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Fez Morroco, in sound
"A tape recorder is a pocket full of bread crumbs. When you record sounds wherever you go, you leave an invisible trail from moment to moment. And then one day you listen to the tape and you find your way back again."
That's how producer Jim Mentzer begins this beautiful sound walk through the ancients streets of Fez, Morocco, which he calls a "human hive" of activity.

Producer: Jim Metzner
Links:
www.pulseplanet.org
http://savvy.mpr.org/show/features/2000/20000624/fez.shtml
(this piece first aired on Minnesota Public Radio's "The Savvy Traveller")

Fez, in Music
We hang out for a little while longer at Fez, courtesy of WNYC's omnipresent John Schaefer. He let's us dip into his vast archive of recordings from the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. What a nice guy!

Links:
Fez Festival Photo Gallery

Afrosippi Picnic
Reporter Benjamin Adair takes us to a picnic in Mississippi where the roots of the music and the people and the pie can be traced back hundreds of years. He uncovers two distinctly American traditions. The first: "Fife and Drum" music, descended from early American military music. The second is the Great Picnic - a celebration of sharecroppers in days gone by.
Producer: Ben Adair
Links:
savvy.mpr.org
(this piece first aired on Minnesota Public Radio "The Savvy Traveller")

Inside
Imagine you are a super-hearing listening device, where even a dripping tap resounds in the recesses of your mind, keeping you twisting and turning in your bed at night. Producer Millicent Dillion brings to the life the sounds of a man tortured by sound.

Performed by Rene Auberjonois
Writer: Millicent Dillon
Produced and Directed: Erik Bauersfeld
Sound Design and Production: Jim McKee
Music: Wieslaw Pogorzelski
Creative Consultant: Irene Oppenheim

Hour 2

Summer Camp
What do you remember about summer camp? Is it the mosquitoes, the stench of the outhouse, the indiscernable food...or water wars in the lake, the touch of sunburn on your cheeks from hiking, and seeing your best friend sitting across from you through the flames of the campfire. Helen Borten takes us back.

Producer: Helen Borten

BBC- Muslims in Modernity- Iran
When Iran was tagged a member of the phantom "Axis of Evil", that country's tug of war between modernity and tradition was all but forgotten. The BBC's Roger Hardy takes a look at the push and pull between the reform movement and the smaller but more vocal movement to keep things as they are (or were), all seen through the eyes of women.

Correspondant: Roger Hardy
Producer: Zina Rohan

Hour 3

Let the Good Times Roll: the Jet pilots of Jive
It took wild, colorful DJ's to break the music that would eventually become Rock N Roll. We begin the PRI series "Let the Good Times Roll" with this look at how the pied pipers of RnB layed the groundwork...

Produced by Lex Gillespie for The Rhythm & Blues Foundation
Executive Producer: Suzan Jenkins
Links:
The Rhythm & Blues Foundation