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Mon, May 21
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Strange Days
Way beyond the norm: Host Larry Massett has an audio essay on the life and literature of Paul Bowles (December 30, 1910 - November 18, 1999). The original mock man-on-the-street interviews, Coyle & Sharpe turn the everyday into the extremely strange. Producer John Rieger is enveloped in an Amazonian Ayahuasca expedition, a tale of ritual drugs and tourism.
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Mon, May 14
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All Mom Radio
For Mother's Day, maternal tales from producers around the country: "Travels with Mom" follows Larry Massett and his mother to the Tybee Island, Georgia of today and of the 1920's, as recalled by Mrs. Massett. Writer Beverly Donofrio joins her mom for "Thursday Night Bingo," produced by Dave Isay of Sound Portraits. In Nancy Updike's "Mubarak and Margy," a gay man returns home to care for his mom, and to the "cure" his family plans for his homosexuality. And comedian Amy Borkowsky shares her...
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Mon, May 7
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Courage to Create II
The conclusion of this 1978 NPR/CBC radio classic, featuring interviews with artists on the origins of the creative impulse. Interviewees include psychologist Rolly May (author of The Courage to Create), scupltor Ernst Neizvestny (translation read by Mike Waters), jazz violinist Joe Venuti, composer Harry Somers, classical guitarist Larry Snitzler, dancer Francesca Corkle (Joffrey Ballet), actor/director Jeanne Moreau, stained glass artist Rowan LeCompte, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Mon, Apr 30
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Courage to Create I
A 1978 NPR/CBC radio classic, featuring interviews with artists on the origins of the creative impulse. This first of two hours includes psychologist Rolly May (author of The Courage to Create), classical guitarist Larry Snitzler, actor/director Jeanne Moreau, pianist Loren Hollander, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, stained glass artist Rowan LeCompte, mezzo-soprano Fredericka von Stade, painter Harold Town, novelist Marie Claire Blais, flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, folk guitarist Leo...
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Mon, Apr 23
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The Earth Sings
Host Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org, for Earth Day, presents Sounds for and from Mother Earth: The Quiet American takes an audio trek through Nepal"s "Annapurna" Circuit. Host Dmae Roberts records Maori music and culture. We hear Pulse of the Planet's "Extraordinary Sounds From the Natural World." The band Pamyua mimics creature calls. And from Gregg McVicar and the "Earthsongs" series: Sioux Soprano Bonnie Jo Hunt layers opera over insects (on Robbie Robertson’s Music for the Native...
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Tue, Apr 17
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Shades of Gray
An hour-long audio mosaic about abortion in America: Pro-choice. Pro-life. Most people have already chosen sides in the ongoing debate, so why revisit the issue? Shades of Gray shares a range of stories told by people young and old who have been directly affected by abortion, instead of the polemics of irreconcilable extremes. It's a carefully crafted audio mosaic and a stark portrayal of the intensely personal nature of our relationship with abortion. Winner of the 2004 Golden Reel for...
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Mon, Apr 9
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Wordshakers
Host Andrei Codrescu's "Poetry" redux. Lord Alfred Tennyson leads "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Thomas Edison waxes Walt Whitman's "America." Denise Levertov knows "The Secret." Carl Sandburg wonders "What is Poetry?" (by Barrett Golding). Scott Carrier wonders about "Alex Caldiero- Poet?" Ed Sanders (fmr Fugs) poses "A Question of Fame." In New Orleans a hot-dog vendor, barkeep, and stripper are in the "Poetry Combine (by Larry Massett). Jan Kerouac responds to her father's poetry and...
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Mon, Apr 2
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Making Music
Making Music, For a Living, For a Life: 1930s Florida folk music in the turpentine camps — a WPA project with Zora Neale Hurston and Stetson Kennedy. The Maddox Brothers and Rose, a California country star. A North Carolina preacher's son plays everything on guitar. And a whistler on the streets of Mexico City.
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Mon, Mar 26
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Close to Death
People near the process of death and dying: It takes "Four Seconds" to hit the water from the Golden Gate Bridge — producer Jake Warga's friend took that fatal jump. NPR's Josh Darsa interviews "The Man with the White Cane," a blind man who fell under a subway train. Carmen Delzell's 89-year-old "Grandmother's Hip" is broken. Scott Carrier talks to the family, the doctors, even the grave digger, to everyone affected by "The Death of Ruth Tuck. And we hear an answering machine "Kaddish" for...
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Mon, Mar 19
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Political Party
Let's rev-up this election process with a Political Party, crisscrossing the county collecting opinions: Scott Carrier in Salt Lake City watches his mayor debate Fox News host Sean Hannity, as the audience prepares for battle. Oregon kids brief us on the Constitution. Chicago college students discuss politicians. Montana pols talk politics. Howard Dean screams. We hear two opposing musical messages about the Obama administration. And we Auto-Tune the News, turning speeches info songs.
