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Port Said: Intersection between East and West
April 2 2012Cargo ship hitchhiker Allison Swaim reports from the north entrance to the Suez Canal.
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Portrait of the Bully as a Young Man
March 2012Transom Donor Fund winner, Jones Franzel thought she was advising on a youth-produced feature about Jeff, a bully who ended up in jail, but the portrait changed course, brought Jones into it, and tread on her boundaries between teacher and reporter.
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You Must Live It
March 2012Globe-trotting radio producer, Allison Swaim checks in from Istanbul and shares with us what she is learning about how to tell a story.
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The D-Word
February 2012At Transom, we are steady advocates of Slow Radio, un-rushed humanity-filled storytelling. In that spirit we present "The D-Word" by Ed Prosser. Yes, it's about Death. And about people who make their livings from death. The pace is slow. There is plenty of time, after all. When you feel like changing your rhythm, come listen.
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Random Tape
January 2012Public radio is good at giving us understandable, digestible bits of information and occasionally great stories. But it doesn’t provide many of the elliptical, mysterious, and poetic fragments of life as we actually experience it. Producer David Weinberg is drawn to those uncoded audio moments. He's drawn to “random tape.”
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Transom Story Workshop - Class of Fall 2011
December 2011For seven weeks this fall, students from all over the US (plus Canada and Australia) came to Woods Hole to immerse themselves in radio. Come read about their experiences and listen to some of their work.
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Floating Parking Deck
November 2011Allison Swaim brings us sound and image from on board a RO-RO car carrier on the North Sea. This is part of our year long series of stories from the trade routes.
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Back on the Map
October 2011Transom Donor Fund winner, Allison Swaim is traveling the world via cargo ship and documenting her journey as she goes. She checks in with us now from Sweden and catches us up on what’s happened since we last heard from her.
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Sounds & Echoes: A Buffalove Story
August 2011Sounds & Echoes is another of Transom’s Donor Fund projects; we admire the spirit of the thing. It’s a web/radio love song to the music of Buffalo, NY, but more than that, it’s a testament to directed collaborative creative energy. The producers write about how they moved from an idea to a project, and what they want to do next.
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Packing Dilemma
July 2011Allison Swaim on what one packs for a year long trip on cargo ships to get the story of global trade.
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