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Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later [11.12.2013]

Say your movement is restricted to one zip code - ...

Say your movement is restricted to one zip code - you might get stir-crazy, feel restricted. Sound recordist Tony Schwartz knew there was enough in his NYC neighborhood to keep him recording an entire career. Also in this show: Dick speaks with record collector Ignacio Varchausky of Buenos Aires.

A Prisoner And A Guard From The Attica Prison Riots [11.11.2013]

Memories of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

Finding Sanctuary In A Home For Outcasts And Criminals [11.08.2013]

Guest host Phoebe Judge speaks with Neil White, who got ...

Guest host Phoebe Judge speaks with Neil White, who got sentenced to 18-months for check fraud. He expected a minimum-security prison, but instead found himself in a home for leprosy patients. Then, Phoebe meets some of the people at the Carville National Leprosarium. Also in this show: Booker T. Jones on the rules of the organ, the day he first stepped into Satellite Records, and just how “Green Onions” got on the radio.

Wolves And The Man Who Hunts Them [11.07.2013]

Carter Niemeyer has wrestled with wolves to relocate them and ...

Carter Niemeyer has wrestled with wolves to relocate them and examined the scenes of livestock kills to determine if wolves were responsible. He is a wolfer.

Hearing For The First Time [11.06.2013]

Sarah Churman talks about how she was able to hear ...

Sarah Churman talks about how she was able to hear for the first time when she was 29 years old. Also in this show: Producer Marika Partridge shares music, stories and sounds her family gathered in during a world tour in 1968.

Light And Ice [11.05.2013]

Camille Seaman's Shinnecock Indian ancestors hunted whale in the Atlantic ...

Camille Seaman's Shinnecock Indian ancestors hunted whale in the Atlantic Ocean, and began to photograph the the wonder of icebergs through her camera lens.We also hear from Elaine Parker who worked at McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica.

Winning And Losing In Football's Forgotten Town [11.04.2013]

Dick speaks with a coach and quarterback from the legendary ...

Dick speaks with a coach and quarterback from the legendary football program of Muck City, Fl.

Alexandra Fuller [11.01.2013]

Guest host Phoebe Judge speaks with writer Alexandra Fuller about ...

Guest host Phoebe Judge speaks with writer Alexandra Fuller about growing up in Africa. She captures her fierce, resilient mother, whom she calls "dangerously imaginative." Fuller says Africa and her mother taught her self-reliance and tenacity.

Discovering Leonardo [10.31.2013]

Dick speaks with Dianne Dwyer Modestini, the art restorer who ...

Dick speaks with Dianne Dwyer Modestini, the art restorer who discovered a painting by Salvatore Mundi was actually a painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Also in this show: Photographer Christian Patterson on how he discovered evidence of Charles Starkweather's and Caril Ann Fugate's muder spree - 50 years later.

Disappearing America [10.30.2013]

Photographer David Plowden's passion for America's steel bridges, corn fields, ...

Photographer David Plowden's passion for America's steel bridges, corn fields, boats and steam engines is almost tactile in his photos. He talks with Dick Gordon about what has stopped him from taking photos: namely, the feeling that the America he knew is gone, and with it, many of the people he photographed with such admiration.