All Pieces for Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

 
#3 - Sea Cucumbers, Blood Worms, and Russian Mail Order Brides
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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Moral – The path to a story is not always straight. Sometimes it’s circular.

Bought by Radio Newark, WOUB, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 15:21
  • Purchases: 4
#2 - Putting Words in the Mouth
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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Radio producers face ethical questions every day. When we remove words, flip sentences, delete a pause, etc., we make ethical choices involving the...

Bought by Radio Newark, WOUB, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 12:26
  • Purchases: 4
#1 - Getting In
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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Welcome to the first Saltcast! We want to start the podcast with a bang and Matt Largey’s piece “Five Things” fits the bill.

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Maine Event
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...

Bought by WMPG and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
A World of Their Own
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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For two years, Karen Hawkins spent twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week with a Capuchan monkey named Mookie - until a routine trip to the gro...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
54 Years
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:46
Gamers!
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The games they play here involve dragons, wizards, and superheroes. And sometimes...they come with stereotypes.

Bought by KUOW and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 2
Lou, the Crossing Guide
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Lou takes a break., Credit: photograph by David Foster
Portrait of Lou Alexander, a crossing guide in Portland, Maine

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:56
The Flock from the Block
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The wisdom of a birdman

Bought by PRX Remix and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
Dam Radio Story
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of one man's quest to harness the power of the tide, and why now, nearly 100 years later, the quest continues.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 1
Powered by Laughter
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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For Katie West of Bath, Maine, laughter is not only a way of life but a tool for survival.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 2
How I Get By
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Rebecca continues her fight for a normal life using a controversial cure.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Iowa Public Radio, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 08:21
  • Purchases: 3
The Junk King
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jerry Blackburn is "The Junk King" of the downeast region of Maine -- a junk king with a dream.

Bought by WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Apr 04, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 3
Only I Can Now
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
Something Left To Give
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At 53, Dr. Bruce Churchill was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 4
Wicked Maine Limericks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The limerick is a form of poetry that is short, rhyming and often of a sexual nature.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
All Around Giving
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The Trinity Jubilee Center in Lewiston, Maine is located in one of the poorest Neighborhoods in the state. It doubles as a soup kitchen and refugee...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRGY, WRIR, Raven Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 11
Spontaneous Hooplas
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Tracy Tingley is a hula hooper in Portland, Maine. She found hooping just before leaving her job as a financial advisor.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 4
Fiddle-icious
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3
Security in a New Homeland
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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John Yanga is a refugee from Sudan. He's trying to start a family farm in Maine, where he and his family of nine settled.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:58

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