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homemade radio documentaries

Greg pointed out a wonderful This American Life piece (real audio). Listen to the whole show as it will give you a sense of how the pros make it seem effortless. The Superman episode is wonderful and qualifies as art.

You can (and probably should) create family interviews and, with the surging interesting in podcasting, it might be fun to offer a real program.

Here are some high level recommendations. Lots of people use mini discs, lots of people use DAT. A few of the hard disk mp3 players have audio in, but most of them would need a good (adjustable) preamp and a monitor out to be useful.

A more entertaining and thorough guide is available through TAL in comicbook format. Outstanding and recommended.

It is much cheaper than video and can be easily as creative.

steaming on with the bbc

Most of my radio consumption is now over the Net ... mostly using streaming mp3 stations.

The BBC is an exception as it is RealAudio based and doesn't integrate into iTunes. I've been using Steam to get schedules and to invoke hte Real Player.

Recommended! You can even get Radio Cymru and Radio Gaidheal for texture.

I can't imagine missing BBC, CBC or NPR news - but then again I'm something of a radio junkie.

how smart is your radio?

People have been talking and mis-talking about smart radio techology recent (a few rather embarrassing reports have been printed in magazines and newspapers).

I've been looking for a good non-technical paper to recommend and this one (pdf) by Kevin Werbach and the New America Foundation and Public Knowledge is one of the best. I have no idea who the foundation is...

notes on the recording of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

I spent the better part of a day digitizing my old tapes of the BBC Radiophonic performance of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy recently. This sort of duty can be quite wonderful as it gives you another opportunity to sit down and seriously listen to an old friend (I highly recommend slowly digitizing your old collections for this reason).

The BBC radio version is my favorite of the work - I prefer it to the book, the straight reading of the book and the TV adaptation. A bit of searching turned up a note on the performance.

my toes were numb and the fajitas were too spicy

The View from Mrs. Sundberg's Window - a blog of sorts - has turned up on the Prairie Home Companion website.

Lots of revamping. I tend to listen to PHC with the periodic still images. Periodic images seem to help - they give you a sense of connection and are sufficiently rare to allow your mind to work out the imagery in the story telling sessions.