young woman recalls a legend from her fading childhood.

Year: 2010

Producers:

Jens Jarisch

An American Tail

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:26:46 +0000

Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA -- do you still believe in these oppositions?

Year: 2007

Producers:

Anastasia Ivanova

Curve of the Earth

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:18:40 +0000

A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.

Year: 2007

Producers:

The Mousetrap

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:08:34 +0000

This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Tintinnabulation (Florence, Italy)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:59:30 +0000

Florence is a city filled with bells: church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells . . .

Year: 2007

Producers:

Lisa Tharpe

The Wishing Bell

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:45:25 +0000

A brother and sister fight over the gifts they receive from their father.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Max Barry

Stupid, Stupid Cup

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:37:41 +0000

Fictional account of bad behavior inspired by the mug.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Sue Mell

Really Nice

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:26:08 +0000

Intrigue after the lease is up.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Laura Vitale

The Silent Work of Ordinary People

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:11:48 +0000

An extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary worker.

Year: 2007

Producers:

The Horrible Truth About Indie Ice Cream

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:53:42 +0000

An investigation into why an ice cream truck was driving down my street at 9:30 PM.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Gabe Bullard

I'm Not Bossy

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:46:05 +0000

Three mothers read slogans found on women's T-shirts in a local mall.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Gabe Bullard

Bells

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:45:42 +0000

A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Frank Karall

Viva La Fiesta!

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:39:57 +0000

It's time to celebrate Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Diane Bock

Ring It Loud

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:29:39 +0000

A tender portrait of the sofly spoken environmental campaigner and former world champion cyclist Judith Sanderson, who 20 years ago smashed 5 middle distance records in her sport.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Emily Williams

Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:19:24 +0000

If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Hillary Frank

Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:07:55 +0000

Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Kay Collins

What Do You Want?

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:57:22 +0000

It's hard to think of anything that will last forever.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Julia Grant

I Was a Preteen Nightmare

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:45:27 +0000

A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Jill Dorothy Summers

Gifts

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:19:16 +0000

Two life-long bachelors kvetch over the phone.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Firestone Mulvaney

I'm Alive

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:33:51 +0000

A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Brian Corbet

Don't Touch This

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:54:52 +0000

One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Pat Corbet

A Tail of Two Mice, or, Dry Sponge Cake

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:31:02 +0000

The love between two mice turns soar with a lacl of cheese whip and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Catie Talarski

You Make My Heart Go

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:24:11 +0000

A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connnection just in time.

Year: 2007

Producers:

John Biewen

In Which the Coffee Mugs Offer Explanation

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:16:03 +0000

In which the coffee mugs offer explanation.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Life Plays On

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:05:46 +0000

An insecure boy discovers, through a saying on a mug, that there is more going on in the lives of others than meets the eye.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Byron Flitsch

Mouse Trap Music

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:54:26 +0000

Composer Mark Applebaum describes the creative process he uses when inventing new instruments. He calls one of them "The Mouse Trap."

Year: 2007

Producers:

Christopher Danforth

American Dream

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:42:12 +0000

The mice have invaded and are having some R and R... so I might as well help them enjoy themselves.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Chris Angelos

House Trap

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:28:55 +0000

"The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry"- Rober Burns, To a Mouse [The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto.]

Year: 2007

Producers:

Sidney

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:16:45 +0000

Of a cat, a Necessary, litter, and oh yeah, mice.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Kay Collins

Can't Catch Us All

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:58:39 +0000

What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.)

Year: 2007

Producers:

Conor Lennon

Miss Cholita Pageant

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:43:01 +0000

The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Ruxandra Guidi

A Time to Tip

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:34:07 +0000

The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Writing from the perspective of the mug in the first person, present tense.)

Year: 2007

Producers:

David Hain

The Irresistible Draw of the Dollar Store

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:24:50 +0000

A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Kevin Theis

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mousetrap

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:17:33 +0000

Both brief reflection on mousetraps and a nod to Wallace Stevens.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Ezekiel Weaver

Latin Mass

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:36:35 +0000

Long before the women's movement even had a name, some Oak Park girls began questioning tradition without even knowing they were doing so.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Chris Angelos

Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:10:30 +0000

Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Sue Mell

I Thought I'd Be Rewarded for My Dating Gumption

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:46:08 +0000

You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?

Year: 2007

Producers:

Saya April Hillman

Chinese Pants

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:34:00 +0000

An unscripted talk between a mom and her almost teenaged daughter, inspired by a handmade Mother's Day card listing all the things a mother should never do.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Thrifty Liquidators

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:19:49 +0000

In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon...

Year: 2007

Producers:

Avant Guardian

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:11:36 +0000

The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G.

