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Ritual Magic This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Spirit World: Angel on the Line." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Carmen Delzell samples the "Ritual Magic" of a voodoo Santera, soaks in a spirit bath, and prays for sex, adventure, and central heat. (4:39) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkey Ranch This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Let's Wat: For Thanksgiving." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- We tour a "Turkey Ranch," following the gobbler from farmyard to frozen food. Produced by Scott Carrier. (6:54) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chicago 1968 This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "1968: Summer of Hate." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Some of the voices from 1968 which shaped the events one late August night in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. Mixed by Barrett Golding. (6:54) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War On This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "To War: Getting In and Getting Out." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- A collection of voices from citizens throughout the United States sharing their views on the ongoing war effort in Iraq and the War on Terror. Voices recorded by Scott Carrier and Barrett Golding. (Original music by Racket Ship.) (2:49) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Political People- MT This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Political People: On the Campaign Trail." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Almost half the eligible voters in this country don't bother to vote. But some people are passionate about politics. They pass out pamphlets, work the phones, write letters to the editor. We wondered why, when so many people couldn't care less about politics, these people care so much. So HV producer Barrett Golding went down to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Garden for Disappointed Politicians This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Soapbox: Sampling 20th Century Political Speech." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Producer (and this week's host) Sarah Vowell creates a place for the electoral losers. (3:16) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Golfball Diver This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Nine to Five: The Work Week." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Producer Jeff Rice gets wet with professional golfball diver Paul Neibuhr. (2:14) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quiet Kids This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Old School: A Back-to-School Special." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Producer Hillary Frank gets the shy "Quiet Kids" to speak up. (3:24) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Person I Admire Most This week's Hearing Voices from NPR hour is "Caregiver." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- "The Person I Admire Most" by Jake Warga: A day with Jenafir in Ethiopia, trying to save the world. (5:43) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eyes of Sibiu Our story podcast is back with excerpts from the weekly hour Hearing Voices from NPR. This week's episode is "The Old Country: Back to the Homeland." The entire hour is at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's an excerpt: "Eyes of Sibiu"- Andrei Codrescu returns to Romania, his homeland. "Look at the old lady looking out. She's been looking out for three hundred years. And she's still curious. She looks like she's seen everyone: the Romans in their sandals, Germans in jackboots, gypsies with feet of si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 005 Back Roads Audio excursions from the early eighties: Four traveling stories from public radio's past, hosted by the independent producers who made them, Scott Carrier attends a native service of "Navajo Pentacostalists." The Kitchen Sisters ride with the "Road Ranger," an American auto-mechanic hero. John Rieger samples small-town life "Fifty Miles Out of Gerlach." And Larry Massett takes a nitrous-oxide fueled "Trip To the Dentist." (53:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comedy with a Beat 004A First half: Host David Ossman of Firesign Theatre presents mixes of comedy bits with music beats, from Wally Cox yodeling to Peter Sellers singing while shaving, from Jack Kerouac crooning "Ain't We Got Fun" to Charles Mingus jazzing up Jean Shepherd's "The Clown" to comedian Greg Giraldo layered over Lazyboy. (23:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comedy with a Beat 004B Last half: "Lenny Bruce Gets Busted" in Jonathan Mitchell's documentary. And we hear rare and classic bits from host David Ossman's Firesign Theatre. (29:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Her Stories 003A First half: Host Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org, for Women's History Month, presents Stories By, For, and Of Women: The Kitchen Sisters go to "Tupperware®" parties. A supermarket checker checks out her life, in ZBS's radio soap Saratoga Springs. Host Dmae Roberts has a collage of and about "Sisters." In a new syntax of whispers and words Susan Stone tells the story of "Ruby" and her husbands. And Poet Sonia Sanchez. (23:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Her Stories 003B Last half: Tracie Morris, Jill Battson and Meryn Cadell perform short poems. Jenifir returns "Home From Africa" with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal. And another poem from Sonia Sanchez. (29:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visiting Hours 002B Last half of Visiting Hours, with host Ceil Muller of KQED: Nancy Updike watches patients pass the time with TV in "Channeling Health." In "Our Father" Brian Brophy documents his dad's passing, with recordings of his family, the chaplain, the hospital and hospice staff, and the wake. (29:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Street Map 001A NPR will soon be distrubiting our new weekly series. Until then, you can find it here. Our first hour is Street Map, with host Katie Davis of Neighborhood