NY Times: 82% of Job Losses Are Men, Women to Overtake Men in the Workforce
Check out the audio interview of the NY times's CATHERINE RAMPELL that accompanies the article.
Check out the audio interview of the NY times's CATHERINE RAMPELL that accompanies the article.
This is a fascinating interview from the New Yorker Out Loud about African immigrants in China and the impact of that - intermarriage etc. They also mention that one of the them - married to a Chinese women - is Obama's half brother.
Program: New Yorker
Date: February, 2009
BBC interview with David Attenborough legendary host and voice of British nature programs [er, programmes].
Producer: BBC
Program: The Interview
Playtime: 25 minutes 30 seconds
A couple weeks ago we linked to the NY Times audio slide show about a lesbian-only community. This week the New Yorker takes on the the lesbian separatists of the 70's. I guess covering radical dykes is suddenly en vogue in the New York press??
Producer: Ariel Levy
Program: New Yorker
Playtime: 11 minutes 35 seconds
Date: March, 2009
Obama: "Don't put words in my mouth. Especially not in the White House."
Date: June, 2009
This is audio of part of an interview Planet Money's Adam Davidson did with TARP watchdog Elizabeth Warren. It features Warren and Davidson going at it pretty heatedly about what Warren's role should be. The interview subsequently illicited this apology (at about 1:50) in which someone hinted that Davidson's interview was sexist ( he wouldn't have spoken with Tim Geithner like that) and then this scolding by NPR's Ombudsman. All of which made the interview all that much more interesting and people. I am sure it is the most even listened to Podcast from Planet money.
Marketplace talks to a 89 year old inventor who is making diamonds bigger and cheaper.
Date: June, 2009
This is a really fascinating dialogue from the BBC between a group of Iranians -- both inside and outside Iran -- about the election "protests" going on there.
Playtime: 7 minutes 40 seconds
A cool clickable map with audio from the Portland Oral History Project -- "Boise Voices" -- that focuses on a specific neighborhood. Lots of new residents interviewing older one. Hyper local!
Heard about this from the Portland Sentinel.
New Yorker audio interview with Kelefa Sanneh, who profiled the bombastic, enigmatic talk show host Micheal Savage for the magizine. This piece is unique for the New Yorker in that it uses multiple clips from Savage's radio show.
Thanks to Third Coast international Audio Festival for turning us on to this. With appoligies to Daniel Johnston, an audio project that simply asks the question. Anyone can call and contribute. They have a podcast on iTunes and a Facebook page, too.
Interview with Dylan hero and Pete half-brother who passed away Aug. 7.
Here is the NPR rememberance.
He did it as a high school project. His teacher gave him a B- ...until the president called. It's a 2 minute story with four minutes of music after it. Weird.
Hey Beavis, this like a really funny interview and stuff. Mike Judge has a new movie out.
Did you know there is a podcast called This Week in the History of Psychology? Well there is. It's out of York Univsersity. This episode is about the psychograph (pictutred). The psychograph was based on the idea of phrenology.
You'll have to get past the intro and the overview of the weeks psychology history to get to the discussion of the psychograph.
From the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, a cautionary tale about exotic pets.
There has never been a proven case of an innocent person getting the death penalty. The case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in Texas in 2004, may become the first.
TAL sends 9 producers to interview people at a single rest stop in New York State.
In Verse: Women of Troy from InVerse on Vimeo.
An MQ2 project receiving funding from the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), "In Verse is a collaboration between poets, photographers and radio producers to create a new model of storytelling in journalism. "
The project will be featured in Virginia Quarterly Review and on Studio 360.
Here is an audio slide show sneak peak. It's one of three that can be found here.
Apropos to nothing, really. I like this 2000 Transom interview with the late Studs Terkel.
"I'd gone to law school and it was a bleak horrendous experience. Under no circumstances would I ever practice law."
Search Engine with Jesse Brown with a unique interview of Ira Glass about the internet and public radio. Search Engine is from TVO "Ontario's public educational media organization and a trusted source of interactive educational content that informs, inspires, and stimulates curiosity and thought."
This is a great show from WUNC. This episode features a story (about 3/5 of the way through) from a son who witnessed his father, in order to support the family, getting the heck beat out him, in a carnival boxing match, for $25. Talk about hard times.
Six men who have become islands of loss, guilt, and illness, also live as islands of hope. Over twenty years, they've lost lovers and friends to HIV and AIDS. A beautifully crafted and engaging documentary in the 2009 Global Perspectives series.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 28 minutes 8 seconds
A short experimental feature on New Orleans, by Alfred Koch. Made for the International Features Conference, and symmetrically bi-lingual, English-German.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau.
Playtime: 3 minutes 46 seconds
Producer Anna Yaedell remembers a painting from her childhood, and through it discovers a story exemplifying 20th century Europe. The people of today meet a strong woman who lived through the second world war and far beyond, in Potsdam. A Classic Dox from Radio Netherlands, originally broadcast in 2004.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 29 minutes 30 seconds
Get to know avid Star Trek fans – who also happen to be both Irish and gay.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 23 minutes 48 seconds
The BBC's weekly environmental programme, One Planet, goes on an American road-trip. The Englishmen see big cars, generous people, and the inventor of lithium-ion batteries. All on the road to Copenhagen.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 27 minutes 2 seconds
Date: November, 2009
Technology, Science, Interview, Environment, Education, American Issues
Oleg Kalugin was a KGB agent in Washington DC. And he really lived the life.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 11 minutes 30 seconds
Taking performance art to the level of a stunt, as much as a project. Ronan Kelly details provocative arts works that caused a public stir, in Sweden, Ireland, and the UK.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 16 minutes 18 seconds
A Radio New Zealand tale of motorcycles, romance, and reflexology. Plus ghosts.
