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The Next Big Thing Archive
November 2002
Out Laws
Sunday, November 24, 2002
We look at people living outside the law – both voluntarily and involuntarily. Host Dean Olsher explores the messy legal terrain confronting gay couples who want the privileges of a “divorce,” and talks to local historians about female criminals on the Lower East Side in the 19th century. Sound artist Miranda July introduces a new crime genre – the Independent Crime Crime Crime Crime Crime. Plus, radio producer Ken Hom on growing up under the influence of Chinese Opera.
Sex, Books and Trains
Sunday, November 17, 2002
Host Dean Olsher posits the theory that three disparate realms – the romantic, the literary, and the transit – have a remarkable tendency to collide. As evidence, he offers: an interview with romance novelist Eloisa James, a short story by Mark Strand, and the voices of New York City straphangers. Also, this month’s five sounds, awaiting your authorship.
On Love and War
Sunday, November 10, 2002
Meditations on two of the most powerful forces in our lives, and the ways they intersect. We’ve got a new radio play from the Naked Angels Theater Company that explores conflict in the bedroom, and conversations with four veterans who served in the same battalion together during the Persian Gulf War. Plus songs of love and faith by Ethiopian pop music superstar Gigi.
Everybody in the Booth!
Sunday, November 03, 2002
Some very persuasive arguments about why you should vote, from people who should know - Mario Cuomo and Aunt Alice, among others. Plus a walk around the rock and roll block with record producer Jim Dickinson, and another round of "What's Your Word" with word diva Erin McKean.
