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May 2, 2006 |
New On PRX
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Plan
Ahead Fundraising
Soundbank For
Stations
Find it. Hear it. Air it.
http://www.prx.org
We need sun and dry clothes. The rain has been
pouring for five or six days in Cambridge. So, we
have had a lot of time to listen to the flood of
good radio pouring onto PRX. The
Song and Memory
series -- first aired on Weekend America -- is a
real treat.
If you heard writer and documentarian Sandy Tolan on
Fresh Air this week, you really should check
out the
radio piece that inspired his new book, The Lemon
Tree. I pass lots of homeless people everyday on the
way to work, and the American Radio Works doc on
fighting poverty is a sober look at how hard it is
to change welfare and create opportunities for the
chronically poor.
Need upbeat? The jazz selections do the trick.
Drying out,
-John
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REMEMBERING THE FALLEN
Memorial Day: May 29
The Cost of
War
Blunt Youth Radio, 7:44
Lavinia Gelineau talks about the loss of her
husband Chris, a young soldier recently killed in
Iraq. Weeks later Lavinia Gelineau herself was
murdered by her abusive father.
Vietnam
Blues
Tina Antolini, 28:38
Vince Gabriel is a Vietnam veteran who's written
an album of songs chronicling his experience of the
war.
More Memorial Day
options.
Image by PrinceVlad.
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HARD-HITTING AUDIO DOCS
After
Welfare
American Radio Works, 60:00
The welfare reform law signed by President
Clinton was supposed to "end welfare as we know it."
Is moving people off welfare the same as moving them
out of poverty?
The Lemon
Tree
Sandy Tolan / Homelands Productions, 38:23
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
through the interwined stories of an Israeli woman
and a Palestinian man.
The book "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the
Heart of the Middle East" has just been published.
Author Sandy Tolan is going on
tour.
Check out the
latest documentaries.
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TWO-WHEELED PIECES
May is National Bike Month
One Shoe
In the Road: Struck Cyclists and Their Stories
KBOO / Don Goodwin, 12 drop-ins
An intense mix of
recollections by cyclists who have been struck by
cars.
In a
Cornfield in Iowa
Brown Student Radio, 05:40
Stuart Schussel bicycles across the country and,
contrary to expectation, does not find
himself.
Fixed Gear
Bikes
Jonathan Menjivar, 03:28
An exploration of the bicycle and why sometimes
simpler is better.
Image by Kevin Meredith
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ARVID HOKANSON'S EDITORIAL BOARD PICK
Cigar
Stories: El Lector - He Who Reads
The Kitchen Sisters, 22:35
At the turn of the century until the 1930s in the
cigar factories of Tampa and Ybor City, a well
dressed man in a panama hat with a loud and
beautiful voice sat atop a platform and read to the
cigar workers as they rolled.
"Another fantastic piece from Jay Allison and the
Kitchen Sisters. This piece is sound rich and full
of information. Well done!" - Editorial Board member
Arvid
Hokanson/KUOW
Read the full
review.
See all
Editorial Board Members.
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RELIVING HISTORY THROUGH SONG
From Weekend America
SERIES:
Song and Memory
Ann Hepperman, drop-ins
Is there a song that brings back a strong memory
from your childhood? Song & Memory explores our
nation's culture and history through music.
Image by Giorgio Raffaelli
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PRX is a collaboration of the Station Resource Group
(http://www.srg.org) and
Atlantic Public Media (http:/
/www.atlantic.org), with support from public radio
stations and producers, The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, The National Endowment for the Arts,
The Ford
Foundation, NTIA's Technology Opportunities Program,
the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open
Society Institute, and the Surdna Foundation.
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