Stories. First half: Scott Carrier walks around the Salt Lake City blocks, talking to people in "The Neighborhood." (23:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Street Map 001B Second half of Street Map, with host Katie Davis of Neighborhood Stories: Host Katie Davis contemplates changes at the "Corner Store" on the DC street where she grew up and still lives. A modern day Romeo and Juliet is staged, amidst a growing number of homicides, in "Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community" by Youth Radio and poet Ise Lyfe. Larry Massett helps his friend bid "Goodbye, Batumi" to his hometown in the Republic of Georgia. (29:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visiting Hours 002A First half of Visiting Hours, with host Ceil Muller of KQED: "The Kiss and the Dying" is host Ceil Muller's (of KQED) etiquette list for those who may be dying, and for the soon-to-be survivors. "Fire and Ice Cream" is from Brent Runyan's book "The Burn Journals," and Jay Allison's Life Stories radio series. Brent's nurse in the burn unit asks the 14-year-old out for ice cream… and a date? Carmen Delzell helps heal her "Grandmother's Hip." (23:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Presidential Inaugurations For President's Day- Excerpts from: Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1925. (No inaugural recording exists of Herbert Hoover.) Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1933. Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 1949. Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address, Tuesday, January 20, 1953. John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961. Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Address, Wednesday, January 20, 1965. Richa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Movement Soul For Black History Month- In 1963-4 two Atlanta residents collected live recordings at freedom movement events in the deep south, mass meetings, sermons, rallies, interviews. Their collection, now at the Library of Congress, is called "Movement Soul." (7:58) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. King at Temple Isreal For MLK Day- In 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a sermon at Temple Israel in Hollywood. King was invited to the temple by Rabbi Max Nussbaum, who himself used the pulpit to rail against injustices in Nazi Germany. King's sermon was recorded on an old-fashioned reel-to-reel audio tape and buried in a pile in the Rabbi's home. His widow Ruth, now 95-years-old, tells the story of that day. Produced by Queena Kim (6:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avalanche The story of back-country skiers caught in an avalanche, told by the survivors. Produced by Scott Carrier (19:29). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pastor Mike at Jordan High When the last school bell rings, Pastor Mike Cummings stands in front of Jordan High School in Watts, Los Angeles. Jordan High is next door to the gang-ridden Jordan Downs projects, which students have to pass through to go home -- sometimes with Pastor Mike at their side. Produced by Queena Kim (3:22) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Countdown An HV/JoeFrank.com collaboration: For New Year's, a sobering look at the passage of time. Produced by Joe Frank (1:49) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zulu Kids Xmas A Christmas audio postcard sung by Zulu children in a South African orphanage. Produced by Jake Warga (2:14) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Winter Love Story An HV/JoeFrank.com collaboration: Joe returns to radio with a passionate love affair, complete with champagne, ice-skating, and an ambulance crash. Created in collaboration with David Rapkin. Produced by Joe Frank (7:14) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Electroshock A first-person accont by "Ned" of his ElectroConvulsive Therapy; followed by music from "Ned's" band Flavormaus. Produced by Larry Massett (5:16) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Memory Box For World AIDS Awarenes Day, Dec 1: AIDS workers in Africa share what's kept inside "memory books" and "memory boxes"-- keepsakes that help children orphaned by the AIDS virus to remember their parents. The Memory Box Project is a community outreach program of the University of Cape Town. Interviews courtesy of Bush Radio of South Africa and the First Voice International Africa Learning Channel. Produced by Sandra Rattley (4:11) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arab Students Our own Middle-Eastern conference: Students visiting America from across the Arabic-speaking world share their perspectives on the misunderstandings between their home nations and the United States. (9:11) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Flag- Reparations A woman sits cross-legged, panhandling on a busy city sidewalk. She takes money only from white folks, and gives it to blacks who pass by. Her sign reads: "200 Years of Slavery in the United States. Reparation payments accepted here." damali ayo is a street performance artist. "I offer people a convenient opportunity to pay for the unpaid labor of African Americans." This piece is part of her "living flag." Produced by Dmae Roberts (9:02). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloody Hell 2 (of 2) The last half of a Halloween Hour of Horror, hosted by Tom Lopez of ZBS Productions: Gene Moss's 1964 Beatles parody "I Want to Bite Your Hand," w/ SFX by MP3J. Radio Inferno, based on Dante's "Divine Comedy," by Andreas Ammer w/music by FM Einheit. "Monsters I've Met" by Shel Silverstein. "Jesus and I Go to Hell" found-sound mixed by The Professor of WFMU & TheAudioKitchen.net. "The Box" from 90 Second Cellphone Chillin' Theater, a ZBS Production. Kevin Kling's Halloween from Home and Awa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloody Hell 1 (of 2) The first half of a Halloween Hour of Horror, hosted by Tom Lopez of ZBS Productions: "Blood on the Pulpit" by David Greenberger, from a conversation with Edna Wofford. "The Bleeding Man" from ZBS. "La Llorona" by Ginna Allison. And ZBS's The Ultimate 3-D Thunderstorm. (23:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Operation Homecoming 6- National Endowment for the Arts From the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We end our series with editor Andrew Carroll and project creator Dana Gioia (Chairman of the NEA) discussing the book and its contributors; and we hear troops reading their works. Music: JessAtkins.com 8:34). