Stories

Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (INC)

One hundred years ago, shipboard technicians listening for Morse code messages on their newly installed wireless telegraphs heard something incredible: music.

2007
0
Nate DiMeo

The Ashes of Oakridge

A wildfire swept through Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, California in November 2008, destroying more homes, and displacing more families, than any California blaze in decades.

Re:sound #5: The Remedial Silence Show

This hour: a man hand-delivers reading material to a war criminal, two people who've never spoken fall in love, and more.

Re:sound #10: The Suitcase Show

This hour: a mysterious suitcase, basement bhangra, and more.

Re:sound #22: The Fish Story Show

This hour: a beached whale in Maine, a conversation with the "real" Darth Vader, school kids deconstruct the work of one of America's most difficult poets, and more.

Re:sound #35: The Dad Show

This hour: Dads. The good, the bad, and the complicated.

Re:sound #41: The Dry vs. the Moist Show

This hour: the captivating results of a transcontinental radio collaboration.

Re:sound #46: The Lemon Tree Show

This hour: two decades after he was forced to flee, a young Palestinian man returns to his home to meet the Israeli woman who lives there now.

2006
58:31
Sandy Tolan
Roman Mars

The Lemon Tree

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.

1998
41:23
Sandy Tolan

Re:sound #49: The Stans Show

This hour: a group of tourists travels through Central Asia, where antics and misbehavior ensue.

2006
58:31
Ben Adair
Roman Mars

Re:sound #53: The MBK Show

This hour: two stories by Mary Beth Kirchner.

Re:sound #55: The Twenty Years Out! Show

This hour: a story about the bitter fight for gay rights in New Zealand, featuring a blend of rare archival tape of the speeches, rallies, and debates that marked the struggle and the personal stories of people affected by the fight.

Re:sound #56: The Haunting Show

This hour: the story of four small towns that were evacuated and flooded to create one of the biggest reservoirs of drinking water on the east coast.

Re:sound #57: The Seeking Show

This hour: spiritual loss and pursuit, an isolated religious community in rural Montana, a grumpy minister, and more.

Re:sound #58: The 99 Ways Show

This hour: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story, an audio experiment orchestrated by the Third Coast Festival in collaboration with cartoonist Matt Madden.

Re:sound #70: The Brain Show

This hour: the mysteries and complexities of the brain.

Re:sound #73: The Siblings Show

This hour: brothers and sisters contend with family illness.

Re:sound #75: The True Crime Show

This hour: amateur sleuths and internet detectives.

Re:sound #100: The Cambodia Show

This hour: sounds and stories from Cambodia.

Healing the Wound of Wounded Knee

Leonard Little Finger is the great-great grandson of Chief Big Foot, whose band of Lakota Sioux Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.

The Century in Sound: An American's Perspective

Voice of America's The Century in Sound is a radio documentary that chronicles the entire 20th century without narration.

2001
38:26
Adam Phillips

Tin Man

Part Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, part absurdist radio theater, and part anti-corporate musical, this 20-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.