Episode #532
There You Are: a Normal person. And Then One Day...
Friday, April 08, 2005
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(Chernobyl)
Nearly twenty years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, we bring you stories from survivors, collected by Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich. Also this week, record-digging with Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier, expert scavengers of the Numero Group label. And conversation with former New Yorker colleagues Jamaica Kincaid and Ian Frazier, who have remained fast friends for three decades.
A Woman Walks Into a Bar...
Vinyl Archaeology
Bonus Track
Here’s a song from one of Numero Group’s reissues. It was originally a production of Arrow Brown, creator in the 1970s of Bandit Records. The song is "Sweet Pea," sung by Altyrone Deno Brown.
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