Very interesting interview of an author who wrote a book about life in the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada. The opening remarks were read too slowly and the interviewer lacks charisma, but he asked good questions. With a re-edit of the interviewer's remarks, this could be a five-star program. I like the "Radio Curious" series title.
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Posted on January 28, 2004 at 01:20 PM
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Public health researcher and curious female M.D. plugs her book based on several years of visiting the Mustang Ranch. Very non-judgemental piece lacks the expected grit the subject lends itself to with a rehearsed interview style. Mild, but still interesting. Appropriate for mild mannered adults.
If you are going to do a piece on "life in a brothel"--it might be a good idea to go to an actual brothel. Instead, this piece is an extended phoner with an author who had spent time in a brothel and wrote a book about it. This places the listener three layers removed from people who work/live/patronize brothels. It's too "hands off" to ring as real and authentic. This extreme disconnection zaps the substance from the subject. This might make for an interesting three-minute piece on the book and its subject, but it doesn't work in this extended format.
This is informative and would work great as a shorter piece focusing on one part of the interview and as an overall look at prostitution.
It would work as a 29:00 piece if it had more sound variety. Maybe the producer could have gone and checked it out in person, pretend he's an ATM salesman or something (is Mustang Ranch still a "working" ranch?).
I don't think this works as a 29:00 piece because as a phone interview it just doesn't have the variety of sound a long piece needs. If you are producing a piece on prostitution, this would be a good part of the overall piece.
A well-done interview with the author of a book about a Nevada brothel. Edited a little roughly in a couple of places, but very interesting. The questions are not at all hardball, but the author is an egaging speaker. She gives some fascinating and sometimes surprising (to me) details about the workings of the place, and the comeraderie among the sex workers and their support staff. This sounds like a good, straight-forward series.
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Produced by Barry Vogel--Radio Curious
Other pieces by Barry Vogel
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6 comments
Shawn Cooper
Posted on February 25, 2006 at 07:27 PM | Permalink
Review of Life in a Brothel
Interviewer/host speaks too slow. Some uneven pauses. Difficult to listen to at times.
Interesting detail - provocative enough to make me overlook the problems and pay attention to the story. Overall a sad story.
Definitely not a driveway moments story.
Fred Flaxman
Posted on February 26, 2006 at 05:18 PM | Permalink
Review of Life in a Brothel
Very interesting interview of an author who wrote a book about life in the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada. The opening remarks were read too slowly and the interviewer lacks charisma, but he asked good questions. With a re-edit of the interviewer's remarks, this could be a five-star program. I like the "Radio Curious" series title.
[redacted]
Posted on January 28, 2004 at 01:20 PM | Permalink
Life in a Brothel...
Public health researcher and curious female M.D. plugs her book based on several years of visiting the Mustang Ranch. Very non-judgemental piece lacks the expected grit the subject lends itself to with a rehearsed interview style. Mild, but still interesting. Appropriate for mild mannered adults.
Eric Nuzum
Posted on November 22, 2003 at 06:53 PM | Permalink
Review of Life in a Brothel
If you are going to do a piece on "life in a brothel"--it might be a good idea to go to an actual brothel. Instead, this piece is an extended phoner with an author who had spent time in a brothel and wrote a book about it. This places the listener three layers removed from people who work/live/patronize brothels. It's too "hands off" to ring as real and authentic. This extreme disconnection zaps the substance from the subject. This might make for an interesting three-minute piece on the book and its subject, but it doesn't work in this extended format.
Hans Anderson
Posted on November 03, 2003 at 06:26 AM | Permalink
Review of Life in a Brothel
It would work as a 29:00 piece if it had more sound variety. Maybe the producer could have gone and checked it out in person, pretend he's an ATM salesman or something (is Mustang Ranch still a "working" ranch?).
I don't think this works as a 29:00 piece because as a phone interview it just doesn't have the variety of sound a long piece needs. If you are producing a piece on prostitution, this would be a good part of the overall piece.
Noah Miller
Posted on October 31, 2003 at 10:23 AM | Permalink
Review of Life in a Brothel
A well-done interview with the author of a book about a Nevada brothel. Edited a little roughly in a couple of places, but very interesting. The questions are not at all hardball, but the author is an egaging speaker. She gives some fascinating and sometimes surprising (to me) details about the workings of the place, and the comeraderie among the sex workers and their support staff. This sounds like a good, straight-forward series.