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Mon December 29 2008
Musician Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, K Records) hosts train tales: An existential interaction with an automated Amtrak voice. The Kronos Quartet p...
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Musician Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, K Records) hosts train tales: An existential interaction with an automated Amtrak voice. The Kronos Quartet plays Steve Reich's "Different Trains." Singer
Jules Shear recalls an on-board performance. A Sound Portrait of a Pullman Porter. A track-hopping hobo named Short Stop. Circus performer Little Jack Horton and poet Charles Bukowski stolen engine
car. S...
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Musician Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, K Records) hosts train tales: An existential interaction with an automated Amtrak voice. The Kronos Quartet plays Steve Reich's "Different Trains." Singer
Jules Shear recalls an on-board performance. A Sound Portrait of a Pullman Porter. A track-hopping hobo named Short Stop. Circus performer Little Jack Horton and poet Charles Bukowski stolen engine
car. Segregated train-travel from StoryCorps. The world's largest model railroad. And Calvin's Great Aunt Grace's 1891 train trip.
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Mon December 29 2008
At the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, NPR's Noah Adams talks to those who know Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and Trappist monk. Host Beverly Do...
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At the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, NPR's Noah Adams talks to those who know Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and Trappist monk. Host Beverly Donofrio, reads from her book, Riding in Cars with
Boys; then goes on a cross-country quest, "Looking for Mary" in those who see visions of the Virgin, a Sound Portraits production.
At the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, NPR's Noah Adams talks to those who know Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and Trappist monk. Host Beverly Donofrio, reads from her book, Riding in Cars with
Boys; then goes on a cross-country quest, "Looking for Mary" in those who see visions of the Virgin, a Sound Portraits production.
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Fri December 19 2008
A mix of holiday stories, found-sound, and sampled songs: A bell-ringer at the Mall of America. Holiday history as told by second graders. A trip to t...
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A mix of holiday stories, found-sound, and sampled songs: A bell-ringer at the Mall of America. Holiday history as told by second graders. A trip to the toy store. Carols sung by Zulu children in a
South African orphanage. And holiday bits from Bing Crosby, George W. Bush, and The Beatles Fan Club Christmas messages.
A mix of holiday stories, found-sound, and sampled songs: A bell-ringer at the Mall of America. Holiday history as told by second graders. A trip to the toy store. Carols sung by Zulu children in a
South African orphanage. And holiday bits from Bing Crosby, George W. Bush, and The Beatles Fan Club Christmas messages.
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Tue December 09 2008
A preacher/prank-caller conjures "Alice of the Spirits." Carmen Delzell samples the "Ritual Magic" of a voodoo Santera, soaks in a spirit bath, and pr...
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A preacher/prank-caller conjures "Alice of the Spirits." Carmen Delzell samples the "Ritual Magic" of a voodoo Santera, soaks in a spirit bath, and prays for sex, adventure, and central heat. Ceil
Muller visits "The Psychic Center of the World," the town of Cassadega, Florida. And host Larry Massett spends "A Night on Mt. Shasta."
A preacher/prank-caller conjures "Alice of the Spirits." Carmen Delzell samples the "Ritual Magic" of a voodoo Santera, soaks in a spirit bath, and prays for sex, adventure, and central heat. Ceil
Muller visits "The Psychic Center of the World," the town of Cassadega, Florida. And host Larry Massett spends "A Night on Mt. Shasta."
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Thu December 04 2008
Sister Agnes Ramashiga's Radio Diaries of "Just Another Day At the World's Biggest Hospital," Soweto — 2000 patients check in daily, half HIV po...
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Sister Agnes Ramashiga's Radio Diaries of "Just Another Day At the World's Biggest Hospital," Soweto — 2000 patients check in daily, half HIV positive. A teenager documents her HIV "Positive
Life- Tanya," by American RadioWorks. Poet Lisa Buscani is "Counting" on her mom's health advice. "And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary" is Laura Kaminsky's compositon for viola, cello, piano, and
sto...
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Sister Agnes Ramashiga's Radio Diaries of "Just Another Day At the World's Biggest Hospital," Soweto — 2000 patients check in daily, half HIV positive. A teenager documents her HIV "Positive
Life- Tanya," by American RadioWorks. Poet Lisa Buscani is "Counting" on her mom's health advice. "And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary" is Laura Kaminsky's compositon for viola, cello, piano, and
stories of Tamakloe: warrior, tailor, AIDS victim. Life-saving meds brought Krandall Kraus back from the dead, like "Lazarus." A dying mother's writes her son "Letters to Butchie," by Sound
Portraits.
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