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Transom Podcast Audio – Archive (58)
Family Sentence
November 2004"My dad spent 23 years in prison. He started off as a Cuban Revolutionary and later ended up a convicted felon in the United States. We only talked once in the last 16 years. Then, out of the blue I got an email from him. He wrote, 'I'm home. Your biological father, Hector.''"
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Seafood Joint, Garbage, & Stress Test
July 2004When we first received Hans' work, the editors didn't know what to make of it. Once they figured it out, they decided he was brilliant and "dangerously ambiguous."
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The Imaginary Village
June 2004Come listen to this sensitive story from Homelands Productions' World of Difference project about the difficult subject of Palestinian right of return.
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The Tomato & the Big Apple
June 2004This high-concept trip follows a tomato from Florida to New York... and, well, sort of back again.
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Of a Piece
January 2004How do you maintain family traditions, or build new ones, after a divorce? Would an 8,000-piece jigsaw puzzle help? Michelle Orange thinks so. In fact, she'd even go 12,500.
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Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill
January 2004A refugee from the Dot-Com bust makes her debut in long form radio. Full of clever production, it is the story of a large, difficult and remarkable personality, Phyllis Fletcher's father, and it's told with great care and no blame.
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Girl Detectives
December 2003Sue Mell is an artist and writer and she's also been a stand-up comedian. This is her first radio piece. It's not funny. It's about the aftermath of a friend's murder, and the desire for resolution.
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Perfect Hearing
October 2003Nubar Alexanian is a Documentary Photographer, but this story could not be told well in pictures. It's about impaired hearing. And acceptance, and love, and endurance, and other messages hidden beneath the surface.
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Jimmy and Jewel: A Love(?) Story
June 2003At his grandfather's funeral, a woman he'd never met gave Jason Rayles a rose. In his first piece for radio, he tries to find out who this woman was... and a little more about his grandfather.
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