Hearing Voices
Adventurous Audio: Sound-Portraits, Slam Poets, Radio Docs and Vox Pop. A new hour every month.
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Song #2
For Poetry Month: Sonia Sanchez performs her poem "To all you young girls." Produced by Steve Rowland and mixed by Joe Waters (a commission from WXPN with funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts) with original music by Jamaaladeen Tacuma. (1:56)
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Blind Dog
Fritz the dog loves to play Frisbee. He still catches it most of the time, though not as much as he used to... before he went blind; by Scott Carrier.(4:22)
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Operation Homecoming- USNS Comfort
From the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The second of the series: Commander Dr. Ted Jewell details a doctor's day aboard a Navy hospital ship, treating the enemy. Music: JessAtkins.com (4:09)
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Song & Memory: Rocky Mountain High
From the Song and Memory series, Jeffery Carpenter explains his special connection to John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High." Produced by Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler (4:11)
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Pedestrian Fanatic
The paving of America as seen from the shoulders and sidewalks of our country's roads. Musings-in-motion recorded during a 5000 trek from Arizona to Georgia to Maine. "It is becoming illegal to travel this country by foot." Music by Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship. (9:55)
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The Kiss and the Dying
An etiquette list for those who may be dying soon, and for the soon-to-be survivors. By Ceil Muller (7:38)
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Pin Pia
In a Thailand market, Manop Thammadoonpinij, a music teacher and luthier, performs traditional songs on a haunting little-known ancient stringed instrument, the Pin Pia. (Collected along the travels of the Mountain Music Project (3:10)
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Operation Homecoming- Clusters
From the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The first of the series: Major Robert Schaefer digs up buried memories from the first Gulf War. (5:26)
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Old Together
(2:36) For Valentine's Day: Three couples, Tom and Ruth Kassoy, Kate and Mike McCabe, and Lad and Lois Shorey, reminisce on romance, life, love and growing old together, by Barrett Golding. (Music: Kels Koch and JoeBass.com.)
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Eat Your Eggs
(7:05) The producer, Jake Warga, chronicles the life and decline of his paternal grandmother. As she grew older, she mistook him for his father, who had already died. Warga tells the story of how and when she started to forget things as she entered her 90s.
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Little League Haiku
(3:25) For this weeks' SuperBowl, a junior high haiku, by Scott Carrier.
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Dubya's Word
(2:14) State of the Union undone; mashup and music by Jesse Boggs.
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Camel in the Outback
(6:49) Competing and eating wild camels in the Northern Australia Territories, by Larry Massett with Jake Warga.
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Circus Blood 1
(23:00) Circus Blood, Tales from the Big Top- first half: Host John Dankosky takes us to the circus in "Hershey Park Arena, Hershey Pennsylvania. I was 10 years old, and very, very worried." SF Chronicle journalist Jon Carroll interviews his daughter Shana as she hang upside down on her "Trapeze", r ...
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Circus Blood 2
(29:00) Circus Blood, second half: Drummer Bobby Previte composes the "Music of the Moscow Circus." Elizabeth Eck returns to the circus family she ran away to join in Larry Massett's "Circus in the Blood" (originally on SoundPrint). And Twink serves up "The Great Circus Show" from The Broken Record.
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Crossing Borders 1
(23:00) Crossing Borders, from Mexico to US, a tale of two countries, with guest host Marcos Martinez (KUNM-Albuquerque), first half.
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Crossing Borders 2
(29:00) Crossing Borders, second half.
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Wordshakers 1
Wordshakers, a special for Poetry Month- April, with guest host Andrei Codrescu (Corpse.org), first half: (23:00)
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Wordshakers 2
Wordshakers, second half: (29:00)
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Her Stories 1
HER STORIES, a radio special for Women's History Month, with guest host Dmae Roberts (Stories1st.org), first half: (30:20)
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