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18 – A Man Tapes his Town: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
Eddie McCoy owned a janitorial service in Oxford, North Carolina, a tobacco town of some 10,000 people. When he was badly injured in a car wreck, fru…
11 years, 1 month ago
17 – Unfinished Business: Ali vs Frazier VI, Daughters of Destiny
In 2001, a quarter-century after boxing’s celebrated “Thrilla in Manila,” Ali and Frazier were once again poised to enter the ring. But this time it …
11 years, 1 month ago
16 – The Green Street Mortuary Band
Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a poem about them. Amy Tan’s mother was serenaded by them as she lay in state. Jessica Mitford’s memorial procession was …
11 years, 2 months ago
15 – Electronic Memories: R.A. Coleman’s Memphis
In the early 1950s, at the same time legendary record producer Sam Phillips was making recordings of the pageants and events happening in Memphis’ wh…
11 years, 2 months ago
14 – Taylor Negron: Portrait of an Artist as an Answering Machine
A look into the life of Taylor Negron—actor, comedian, and telephone message hoarder—told through the voicemails on his machine. We produced this pie…
11 years, 3 months ago
13 – Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service: We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
Before Elvis walked through the door, before Sun Studios put Memphis on the map—Sam Phillips, a young man with a tape recorder, lived by the motto, “…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Nights of Edith Piaf
Episode 12
She rose every day at dusk and rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn. Then slept all day, woke up and began to create and unravel again as t…
11 years, 4 months ago
11 – Cigar Stories: El Lector—He Who Reads
Narrated by Andy Garcia. At the turn of the century until the 1930s in the cigar factories of Tampa and Ybor City, a well dressed man in a panama hat…
11 years, 5 months ago
10 – Dissident Kitchens
Part 3 of the Hidden Kitchens World Trifecta with host Frances McDormand: Hidden Kitchens Russia, stories of the role of the kitchen in the downfall …
11 years, 5 months ago
9 – Atomic Wine
Part 2 of the Hidden Kitchens World Trifecta with host Frances McDormand and special guests Werner Herzog, Gael Garcia Bernal and Stories of Atomic W…
11 years, 5 months ago