Today has been Bake-a-Tape Day. I bought and tested two convection ovens and a fruit dryer. The former will go back to the store because they cook too hot, but the dehydrator seems to be doing the trick, albeit erratically. (I need to find one with a fan.) I successfully baked away the sticky shed syndrome from two of three tapes. (The third is still screeching and dragging, so it’s back in the cooker.) I […]
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Scenes from Childhood: In My Mother’s Kitchen
I’ve finished digitizing all ten childhood programs! Here’s one about the experience of home as a sanctuary from the cruelties endured at school.
Read moreScenes from Childhood: I Must Be from Another Planet
The first public radio series I ever produced was made possible by the first grant I ever got, from National Public Radio’s Satellite Program Development Fund in the mid-eighties. As I remember, the award totaled $10,000 and the project took three years. I love this series, but I am still mortally embarrassed by the name I came up with: Skip Through the Shadows: Scenes from Childhood. I’ve always sucked at making up titles. You see, […]
Read moreMy Life in Radio, and the Story of Rose Maddox
For years it’s been nagging at me that I need to digitize my old public radio programs, but I’ve never had a free moment even to figure out where to start. Well, how’s this for fortuitous: the day I found out I have all this unexpected free time, I stumbled upon a box of DATs (digital audio tapes) of my work: Steel Drivin’ Man (about the John Henry legend), Skip Through the Shadows (my childhood […]
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