Playlist: 2020 KCRW Radio Race
Compiled By: PRX Administrator
Short Stories from 2020 participants.
Each year, KCRW hosts the Radio Race - a competition that attracts amateurs and professionals alike. 2020 marks the first race to take place during a global pandemic. The theme - Time Warp. Included below are four of this year's top pieces and more:
1st - One Day by Monique Laborde
2nd - Engulfed in Flames by Alex Lewis, Mooj Zadie & John Myers
3rd - My grandmother's recipes by Sarah Mashman & Lea Redfern
The L.A. Award - Blackness in an Hourglass by Shaka Mali
The Social Butterfly Award - Searching For Our Future Selves by Arlie Adlington & Jess Lawson
One Day
From Monique LaBorde | 04:17
One day in the life of one family, experiencing the day we're all afraid of.
There are standards for making radio, like recording indoors, in a quiet place... But if I turn off this bubble machine, my two-year-old niece might have a meltdown. There’s also fancy, expensive equipment for making radio. But I packed a bag in ten minutes, so every recording in this piece was made on my iPhone.
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- One Day
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- Monique LaBorde
Winner of the 2020 KCRW Radio Race.
Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)
From Alex Lewis | 04:00
Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television.
This piece was produced by Alex Lewis, Mooj Zadie and John Myers, as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project. Music by Alex Lewis.
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- Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)
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- Alex Lewis
This piece took 2nd place in the 2020 KCRW Radio Race.
My grandmother's recipes
From Sarah Mashman | 03:57
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found through protest, through joy and through cooking.
This piece was made for the 2020 KCRW Radio Race.
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- My grandmother's recipes
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- Sarah Mashman
Toni recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found through protest, through joy and through cooking.
Searching For Our Future Selves
From Arlie Adlington | 04:22
Jess and Arlie cycle through the London night to see if they can find their future selves... A piece about imagining queer futures!
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- Searching For Our Future Selves
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- Arlie Adlington
This piece was made by Arlie Adlington and Jess Lawson for the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race, 2020. The theme was Time Warp, which got us thinking about queer time and how it can be hard to imagine your future when you're queer and have no road map. In the piece, we head out in the London night on our bikes in search of our future selves...
Look At The World Jaleel
From Raymond Pang | 04:00
Listen to Helen as she makes sense of what happens when new motherhood, a global pandemic, and systemic racism collide.
This piece was made by Ian Fox, Lucy Perkins, Ariana Martinez and Ray Pang as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project.
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- Look At The World Jaleel
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- Raymond Pang
Venmo Reparations
From Beandrea July | 03:56
When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offered the money, $100 at a time, no questions asked, to support black women writers. Amidst America's current racial reckoning, do Venmo donations offer a small but significant new-age form of reparations?
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- Venmo Reparations
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- Beandrea July
Beandrea July found the donor and several recipients to ask the question. Produced by Samantha Hodder and Beandrea July, original music by Kolya Salter for the KCRW 2020 Radio Race
This piece was produced by Samantha Hodder and Beandrea July as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project.Original music by Kolya Salter.
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