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Mon, Mar 12
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Destination Unknown
Getting Nowhere, Slow: Producer Scott Carrier hitchhikes cross-country. Tony Joe White give directions to the swamp. Ben Walker brings books to a Balkan war criminal. Donna, a supermarket check clerk, dreams of faraway places, in the ZBS radio soap, Saratoga Springs. And People Like Us find an Arkansas Explorer.
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Mon, Mar 5
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Her Stories
Host Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org, for Women's History Month, presents Stories By, For, and Of Women: The Kitchen Sisters go to "Tupperware" parties. A supermarket checker checks out her life, in ZBS's radio soap Saratoga Springs. Jenifir returns "Home From Africa" with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal. Host Dmae Roberts has a collage of and about "Sisters." In a new syntax of whispers and words Susan Stone tells the story of "Ruby" and her husbands. And Sonia Sanchez,...
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Mon, Feb 27
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Stories of Transformation
Two audio diaries about character and change: a street kid who decides to wise-up and a person born in the wrong body. We hear two people documenting their own personal transformation. "Finding Miles" is the story of a person named Megan who began a slow and difficult transition into manhood, into becoming Miles. "Running from Myself" is the story of of boy who used to rob people, and his decision to stop.
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Tue, Feb 21
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Musicality of Speech
A history of what composer Steve Reich call "speech-melodies:" We start with Riech's 1965 tape-compositions, then move to Reich Remixed, sampled and mashed-up several decades later. Composer Adam Goddard makes music from his grandfather's stories of "The Change in Farming." We hear David Byrne and Brian Eno's spoken-word experiments and a collage called "Fundamentals: Musical Preachers." And we replay the classic Radiolab story on unintentional music, "Sometimes Behaves So Strangely."
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Mon, Feb 13
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Love's Labors
Lovelorn letters to an advice columnist. Women's tales of true but tainted "Cringe Love," from producer Nancy Updike. A "Valentine" from Kevin Kling. "Love & Marriage Atop the Towers," stories of weddings at the World Trade Center, collected by The Kitchen Sisters. Host Amy Dickinson and hundreds of other "Leftover Brides," lining up for mass Moonie marriages. And a "Parent and Child" discussion between Jessica and Scott Carrier on what makes a good marriage.
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Tue, Feb 7
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Circus Blood
A world-class troupe of audio daredevils and media magicians: SF Chronicle journalist Jon Carroll interviews his daughter Shana as she swings thru the air on her flying "Trapeze", from the Life Stories series by Jay Allison. Joe Frank loves the lady "Lion Tamer," an excerpt from his hour "The Dictator." Adam Rosen mixes a medley of the many versions of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." And Elizabeth Eck returns to the circus family she ran away to join, in Larry Massett's "Circus in the Blood."
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Mon, Jan 30
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Voices from Tahrir
January 25, 2011. One year ago, a revolution began in Cairo’s Tahir Square. For the next eighteen days, millions of Egyptians across the country would demonstrate in the streets, demanding the end of their 30-year dictatorship. They were inspired by Tunisians, whose protests, that same month, had forced out the authoritarian regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Now it was time for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to go. A few weeks after the protests, the advocacy group Human Rights...
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Mon, Jan 30
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Crossing Borders
Marcos Martinez, (formerly) of KUNM Alberquerque, hosts A Tale of Two Countries, from Mexico to US: In "Sasabe," a Sonora, Mexico border town, Scott Carrier talks to immigrants on their hazardous, illegal desert crossing, and to the border patrol waiting for them in Sasabe, Arizona. Luis Alberto Urrea reads from "The Devil"s Highway," his book about death in the desert. Guillermo Gomez-Pena imagines "Maquiladoras of the Future," fantasy border factories. "And I walked...", by Ann Heppermann...
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Mon, Jan 16
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Shortcuts 2011
Speeches, songs, events, and people who past last year: We hear Queen Elizabeth, Occupy Wall Street, The Arab Spring, Osama Bin-Laden's death, Japan's nuclear accidents, North East floods, Texas fires, GOP presidential candidates, Michael Moore, and Charlie Sheen. Music includes: PJ Harvey, Ry Cooder, Fleet Foxes, Bright Eyes, The Coasters, John Barry. Tributes to: Steve Jobs, Jerry Leiber, Andy Rooney, Joe Frasier, Gil Scott Heron, Hubert Sumlin, Wild Man Fischer, Amy Winehouse, Clarence...
