New French soda carries Obama's name.
Republican Caucus insists it be referred to as "Freedom Fizz."
But seriously, this story segues into some really interesting things about French society.
Producer: Eleanor Beardsley
Program: Morning Edition
Playtime: 4 minutes 42 seconds
Date: December, 2008
Story of a guy who composes music to be played by volunteers on a whole bunch of boom boxes.
Producer: Jonathan Mitchell
Program: Studio 360
Playtime: 7 minutes
Date: December, 2005
I never knew there was a term for the banging that steam raditors do. Steam Hammer. If you don't know what the steam hammer is count yourself lucky. Here is a link to what many of us New Yorkers get to hear in the middle of the night.
The New Yorker's Ben McGrath talks about how the financial collapse relates to the end of the world as we know it...and he feels fine.
Program: New Yorker
Playtime: 10 minutes 20 seconds
Date: January, 2009
Weekend America (on it's second to last week) reaches back into their vault for this nugget about an Indian hugging saint. Seems appropriate in these days when lots of us need a hug.
Producer: Krissy Clark
Program: Weekend America
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
Check out the pronunciation of the phrase "Son of a Bitch" from Merriam-Webster.com. Keep an eye on the interns, people...
Soundprint.org brings "a portrait of the ebb and flow of life within the Alfred Hospital's Trauma and Emergency Department in Melbourne, Australia."
This piece is done in a cool "kaleidoscopic style" instead of the straight narrative style. Check it out. It one of two stories from SP this week. Title: "Trauma." Alternative link.
Playtime: 28 minutes 29 seconds
Studio 360 story from 2007 about the inevtor of the Hoberman Sphere.
Playtime: 8 minutes 29 seconds
Date: August, 2007
Studio 360 story from 2007 about the inventor of the Hoberman Sphere.
Producer: Lu Olkowski
Program: Studio 360
Playtime: 8 minutes 29 seconds
Nude! This Soundprint episode is about being NAKED and NUDE. Listen and hear lots of talk about NUDITY and being NUDE. NUDE. NAKED.
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.
Studio 360 finds out what growing up with the Wizard of Oz was like in Russia.
From the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, a cautionary tale about exotic pets.
Connor Walsh sends AD this unbelievable story from the BBC about the constoversial history of the foreskin of Jesus Christ. Incredible.
[Note: Fast Forward 18:00 minutes for the Jesus's foreskin Story.]
Came across this BBC doc. Not sure when it is from. A secret meeting of world movers and shakers is held every year in various locations around the world. What's the big secret? Is it okay for big wigs to meet and not say what they talk about? Do these meetings have some secret, undemocratic sway over world events?
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
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
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
After hosting the UK's most popular breakfast programme for 27 years, Sir Terry Wogan called it a day, on 18 December 2009. He says goodbye to his hugely loyal and involved listenership, on BBC Radio 2.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 52 minutes 43 seconds
Date: December, 2009
A rich feature in the European tradition, blending vérité, drama, and music. A lake in the Norwegian mountains. Fish, family, friends, strangers.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
(Photo: Martin Williams)
Producer: Martin Williams
Playtime: 54 minutes 32 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
Resonance FM's Voice on Record programme features an hour of Irish storytelling. Part two of three.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 59 minutes 53 seconds
A simple, engaging tale of war-time Britain, told by Documentally. Just one of the curios to be found on AudioBoo.fm.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 1 minute 43 seconds
Date: March, 2010
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
Sound Tourism maps places worth a visit because they sound so good. In this example, curator Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford, UK, introduces the great Stalacpipe Organ in Virgina, USA. By tapping stalactites with mallets, it claims to be the world's largest natural musical instrument.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 15 seconds
If it isn't T-shirt vendors that stop the next terror attack maybe it will be 'shrooms... Piece sent to us by an AD user. Thanks Matt!
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