Part two of this two-hour tribute to Jean Shepherd, "A Voice in the Night." Marshall McLuhan called him "the first radio novelist." From 1956-1977 Shep spun his late night stories over WOR radio, New York City. PBS gave him a TV series, "Jean Shepherd's America." [...]
Jean Shepherd used words like a jazz musician uses notes, winding around a theme, playing with variations, sending fresh self-reflective storylines out into the night. Marshall McLuhan called Shepherd "the first radio novelist." From 1956-1977 Shep spun his late night stories over WOR radio, New [...]
Tibet and Nepal: Walking a circuit alongside pilgrims, yaks and yogis, host Scott Carrier treks one of the world's most venerated -- and least visited -- holy sites, "Mount Kailash: Cricling the Center of Creation." And we climb to the Nepalese town of "Siklis," going [...]
Musician Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, K Records) hosts train tales: An existential interaction with an automated Amtrak voice. The Kronos Quartet plays Steve Reich's "Different Trains." Singer Jules Shear recalls an on-board performance. A Sound Portrait of a Pullman Porter. A track-hopping hobo named Short [...]
Biking & Mic-ing the Lewis & Clark Trail; part two, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean: Barrett Golding and Josef Verbanac, a radio producer and an English professor, a Jew and a Sioux, bicycle from mountains to the sea, looking for hidden [...]
Biking & Mic-ing the Lewis & Clark Trail; part one, up the Missouri River into the Rocky Mountains: Barrett Golding and Josef Verbanac, a radio producer and an English professor, a Jew and a Souix, bicycle from Missouri to Montana, enduring floods, war, worms, mud, [...]
Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land: "Waking Up" from a nightmare in a city split by three religions, as dreamt by an Jewish soldier, an Arab bomber, and a Mississippi minister; from Joe Frank's hour Time's Arrow. And "The Lemon Tree," on the property [...]
A Tour of the River Towns: Hannibal, Missouri, birthplace of Mark Twain; a day on a tugboat; St. Louis showboats; and changing the course of mighty rivers. A downstream trip through the history and mystery of the Big Muddy, with Larry Massett and Scott [...]
Radio stories about radio, then stories about radio stories: Jake Warga paints sound-portraits of "Urbana FM" in Uruguay and "Radio Gondor" in Ethiopia. The ShortWaveMusic blog records "Duelling Transmitters." Larry Masett interviews the "Language Removal Services." Recordist Steve McGreevey captures the solar sounds of space [...]
Obscure tours and offbeat retreats thru Americana: Filmmaker Tony Buba takes the Long Haul Productions team around his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once thriving steel town, now one-tenth the town it was in population. Scott Carrier transports visiting Tibetan monks around the U.S. West. [...] |
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