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Operation Homecoming 5- Lunch with Pirates From the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Next in our series: Sergeant Clint Douglas exchanges some bizarre cordialities between bitter enemies. Music: JessAtkins.com (5:47). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Operation Homecoming 4- To the Fallen From the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Next in our series: Sergeant John McCary writes a frustrated email home after attending two multiple funerals in a single day. Music: JessAtkins.com (3:52). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Operation Homecoming 3- Among These Ruins From the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Next in our series: Sergeant Helen Gerhardt recounts her first few days in Iraq, in an email to family and friends. Music: JessAtkins.com (3:46). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iron Cross Battles Burmese Repression In support of Burmese demonstraters: The popular Burmese rock band Iron Cross is using music to challenge the nation's infamously repressive regime. In the great tradition of rock and roll, Iron Cross is taking on Burma's military government with song. Produced by Scott Carrier (7:39). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who's John Cage (Silence) John Cage was born 95 years ago, September 5 1912. Here's a quasi-Cage-ian sound portrait with voxpop featuring folk answering "Who's John Cage?" (2:24) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Father's Music A Labor Day Dialectic: A more realistic approach to spiritual awareness: how yoga might help relieve stress at the office, or not. Produced by Rebecca Flowers. (2:16) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Desert Air 1 (of 2) The first half of A Hot & Dry Summer Special, hosted by Ben Adair of APM Weekend America: Coyotes, owls, frogs and songbirds are part of Desert Solitudes, recorded by Bernie Krause and Ruth Happel in the Sonoran and Chihuauan deserts, part of New Mexico's panhandle. Host Ben Adair heads down to the ghost towns, Opera Houses, century-old abandoned mines, and billion-year old boulders along Death Valley's "Mojave Road." And Kraut-rockers Faust dial in "Long Distance Calls in the Desert," from ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Gondor A community radio station in Gondar, Ethiopia broadcasts health education programs on subjects ranging from HIV/AIDS prevention to the dangers of using dirty tattoo needles. (2:33) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remedial Theory Great literature allows us to learn to empathize with the experiences of others. So how is it a man now on trial for crimes against humanity is an avid reader of fiction? Might he simple be reading the wrong books? A trip to The Hague to hand-deliver the 'right' books to Slobodan Milosevic. (13:29) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Long Day on the Road I"I can break the law because... I AM the law." Sleepless in Tbilisi. A twenty-four hour tour, from Turkish baths to Batumi beaches, through the country of Georgia. High-speed sight-seeing driven by the accidental tourguide: "a 'detective,' or 'special police,' or 'security force.' It's not clear. Sometimes he even says 'KGB,' though that no longer exists... does it?" (14:52) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Stone Heads IA trip to Easter Island to gather recordings of local musicians and theories on who made and moved the "moai," the ilse's famous stone heads. A mystery of aliens, archeologists; and arboreal emptiness: What happened to all the trees? (6:09) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Bowden A portrait of the non-fiction writer Charles Bowden, told by he people he's written about and the editors he's worked with. Bowden lives in Tucson, Arizona, and has written extensively on the cultural and physical environment of the Southwest. His style is both harsh and beautiful, and somewhat painful to read, as he takes the position that we are all to blame, or perhaps that there is no one is to blame, for the violent and destructive acts committed against nature and society. He writes a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heat (extended mix) It is 120°. The birds and animals, and even insects hide. The story focuses on the words, thoughts and sounds of desert residents: writer Charles Bowden, the Tohono O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda, and ambient composer Steve Roach, whose composition "Slow Heat" scores the piece. (7:30) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pledge For the Fourth: People with different regional, ethnic, and national accents recite and reflect upon the single-sentence, century-old poem "The Pledge of Allegiance." (5:23) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Otha Turner's Picnic Let's start Summer with some Mississippi moonshine, barbecued goat and the last of the old-time Fife & Drum picnics. By Ben Adair (13:10). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Father's Music A Father's Day ditty: Going in and out of cool, in syncopated time. A daughter and dad's ever-changing relationship moves to the beat of a jazz standard. Produced by Rebecca Flowers. (6:30) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moth Music The eerily beautiful music of moth wings. A tale of bat-detectors, beehive destruction and the intersection of insect and synthesizer. (3:02) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Desert Air 2 (of 2) The last half of A Hot & Dry Summer Special, hosted by Ben Adair of APM Weekend America: The Quiet American (Aaron Ximm) sound-captures the forbidding warning signs rattling in a harsh wind and "Desert Sun" outside the nuclear Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas. Back in the early 1990s, SLC producer Scott Carrier found the Basin & Range, near Nevada's "Battle Mountain," beautiful, lonely, dreary, and full of sagebrush, solace and stories. And more of Bernie Krause's