Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
The Big Night
Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.
- 2002
- 13:57
- Jonathan Goldstein
New Orleans' Hurricane Risk
In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America's gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane.
- 2002
- 20:05
- Daniel Zwerdling
Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again (INC)
Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, otherwise known as the Books, incorporate an array of sound fragments and miniature stories into their music. The results are part songs, part "documentary vignettes" -- an original approach to making both documentary audio and music.
- 2002
- 0
- The Books
Ali Farka Toure: Country Gentleman (INC)
Mali's acclaimed guitarist Ali Farka Toure announced during his summer 2000 tour of America that he was retiring back to a farm in Niafunke, his home village in the Saharan desert. This is the portrait of a successful musician embracing a new direction in his life.
- 2002
- 0
- Marco Werman
There Is in the Soul a Desire for Not Thinking: The Double Life of Raymond Carver (INC)
Austrian radio documentarian Alfred Koch produced this story about seminal American author Raymond Carver.
- 2002
- 0
- Alfred Koch
Our Day Will Come
Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music.
- 2002
- 59:07
- Lex Gillespie
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck.
- 2002
- 25:58
- Brenda Hutchinson
Mind, Body, Soul
An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible.
- 2002
- 14:02
- Gregory Whitehead
Ice Music
What if sounds could be frozen into ice cubes, then released upon their melting? Everyday movements and actions might become rich musical performances...
- 2002
- 02:28
- Gregory Whitehead
Marinade a la Tete
A cerebral yet refreshing exploration into the question "where do creative ideas come from?"
- 2002
- 04:02
- Gregory Whitehead
Brain Mash
How to create a human brain -- from a bowl of mashed potatoes.
- 2002
- 03:38
- Gregory Whitehead
A Voice of Warning
A heroin overdose left Jade Bell blind, mute and unable to care for himself. Now Bell tours high schools in British Columbia, where his computerized "voice" speaks a loud warning to thousands of students.
- 2002
- 14:31
- Anne Penman
- Trisha Wilson
Peggy Lee Appreciation
A huge Peggy Lee fan, producer Karen Michel has produced five features about this singer, songwriter, and arranger.
- 2002
- 08:16
- Karen Michel
Sound Design From Hell
Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene.
- 2002
- 05:47
- Jonathan Mitchell
Postcards From a Fanatic Reactionary Pedestrian
What is a fanatic reactionary pedestrian? How does one get to be this way?
- 2002
- 17:53
- Abner Serd
Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis lived to be over 100 years old. She realized in her teens that she was gay but she didn't talk much about it then.
- 2002
- 09:16
- Neenah Ellis
What's That in My Underwear? First Period Stories
From summer camp woes to blissful recognitions of womanhood, this feature on menstruation explores what it's really like to "become a woman."
- 2002
- 10:32
- Arielle Adams
Hollister
Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake.
- 2002
- 15:20
- Helen Borten
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two.
- 2002
- 26:35
- Dmae Roberts
The Best of Ideas: Petula Clark
Many people know of pianist Glenn Gould's unique and somewhat maverick contributions to the classical music world.
- 2002
- 29:38
- Glenn Gould
Steve the Baker
"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand.
- 2002
- 05:10
- David Welch
Hard-Hearted Hannah
Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hoose describes growing up as a part of her family's folk band, with all its healthy snacks, archetypal psychodramas, and oddly compelling songs.
- 2002
- 08:26
- Joni Murphy
Fez, Morocco: A Journey in Sound
When you stroll through the maze of streets in Fez, Morocco, it's as if you are walking back in time.
- 2002
- 12:43
- Jim Metzner
Electronic Samples Cut-Up
A few years ago, Mark Vernon bought a pile of old reel-to-reel audio tapes at a boot sale (think yard sale, but in the trunks of cars) near his hometown of Derby, England.
- 2002
- 02:14
- Mark Vernon