Month: May 2014

Radio Programs: Folklore

Folklore is a topic that has always fascinated me, and I got to play with it a little in my radio work. Ghosts is a little sound portrait of people’s stories about their brushes with the supernatural. La Llorona is a story about a woman who goes momentarily insane and drowns her two children in the river by their house. Once she awakens to the reality of what she’s done, she spends eternity wailing as […]

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Radio Programs: Holidays and Special Occasions

In the late ’80s, Adi Gevins and I got a grant to produce an eight-part series of half-hour documentaries called A Gathering of Days: An American Holiday Sampler. She did Father’s Day, Independence Day, New Year’s and one other delightful program whose theme I’ve temporarily forgotten. My contributions were: 1. For Mothers’ Day, Mothers: 2. For Halloween, The Time Between: 3. For Christmas and the winter holidays, ‘Tis the Season: 4. For Valentine’s Day, Attachments: […]

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