Title

Re:sound #148 The Buying and Selling Show
Produced
Multiple producers

Presented

TCF/WBEZ 91.5, USA, 2011
Collection
Re:sound
Tags
First Person, Money
Moneychanginghands
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Story

This hour: selling, swapping, buying and trading.

Selling the U.S., One Inch at a Time 
by Rebecca Sheir (Alaska Public Radio, 2007)
For a mere $3.95 you can own a piece of America.

The Auctioneer
by Ned Sublette (New American Radio, 1989)
Some people are natural salesmen (and women). For the rest of us there is a place where, if you want to sell lots of stuff to lots of people really, really fast, you can learn how.

Open Outcry
by Ben Rubin (The World Financial Center, 2002)
In the last 10 years or so, the once chaotic and loud New York Mercantile Exchange has gone quiet -- the screaming traders of yore have now mostly been replaced by computers. Luckily, the sound of “open-outcry” trading was captured by media artist Ben Rubin for a sound installation he did at The World Finnacial Center's Winter Garden in 2002. 

The Swap Shop
by Dan Collision & Elizabeth Meister (Long Haul Productions, 2006)
For more than 60 years the people of northwest Tennessee have been selling and swapping everything (including the kitchen sink) on a radio show called The Swap Shop.

Producer

This episode of Re:sound was produced by Katie Mingle.

Extra

Links:

Check out New American Radio's amazing archive of experimental radio stories.

Read (and hear) more about what media artist Ben Rubin is up to, at his website. Also, read an interview with Ben Rubin about Open Outcry by going here and clicking on EXTRA.

Hear more cool stories from Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, including a recent collaboration with musician Bonnie Prince Billy.

Music:

Four Tet, "Glue of the World", Pause, (Domino 2001)

Koushik, "Battle Rhymes for Battle Times," Late Night Tales, (Azuli Records, 2004)

Four Tet, "This Unfolds," There is Love in You, (Domino, 2010)

Gonzales, "Chilly in F Minor," Gonzales Uber Alles, (Efa Imports, 2000)

Rodd Keith, "No Money Down Blues"

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