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September 22, 2009
PRX is Light on Its Feet
Hi friend of PRX,
From bug exterminator to faux Astair, that Tom DeLay was really something on “Dancing with Stars.”
As unwieldy as technology and public media can be, PRX tries to trip the light fantastic and make it look easy, too. Sample our massive audio archive. Be part of the community and join us on the public radio dance floor.
May we have this dance?
-John
PS: Nice seeing you in Cleveland. You know who you are.
A Spin Down Abbey Road Paul Ingles | 00:58:59 or 00:54:00
Award-winning producer Paul Ingles adds another installment to his series of programs spotlighting Beatles album releases. Music writers, musicians and Beatles fans weigh in on the album that included the last songs the band ever recorded together. It was released 40 years ago this September.
Julia Child and M.F.K. Fisher Marjorie Leet Ford | 00:28:25
A program on food in fiction hosted by Julia Child. Here MFK Fisher performs “I Was Really Very Hungry.” Taped in 1985, it is the only recording ever made of MFK Fisher reading a story.
In Julia’s Kitchen Andrew Parrella and WGBH | series of five drop-ins
Cooking and lifestyle programs have flourished on the airwaves since Julia Child first took a boning knife to a chicken. Honoring her memory, this is a series of five vignettes of the master chef in action.
Music & News Stations: New Ideas Curated to save you time
Trailblazers and Tchaikovsky: Gustavo Dudamel Conducts the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra WFMT | 00:58:29
“Have you heard about or, even better, caught ‘Dudamania’? 28-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel has been called everything good in classical music, and as he begins his new job this month as the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the music world has anointed him as the new face, voice and energizer of classical music, especially in the U.S.” - Music Curator David Srebnik, Virtuoso Voices
Turning to a Mediator to Break Up in Tight Times NPR Economic Training Project | 00:04:07
This piece “zeroes in on a way to get a divorce in this challenging economy: use a mediator. But it’s not all roses, and the reporter takes care to point out the difficulties that a couple run across when using mediation.” – News Curator Naomi Starobin, WSHU
FluPortal.org for public media:
Attention stations: This site is for you. We’ve got the latest H1N1 flu information and Web modules for your on-air and online coverage. Press release.
Congratulations to our friends at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:
The Web site LiveHopeLove.com won an Emmy for new approaches to news and documentary programming in the arts, lifestyle and culture category. Check out the companion radio special about the human face of AIDS/HIV in Jamaica here on PRX!
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