SERIES: The Duplex Planet

Pieces in Series 94
Licensor David Greenberger
Producer(s) David Greenberger and various others
Formats
Topics Family, Senior
Produced 2006
Added to PRX June 19, 2006
 

Summary:

For more than a quarter century David Greenberger has been talking with old people in nursing homes, mealsites and senior centers, collecting conversations and stories. His radio pieces are genuine, moving, and often funny, exploring issues of aging through real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive.

Website:

http://www.duplexplanet.com

Additional Credits and Funding:

See individual piece listings

Tones:

Amusing, Thoughtful, Unusual

Language:

English

Description:

For more than a quarter century David Greenberger has been talking with old people in nursing homes, mealsites and senior centers, collecting conversations and stories. He has been publishing The Duplex Planet since 1979 and has released more than a dozen CDs of monologues with music performances audio verit? documentaries and a range of other books and audio works.

The radio pieces are very much an audio version of Greenberger?s Duplex Planet magazine. Genuine, moving, and often funny, frequently combined with music, the pieces explore issues of aging by revealing real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive. They reveal the common threads of our humanity.

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