Re:sound

This week on the podcast, a Third Coast original production.The Sitter Dispatchby Maya Goldberg-Safir & Dennis Funk (Re:sound debut, 2015)Straight out of college, Maya was living in her cousins' attic and was working a part-time, unpaid internship. Then she took a job as a nanny that turned out to be nothing like she'd expected.

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This hour we celebrate the ethereal, Dickens-inspired works of British producer Cathy FitzGerald. Skylarking [Excerpt]by Cathy FitzGerald [Sound Design by Joe Acheson] (Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3, 2014)Cathy FitzGerald meets a prisoner and a paraglider in this airy daydream about the delights of looking up at a big blue sky. **Please note Skylarking is a lawn-based, horizontal radio feature best experienced from the comfort of a picnic blanket with a long drink, a soft pillow and a view of the sky.How to Dig a Grave [Excerpt]by Cathy FitzGerald (BBC Radio 4, 2014)Gravediggers exist in the popular imagination as a creepy, ghoulish breed. We keep them safely at a distance where they can carry the weight of our fantasies and fears about death. But what's the reality? And what lessons are there to learn six feet under the ground?The Cabinet of Animosities [Excerpt]by Cathy FitzGerald and Matt Thompson (The Documentary, BBC World Service, 2012)The Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb exhibits objects left behind at the end of love affairs. In this audio-guide for radio we hear tales of love won and lost, told through the things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at one another when it all goes wrong.PhotoRockethouse

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This hour stories of dads who are starting to slip away and the sons who are desperately trying to stay connected.The Mind Shaftby Lea Thau (KCRW, Strangers, 2014)Greg O'Brien has been a writer, journalist and thinker all his life. Now he is losing his mind due to early on-set Alzheimer's, and he's an astute observer of his own decline. He compares this clicking in and out to the flickering light of a loose plug in a socket. He's in a race against time to share his story before the plug falls out for good.My Father Takes a Vacationby Martin Johnson (RTÉ Radio 1, Documentaries On One, 2008)A few years after Martin Johnson's mother died, his father left he and his two siblings in their native Sweden to go cycling around the coast of Ireland. Six years later, Martin decided to retrace his father’s journey — the places he went, the people he met — to try and better understand who he was, why he disappeared and why he’s been leaving ever since.PhotoMichael Strong

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This hour we head back in time to 1984. [Listen to the full show here http://bit.ly/1vNkzgC]1984 (the year not the book)by Benjamen Walker (Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything, 2014)In the book 1984, George Orwell predicted that in the future "Big Brother" would watch and dictate our every move. In the year 1984, producer Benjamen Walker was in middle school. Like Orwell's protagonist Winston Smith, Benjamen kept a diary for "future citizens" in which he recorded the country's descent into totalitarianism — and his crush on a girl named Theresa. In 2014, he revisited those diaries and produced this sonic catapult to the days of Reagonomics, Thriller, Clara Peller and the birth of Apple. What would Benjamen's 12-year-old self think about the 42-year-old's documentary? Find out in Behind the Scenes.Advice on AgeingJonathan Goldstein & Mira Burt-WintonickWhat if, by some magic time/space dimensional realignment, you could go back and advise your younger self. What words of wisdom would you share? In this piece, people from age 5 to 90 offer advice on growing up. PhotoMatthew Pearcehttp://bit.ly/1AgbOj4

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This hour stories of detours, bad directions and finding the right path... on the road and in life.This Is Not The Way Homeby Lea Redfern (360 Documentaries [ABC RN], 2009)If direction in life is a positive, what happens to those who have no sense of direction? And can a relationship be thrown off course by the introduction of an intangible, yet otherwise seemingly perfect, third person?Choir Boyby Katie Mingle (Love + Radio, 2014)Tom Justice came from a well-to-do family. He was senior class president at a swanky suburban high school, graduated from college and excelled as an athlete. Then, a bank and a bike lead him to prison.Off Routeby Annie Costakis & Dennis Funk (Re:sound debut, 2014)A story about finding direction when your GPS has a mind (or minds) of it's own.PhotoRichard Drdulhttp://bit.ly/1zD5u6k

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This week on the Third Coast Podcast, we're sharing two of our favourite pieces that were entered to win the 2014 Little Mermaid Award. Into the Woods, Cell Phone, iPod and Allby Amy Pearl (New Tech City, WNYC, 2013)In the city, things never seem to slow down. So producer Amy Pearl decided to get away and hike the Appalachian Trail for a few days with her dog. The plan was to be totally unplugged. Well, almost.Varietyby Leo Hornak (In the Dark, 2013)A man with eclectic interests gives us a tour of his ancestral home in North Wales, and shares his philosophy on life. Listen to the Little Mermaid Award winners here:http://bit.ly/1y6Bb8c

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The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

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The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

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This hour, two stories in which random events change lives forever, and a third pulled from a random cassette.The Long Shadow [Excerpt]by Lea Thau (Strangers [KCRW], 2014)One day in February 1997, four young men decided they would go up to the top of the Empire State Building. What happened in the observatory that day was as random as it was terrifying and cast a long shadow over everything that came after. J Dilla's Lost Scrollsby Pat Mesiti-Miller (Snap Judgment [NPR], 2013)When record store owner Jeff Bubeck buys an old record collection out of an abandoned storage unit, he has no idea what he's (randomly) stumbled across. Jeff learns the collection once belonged to the late, great hip hop producer J Dilla. Along with the thousands of LP's from Dilla's personal collection, there's something else that's uncovered, something huge...The Dietby David Weinberg (Random Tape, 2012)A story unfolds from a cassette found at a yard sale, as a man instructs his family not to interfere with his plans to go on a diet that he hopes will cure him of AIDS.To find out more about the mysterious woman in this story, listen to Part Two here: http://bit.ly/1pbSJ00PhotoWeijie~http://bit.ly/1yMgg7L

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This week, Israeli soldiers speak out to advocate for Palestinian rights. Breaking the Silenceby Cathy Peters (producer) & Dr Peter Slezak (presenter) (360documentaries [ABC RN], 2012)In 2012, writer Peter Slezak took a tour of the Palestinian Occupied Territories where he met with Palestinians and Israelis — including members of an Israeli NGO called Breaking the Silence, which gives tours around hotspots in the West Bank and Gaza. Slezak witnessed what Occupation means in terms of the human rights abuses that occur routinely, and the annexation of Palestinian lands to large Israeli settlements and to the 700 km long Separation Wall.Interview with Rabbi Brant RosenBrant Rosen was rabbi at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois until his resignation in September 2014. He left the position because he felt his advocacy for Palestinian rights, and criticism of the Israeli government was creating divisions among his own congregation.

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