The Duplex Planet

Series produced by David Greenberger

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For more than a quarter century David Greenberger has been talking with old people in nursing homes, mealsites and senior centers, collecting conversations and stories. His radio pieces are genuine, moving, and often funny, exploring issues of aging through real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive.

For more than a quarter century David Greenberger has been talking with old people in nursing homes, mealsites and senior centers, collecting conversations and stories. He has been publishing The Duplex Planet since 1979 and has released more than a dozen CDs of monologues with music performances audio verit? documentaries and a range of other books and audio works.

The radio pieces are very much an audio version of Greenberger?s Duplex Planet magazine. Genuine, moving, and often funny, frequently combined with music, the pieces explore issues of aging by revealing real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive. They reveal the common threads of our humanity.


94 Pieces

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A retired patternmaker remembers some of the clients who approached him with unusual projects

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :56
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A pair of dresses in a closet symbolize the death of Edna Wofford's son.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:12
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A healthy philosophy of life involves honesty, self-reflection, adaptation and humor

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
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A quiet murmur evokes the presence of a departed mother

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:25
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A breathtaking pace for a tale of barely learning to play the organ.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:19
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The tale of a happy marriage and family, touched by loss.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:44
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Lessons to help a husband be more independent in retirement, including how to use a George Foreman grill.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Her daughter is named after the area school district.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:22
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The information derived from a prescient ability is not always welcome.

Bought by Hearing Voices and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 2
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A magical view from a window includes the dark side of nature.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
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A tale of a happy childhood, thinking like a cowboy and making inventions.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
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A gentle diatribe against country music and too much of anything.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:40
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A recounting of an imagined sci-fi/pre-historic movie.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
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Elder wisdom on treating others with kindness

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:59
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In a minor way about the pleasures of beer. Mostly a treatise on children, spoken with genuine affection and admiration.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
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A tale about following an ant.

Bought by KUOW and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 2
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A reflection on the passing of time.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:39
  • Purchases: 1
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A reminiscence of loves lost and broken hearts, which ultimately turns optimistic.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:43
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A surreal guitar lesson that goes all over the map.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:08
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A pop song in the classic sense with a quirky monologue of implausible facts about how records are made.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:29