This hour we look at the ups and downs of confinement. Picture A Boxby Nate DiMeo (The Memory Palace, 2012)Sometimes the only way to get out of a tight space is by getting into an even tighter one. Henry Brown did just that when he sealed himself in a very tight space. Tunnel 57by Roman Mars & Daniel Gross (99% Invisible, 2014)In 1961, East Germany closed its border to West Berlin with a wall. But this isn’t a story about the the Berlin Wall. This is a story about how to get through it — or really, underneath it.Elbow Roomby Elizabeth Arnold (Stories From The Heart Of The Land, 2007)Alaska, China and Mongolia ~ How much land does a person need? Elizabeth Arnold, who lives in Alaska, goes in search of even more wide-open space—and ends up with a case of claustrophobia in Outer Mongolia.Sensory Deprivation Tank[Listen on our website www.thirdcoastfestival.org]by Jonathan Goldstein (Wiretap, 2007)In this segment, Goldstein's friend Howard Chackowicz travels through the cosmos from the safety of his very own homemade sensory deprivation tank — fashioned out of a giant recycling box.PhotoAlex Eflon

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