Oh, the places I’ve been. There was that pawnshop in downtown Oakland, which I visited the day of John Lennon’s murder … And a jaunt to Reno with a tour group of elderly people who liked to gamble… Just down the street, busy wedding chapels abounded. And finally, off the coast of Sausalito, I found a mobile island.
Read moreMonth: May 2014
Radio Programs: Injustice
Humans abuse each other in infinite ways. I produced programs about two of them. The first, which was also my first program ever broadcast, shed light onto the practice of the involuntary sterilization of minority women. The second program is an hour-long investigation into financial abuse of the elderly.
Read moreRadio 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 […]
Read moreRadio 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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