Hearing Voices - Radio Stories / Scott Carrier

019 Life on the Mississippi 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier & Larry Massett

A Tour of the River Towns: Hannibal, Missouri, birthplace of Mark Twain; a day on a tugboat; St. Louis showboats; and changing the course of mighty rivers. A downstream trip through the history and mystery of the Big Muddy, with Larry Massett and Scott Carrier.

Broadcast: Jul 9 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Environment, Literature, Music

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

016 Bugs and Birds 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier & Jeff Rice

Jeff Rice of the Western Soundscape Archive hosts an hour of sounds for the start of Summer: an extinct woodpecker revives an Arkansas town, car alarms made from bird calls, breeding moths for their music, a morning walk with poet Jim Harrison, dancing with gnats, the seismic underground sounds of spiders, and the perspective of a pest controller. Stories by Long Haul Productions, M'Iou Zahner Ollswang, host Jeff Rice, and Scott Carrier; and recordings by Nina Katchadourian, Lang Elliot, and Dr. Rex Cocroft. (Produced with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.)

Broadcast: Jun 18 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Science, Environment

Walking Grand Canyon 4:07 Scott Carrier

Father and son spend a week together traveling and hiking America's Grand Canyon.

Broadcast: Jun 13 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Environment, Family, Sports

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

015 Father Figures 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Jay Allison, Scott Carrier, Viki Merrick & StoryCorps

Paternal praise, pride, disappointment and love, hosted by Jay Allsion (This I Believe): Scott Carrier gives his son Milo a "Ski Lesson." From Animals and Other Stories we hear "Reflections of Fathers," aka, Bugs & Dads (producers: Jay Allison & Christina Egloff, music: Ben Verdery & Rie Schmidt). Comic strip artist Lynda Barry wishes her divorced dad a "Happy Father's Day." A doctor tells his daughter about her granddad in "Story Corps- Dr. William Weaver." "Grilling Me Softly" is how host Jay Allison describes his daughter's questions about his love life. Dan Robb's family remembers the day "Dad's Moving Out" (from Jay Allison's Life Stories). "Doc Merrick" and daughter Viki go through some girl problems. David Greenberger tells David Cobb's story "Because of Dad" (music performed by Bangalore, composed by Phil Kaplan). Deirdre Sullivan's father advises "Always Go to the Funeral" (from This I Believe). And Dave Masch wants to be "A Better Father" (produced by Viki Merrick).

Broadcast: Jun 11 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Holidays, Family

013 Crossing Borders 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier, Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler

A Tale of Two Countries: In "Sasabe," a Sonora, Mexico border town, Scott Carrier talks to immigrants on their hazardous, illegal desert crossing, and to the border patrol waiting for them in Sasabe, Arizona. Luis Alberto Urrea reads from his books Vatos and The Devil's Highway, about death in the desert. Guillermo Gómez-Peña imagines "Maquiladoras of the Future," fantasy border factories. "And I walked...", by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler, is a sound-portrait of Mexicans who risk their lives to find better-paying jobs in the United States. And sounds from the Quiet American's one-minute vacation.

Broadcast: May 28 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Labor, Hispanic, International

011 Road Trip 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Mark Allen, Scott Carrier & Larry Massett

Host Larry Massett spends a "Long Day on the Road" with ex-KGB in the Republic of Georgia. Scott Carrier starts in Salt Lake and ends on the Atlantic in this cross-country "Hitchhike." Lemon Jelly adds beats to the life of a "Ramblin' Man." Writer/singer Willie Vlautin with his band band Richmond Fontaine sends musical postcards from the flight of "Walter On the Lam." And Mark Allen tells a tale of a tryst with a "Kinko's Crackhead."

Broadcast: May 14 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Travel

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

Pickup truck on dirt road; photo by Scott Carrier

005 Backroads 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier, Kitchen Sisters, Larry Massett & John Rieger

Audio excursions from the early eighties: Four traveling stories from public radio's past, hosted by the independent producers who made them, Scott Carrier attends a native service of "Navajo Pentacostalists." The Kitchen Sisters ride with the "Road Ranger," an American auto-mechanic hero. John Rieger samples small-town life "Fifty Miles Out of Gerlach." And Larry Massett takes a nitrous-oxide fueled "Trip To the Dentist." Music from Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship.

Broadcast: Apr 2 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Travel