October 28, 2006 - The Pledge Drive Show

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October 21 , 2006 (#59) - The Haunting Show

Haunting the Quabbin
Sean Cole - Independent Producer

A sound portrait of living history: four small towns in central Massachusetts that were evacuated, flattened, and then flooded to create the biggest drinking reservoir of its day. Though the evacuation began seventy years ago, the people who lived in the towns have clear, sometimes bitter memories of the event that took away their homes, schools, and essentially, life as they knew it. (Inside Out, 2005)

Elijah Haunt
Carolina Wheat - Sound Artist

Carolina Wheat is interested in the question of the body's demise and the soul's freedom. In search of answers, she spoke to someone whose ability to tackle questions of such gravity has not yet been impaired by things like reality and cynicism...her young son.

Featured Music:

Shogun Kunitoki, "Piste", Tasankokaiku (Fonal, 2006)
Chihei Hatakeyama, "Bonfire on the Field", Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
Chihei Hatakeyama, "Inside the Pocket", MInima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
Chihei Hatakeyama, "Toward a Tranquil Marsh" (Kranky, 2006)
Shogun Kunitoki, "Levionan", Tasankokaiku (Fonal, 2006)
Architecture in Helsinki, "The Cemetery", In Case We Die (Bar/None, 2005)

Extras:

Check out "Exodus '47", another one of Sean Cole's outstanding documentaries from the Inside Out series.

October 14 , 2006 (#37) - The X meets Y Show
Originally broadcast July 17, 2005

From Brooklyn to Banja Luka
Dheera Sujan- Producer, Radio Netherlands

Jonathan is a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn. He has a typically New York loudness, and he’s flamboyant, musical and pretty good with languages. Dragana is a nice Serbian girl from Bosnia. She is prone to the occasional Slavic melancholy, but is also generally loud, musical, and pretty good with languages. They live in Holland, a small and sober country that, at first glance doesn’t seem suited to either temperament This is the story of theirr improbable romance. (Radio Netherlands , 2005)

Jack & Olive
Jill Dorothy Summers- Artist, Writer, Musician
David Whitcomb- Engineer

On a brisk day in October, the busty Apricot Wensleydale hides from her three grown children, Olive Orange sneaks beef broth into her husband's vegan couscous, Jacob Witherby reads aloud to a family of lost ghosts, and two Argentinean ants fall in love. These are the radio-play inspired vignettes that make up the collection "Cohabitation.” This is the tale of Jack and Olive, two of the inhabitants of Jill Summers’ fictional greystone in Chicago rendered in text, sound, video, original music and assemblage.

Glasnost
Alla Pekareva- Producer, outLoud
Noah Miller- Director, outLoud

The obstacles to young love are endless, but by far the A-number-one, top of the heap, alpha dog impediment to such romance has to be, mom and dad. And when you’re gay and your mom says to you at the age of 12, “If you ever become a lesbian I’ll curse the day you were born,” it’s especially hard. (outLoud Youth Training Program, 2005)

Featured Music:

Lucky Pierre, "Bedwomb," Hypnogogia (Melodic UK, 2004)
CocoRosie, "Noah's Ark," Noah's Ark (Touch & Go, 2005)
Richard Cheese, "Fell in Love With a Girl," Tuxicity (Ideatown, 2002)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Modern Romance," Fever to Tell (Interscope, 2003)
Bloc Party, "This Modern Love," Silent Alarm (Vice, 2005)

Extras:

Learn more about outLoud queer youth radio.

Check out "Apricot Wensleydale" another story from Jill Dorothy Summers' Cohabitation on Re:sound 29.

October 7, 2006 (#58)- The 20 Years Out! Show

Twenty Years Out!
Gareth Watkins - Program Director, Access Radio in Wellington, NZ

This week we feature a story of the bitter fight for gay rights in New Zealand. Twenty years ago, a bill supporting homosexual law reform was introduced in the NZ legislature. It aimed to decriminalize sexual acts between consenting men over the age of 16 and to make it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation. The struggle over the bill pitted vehement anti-reform politicians and crusaders against gay and lesbian activists in a vitriolic fight that lasted for months. Producer Gareth Watkins found rare archival tape of the speeches, rallies, and debates that marked this struggle, and put them together with the personal stories of people affected by the fight. The result is an amazing portrait of the movement as told by those who lived through it.

(We are unable to archive this program online, but we've provided a link to the Radio New Zealand website down below. Visit the site to hear excerpts of the piece and learn more about the history of gay rights in New Zealand.)

Interview with Gareth Watkins

Re:sound host Gwen Macsai talks with the producer of Twenty Years Out about historical memory, archival footage, and how the cultural climate in New Zealand has changed in recent years.

Featured Music

E*Vax, “The Process of Leaving,” Parking Lot Music (Audio Dregs Music, 2001)
The Boats, from We Made It For You (Moteer, 2004)

Extras

Visit the Radio New Zealand website, listen to "Twenty Years Out!", and learn more about the struggle for gay rights in NZ.