Hearing Voices - Radio Stories / Barrett Golding

018 Stars and Bars 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Ben Adair, Joe Frank, Barrett Golding & Larry Massett

Celebrating America with Flags and Festivals, featuring: Recitations and reflections on "The Pledge" of Allegiance and "War vs. Peace." The annual "Rainbow Family" migration into the Montana forest on July Fourth -- their day of prayer for peace (photos by Chad Harder). A town that covets their title of the "Armpit of America" -- welcome to Battle Mountain, Nevada. Mississippi moonshine, barbecued goat and old-time Fife & Drum at "Otha Turner's Afrosippi Picnic." Stories by Joe Frank, Barrett Golding, host Larry Massett, and Ben Adair.

Broadcast: Jul 2 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Public Affairs, Music, War

Woman with crystal ball and painted face

Rainbow Family 10:42 Barrett Golding

The Gathering of the Tribes: the annual migration of The Rainbow Family of Living Light. Each year, twenty thousand people camp for a week in a the national forest. They come together first week of July; the Fourth of July is their day of prayer, a prayer for peace. Also see: Rainbow Family web presentation, audio collage, and Chad Harder photos. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 28 2008 on APM Weekend America; Jul 1 2002 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Politics, Cultural, Historical Anniversaries, Environment

Roy Tea Hastings Road, Utah's West Desert

017 No Place Like Home 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier, Carmen Delzell & Barrett Golding

Scott Carrier has a cultural history of the Great Salt Lake's "West Desert," a land of polygymists, bombing ranges, and toxic waste incinerators. There's chlorine gas in the air, anthrax stored underground, and people who call the place home. Sarah Vowell's childhood move from rural Oklahoma to small-town Montana was, for her, a change from the middle ages to a modern metropolis. And two Stories from the Heart of the Land: NYC native Natalie Edwards hates grass, bugs, dirt, and trees, but attempts a walk thru Brooklyn's Prospect Park; and Carmen Delzell tells why she moved to and has stayed in Mexico.

Broadcast: Jun 25 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Environment, Historical, Family

Winter Soldiers 7:25 Scott Carrier & Barrett Golding

For the first time boots-on-the-ground soldiers testified before Congress (C-SPAN) in May 2008 about how the Iraq war is being waged. Those testifying were members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. A couple months earlier the group gathered to record soldiers and marines "giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out." They called the event Winter Soldier, taking the name from a similar 1971 movement of Vietnam vets.

Broadcast: Jun 12 2008 on HV WebworkSeries: Hearing Voices- Webworks Subjects: Politics, War

014 Fans and Bands 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Barrett Golding, Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler

Host Ian Svenonius, of the band Weird War, introduces "The Groupies," an album of 1969 interviews by producer Alan Lorber (Iris Music Group, Alan Lorber Orchestra). We visit with the pilgrims at Pere LaChaise cemetery, come to see "Jim Morrison's Grave" (a sound-portrait by Mark Neumann of Documentary Works and Barrett Golding). John Denver's anti-Christian conspiracy is exposed in the series "Song and Memory" from producers Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler. And Bo Diddley blows up his mom's radio in David Schulman's series "Musicians in Their Own Words."

Broadcast: Jun 4 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Music

US Army Major Robert Schaefer in uniform

Memorial Day Memory 8:41 Barrett Golding

A remembrance by Major Robert Schaefer, US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. (with the sounds of a Military Honor Guard funeral for a fallen Navy Seal.) For Memorial Day and for the memory of the Major friend and fellow Green Beret, Joe "Super" Suponcic. The Military Honor Guard at Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island was recorded by Charles Lane. The voices were Navy Lt Commander Snyder; Captain Coe and Staff Sergeant Trigger, U.S Marine Corps; and Petty Officer First Class Curt Wolz, US Navy. The bugler was Lt Denny Lortez , U.S. Sir Force Reserve. "Echo Taps" was played by the US Marine Band. The Military Honor Guard at Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island was recorded by Charles Lane. The voices were Navy Lt Commander Snyder; Captain Coe and Staff Sergeant Trigger, U.S Marine Corps; and Petty Officer First Class Curt Wolz, US Navy. The bugler was Lt Denny Lortez , U.S. Sir Force Reserve. "Echo Taps" was played by the US Marine Band. Major Schaefer is currently serving at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir, VA. He was also in this 2006 HV/NPR report.

Broadcast: May 26 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Historical, War

Driver in an open-wheel, open-cockpit Champ Car

Long Beach Grand Prix 6:16 Barrett Golding

The ethanol-injected Noise comes speeding down the NPR airways burning with the sounds of engines, drivers, and fans at this year�s Long Beach Grand Prix, an ocean-side street race with top pro race-car drivers from around the globe. One-hundred-and-eighty thousand aficionados around a two mile course of Fast & Loud in downtown LB -- 186mph avg and 200+ on the straightaways.

Broadcast: May 23 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Sports

012 For the Fallen 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Barrett Golding, StoryCorps & Marjorie Van Halteren

Green Beret and poet, Major Robert Schaefer, US Army, hosts the voices of veterans remembering their comrades: We talk with troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reading their emails, poems, and journals, as part of the NEA project: "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience." We hear interviews from StoryCorps, an essay from This I Believe, and the sounds of a Military Honor Guard, recorded by Charles Lane. And we attend the daily "Last Post" ceremony by Belgian veterans honoring the WWI British soldiers who died defending a small town in western Belgium (produced by Marjorie Van Halteren).

Broadcast: May 21 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: War, Historical Anniversaries

009 Shoah 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Jay Allison & Barrett Golding

Rabbi Samuel Cohon of Temple Emanuel, Tucson & Too Jewish Radio, presents stories of survivors, for Holocaust Remembrance Day: In "Descended from the Holocaust" Dr. Alan Berkenwald records his trip with his parents to the Holocaust Museum -- it was first time they talked openly about their experience in the concentration camps; this audio diary is of Jay Allison's Life Stories. "Yom Hashoah 1994" is Shoah services in Billings MT and Cleveland OH, survivor interviews, and the story of the Billings communities united "Not in Our Town" response that stopped a series of anti-Jewish crimes. The Rhino Records documentary project "Voices of the Shoah: Remembrances of the Holocaust" is drawn from interviews with 180 survivors. Also survivors sing Hebrew, for the first time in years, in a live May 1945 BBC report by Patrick Gordon Walker from the just liberated "Belsen Concentration Camp."

Broadcast: Apr 30 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Historical, Religious

006 Radio Dial 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier, Barrett Golding, Larry Massett & Jake Warga

Radio stories about radio, then stories about radio stories: Jake Warga paints sound-portraits of "Urbana FM" in Uruguay and "Radio Gondor" in Ethiopia. Myke Weiskopf of the ShortWaveMusic blog records "Duelling Transmitters" (also check his CD 30: A Retrospective 1976-2006). "WWV- The Tick" comes from Douglas Grant (voiced by former WWV announcer John Doyle). We broadcast premiere Chesty Morgan's Forbidden Love!. Larry Massett interviews the "Language Removal Services." Recordist Steve McGreevey captures the solar sounds of space weather, the northern lights, and "Natural Radio." The Android Sisters lament the loss of great "Ray-Dee-Ohh." And Scott Carrier reports to work for "The Friendly Man." Shortwave/music mixes from Myke Weiskopf's CD 30: A Retrospective 1976-2006.

Broadcast: Apr 9 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Science, Comedy, Technology