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April 28 , 2007 (#69)- The Falling Show
Note! Due to some broadcasting rights issues, we're unable to offer this week's show for streaming online. Check back soon...
Falling: Part 1 and Part 2
Annie Hastwell- Producer
Michele Goldsworthy- Engineer
There are lots of ways to fall. There's the adrenaline junkie, laugh-in-the-face-of-danger way: as in, tightrope walking, rock climbing, or sky diving. And then there's the terrifying, I-was-just-minding-my-own-business and the ground gave way kind of fall. We have tales of both: in part one, a routine jump by an experienced skydiver takes a horrifying turn. And in part two, a tiny snake hole in the ground turns out to be not so tiny, and not a snake hole. Both stories come from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Street Stories.
The Fall
Matt Price and Kent Hoffman
Matt Price took up rock climbing in order to conquer his fear of heights. And a serious fall changed his life in some unimaginable ways. This story comes from a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program called Outfront.
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Listen to more Outfront, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. |
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Learn more about Street Stories, from the ABC. |
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April 21 , 2006 (#49)- The Lemon Tree Show
Originally broadcast June 3, 2006
The Lemon Tree
Sandy Tolan- Producer
Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Three months later, six-month-old Dalia, whose Bulgarian family had survived the Holocaust, arrived by boat in the new nation of Israel. Two decades later Bashir crossed the threshold of his old house and rang the bell. Dalia answered.
Interview with Sandy Tolan
The producer and author of The Lemon Tree talks about meeting Bashir and Dalia and why his brilliant documentary needed to be expanded into a book.
Featured Music
Sickoakes, "Wedding Rings & Bullets in the Same Golden Shrine," Seawards (Type, 2006)
Balun, "A Surprise," Something Comes Our Way (Brilliante, 2006)
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Buy the book The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East |
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April 14 , 2007 (#68)- The Podcast Show
Unintended Detours: Episode #1 Shelf Life
Sue Mell- Independent Producer
A sound-rich and beautifully constructed podcast about the distances we travel in life: literal or metaphorical, enthusiastically or against our will. Stories of obstacles and diversions--the places we long to get to and where we actually end up. (Unintended Detours, 2007)
Theory of Everything: Dear IRS
Benjamen Walker- Independent Producer
The podcast Theory of Everything attempts to unify it all: news, conspiracy theory, fiction, story-telling, drama, and intimate telephone conversations. Host Benjamen Walker explores our world that, now more than ever, seems both real and unreal. "These days the news sounds like a conspiracy theory," says Walker, "and bloggers promote their own version of events. Objective reportage isn't working! So I'm pioneering 'investigative fiction,' in which a mix of formats-from interviews to radio drama-will reveal the Truth about the world." (Theory of Everything, 2005)
The Obscure News: Anatomy of a Punch, parts 1 &2
Lloyd Broadnax King- Independent Producer, Musician
The Obscure News podcast claims to feature "all the news the networks omitted." Dedicated to redeeming the ordinary, TON is a chorus of anonymous voices telling those weird little anecdotes that are born every day. (The Obscure News , 2007)
Tin Man: Episode #3
Matt Sahr (aka Pferdzwackur)- Independent Producer
Part Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, part absurdist radio theater and part anti-corporate musical, this twenty-episode podcast follows the Tin Man (but not necessarily the one you're thinking of) on a bizarre and venturesome journey through landscapes familiar and unknown. (Tin Man, 2006)
Catalogue of Ships: Florida Recount Poker
Michael Kraskin - Producer, Sound Designer
David Terry - Writer