Year: 2007

Producers:

David Weinberg

Red Baiting

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:48:31 +0000

Decommissioned Soviet mousetraps in Brooklyn's Little Odessa.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Joe Milutis

The New Pleasant Revolution

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:55:38 +0000

A bike messenger provides alternatives to horrible traffic horns.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Musings Over Coffee

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:34:06 +0000

Half commentary, half documentary, the inscription on this coffee mug took me back to old memories.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Sandra Sleight-Brennan

The Golden Mug Award

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:27:27 +0000

The coveted golden mug award is given to an actor or actress for their portrayal of an independent woman in history.

Year: 2007

Producers:

David Weinberg

Dollar Daze

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:16:50 +0000

Third Coast Festival artistic director Julie Shapiro describes her rendez-vous with Dollar Store founder Jonathan Messinger at Dollar Daze in downtown Chicago, where the Dollar Storeys items were chosen.

Year: 2007

Producers:

How to Be Heard

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:02:30 +0000

2007 ShortDocs Winner! Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Nina Perry

The Trap

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:47:55 +0000

2007 ShortDocs Winner! Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.

Year: 2007

Producers:

David Maxon

Stiff Peaks

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:37:55 +0000

2007 ShortDocs Winner! The first step in making cookies is to purchase a metal bike jingle-bell in a western mountain town.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Jeffrey Letterly

My Life as a Cup

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:12:40 +0000

2007 ShortDocs Winner! The triumphs and regrets of a cup.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Sean Hurley

Family Tree

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:18:52 +0000

Two families share very different reasons for planting a tree when their baby is born.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Good Luck Bestows Upon You. You Will Get What Your Heart Desires.

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:09:08 +0000

Grandma Phyllis reads me her fortune.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Andrea Silenzi

Too Much Shade

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:03:08 +0000

This piece traces the devolution of a trailer to a tree.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Annie Baxter

Harvey Carne Workout Method, Cassette 6

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:57:11 +0000

Welcome to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Lady Bait

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:44:32 +0000

Lizzie and her sister think they are coming to Ray's just to see his monkey, but little do they know that Ray and Oscar have been sweating to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Kid Lit

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:38:34 +0000

A periscope of my grandmother's death and how babies are made.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Kristina Lund

The Good Citizen's Control of Body and Mind

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:27:33 +0000

A mad professor attempts to bring a cadaver to life.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Are You Sure?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:19:44 +0000

A look at the age old dilemma -- the unexpected pregnancy, and a peek into how today's busy, independent woman approaches the unexpected news.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Carrie Shepherd

Stork-Bird Brain

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:12:04 +0000

A journey through the mind of heartache on an island that is really a peninsula.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Carolyn Hoerdemann

Mr. Alm's Garden

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:04:51 +0000

The story of a discovery of a secret garden.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Tom Horan

Telepathic Trees

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:56:24 +0000

Brief encounters of the inter-species communication kind.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Amber Cortes

I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:50:15 +0000

This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Molly Adams

Trees Have Full Control of Body and Mind and Are Thus Very Good Citizens

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:36:42 +0000

A very comic and nervous Monty Python-type exploration of the life of a tree.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Amy Denes

Govern the Ganglia

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:53:54 +0000

A found poem -- all text from chosen books.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Ken Cormier

Teen Mind

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:44:55 +0000

We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Frank Karall

The Highway 57 Breakdown in Three-Part Harmony

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:38:05 +0000

Busting out, breaking down, success, failure, positive thinking, and finding the right trailer hitch.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Dan Zellner

The Big Meeting

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:27:19 +0000

Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town.

Year: 2008

Producers:

The Persistence of Ephemera

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:20:04 +0000

A slighty wacky look at my own ephemera collection.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Ceil Muller

Trees Die for the Sins of Our Legislators

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:12:45 +0000

Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Kay Collins

Traveling and Trees

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:04:28 +0000

How trees affect me as a photographer.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Pauline Kochanski

If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:54:42 +0000

Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Fereshteh Toosi

Pills

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:48:40 +0000

A weekend away begets new interactions, with a little help from Andrew Jackson.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Cambra Moniz-Edwards

Misplaced Memories

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:40:24 +0000

When you get rid of things, you never know what you are truly giving up, so keep everything.

Year: 2008

Producers:

David Green

How I Got the Facts on China

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:31:00 +0000

A cold-war son becomes a new-millenium dad.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Wayne Peter Liebman

A Now Famous Tree

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:09:29 +0000

When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Lynn Thompson

Silvergirl

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:01:48 +0000

It's not made of Plexiglass, it's not made of fiberglass, it's not square.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Government! Hold My Hand . . .

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:51:25 +0000

A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Zachary Baiel

The Haymarket Incident

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:40:02 +0000

One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Rehman Tungekar

Beyond the Tree Line

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:33:55 +0000

A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Jane Cramer

That Close

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:28:01 +0000

Montreal's Royal Park is the backdrop to a woman's memories and the place where she is most at home.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Eva Boodman

Feeling Small but Dreaming Big

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:43 +0000

"Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?"

