Listening In Podcast
1) Studio 360 2008.10.31 – Music, Memory and My Mom
In the Summer of 2008, I decided to finally put together a piece about my mom and her singing. In 2003, she was struck by a massive stroke, which took out her language. My mom’s loss of language...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Weekend America 2008.10.11 – Listening In on the Schooner Anne
On April 23, 2007, Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad set out from New York harbor on an ambitious sailing voyage. Their goal was to sail for 1000 days without touching land, carrying all their provisions wi...Show More
3) Weekend America 2008.08.02 – Listening In at the Paralympics
Mary Stack is an amazing athlete who has followed her prowess as a lifter all the way to the Beijing 2008 Paralympics, representing the US proudly. I spent the day with her as she went through her wo...Show More
4) Weekend America 2008.05.08 – Listening In on the Space Shuttle
Every morning on the Space Shuttle, a song is the first thing the astronauts hear. It is played by NASA Mission Control in Houston to rouse the astronauts from sleep. The songs are chosen for the as...Show More
5) Studio 360 2008.04.11 – From Addis Ababa to Boston with Mulatu Astatke
In this piece, we meet Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian jazz. A pioneering lsquo;global citizen,rsquo; Astatke became in 1959 the first African to ever attend the famous Berkelee College of M...Show More
6) Weekend America 2008.03.08 – Listening In in the O.R. with Dr. Atul Gawande
Indie rocker Kim Deal from the Breeders crooned from the iPod docked in the operating room where Dr. Atul Gawande and his team were performing a thyroidectomy. Wearing something that looks like a show...Show More
Weekend America 2008.03.08 – Listening In in the O.R. with Dr. Atul Gawande
07:06 | Aug 3rd, 2008
7) Weekend America 2008.01.19 – Listening In with Daniel Libeskind
Architect Daniel Libeskind listens to a solid block of uninterrupted music in the morning to start his day.nbsp; "Itrsquo;s not something of a luxury, itrsquo;s almost a necessity.nbsp; And itrsquo;s ...Show More
8) Studio 360 2007.11.16 – Migrant Worker's Love Song
I went to China to see what kind of musical culture I would find among the migrant workers there. I had heard that there is a floating population of over 100 million migrant workers there, mostly fro...Show More
9) Weekend America 2007.11.10 – Listening In on the Creative Process
Visual artists listen to music in their studios to get their creative juices flowing, to lose themselves in their world, to focus their energies. Natalie Frank, a great young painter (a mere 27 years...Show More
10) Weekend America 2007.09.15 – "Listening In: The Delivery Room"
Music is a phenomenal way to control your environment - to make a room "yours".nbsp; More and more expectant mothers and fathers who want to make the delivery room feel more like home are bringing the...Show More