Radio Silence Podcast
1) Episode 7: Stillness, and Still Here. Resilience. Remaining. (broadcast version)
Our final episode: Listen to an American combat veteran recall Iraqi samoon bread, which he refers to as white gold. Hear the song of the Iraqi bulbul bird, the first sound ever broadcast on Radio Bag...Show More
Episode 7: Stillness, and Still Here. Resilience. Remaining. (broadcast version)
30:00 | May 26th, 2018
2) Episode 7: Stillness, and Still Here. Resilience. Remaining. (explicit version)
Our final episode: Listen to an American combat veteran recall Iraqi samoon bread, which he refers to as white gold. Hear the song of the Iraqi bulbul bird, the first sound ever broadcast on Radio Bag...Show More
Episode 7: Stillness, and Still Here. Resilience. Remaining. (explicit version)
30:00 | May 26th, 2018
3) Promo — Episode 7: Stillness, and Still Here. Resilience. Remaining.
Coming May 27
4) Episode 6: The Censored, the Forbidden, the Disappeared
We’ll hear about Iraqi monuments kept hostage by U.S. troops, denying access to the Iraqis to whom they belong. Listen as we trace the stories of artifacts looted from the Iraq Museum, and hear an Ira...Show More
5) Promo — Episode 6: The Censored, the Forbidden, the Disappeared
Coming May 20
6) Episode 5: Silent Letters
An Iraqi tells us about the absence of certain sounds in the Arabic language, and a veteran reads letters from her former grade school teacher’s class, sent to her while in combat and never answered. ...Show More
7) Episode 4: Shyness and Withdrawal
We’ll hear about a soldier’s refusal of tea and how that led him to work toward rediscovering his and Iraq’s humanity, eventually leading him back to Iraq. We’ll also hear about the unlikely love stor...Show More
8) Episode 3: The Hushed and the Secret
On this episode, an Iraqi activist shares stories about silence as a form of protection in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. We’ll also hear a radio play about Dolphin Man, invented by an Iraqi as a savior of th...Show More
9) Episode 2: The Mute
We’ll explore the sounds that have been evacuated from Iraq, musicians muted by their disappeared audiences and bygone origins. Listen to an instrument built from a tree that no longer grows in the Ir...Show More
10) Episode 1: Speechlessness
Our debut episode, devoted to the topic of speechlessness, introduces you to our host Bahjat Abdulwahed, the “Walter Cronkite of Iraq” living as a refugee in Philadelphia. Hear an Iraq War veteran’s s...Show More