Hearing Voices from NPR®:
025 Heat— Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer
Host— Scott Carrier of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 8/20/2008 - 8/27/2008

Five symptoms of heat fatigue:

A sound-poem for “Dead of Summer” in the city by Marjorie Van Halteren and Lou Giansante, read by Russell Horton.

Tuscon residents reflect the desert “Heat,” with author Charles Bowden, poet Ofelia Zepeda, and music by Steve Roach; produced by Jeff Rice.

The perfection of family, a crippled man on a blind man’s back, and a collective scream of “I’m not dead,” sweat it out in Joe Frank’s “Summer Notes.”

Cats pulling pianos are “The Little Heroes” in John Rieger’s Dance on Warning series.

And host Scott Carrier takes a long hot cross-country drive down “Highway 50,” the loneliest road in America.

Music by The Lovin’ Spoonful and Flying Lizards.

Audio of program will be posted here 8/27/2008.

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
024 Caregiver— Taking Care, Taking Heart
Airdates— 8/13/2008 - 8/20/2008
Host— Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org presents…

“Dialysis” by Joe Frank: A phone call, kidney failure and a friend indeed; followed by a flight of final fancy, from the hour “Goodbye.”

“Three Woman” by host by Dmae Roberts: Three women, a Chicana, African American and Romanian immigrant, describe their different approaches to surviving breast cancer. Produced as part of the “The Breast Cancer Monologues,” with Miae Kim, Anca Micheti, and music by Maria Esteves.

“Messages” by Dmae Roberts (of MediaRites): Every 100 days, the producer saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial. Music by Aaron Meyer and Tim Ellis.

“Bad Teeth at King Drew Dental Clinic” by Ayala Ben-Yehuda: a morning at the Dental Divide at a dental clinic of last resort in South LA’s King Drew Medical Center.

“A Square Meal, Regardless” by Jennifer Nathan: After John’s wife passed away and his children moved across the country, John turned to Cedric when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Produced for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

“Hospice Chroncles” (excerpt) by Long Haul Productions: Hospice volunteer Bettie viusits her first patient.

“The Person I Admire Most” by Jake Warga: A day with Jenafir in Ethiopia, trying to save the world (video version).

Caregiver (53:00 mp3):

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
023 This is Insanity— Disturbed Mental States
Host— Scott Carrier of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 8/6/2008 - 8/13/2008

“This is Insane,” says William S Burroughs to the music of Disposable Heroes of Hiphopcracy, from the CD Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales. An anonymous reporter describes his “Electroshock.” The Avalanches mashup a “Frontier Psychiatrist” from the CD Since I Left You. Host Scott Carrier takes “The Test” for schizophrenia. Joe Frank is pathologically challenged by time, excerpted from the hour “Time’s Arrow.” And Sound Portraits helps Howard Dully recount “My Lobotomy,” documenting the experimental procedure of “ice pick” surgery.

This is Insanity (53:00 mp3):

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
022 Mushroom Cloud— Tales of the Atomic Age
Host— Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 7/30/2008 - 8/6/2008

Bomber pilots and bombing victims, and and Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay in “Enola Alone” by Antenna Theater, mixed by Earwax. Political speeches and popular songs chart our changing attitudes towards weapons of mass destruction in the “Atomic Age.” Residents recall the Nevada and Utah nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s in their “Downwinder Diaries,” produced by Claes Andreasson. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has “Wild Dreams of a New Beginning,” an excerpt from “One of These days (or Nights)” produced for radio by Erik Bauersfeld (Bay Area Radio Drama), with sound design by Jim McKee (Earwax), and original music by Wieslaw Pogorzelski. Americans across the country answer Scott Carrier’s question: “What Are You Afraid Of?” The story of the Big Bang, with a beat, “Page One” by Lemon Jelly. And selections from “Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security” compiled by CONELRAD.com (including Slim Galliard’s “Atomic Cocktail” (1945), versions of “Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb” by Lowell Blanchard & The Valley Trio (1949) and by The Pilgrim Travelers, and 1950-60s Civil Defense public service announcements.

Mushroom Cloud (53:00 mp3):

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
021 Tony Schwartz— Documenting Life in Sound
Host— Barrett Golding & Kitchen Sisters of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 7/23/2008 - 7/30/2008

Tony Schwartz, media pioneer, audio documentarian, and the most famous radio person you probably never heard of, died June 2008. We hear The Kitchen Sisters’ Lost & Found Sound-portrait, “Tony Schwartz, 30,000 Recordings Later,” and the Tony Schwartz-inspired verite documentary of the town he lived in and loved, “New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places” (thanks to Transom.org).

Tony Schwartz (53:00 mp3):

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
020 The Old Country— The Homeland
Host— Neenah Ellis of If I Live to Be 100
Airdates— 7/16/2008 - 7/23/2008

Three hearts searching for home: Going back to Vietnam makes Nguyen Qui Duc realize “Home is Always Somewhere Else,” from Crossing East; host Neenah Ellis goes looking for her family in Croatia, where “The Old Country is Gone.” And Andrei Codrescu returns to his Romanian home town and stares into the “Eyes of Sibiu.”

The Old Country (53:00 mp3):

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
019 Life on the Mississippi— A Tour of the River Towns
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 7/9/2008 - 7/16/2008

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.

Life on the Mississippi (53:00 mp3):

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
018 Stars and Bars— For Fourth of July
Host— Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 07/02/2008 - 7/9/2008

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.

Stars and Bars (53:00 mp3):