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What We're Listening To:
Here you'll find a new documentary or feature presented every two weeks, along
with a "Behind the Scenes" interview with its producer, and other bits of
information about the piece.
You'll also find a wealth of audio to listen to in the archives of our past
features. And in case you're wondering what else might be out there awaiting
your ears, we also compile an ever-growing list
of links to some of our favorite audio-related sites, which are filled
with sound, stories and useful information.
If you'd like to broadcast or podcast any of the
documentaries on this site, you must obtain rights from the producer.
Contact us for more information.
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Third Coast Festival Featurecast.
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Current Feature:
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Meat Factory Ear Worms
By Richie Beirne
Edited by Ronan Kelly
You know how sometimes you just can't get a song out of your head? Radio producer Richie Beirne can sympathize. Before finding the airwaves, he worked on the killing lines in meat factories around Ireland, and was plagued by a few "ear worms" that he just couldn't chase away. Now those songs vividly represent a certain time in his life, and as far as he can tell - they always will.
Meat Factory Ear Worms aired on RTE Radio 1, on The Curious Ear.
Featured songs:
"I Useta Love Her", The Saw Doctors
"Bright Eyes", Simon & Garfunkel
"Vincent", Don McLean
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Meat Factory Earworm by Richie Beirne
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Read more about Richie's journey from meat factory worker to radio producer, and the universality of earworms, Behind the Scenes. |
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Recent Feature:
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Wait for the Beep:
Stories Inspired by Telephones and the Messages People Leave behind Behind
Curated by the Third Coast Festival in collaboration with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Imagine this scenario: A cell phone rings and the owner is no where in sight…so you pick it up. The screen reveals that there are unheard messages and, driven by curiosity, you listen to them. What unfolds is a mini drama, dripping with the familiar themes of love, revenge, loneliness, betrayal. Could this happen? Maybe, but what you’re listening to is one of five cell phone “plays” recently commissioned by the Third Coast Festival.
How did the cell phone plays come to be?
In early 2008, Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago invited the Third Coast Festival to work with audio
producers to create audio “plays” for cell phones based on a simple premise - that a series of phone messages can tell a story, and reveal strange and
interesting details about the phone owner’s life.
The invitation was directly inspired by Steppenwolf's production of the darkly humorous "Dead Man’s
Cell Phone," by Pulitzer finalist Sarah Ruhl. Three of the commissioned cell phone plays are currently featured as
an audio installation in the Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre lobby, the other two were presented at a Third Coast
Festival Listening Room on April 9th.
They are all here for your listening pleasure, because who doesn’t enjoy a little bit of eavesdropping now and then?
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Weird Little Plan by Hillary Frank
A revenge plot goes awry when a woman ropes in her estranged best friend. |
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Take me Out by Carma Jolly
This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?" |
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Debt Collector by Roman Mars
A sci-fi melodrama about the abusive relationship between debt collector and collectee. |
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Baggage by Sue Mell
On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth¹s loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her brand new marriage might be a mistake. |
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Scrape written by Dave Urlakis and produced by Michael Slaboch
An up-and-coming executive and his car have a very bad day. |
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Read about the producers and find out what inspired them to create these mysterious phone plays Behind the Scenes.
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