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Radiolab / October 20, 2002

Radiolab

Sunday, October 20, 2002
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    Food for Thought

    We start this week with stories about food. All kinds! Food therapy (nothing like baked goods to make you feel better), food for thought. Then, a detailed look at the elusive notion of international justice. What have we learned from Nuremberg, Bosnia and Rwanda? Good question. And finally, our series on the history of Rhythm and Blues takes us to the deep south, circa 1950's - a time of "Whites Only" clubs, colored bathrooms and the Chitlin circuit.

Hour 1: Food for thought...
Cake
A cynical New Yorker journeys to the south to rescue a friend from post-breakup-trauma and in the process reaffirms the healing powers of cake.

Writer/Performer: Greg Walloch, Produced originally for WNYC's The Next Big Thing

Greg Walloch is featured in the television series The Moth with host Griffin Dunne on Trio: Popular Arts Television. The episode entitled Carpe Diem: Seize The Day airs on Trio in November. Greg's writing is also featured in the book Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories forthcoming from Haworth Press. For more information visit: www.GregWalloch.com

Concering Breakfast
Annie Cheany volunteered as a reporter at a public radio station several years back. She discovered one of the first things radio reporters do before an interview is set the levels on their tape recorder, often by asking the guest what they had for breakfast. Somewhere in tape heaven are thousands of hours of tape about what people had for breakfast, which reporters gathered JUST to set levels and then left on the cutting room floor. In this story, Annie Cheany - who has long struggled with anorexia - left the questions in.

Producers: Jay Allison, Annie Cheany, Christine Eggloff

Mind Body and Soul
Dr. Gregory Whitehead interviews a performance artist who devours books, literally. Each day he eats a page of the King James Bible, Grey's Anatomy and the Oxford English Dictionary.

Producer: Gregory Whitehead

Gregory Whitehead will be performing as part of the Segue Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, just north of Houston, Saturday October 19th, 4-6pm, $4 admission goes to support the readers, www.bowerypoetry.com.

Gregory Whitehead's voiceworks and radio plays include The Pleasure of Ruins, Pressures of the Unspeakable and The Thing About Bugs..

Also in this hour, excerpts from...
Love vs. Ice Cream - Which is better? (Well, one thing's for sure: ice-cream can't get a girl pregnant!) Produced by Sarah Margolis Piniot and Catherine Grover, from Blunt Youth Radio in Maine.

The Arepa Lady, produced by Jim Leff @ chowhound.com

Sound Memories, produced by Jim Metzner from Pulse of the Planet (pulseplanet.com), originally for All Things Considered.

Hour 2: Justice on Trial
On July 1, without the support of the United States, the new International Criminal Court came into existence. The new court's goal is to prosecute war crimes. "Justice on Trial" examines the promises of justice, the successes and failures of war crimes courts in Nuremberg, Bosnia and Rwanda.

Correspondents: Stephen Smith, Michael Montgomery, Deborah George
Host: Deborah Amos
Executive Producer: Bill Buzenberg
Links: www.americanradioworks.org

Hour 3: The History of RnB "Roadhouse Blues"
Where words fail, music speaks. In the 1950's, Rhythm n Blues brought about social change for black entertainers travelling in the south during segregation. Eating out of the back of restaurants, performing for "white only" audiences, Gladys Night, Sugarpie and James Brown made political statements simply by showing up night after night.

Produced by Lex Gillespie for The Rhythm & Blues Foundation
Executive Producer: Suzan Jenkins
Links: www.rhythm-n-blues.org