Radio Documentary 2006

 

Life on the Hudson - by Daniel Weiss
Just blocks from Broadway, a community of river dwellers struggle to keep their "watery neighborhood" of houseboats afloat despite persistent rocking, raging storms, and limited space.

Secret Shame Songs - by Lanie Shapiro
Do you listen to Britney and Justin when no one will know? We all have musical skeletons hidden in our closets... or at least in the playlists of our iPods.

Air Guitar - by Bruce Wallace
The 2006 national air guitar finals are in June in New York City. Bruce Wallace reports from the qualifying round.

Hip Hop Karaoke - by Erika Beras
New York City prides itself on fusion and contradiction--frozen hot chocolate, creole sushi, rush hour yoga--and now hip hop karaoke. Can gangsta rap and classic kitsch work?

Don't Sleep on the Subway - by Bree Nordenson
You wake up. It's 4 a.m. You're in a glowing green hallway in an outer borough. You guessed it... you must have fallen asleep on the subway.

Surgery Down There - by Marisa Taylor
Cosmetic surgery has increasingly become a part of American culture. But now women are having cosmetic procedures done in places you can't even see.

Follow the Body - by Lawrence Lanahan
What happens after a person donates his body to science? Lawrence Lanahan follows the process from embalming table to medical school to waterfront plot.

Om or Groan? - by Jill Bauerle
Ideally yoga is a calming activity that leads to spiritual enlightenment. But in practice it's a different thing altogether.

Translating U.N.-ese - by Jina Moore
The United Nations its own unique culture. At the heart of it is a formal, arcane form of English. Here's the story of that language and one surprising guy who turned it on its head.

Running from Burma - by Megan Hauser
Myra Dahgaypaw, an ethnic Karen refugee from Burma, tells us her story.

Veteran Deported - by Matt Hirshberg
Courtney Ferguson went to war for the U.S., but he wasn't a citizen. When he got busted for drugs, he was sent back to Jamaica.

She Knows - by Zaidee Stavely
Moms always seem to know everything about their daughters. Is it just motherly intuition, or some kind of psychic power? And could that give them power over you?

Mom's Letters - by Andrea Appleton
A box of old letters from Mom reveals a very different person than the woman Andrea Appleton grew up with.

Mission To Kentucky - by Elsa Heidorn
Elsa Heidorn talks with her great aunt, who arrived in Eastern Kentucky to work as a missionary before World War II. Missionaries are still there today, addressing poverty and drug addiction in new ways.

Rage Against the Car Alarm - by Matt Reed
Car alarms continue to scream and blare on New York City's streets, despite years of efforts by community groups and council members to ban or restrict them.

Diving for Treasures - by Susie Cagle
In the past few months, hobby dumpster diving has been featured everywhere from local papers to CNN and Dateline NBC. Susie Cagle explores the gamut of these affluent garbage hunters.

The Panther and the Cop - by Matt Bird
Sonny Grosso was a cop. Jamal Joseph was a Black Panther. They once were enemies. Years later they met again, this time as filmmakers.

Flowers from the Dead Earth - by Bruce Wallace, Lawrence Lanahan and Classmates
The Radio Documentary Class of 2006 pokes fun at one of Alex Blumberg's first story pitches to This American Life.