Year: 2008

Producers:

Anastasia Ivanova

Invisible Greek Rain

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:09:04 +0000

Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Anastasia Ivanova

Birth, Birth, Rebirth

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:50 +0000

As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Chris Sewell

Ad Absurdum

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:47:37 +0000

A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

When Condos Travel

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:37:35 +0000

This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel -- removing Austin residents and their beloved trees.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sara Robberson

Pink George

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:23:44 +0000

McCarthyism and me.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Kay Collins

A Large, Well-Rounded Head

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:05:28 +0000

The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Restful, Shady Places

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:55:15 +0000

The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sean Hurley

Leaves

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:56:04 +0000

The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Max Barry

Out of Control. Noise.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:44 +0000

From children to adults . . .

Year: 2008

Producers:

Alexander Soleev

Why Question the Facts?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:13:05 +0000

A tired teen talks in the second worst recording device he has.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Shaun D. Wilson

The Subtle Tongue of Racism Remains Unbitten in a "Post-Racial" America

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:03:13 +0000

How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel?

Year: 2008

Producers:

Will Wright

The Big Strike!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:48:13 +0000

When a venerable neighborhood tree is struck down its loss is felt by all the residents on the street, but sometimes nature has its reasons.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sarah Bernath

Tree Body

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:41:19 +0000

Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Alix Blair

Nerve Machine

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:34:53 +0000

Assailed by doubts, fears and illusions on all sides, the warfare within our bodies is a silent one.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Upon the Black Top Sea

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:26:55 +0000

Joe escapes in his trailer alone but this time he has a visitor.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Mary Mazurek

Misguided Meditation

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:18:29 +0000

A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sarah L'Estrange

Sending Books to Africa

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:08:44 +0000

A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sarah Yahm

In Order to Remember

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:54:21 +0000

Stories, photos, tape . . . all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.

Year: 2008

Producers:

That Tragic Night

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:44:01 +0000

Survivors recount the sinking of the Titanic.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Catie Talarski

Six Minutes

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:20:17 +0000

A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Katie Ball

Trees for Economic and Social Justice

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:10:33 +0000

This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Anna Boiko-Weyrauch

A Transgender Childhood

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:01:23 +0000

Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Tina Antolini

The Woman in the Tree

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:51:11 +0000

Here's a story along the theme of "ephemera" - things that were not built to be around for long.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Kathryn Born

Summer Snow in Moscow

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:34:47 +0000

Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?

Year: 2008

Producers:

The Unsustainable Age

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:38:10 +0000

A History Channel-style short told from the 23rd century.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Matt Fleeger

Matt and Bart Sleep in the Airstream

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:27:58 +0000

A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Matt Fleeger

Flying Dream Sequence

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:09:47 +0000

The tale of a recurring dream.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Matt Fleeger

Cicatrix

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:02:21 +0000

"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Joan Schuman

Two Trailer Love Stories

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:13:25 +0000

A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Meagan Perry

Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:02 +0000

How to make your dreams of happiness come true.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

Every Morning I Hear This Voice...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:49:59 +0000

A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Mikkel Nedergaard

The Control of Teenagers

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:35:18 +0000

The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;

Year: 2008

Producers:

Control of Swimsuit and Mind

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:14:49 +0000

Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Kathleen Goldhar

Labor Pains

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:05:59 +0000

Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Rich Halten

Creative Process

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:55:23 +0000

An entry about making a contest entry.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Kay Collins

Lucky Star

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:36:48 +0000

When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Julia Grant

The Great Tree Strike of 1934

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:20:14 +0000

A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Shaun D. Wilson

Sweetgum Handshake

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:46:22 +0000

Here's a radio explanation of the Radio Ephemera ShortDocs Challenge, including descriptions from Rick and Megan Prelinger, of the books selected for the project.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Is That My Imagination?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:59:13 +0000

2008 ShortDocs Winner! The story of a mind on strike.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Meghan Vigeant

The Searchers (Based on a True Story)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:48:58 +0000

2008 ShortDocs Winner! Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.

Year: 2008

Producers:

David P. Earle

Forest to Desert

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:30:20 +0000

2008 ShortDocs Winner! An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

Scared

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:02:50 +0000

2008 ShortDocs Winner! The bittersweet fear of watching your child grow up.

Year: 2008

Producers:

John Biewen

Tongues Twisting

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:41:32 +0000

Clapping games and tongue twisters in multiple languages turn into rich stories when Judith Sloan records young immigrants in a theatre workshop.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Judith Sloan

The Rules Will Be Different

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:31:57 +0000

For one recount lawyer in Florida, the political became personal in the wake of the 2000 presidential election.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Melissa Allison

There Was a Whole Lotta Hundreds...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:54:55 +0000

In America's high schools, students are playing a game whose only rule is to break the rules.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Michael Kavanagh

The Ambassador of Go

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:34:12 +0000

Most Americans have never heard of Go, an ancient board game that has simpler rules than chess but such complex strategy that computers can't even beat a talented amateur.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Blake Eskin