The weekly documentary Spectrum profiles a woman who moved from a trailer in Australia and and her corporate job, to New Zealand and a life in alternative therapies.
This story goes many places – all via one woman.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 23 minutes 30 seconds
An interview with the renowned BBC radio features producer, Piers Plowright. From the Radio Radio series, by PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania and Ubu. A masterclass, and insight into the mind of the man who forms the programmes.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 44 minutes 58 seconds
A revealing and upsetting interview with a woman who has been stalked by one man for fifteen years. The story, which includes aggression and threat, starts in June 1994, and continues up to today.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 18 minutes 30 seconds
The successful struggle of an immigrant doctor to the town of Twillingate, New Foundland. Dr. Mohamed Iqbal Ravalia is profiled delightfully by the CBC.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 19 minutes 15 seconds
An old-school radio feature, with actorly presentation and interviews with Fidel Castro, from 1958. Brought to us by CBC's archive programme, Rewind.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 51 minutes 3 seconds
An old sofa, and an upholsterer who is a powerlifting world champion. Mighty Mac won a Special Award at the Prix Europa in 2009. An engaging, endearing and vivid documentary, with strong accents.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 42 minutes 15 seconds
Lots in the news about the controversial adoption of Haitian children. AD listener Kevin Bolger sent this really "on-the-ground" personal story from a 25 year-old whose mom really wants a couple Hatian kids.
"brief interview with my friend about a possible change to his family. His mother is considering adopting children from Haiti."
Local traditions about St Patrick abound in Ireland, and this RTÉ documentary looked at one, in 1981, with the first visit to a rocky island by humans for hundreds of years.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Producer: Dick Warner
Program: Documentary On One
Playtime: 39 minutes 29 seconds
An American artist goes to Ireland to fight time. From the classic Radiolab Beyond Time, starting 10 minutes in.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 10 minutes 10 seconds
Devin Katayama produces an independant audio project in which he drinks beer with people and records their conversations.
"This is meant to be the rebel relative to public radio. It's meant to capture an audience that public radio doesn't reach and to bring the dirty lives we live to the ears of those who are interested."
Every Sunday, BBC Radio 4 presents a 45 minute selection of the week's best speech output. Most of it comes from three of the domestic networks, so provides a snapshot of BBC content largely unknown to listeners outside the UK. The usual mix includes factual, music documentary, comedy, and drama. For contractual reasons, each episode stays online for just one week.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau.
Playtime: 45 minutes
An extraordinary series of interview about men who've volunteered for chemical castration. In one possibly upsetting interview, a sex offender discusses how he chose it, and life now. Also, a man who was not a sex offender but physically castrated himself to reduce his testosterone fuelled aggression.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 52 minutes 12 seconds
A sound rich journey down one of London's arterial roads, Caledonian Road, from The Guardian. Up The Cally is an engaging mix of local characters, narrator, music and sound. Plus it's available as a clickable map and audio slideshow.
In an exclusive interview with AudioDocumentary.org, the producer, Francesca Panetta tells how making the piece has affected her.
Since this interview was recorded, Francesca has won Britain's highest award for audio, the Sony Gold Award, for Best Internet Programme.
AudioDocumentary.org Europe
Playtime: 40 minutes 29 seconds
Sound Rich, Interview, Immigration, History, Food and Beverage, Environment
Danish features go North American – the Third Coast International Festival's Julie Shapiro guides a listening event in Denmark, with a selection of engaging radio from the USA and Canada.
Third Ear is a Danish features project, and this is their first instalment entirely in English, under the banner of Third Ear International.
Audio Documentary Europe.
Playtime: 57 minutes 49 seconds
Date: May, 2010
The age old story – young versus old. An up-front and considerate look at teens and the elderly not quite getting along in South London.
From Reprezent's Radio Peckham's youth radio project.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 19 minutes 33 seconds
A World War II veteran, Gerald Flower, recalls candidly and vividly his time as a tail-gunner. The facts and emotions of bombing raids, and of falling behind the German lines.
From RTÉ's The Curious Ear.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 15 minutes 4 seconds
Aung San Suu Kyi has turned 65, still under house arrest, 20 years after being elected Prime Minister of Burma. This profile of her captures her symbolism, strength and beauty, in both content and form.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 22 minutes 41 seconds
The book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives gets a radio reprieve with a new story specially commissioned for the BBC's One Planet programme about ageing. But this episode is most noteworthy as the one where the host makes an old lady cry.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 26 minutes 29 seconds
A girl of Mexican origin in New Zealand is less than impressed with BPs public relations efforts, and phones up Mikey Havoc on Auckland radio station 95 bFM to find out more.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 7 minutes 11 seconds
Date: August, 2010
Frequencies is a four part series that celebrates the power of sound, as represented by radio, in the arts.
Audio Documentary Europe.
While the furrowed brows of the BBC World Service are on holidays, they've let the creatives loose, with great effect. Two engaging documentaries about UK citizens who have been put somewhere difficult. Philip McTaggart's son committed suicide, changing his life. Mary Thida Lun's mom fled the Khmer Rouge, and now has a daughter serving in war zones as a British civil servant. Big topics, in a manner more full of human contradiction and personality than we usually hear on the BBC World Service.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 22 minutes 29 seconds
Interview, History, Death, Gender, Violence, Immigration, Health and Beauty, Interesting
As the world's media watches the rescue of trapped miners in Chile, we look back to 1936, when the Canadian Radio Commission reported for six days the attempts to rescue three men trapped in a mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia. A selection of the reports, from the CBC Archives.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 11 minutes 44 seconds