Powered By Podcast.com

Go By Train

NPR: Hearing Voices Podcast

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... read more

Latest Episodes for this Channel

Go By Train

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... read more

Yes to God

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... read more

Christmas Mashup

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... read more

Spirit World

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... read more

Portrait of a Plague

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... read more

Are You Toxic Podcast Channels