The Color Is Black

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:17:41 +0000

Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Listening to Jamie

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:02:37 +0000

Imagine a cold London winter, where the bizarre and unpredictable sounds made by producer Hugh Levinson's sleeping newborn punctuate the dark nights in the most unimaginable ways.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Hugh Levinson

Memento Mori

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:13 +0000

Some members of Jude Fletcher's family have a fondness for taking pictures of the dead. Their photo albums boast the typical shots of joyous celebrations and family gatherings, side by side with shots of loved ones in their caskets.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Jude Fletcher

Dinner at the Blind Cow

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:13:57 +0000

From the moment you enter the restaurant's dining room, you're in complete darkness. Blind waiters take your order, help you find your water glass, and lead you to the bathroom as needed.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Adam Burke

Misfire

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:42:41 +0000

Misfire is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr. Pepper radio ads, original violin music, and sounds of thirst and thirst-quenching.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Vagy/Szomjusag/Thirst

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:19:59 +0000

As a boy, George Bien was sent thousands of miles away from Hungary to Siberia, to the notorious Gulag - the prison camp system in the Soviet Union, where millions of people perished.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Alex van Oss

And I Walked...Stories From the Border

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:53:23 +0000

Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs.

Year: 2003

Producers:

X-Town

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:25:02 +0000

In the late 1930s, Massachusetts flooded four towns in the central part of the state to create a reservoir for the city of Boston. More than 2,000 people lived in those towns.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Sean Cole

Big House / Disclosure

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:46:43 +0000

Big House/Disclosure is a multimedia project exploring the legacy of slavery, the genesis of house music, and Chicago's role as the first U.S. city to adopt a Slavery-Era Disclosure Ordinance (which requires companies doing business with the city to reveal if they profited from slavery in the past).

Year: 2007

Producers:

Mendi and Keith Obadike

The Flickerman (INC)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:22:28 +0000

Cornelius Zane-Gray is being stalked. His girlfriend left him, a good friend was murdered, and he's recently been assaulted, chased, and nearly blown up. Cornelius's life is falling apart, and what's more, it's all being documented through photos posted on the Internet for everyone to see.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Lance Dann

Survivors

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:42:56 +0000

Tens of thousands of inmates in American prisons live in total isolation. They don't see anyone. They don't talk to anyone. They are completely alone, sometimes for years, in a cell the size of a small bathroom.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Claire Schoen

Nina Black

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:20:38 +0000

Imagine being so hyperactive and distractible that you can barely keep track of where you are, who you're talking to, and what you're talking about.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Melanie Harris

The How Are You Doing Project

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:11:46 +0000

The How Are You Doing Project is an interactive audio experiment that invites anyone and everyone to call an anonymous hotline and respond to the most frequently posed question of them all.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Laura Mayer

The Memory Palace: These Words Forever

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:57:47 +0000

In this episode of The Memory Palace, Guglielmo Marconi, the Father of Radio, dreams of a super-radio that would allow him to hear every sound ever made. Melancholy ensues.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Nate DiMeo

The Memory Palace: Lost Pigeons

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:48:27 +0000

In this episode of The Memory Palace, the passenger pigeon dwindles from five-billion strong in the first quarter of the 19th Century down to one lonely widow in the Cincinnati Zoo in less than a hundred years.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Nate DiMeo

The Memory Palace: The Brothers Booth

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:18:19 +0000

In this episode of The Memory Palace, the most famous actor in American mounts a comeback after his little brother shoots Abraham Lincoln.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Nate DiMeo

Nocturne

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:59:59 +0000

The National Gallery, London, is one of the world's most prestigious art galleries. Every day, thousands of people pass through its doors to look at masterpieces by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and many others.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Married to the Livestock: The End of a Farmer's Life (INC)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:48:14 +0000

A touching, sound-rich excerpt from a German feature that explores the shifting realities and complicated relationships on the small family farm where producer Julia Schafer was raised.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Julia Schafer

Sugartime (INC)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:15:33 +0000

In the beginning of January 2008, the Belgian-Ghanaian Sugar Jackson defended his European welterweight world title.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Wim Vangrootloon

Aftermath

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:19:02 +0000

The Aftermath, Inc., headquarters is nestled in a strip of ordinary office buildings in the Chicago suburbs, but there's nothing bland about the service the company provides.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Wellington, Texas

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:36:05 +0000

When you enter Wellington, Texas, one of the first things you see is a large billboard that says: Welcome to Wellington: Great Past, Bright Future.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Katherine Wells

A Square Meal, Regardless

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:16:13 +0000

When Cedric Chambers and John Gallagher met by chance 45 years ago, neither imagined that they'd be caring for each other into old age.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Jen Nathan Orris

