November 25, 2006 - The 2006 Third Coast Festival Broadcast (Part 1)

This week we're airing the first half of the 2006 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the festival's winning documentaries. The show is hosted by Alex Kotlowitz and you can find out more about it here.

November 18 , 2006 (#34)- The Bollywood Show
Originally aired December 17, 2005

Dream Factory Worker
Simon Morton- Producer

India churns out over 800 films a year, around half of them from the Hindi film factory of Bombay (Mumbai), universally known as "Bollywood." The films are renowned for their over the top, colorful escapism filled with musical interludes involving hundreds of extras. Radio New Zealand producer Simon Morton travels to Mumbai and embarks on a personal mission to achieve celluloid eternity as one of those extras.

Featured Music

Shawn Lee , “Bollywood,” Music and Rhythm (Ubiquity Recording, 2004)
Don Shiva, "Dake Dake," Bollywood Lounge (Blue Flame, 2003)

November 11 , 2006 (#60) - The Seeking Show

Untitled
Benjamen Walker- Independent Producer

In the search for enlightenment, there probably isn't a more desperate, dark (or funny) story than this one. As a teenager, Walker bounced from congregation to congregation (Baptist to Lutheran to the First Church of Jesus Christ, Astrophysicist), dragged along by his spiritually lost mother. This piece, which falls somewhere between fact and fiction, originally aired on Walker's old show, Your Radio Nightlight.

New Violet Flame
Brenda Hutchinson- Sound Artist

When Brenda Hutchinson's sister joined The Church of the Universal and Triumphant in rural Montana, Hutchinson got a little nervous because she didn't know very much about the isolated congregation. So she decided to visit, and spent three months living in the community and documenting her experience.

Minister
Joe Frank- Independent Producer

Joe Frank, master of late night radio, assembled this piece: a phone conversation between himself and a cranky minister.

Featured Music:

Melodium, "You Can't Help Me", Music for Invisible People (Autres Directions in Music, 2006)
A Small Good Thing, "Saloon Dreams", Slim Westerns (The Leaf Label, 2002)
Melodium, "My Xylophone Loves Me", Music for Invisible People (Autres Directions in Music, 2006)
Melodium, "You're Gone", Music for Invisible People (Autres Directions in Music, 2006)
Melodium, "Saturday Morning", Music for Invisible People (Autres Directions in Music, 2006)

Extras:

Learn more about Brenda Hutchinson's sound art.

Listen to more of Benjamen Walker's work in our audio library.

November 4 , 2006 (#36) - The Dad Show
Originally aired January 14, 2006

Family Sentence
Jeanine Cornillot- Independent Producer
Viki Merrick- Producer, transom.org

"My Dad spent 23 years in prison. He started off as a Cuban revolutionary and later ended up a convicted felon. We only talked once in the last 16 years. Then out of the blue I got an email from him. He wrote: 'I'm home. Your biological father, Hector.'" So begins the story of Hector Cornillot and his daughter, Jeanine, who went to meet her father after all those years of silence. It is the story of a woman, a daughter, asking the unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable questions of a child whose father disappeared into a prison decades ago. Family Sentence bears witness to the fraying facade and stunning honesty of a failed revolutionary and father. This is the story of their relationship, forged in the imagination and built on disappointment and hope. (transom.org, 2005)

My Incredible Shrinking Father
Jesse Brown- Writer, Independent Producer
Karen Levine- Producer, The Sunday Edition

When Jesse tells people that his father is a psychiatrist, they typically raise their eyebrows and say, "Oh. So that explains it." It's often assumed that therapists' children spend their early years functioning as research subjects. The truth is, the most remarkable thing about Jesse's experience growing up the son of a psychiatrist is that he has very little to remark on it. So Jesse went to a convention of the American Psychiatric Association to try to understand psychiatry in general and his father in particular. (The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio 1, 2004)

Mauthausen
Gwen Macsai- Re:sound host

On the 50th anniversary of her father's liberation from the Nazis, Gwen attempts to reconcile the strange little man who loves to call her up and tell her his newest dirty joke with the boy who spent his teen years in the Mauthausen concentration camp. (NPR's Morning Edition, 1995)

Featured Music:

Slowly Minute, "Light of people and the song of the earth." Tomorrow World (Bubble Core, 2005)
Luc, "P.P.C." peaofthesea (Aagoo Records, 2005)
Colleen, "Ritournelle," Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf, 2003)
Colleen, " Your Heart On Your Sleeve," Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf, 2003)