Taking its name from the infamous passage in the Iliad where Homer uses over 300 lines to list all the ships in the Greek fleet which sailed to Troy, Catalogue of Ships is about the human attempt to find meaning in the tedious, list-like, largely plot-less world of the everyday. Part theatre, part radio and all original, performer/writer David Terry and composer/sound designer Michael Kraskin produce a series of strange, sound-rich stories that give podcasts a good name. ( Catalogue of Ships, 2007)
Featured Music:
Xela, "Japanese Whispers," For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights (Type, 2007)
Roads to Space Travel, "1001110," Roads to Space Travel (Amish, 1998)
Tonetraeger, "I'm OK ," This Is Not Here (Quatermass, 2004)
Tonetraeger, "Trains," This Is Not Here (Quatermass, 2004)
Tonetraeger, "Minekos Getas ," This Is Not Here (Quatermass, 2004)
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Subscribe to Sue Mell's Unintended Detours. |
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Subscribe to Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything. |
| Check out an interview and more audio in Third Coast's feature on Theory of Everything |
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Subscribe to LLoyd B. King's The Obscure News. |
| Check out an interview and more audio in Third Coast's feature on The Obscure News. |
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Subscribe to Matt Sahr's Tin Man. |
| Check out an interview and more audio in Third Coast's feature on Tin Man . |
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Subscribe to Michael Kraskin and David Terry's Catalogue of Ships. |
| Check out an interview and more audio in Third Coast's feature on Catalogue of Ships. |
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April 7 , 2007 (#47)- The Nosce te Ipsum Show
Originally Broadcast (sort of) May 13, 2006
Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen
Roman Mars - Producer, KALW
Growing up in the south, writer A. H. Weatherman regularly competed in beauty pageants. She remembers them vividly: the mothers were terrifying, the costumes uncomfortable, and the pageants themselves unforgettable...for all the wrong reasons. ( Invisible Ink, 2004)
Live from The Moth: 'Til Death or Homosexuality Do Us Part**
Cindy Chupack- Comedy Writer
Socrates said, "an examined life is not worth living," but Cindy Chupack can tell you that an exmined life ain't so pretty either. She told her story live on the Moth mainstage, where each show has a theme and features 5 or 6 storytellers who tell a ten-minute story. The stories are true stories from the storytellers' lives and they must be told live, without notes. The Moth Story Tour is coming through Chicago, see details below. Cindy Chupack was a writer/executive producer on HBO's Sex and the City and is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Between Boyfriends Book: A Collection of Cautiously Hopeful Essays." Cindy is currently writing a sex and romance column for O, The Oprah Magazine, which debuts in the August issue.
Obsession
Catalina Puente- Rookie Reporter
Czerina Patel- Senior Producer, Radio Rookies
Miguel Macias- Producer, Radio Rookies
We’re all obsessed about something. Some of us, many things. Some of us, when we were Teenagers, many many many things. Catalina Puente is a sophomore in high school and in her story, she lets us in on an obsession that almost ruined her life. (Radio Rookies, 2005)
Featured Music:
Melodium, “Untitled 5 ,” Hum Hum & Bla Bla EP (Autres Directions in Music, 2005)
Aesop Rock, "No Regrets," Labor Days (Definitive Jux, 2001)
Chihei Hatakeyama, "Towards a Tranquil Marsh ," Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
Dug, "New Tazwell," JD Wenceslas (Anticon, 2005)
Dug, "Tough Room ," JD Wenceslas (Anticon, 2005)
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**Check it Out:
Third Coast Festival approved fun!
The Moth Story Tour
"Out on a Limb: Stories from the Edge" in Chicago!
Thursday, April 12
at Metro
3730 N. Clark Street (Two blocks North of Wrigley Field)
Doors open at 7pm
Stories start on stage at 8pm
$18 Tickets available now at Ticketmaster
Hosted by
Andy Borowitz (humorist, The New Yorker, CNN)
Featuring stories by
Jonathan Ames (author, Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man, recurring guest, The Late Show with David Letterman), Darryl "DMC" McDaniels (rap artist, RUN DMC), Amy Dickinson (columnist, Ask Amy, The Chicago Tribune), Greg Walloch (comedian, White Disabled Talent, contributor Studio 360), Jon Langford and other special guests. |
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