Salvation, as offered up by preachers, doctors, and radio frequencies. Host Dean Olsher speaks with Father Robert Castle, a.k.a. "Cousin Bobby" to those who saw him twelve years ago in a documentary by Jonathan Demme. Performer Deborah Margolin revisits a period when she saw more than her fair share of white lab coats and hospitals. And The Next Big Thing’s Amanda Aronczyk finds faith in the voices on the radio. Also, "The Week (or So) in Review," with NBT commentator Steve Almond.
What Did You Learn in School Today?
Our "man on the street," Pejk Malinovski, learns from the youth.
Week (or So) In Review
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Hearing Voices
God? Satan? The dead? Those are just a few of the explanations listeners came up with to explain the voices they heard in the early days of radio. Even today, for some, radio hasn’t lost its otherworldly power. Amanda Aronczyk travels through time and frequency, looking at the ways radio ...
Sounds of Spring
Spring, at last, as it sounded outside the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where the Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band performed; at the take-out counter at Hog Heaven in Nashville; and on the wide slope of San Francisco’s Dolores Park. Produced by Ben Adair.
Sometimes a Father
Four Twenty
Salve
Mi lagnero tacendo
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