Desert Solitudes. (29:0 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For the Fallen 2 (of 2) "For the Fallen" Last half of a Memorial Day radio special: Host Major Robert Schaefer, U.S. Army Special Forces, a Green Beret and poet, presents troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reading their emails, poems, and journals, as part of the NEA project: "Operation Homecoming," and selections from the NEA CD Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience with well-known authors reading their poems, prose, and essays about their time in the military. Major Schaefer, the Host of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For the Fallen 1 (of 2) "For the Fallen"- First half of a Memorial Day radio special: Host Major Robert Schaefer, U.S. Army Special Forces, a Green Beret and poet, reveals his love-hate relationship with the bugle call "Taps." We join a "Military Honor Guard" in Long Island, recorded by Charles Lane. We hear interviews with World War Two and Vietnam vets from the public radio's StoryCorps and This I Believe series. Composer Phil Kline sets to music the slogans Vietnam soldiers etched into their lighters, in Zippo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Song & Memory: Eleanor Rigby What song from your past brings back a strong memory? From the "Song and Memory" series, we hear from Kelly Kinsey about a Beatles tune that takes her back. Produced by Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler (3:23) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website White Temple- Taiwan A woman's song on the streets of Taipei, Taiwan, leads the producer to the outskirts of town, to climb the rock steps of the White Temple. There, high in the clouds, one hundred voices are singing a salutation to the Buddha. Produced by Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org. (1:51) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels with Mom For Mother's Day: These days, taking mom for out for a day-trip doesn't involve going very far in distance, as it does back in time. Tybee Island, Georgia, now and in the 1920's, as seen by Mrs. Massett. (12:25) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poetry is Wanted Here For Poetry Month, from his collection Various Atmospheres, Alex Caldiero performs "Poetry is Wanted Here" (2:58). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hydrogen People For Earth Day: The Administration Moves Past Hydrogen Powered Automobiles (2:05) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blind Dog For Poetry Month, Jan Kerouac delivers her own poem to her dad Jack, over Jack's own prose; produced by Marjorie Van Halteren. (6:34) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 http://mountainmusicproject.blogspot.com/). (3:10) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dubya's Word (2:14) State of the Union undone; mashup and music by Jesse Boggs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little League Haiku (3:25) For this weeks' SuperBowl, a junior high haiku, by Scott Carrier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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", ready to fly away; from the Life Stories series by Jay Allison. (Shana started swinging with the Pickle Family Circus, about which her dad co-authored a book. She now flies for Les Sept Doig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crossing Borders 2 (29:00) Crossing Borders, second half. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wordshakers 2 Wordshakers, second half: (29:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mushroom Cloud 2 This week, the last half of our radio special, featuring: (26:00) "Wild Dreams of a New Beginning" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "A Pacific tidal wave a mile high sweeps in. Los Angeles breathes its last gas> A poem produced for radio by Erik Bauersfeld (Bay Area Radio Drama), with sound design by Jim McKee (Earwax), and original music by Wieslaw Pogorzelski. "What Are You Afraid Of?" by Scott Carrier. Americans across the country answer the question: What do you fear? "Atomic Platters: Cold Wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wordshakers 1 Wordshakers, a special for Poetry Month- April, with guest host Andrei Codrescu (Corpse.org), first half: (23:00) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Camel in the Outback (6:49) Competing and eating wild camels in the Northern Australia Territories, by Jesse Boggs with Jake Warga. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mushroom Cloud 1 This week, the first half of our radio special, featuring:(32:00) "Enola Alone" by Antenna Theater. The air war from the perspecitive of World War II bomber pilots, Japanese and English bombing survivors, and Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay mission over Hiroshima. "Atomic Age" by (((HearingVoices))). An audio document in political speeches and popular songs of our changing attitudes towards weapons of mass destruction; starting with the bombing of Hiroshima, August 6 1945. "Dow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old School 1 Back to School special, first half: (33:00) "School VP"- Richard Paul follows Assistant Principal Irasema Salcido through her hectic multi-lingual morning at Bell Multicultural High School in DC. "Carried You"- Katie Davis tries to help, but Tiffany tells her she "got carried." A lesson in learning lessons. "What Teachers Make"- Slam poet and history teacher Taylor Mali schools us on honesty, ass-kicking and career choices. "Frankie in Mentone, Alabama: Football"- In a small southern Appala ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old School 2 Back to School special, last half: (25:00) Poems & Prose from Meryn Cadell, Jelani, and Taylor Mali. "In a Bubble"- Producer Hillary Frank gets quiet kids to speak up and have their say. "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"- Commencement speech words from Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich, performed by actor Lee Perry, over music from Baz Luhrman's film, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, sung by Quindon Tarver. "Hike to Rock Creek"- Host Katie Davis takes her DC summer camp int ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website