I suppose just about every radio producer ends up doing at least one program about love and romance. Here are two of mine. Back in the mid-eighties, personal ads were a novelty, long before the era of Match.com. I answered a few ads to get the story. And who doesn’t remember his or her first kiss? I do, but luckily, for this feature I was on the listening end of the microphone.
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Radio Programs: Strange Places
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 moreRadio 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 […]
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