Thinness and Salvation

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:27:51 +0000

The American "obesity epidemic" has been all over the news -– from stories about the viability of the Atkins diet to tabloid profiles of 100-pound toddlers.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sarah Yahm

The View From Here

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:46:41 +0000

A patient, blinded in an accident, wakes to another day of darkness. Resolved to sidestep the persistent murk of her obscured vision, she turns instead to the world of her imagination and memory, where the everyday patterns of human routine take on a new significance.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Melanie Wilson

The Happiness Project: Mrs. Morris

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:24:02 +0000

Musician Charles Spearin lives with his family in a lively neighborhood in downtown Toronto. A year ago, Charles decided to invite neighbors and friends over to conduct interviews loosely based around the topic of happiness.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Charles Spearin

The Mender of Lost Hearts

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:12:43 +0000

Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo lead grim lives -- they're forcibly recruited to serve with government forces or rebel troops in a long and bloody civil conflict that's ravaged the region for years.

Year: 2009

Producers:

Nuevo South

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:11:26 +0000

Siler City, North Carolina, used to be a typical small southern town: lots of families had roots going back a century or two and its citizens were proud of the town's close-knit culture and neighborly feel.

Year: 2008

Producers:

My T-Shirt Says It All

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:32:50 +0000

The T-shirt is a staple of the American wardrobe, worn by pretty much everyone at one time or another. It's a common denominator in a culture marked by differences. But while it's cheap and easy to make, the humble T-shirt shouldn't be underestimated.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Jacob Fenston

Like Blackpool Went Through Rock

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:20:30 +0000

In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Sara Parker

Ice Cream Man

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:58:11 +0000

Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Jonathan Goldstein

Sensory Deprivation Tank

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:09:37 +0000

Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Jonathan Goldstein

Aimee Semple McPherson — An Oral Mystery

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:36:54 +0000

Before Billy Graham, Jim Bakker, or even Bob Jones took to the airwaves, the first media evangelist in this country was a woman -- Sister Aimee Semple McPherson.

Year: 1999

Producers:

Poetry Off the Shelf

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:12:40 +0000

Award-winning producer Curtis Fox has covered arts and culture for many years, first for public radio, and more recently as a full-time podcaster.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Curtis Fox

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:35:59 +0000

This is an excerpt from Curtis Fox's portrait of Walt Whitman, one of the world's greatest poets, and his radical vision of America.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Curtis Fox

Meat Factory Ear Worms

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:23:10 +0000

You know how sometimes you just can't get a song out of your head? Radio producer Richie Beirne can sympathize.

Year: 2008

Producers:

Richie Beirne

Divided Families: The Hidden Cost of Migration

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:51:32 +0000

Here's a love story that stretches across two decades, thousands of miles, and an international border. Rocio and Francisco are married but have kept their family together by living apart for the past 19 years.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Little Black Train

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:19:31 +0000

Eighty-two-year-old Daphne Reed is married to and madly in love with a man 30 years her juinor. She's been thinking a lot about death recently, and about the future years her husband will likely spend without her.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Nora Harrington

Mr. Right

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:44:05 +0000

Searching for your ideal partner can be exhausting, even with the help of personal ads.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Inge Hoonte

Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:25:36 +0000

A revealing reflection on journalism, which is a process of editing and selecting, rather than transmitting a complete record to the public.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Sarah Boothroyd

Epic, Painful, Long, Scary

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:47:56 +0000

Epic, Painful, Long, Scary is the story of 19-year-old African-Australian twins. The twins hardly remember their mother and father, who both died from AIDS-related illnesses when the boys were just toddlers.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Julie Kimberly

Leaps and Dunes

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:48:26 +0000

Summer sleepover camp means more than mosquito bites, sunburn, twig art, and bonfire gatherings. Camp offers many kids their first taste of independence -- which can be equal-parts blissful and terrifying.

Year: 2007

Producers:

Ocean Hour

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:27:54 +0000

Two friends sit on a dock, meandering through a variety of ocean stories (some true and some not):

Year: 2007

Producers:

Original Kasper's: The Hot Dog Stand That Saved a Neighborhood

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:02:50 +0000

Hot dogs are a classic American food. But when is a hot dog more than just a hot dog? When it's a neighborhood mainstay, through years of change.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Peter Thomson

Hairwaves: A Cautionary Tale

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:35:40 +0000

Bouffants, buzz cuts, mohawks, and dreadlocks: no matter the style, hair has played an important social and cultural role throughout human history.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Teenaged Guitarists Tackle "El Gato Montes"

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:20:30 +0000

Carlos Maeda and his quartet struggle with "El Gato Montes" in after-school rehearsals. Produced by Maeda for Curie Youth Radio.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Curie Youth Radio

I'll Quit Cutting When You Quit Smoking

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:12:22 +0000

Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life. Produced by April Winbun for Curie Youth Radio.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Curie Youth Radio

Back to School in a Garbage Can

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:55:21 +0000

A collage of love notes, tardy slips, and other high school detritus collected from high school garbage cans. Produced by Geraldo Hernandez and Giancarlo Hernandez for Curie Youth Radio.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Curie Youth Radio

Childhood Trains

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:43:22 +0000

What is it about train travel that inspires music and memory? And why do people tend to confess their innermost thoughts once they get on board?