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Mon, Jan 9
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Polk Street Stories
An oral history of San Francisco's premiere queer neighborhood, told by those who've called it home: Public Historian Joey Plaster spent a year gathering 70+ interviews from people experiencing Polk Street's transition from a working class queer neighborhood to an upscale entertainment district. Polk Street's scene predates the modern gay rights movement. It was a world unto itself, ten blocks of low rent hotels, bars and liquor stores, all sandwiched in between the gritty Tenderloin, City...
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Mon, Jan 2
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Prime Candidates
Politicians who fancy themselves president tromp thru the New Hampshire mill town of "Claremont," produced by Larry Massett, Art Silverman and Betty Rogers. The media spin myths out of misquotes in "Democracy and Things Like That" by Sarah Vowell and This American Life. The Language Removal Service concocts the world's first wordless political debate in their "California Recall Project." And all this years primary losers re-appear in "Super Tuesday Mixdown," from Peter Bochan's series...
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Mon, Dec 26 2011
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HannukahCristmashup
Christmas at a Bagram Air Base hospital, Afghanistan; a tour of the Holy Land, Hannukah military history; a visit to a toy store; and musical Chrismashups.
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Mon, Dec 19 2011
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Prisoners of War
In December 1944 the Allies were closing in on Germany. HHitler had a desperate plan to save the Third Reich, a massive assault he believed would so demoralize that the Allies, they would seek a separate peace, leaving only the Russian army on the eastern front. On December 16 the Germans unleashed an offensive that would become the most brutal battle of the European war: the Battle of the Bulge. Nineteen thousand Americans were killed, about the same number were taken prisoner. We hear from...
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Wed, Dec 14 2011
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Behind the Beat
Music makers on making music: French vocalist Camille, Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista, a Hidden Kitchen at a Mozart Festival, and a high school sax player with immigration issues. Stories from the Kitchen Sisters, Long Haul Productions and the series Musicians in Their Own Words
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Mon, Dec 5 2011
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Portrait of a Plague
Sister Agnes Ramashiga's Radio Diaries of "Just Another Day At the World's Biggest Hospital," Soweto — 2000 patients check in daily, half HIV positive. A teenager documents her HIV "Positive Life- Tanya," by American RadioWorks. Poet Lisa Buscani is "Counting" on her mom's health advice. "And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary" is Laura Kaminsky's compositon for viola, cello, piano, and stories of Tamakloe: warrior, tailor, AIDS victim. Life-saving meds brought Krandall Kraus back from the...
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Mon, Nov 28 2011
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Inside the Adoption Circle
First-person voices from all sides of adoption. Stories about living with questions and searching for answers. We hear from birth families (mothers, siblings and a father), adoptees (both kids and adults), and various adoptive families including open adoption and international adoption (China). Producers for Transom.org by Samantha Broun and Viki Merrick with help from Jay Allison.
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Mon, Nov 21 2011
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Joe Frank
An hour under the influence of radio maestro and master storyteller Joe Frank, featuring many of Joe's sonic co-conspirators, including David Cross (Fox "Arrested Development"), Laura Esterman (ZBS "Ruby"), Larry Block (PBS "Sesame Street"), and Grace Zabriskie ("Twn Peaks," HBO "Big Love"). Deep and dark does not begin to describe the solitary, ponderous melancholia that is a Joe Frank story.
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Mon, Nov 14 2011
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Veteran's Day
Voices from the Armed Forces: "Project Healing Waters" teaches wounded warriors, including amputees, to fly-fish; we spend a day catching trout at Rose River Farm in Virginia. "Operation Homecoming" is an NEA book project featuring writings and readings by vets returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. "Winter Soldiers" is testimony by soldiers and marines at the Iraq Veterans Against the War hearings. "Swords to Plowshares" follows a member of the Farmer-Veteran Coalition: farmers...
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Mon, Nov 7 2011
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City of Angels
Joe Frank talk to a homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles. David Greenberger visits Senior Centers in East LA. Pastor Michael Cummings patrols the grounds of at Jordan High School, Watts, California. And we hear excerpts from Tom Russell's "Hotwalker," an Americana ode to old LA, the music and the culture, with beat outsiders, religious revivals, and L.A. poet Charles Bukowski.
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Mon, Oct 31 2011
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Bloody Hell
An hour of horror for All Hallows' Eve, the first half is bloody, the second goes to hell: ESP, dreams and intuition drip "Blood on the Pulpit" by David Greenberger. La Llorona, the crying woman, is Mexico's bogeyman. ZBS adapts Cherokee writer Craig Strete's "The Bleeding Man." FM Einheit delves in Dante's DivineComedy in a "Radio Inferno." A woman narrates her found-sound trip to hell with Jesus. Shel Silverstein introduces us to "Monsters I've Met." And the 90 Second Cellphone Chillin'...
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