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010 All Mom Radio 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Larry Massett, Sound Portraits & Nancy Updike

For Mother's Day, maternal tales from producers around the country: "Travels with Mom" follows Larry Massett and his mother to the Tybee Island, Georgia of today and of the 1920's, as recalled by Mrs. Massett. Writer Beverly Donofrio joins her mom for "Thursday Night Bingo," produced by Dave Isay of Sound Portraits. In Nancy Updike's "Mubarak and Margy," a gay man returns home to care for his mom, and to the "cure" his family plans for his homosexuality. And comedian Amy Borkowsky shares her hilarious phone "Messages from Mom."

Broadcast: May 7 2008 on NPR Hearing Voices Subjects: Holidays, Family

Postcard: Flores, Guatemala 7:26 Jake Warga

"I found my mother on the streets of Guatemala, though she died over ten years ago. It's true, no matter where you go, your past goes with you."

Broadcast: May 6 2008 on NPR All Things Considered Subjects: Family, Travel

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 Voices Subjects: Religious, Historical

Rabbi for Human Rights, Israel 6:30 Jake Warga

A day-in-the-life of Rabbi Arik Ascherman with Rabbis for Human Rights in Jerusalem. He interacts with Arabs and Jews, and intercedes when he can during Palestinian home demolitions. He looks for common ground amongst the the rubble and rocks, the M-16s and tanks, and the two religions that started as one. (Photos by Jake Warga.)

Broadcast: Apr 25 2008 on PRI/WGBH/BBC The World Subjects: War, Family, International

008 About Aging 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))) & Sound Portraits

Host David Greenberger of Duplex Planet presents glorious moments and observations from people in the last years of their lives: Dave Alvin discusses the song he wrote about his dying father, "Man in the Bed," from the Western Folklife Center's What's in a Song? series. Comedians Bob & Ray are "The Whirleys". From StoryCorps comes a remembrance from Richard Craig of his days as a dance host on cruise ships. In Sound Portraits "The Ground We Live On" journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality in recordings she made during her father's last months alive. And host David Greenberger shares some stories told him over the years by the elderly, including "Growing Old in East L.A."

Broadcast: Apr 23 2008 on NPR Hearing Voices Subjects: Senior

Mountain Gorillas 8:19 Jake Warga

The genocide in Rwanda decimated more than just people. Mountain Gorilla populations are just now recovering.

Broadcast: Apr 22 2008 on NPR All Things Considered Subjects: Environment

Dayenu (for Passover) 6:15 Crossing the BLVD

The traditional, 1000-year-old song Dayenu is a part of the Jewish Passover (April 19-27 2008). This piece is an audio essay, a poem of sorts, on the song, the holy day, and what, if anything, the tales of Egyptian first-borns and parted Red Seas have to do with us today. Original music by Frank London, founder of the Klezmatics.

Broadcast: Apr 17 2008 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Holidays, Religious

Nepali Bob Dylan 2:57 Jack Chance

The Kingdom of Nepal became a democracy this week, holding it's first elections for representatives who will write the new constitution and are likely to abolish the monarchy. We speak with a young musician in Kathmandu, Rubin Gandharba, whose songs (played on the Nepali sarangi) became a rallying cry for the Nepali Democracy Movement.

Broadcast: Apr 17 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Music, Politics

007 The Earth Sings 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Gregg McVicar & Dmae Roberts

Host Dmae Roberts of of Stories1st.org, for Earth Day, presents Sounds for and from Mother Earth: The Quiet American takes an audio trek through Nepal"s "Annapurna" Circuit. Host Dmae Roberts records Maori music and culture. We hear Pulse of the Planet's "Extraordinary Sounds From the Natural World." And from Gregg McVicar and the Earthsongs series: Sioux Soprano Bonnie Jo Hunt layers opera over insects (on Robbie Robertson's Music for the Native Americans), and the band Pamyua mimics creature calls.

Broadcast: Apr 16 2008 on NPR Hearing Voices Subjects: Environment

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.
Radio Dial- intro (1:00 mp3)

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