Year: 2006

Producers:

New Orleans' Hurricane Risk

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:22:38 +0000

In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America's gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Daniel Zwerdling

If It Be Your Will: A Radio Documentary Featuring Leonard Cohen

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:42:56 +0000

Canadian musician Leonard Cohen insists he hardly remembers anything from his past and that he lives mostly in the present.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Kari Hesthamar

Mad About Magpies

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:55:48 +0000

Many people look to the natural world for clues about living a more harmonious life. For example, we aspire to traits we associate with certain animals: the wisdom of the owl, the noble bearing of the bald eagle, or the grace of the swan.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Guy Hand

How Many Miles to Babylon? or 13 Easy Pieces

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:08:09 +0000

Merry-go-rounds often reside deep in our memories, conjuring childhood and the magical ability to be carried far away in the blink of an eye or the spin of a carousel.

Year: 2006

Producers:

Kaye Mortley

One-Minute Vacations

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:13:49 +0000

The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with fresh ears says Aaron Ximm, sound artist, field recordist and founder of quietamerican.org.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Aaron Ximm

Jonathan Mitchell

Shocking Pink

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:31:59 +0000

Australian anthropologist, botanist, and eccentric Olive Pink waged a 40-year, one-woman civil rights campaign on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples until her death in 1975.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Just Another Fish Story

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:05:18 +0000

Ten years ago, the people of Lubec, Maine, were met with an unpleasant surprise: an enormous finback whale had washed onto the beachfront of their tiny coastal town.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Molly Menschel

Electronic Samples Cut-Up

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:45:37 +0000

A few years ago, Mark Vernon bought a pile of old reel-to-reel audio tapes at a boot sale (think yard sale, but in the trunks of cars) near his hometown of Derby, England.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Mark Vernon

My Personal Board: Episode One

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:01:03 +0000

Five alarmingly self-aware people meet on the phone for an hour each week to talk about their lives and their goals.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Eurydice Aroney

Chicago Hustles

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:30:46 +0000

Meet Floyd (not his real name), a self-described "cigarette hustler" and part of Chicago's thriving underground economy, where goods and services -- legal and illegal -- are sold under the radar.

Year: 2005

Producers:

File Under Soviet Bizarre: Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electro-Musical Instruments

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:56:50 +0000

It was the closest thing to Muzak in Russia. This is the story of the rise, fall, and sudden resurgence of the music that dominated television and radio airwaves and whose spacey sounds made it the favorite of the USSR's cosmonauts.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Charles Maynes

When the Dog Was Just the Dog

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:52:36 +0000

When her husband brings two puppies home, producer Lea Redfern becomes completely immersed in the world of canines. Now dog culture pervades her every waking moment, from commanding her social life to steering her personal politics.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Lea Redfern

The Paint Mixers

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:22:02 +0000

Wired with a low-fi tape recorder, performance artist Damali Ayo visited hardware stores and asked employees to mix paint to match different parts of her body.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:37:04 +0000

Thirty years ago no one believed that the psychological problems suffered by Vietnam soldiers were caused by their service in the war.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Alix Spiegel

Holy Soul

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:57:13 +0000

Matthew Power first met poet Allen Ginsberg at his cousin's Bar Mitzvah, when he was a 15-year-old aspiring writer.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Seratonin Syndrome

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:04:30 +0000

Ken Nordine wonders if the warning pamphlets included with many powerful prescriptions may cause some of us to suffer mild paranoia.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Ken Nordine

When Do You Feel Feminine?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:29:59 +0000

After a teenager was killed near San Francisco for having a different biological gender from the one she expressed, some local middle-schoolers wanted to know why. What is gender, anyway?

Year: 2004

Producers:

outLoud Radio

Dia's Diary: My Mother

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:16:11 +0000

Dia Fallana is a young transgender woman living in a depressed area of Oakland, California. In this radio essay, she explains how her mother's anti-gay attitude kept her in the closet -- until she was forced to tell the truth.

Year: 2004

Producers:

outLoud Radio

Return to Oakland

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:06:16 +0000

When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Youth Radio

Soldiers React to Prison Abuse

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:30:39 +0000

When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Belia Mayeno Choy

Mandela: An Audio History

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:58:00 +0000

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election, Radio Diaries produced this five-part series featuring newly discovered archival tape of Nelson Mandela, his supporters, and detractors.

Year: 2005

Producers:

Waiting . . . for Love

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:37:29 +0000

This is a playful exploration of Nicholas Longstaff's first forays into the world of relationships, documenting the semantics of falling in and out of love.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Nicholas Longstaff

Railway Lines

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:15:35 +0000

Sound artist Sylvi MacCormac tells this story about coming home by train along the Canadian Railway Lines.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Sylvi MacCormack

Radio -- What Do I Do?

