NPR: Hearing Voices Podcast
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Are you Hearing Voices? Well, you ain't heard nuthin' yet. Hearing Voices from NPR is a weekly sixty-minute stream of "driveway moments" all connected by a theme; the best stories, sound-portraits, slam poets, docs, dramas, features, and found-sound.
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To War
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
We get out of one conflict and into another. "Goodbye to Saigon" chroncicles the day of the last US flights out of the Vietnam War, narrated by Noah Adams and produced by Art Silverman. And Scott Carrier travels the country in early 2003 asking people "Are You Ready?" for war.
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To War
Sun, Nov 22, 2009
We get out of one conflict and into another. "Goodbye to Saigon" chroncicles the day of the last US flights out of the Vietnam War, narrated by Noah Adams and produced by Art Silverman. And Scott Carrier travels the country in early 2003 asking people "Are You Ready?" for war.
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Small Town
Sun, Nov 15, 2009
Spending time in some shrinking rural American townships: The postmistress of "Tomato, Arkansas" describes her community's dwindling population. "X-Town" is four former Massachusetts municipalities, now flooded to make room for a reservoir. "Slab City" in California never did exist, though it's full of folk who live there. And little Talcott, West Virginia has a big claim to fame as home of "The Legend of John Henry: Steel Drivin' Man."
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Veteran's Day
Sun, Nov 08, 2009
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 helping veterans helping farmers. And the last Vet we hear is from Afghanistan; he's a former Taliban.
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Bloody Hell
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
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' Theater wonders what's in "The Box."
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Home Team
Sun, Oct 25, 2009
For the weeks leading to the World Series, baseball stories from the Public Radio Hall of Fame: Host Gwen Macsai takes a swing at singing the National Anthem. Composer Phillip Kent Bimstein plays ball with the St. Louis Cardinals' "Bushy Wushy Beer Man." Barrett Golding spends a season with the Rookie League. Singer/playwright Terry Allen defines the many meanings of Dug-Out, amid the emerging early 1890s sport of professional baseball.
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Predator
Sun, Oct 18, 2009
For hunting season: Hillary Frank's tale of a teenage babysitter who's siblings think he's a werewolf. Mark Allen fears a toy poodle — the most evil entity known to man. Matmos mixes music with North American Mammals. Long Haul Productions witness a PA Spillway, where tourists toss bread, and the carp amass so thickly that ducks walk the fish's backs for a slice. Norman Strung demonstrates the shrill sound and thrill found in calling for elk. A father and son provide a hunter's perspective of the annual deer breeding cycle. And Alex Chadwick visits hunts wildlife and the wild life in Idaho.
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Tony Schwartz
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
Tony Schwartz, media pioneer, audio documentarian, and the most famous radio person you probably never heard of, died June 2008. We hear The Kitchen Sisters Lost and Found Sound-portrait, "Tony Schwartz, 30,000 Recordings Later," and the Tony Schwartz-inspired verite documentary of the town he lived in and loved, "New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places."
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Tony Schwartz
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
Tony Schwartz, media pioneer, audio documentarian, and the most famous radio person you probably never heard of, died June 2008. We hear The Kitchen Sisters Lost and Found Sound-portrait, "Tony Schwartz, 30,000 Recordings Later," and the Tony Schwartz-inspired verite documentary of the town he lived in and loved, "New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places."
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Caregiver
Sun, Oct 04, 2009
"Bad Teeth at King Drew Dental Clinic" by Ayala Ben-Yehuda: the Dental Divide, South L.A.'s clinic of last resort. "The Breast Cancer Monologues- Three Woman" by Dmae Roberts: surviving breast cancer, perspectives of a Chicana, African America and Romanian immigrant. "A Square Meal, Regardless" by Jennifer Nathan: Two old friends caring for each other into old age. "Dialysis" by Joe Frank: kidney failure and a friend indeed. "Hospice Chronicles" (excerpt) by Long Haul Productions: Volunteer Bettie's first patient. "The Person I Admire Most" by Jake Warga: A day with Jenafir in Ethiopia, trying to save the world.
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