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The Radio Lab Fundraising Special
It’s that time of year again. The time when we ask you: what is your public radio worth to you? How much would you be willing to pay for it? The best way we can think of convincing you that public radio is worth supporting is to do what we usually do – cobble together an eclectic mix of interviews, documentaries and sound from around the station.
Omar Sosa on Soundcheck
Performer and composer Omar Sosas CD, A New Life, includes sounds from his son, Lonius, recorded both before he was born and immediately after. Lonius prenatal heartbeat and his first bath are interwoven with Sosas original piano music in the piece Nacimiento. WNYCs John Schaefer speaks with Sosa on the Friday, September 12, 2003 edition of Soundcheck.
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Nancy Grows Up
Radio pioneer Tony Schwartz was the among the first to expound on the joys of tape editing (long before the days of digital video mind you), and perhaps there is no greater example of effective editing that in this little piece, where he recorded his niece Nancy growing up, from birth all the way through high school, and then condensed it into a two minute coming of age story.
Jean Shepherd
Jean Shepherd is probably best known for the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, which he co-wrote and narrated. Long before the film, however, Shepherd spent hours late at night every night for years telling his stories on WOR radio. He grew up eating meatloaf every day of entire childhood, but one night in college he tried something else, which we hear all about in this excerpt from a special produced by WNYC after his death in 1999.
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OReilly
vs. Franken
Satirist Al Franken wrote a book called Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, which includes a chapter about the Fox News Networks Bill OReilly. A couple of years before this book was written, producer Mike Pesca did a story for NPRs On The Media that caught OReilly in some of those lies. Since the book came out, Franken has spoken about OReilly on both Fresh Air and Talk of The Nation. It all comes together when we hear excerpts from all three programs.
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Reflections on the Blackout
People listen to WNYC for news, information and entertainment all the time, but when the power went out on August 16th this year, many of us were reminded of just what an important resource public radio is, just like we were reminded in 1965 and 1977.
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