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:15:15 +0000

Chandra Bulucon, sole proprietor of Puppy Machine Productions, recorded a 45-minute phone conversation she had with a friend about her relationship to radio.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Chandra Bulucon

A Drinking Song

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:48:36 +0000

Could The Star Spangled Banner be recast as a drinking song? Holger Mohaupt suggests that in this family, it could.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Holger Mohaupt

A Sense of Place

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:26:54 +0000

Filmmaker Tony Hill takes his blind friend to a mystery location, where she discovers her whereabouts solely through her sense of touch.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Tony Hill

The Modern Woodsman

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:04:19 +0000

Filmmaker Adam Clitheroe playfully puts forth an audio portrait of a traditional woodsman . . . equipped with a cell phone.

Year: 2004

Producers:

Adam Clitheroe

The Long-Expected Party

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:11:17 +0000

This Radio New Zealand documentary explores the construction of the world of The Lord of the Rings through the eyes of the New Zealanders whose "good old kiwi ingenuity" on the film set brought Middle Earth to life.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Camilla Maling

Dreaming of Fat Men

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:03:29 +0000

One evening in 1994, four women came together for a feast. They had never met one another before. As far as anybody knew, they only had one thing in common: they were all obese.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Lorelei Harris

The Herrin Massacre

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:43:55 +0000

America's history is rich with the stories of antagonistic coal strikes, but the Herrin Massacre of 1922 is a particularly distressing event that resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen strike-breakers.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Gary Covino

Prey

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:20:28 +0000

As producer Rachel Bryant researched seabirds in the remote arctic wilderness of Southampton Island, Nunavut, she began thinking about issues of survival and vulnerability.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Rachel Bryant

Face to Face: Stories From the Aftermath of Infamy

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:49:14 +0000

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Americans of Japanese ancestry were subjected to racial hatred, distrust, and incarceration.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Rob Mikuriya

Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:28:49 +0000

Youth Radio producers Ise Lyfe, Gerald Ward II, and Bianca Yarborough chronicle the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Youth Radio

Open Outcry

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:01:28 +0000

Sound designer and multimedia artist Ben Rubin employs the cacophony of the New York Mercantile Exchange to create a musical piece commemorating the reopening of the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, which was closed after the events of September 11th.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Ben Rubin

The End

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:28:35 +0000

Endings in radio used to serve a purpose: they used to signal to a live audience that the time to applaud was near. But this has changed now, prompting Sara Fishko to take a look at the outdated "ending" and to piece together some favorite final moments for a Big Finish.

Year: 1999

Producers:

Sara Fishko

The House I Live In

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:07:16 +0000

The historical saga of the song The House I Live In is a study in changing times, changing values, and fickle politics.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Sara Fishko

Sound Design From Hell

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:00:08 +0000

Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Jonathan Mitchell

Embroidery Felon

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:27:04 +0000

Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Jonathan Mitchell

The Forbidden Voyage

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:49:09 +0000

As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Stephen Erickson

Heat

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:49:59 +0000

In this short radio play, the consequences of living life in a tinderbox are revealed through a series of scenes taking place within their various rooms.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Susan Stone

Ruby

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:26:55 +0000

A deaf-mute, lovelorn waitress has written a friend of her fractured heart. It's a garbled world in which Ruby spins between love, lust, and a bus ticket to California.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Susan Stone

Ferlinghetti: San Francisco Locations

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:37:02 +0000

San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Jim McKee

Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:51:44 +0000

A series of interconnected stories by A. H. Weatherman about the trauma of growing up in the south and participating in beauty pageants.

Year: 2003

Producers:

Roman Mars

Object Piece

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:25:32 +0000

Based on a short story by Drury Pifer, Object Piece is the story of a man digging his own grave after he loses his wife to a friend.

Year: 1976

Producers:

Randy Thom

Postcards From a Fanatic Reactionary Pedestrian

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:35:49 +0000

What is a fanatic reactionary pedestrian? How does one get to be this way?

Year: 2002

Producers:

Abner Serd

Ruth Ellis

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:08:53 +0000

Ruth Ellis lived to be over 100 years old. She realized in her teens that she was gay but she didn't talk much about it then.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Neenah Ellis

What's That in My Underwear? First Period Stories

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:35:55 +0000

From summer camp woes to blissful recognitions of womanhood, this feature on menstruation explores what it's really like to "become a woman."

Year: 2002

Producers:

Arielle Adams

Hollister

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:35:25 +0000

Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Helen Borten

Hinterlands

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:09:45 +0000

In a blending of both drama and documentary, three bereaved women talk about their real experiences of loss and how they've tried to move forward with their lives. In a parallel drama, their loved ones meet on a beach in "the hinterland," somewhere between life and death.

Year: 1996

Producers:

Sara Conkey

Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:44:53 +0000

Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Dmae Roberts

The Best of Ideas: Petula Clark

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:05:43 +0000

Many people know of pianist Glenn Gould's unique and somewhat maverick contributions to the classical music world.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Glenn Gould

Steve the Baker

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:41:55 +0000

"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand.

Year: 2002

Producers:

David Welch

Hard-Hearted Hannah

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:18:02 +0000

Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hoose describes growing up as a part of her family's folk band, with all its healthy snacks, archetypal psychodramas, and oddly compelling songs.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Joni Murphy

Fez, Morocco: A Journey in Sound

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:25:14 +0000

When you stroll through the maze of streets in Fez, Morocco, it's as if you are walking back in time.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Jim Metzner

Peggy Lee Appreciation

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:42:04 +0000

A huge Peggy Lee fan, producer Karen Michel has produced five features about this singer, songwriter, and arranger.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Karen Michel

Dental Deja Vu

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:23:47 +0000

Producer Gwen Macsai was 31 when, for the second time in her life, she was subjected to that ubiquitous teenage torture device . . . the dental retainer.

Year: 1993

Producers:

A Voice of Warning

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:12 +0000

A heroin overdose left Jade Bell blind, mute and unable to care for himself. Now Bell tours high schools in British Columbia, where his computerized "voice" speaks a loud warning to thousands of students.

Year: 2002

Producers:

Big in Japan

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:50:26 +0000

Desperate to learn the language, Japanese schools, businesses, and government agencies offer small fortunes to just about anyone who can help teach English.

Year: 2000

Producers:

Robin Hilton

Mucho Corazon

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:58:04 +0000

Mucho Corazon tells the story of Leon Perlee, who builds and restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business, and Milades Sosa, who works at a Cuban organ factory.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Nostalgia

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:28:38 +0000

The first Johnny Rockets opened in 1986 on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, a concept restaurant embodying the epitome of retro culture.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Paul McCarthy

Voices From the Dust Bowl

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:46:48 +0000

In the 1930's, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drove farmers and their families from the central states to California.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Barrett Golding

We're Here to Work!

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:34:51 +0000

This documentary, part of a series called America's Women: A Legacy of Change, examines how women's lives have changed since they won the vote in 1920s, focusing on the period from World War II through the 1950s.

Year: 2001

Producers:

The Change in Farming

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:19:34 +0000

This story brings together a young Toronto composer, Adam Goddard, whose passion is music, and his 90-year-old grandfather, Henry Haws, whose passion is farming.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Tupperware

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:55:59 +0000

In this nostalgic documentary, tag along with Tupperware dealer Lucky Laurel into the world of Tupperware conventions, regional meetings, and of course, those signature Tupperware parties.

Year: 2001

Producers:

The Kitchen Sisters

Swim Lesson

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:40:47 +0000

In Scott Carrier's family, learning to swim means spending a few weeks at Al and Betty Switzer's Aquatic School in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.

Year: 1996

Producers:

Scott Carrier

Silence

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:32:46 +0000

Tripura and Om took temporary vows of silence when they first met almost 20 years ago. Joan Schuman produced this sound portrait of their experience by weaving together their vocal memories with an ambient narrative of chalk scratching on slate.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Joan Schuman

English

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:43:01 +0000

Karla Saavedra, 17, moved to Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood from Mexico two years ago.

Year: 2000

Producers:

WNYC's Radio Rookies

Face of Mercy, Face of Hate

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:30:22 +0000

Predrag Bundalo was a Serbian fighter in Sarajevo, who everyone called by his nickname, "Gaga." On the eve of his 36th birthday, Gaga stopped to visit an elderly Muslim woman in her apartment.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Jarman's Garden

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:39:31 +0000

Throughout the long illness at the end of his life, fllmmaker Derek Jarman put an extraordinary amount of passion and physical labor into his uniqe and rugged garden.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Sherre DeLys

Knoxville: Summer of 1995

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:22:46 +0000

Here's an audio homage on three levels: first, to James Agee's poetic memoir of the sounds and smells of Knoxville, Tennessee in the summer of 1915, shortly before his father died; secondly, to Samuel Barber's 1947 orchestral setting of Agee's text for the soprano Eleanor Steber; and finally to the modern city of Knoxville.

Year: 1995

Producers:

Alan Hall

Basketball Diary

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:52:34 +0000

Katie Davis takes along her microphone when she is drafted to "coach" a high school basketball team in her neighborhood, allowing us to listen in as she stumbles through the season.

Year: 1999

Producers:

Katie Davis

Road Scholar

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:37:51 +0000

You might recognize Andrei Codrescu's voice from his insightful commentaries on NPR, but Codrescu has also brought his unique perspective on American culture to the silver screen, via the movie Road Scholar.

Year: 2001

Producers:

Andrei Codrescu