The Dark Night of The Soul

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Here are a couple of radio pieces from Fall 2009! Check out all the radio work from this semester and past ones at PRX (click here).

‘Fiddle-icious’ by Molly Haley

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‘Hide and Seek’ by Amanda Thieroff

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Salt graduation happens the day after the final gallery opening. I can’t tell you exactly what it entails (top secret!), except that each track gets five minutes to represent themselves. This semester, the radio track went all out with a parody of the Saltcast [...]

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A clip from my audio documentary on the naturist community here in Maine. Harry Dixon is an 86-year-old naturist from Lewiston. He told me about his first time going to a nude resort.
I had to let this one go from my final piece because I didn’t know where it would fit… but I knew it [...]

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I’m working on a story right now about a magician – a real interesting, charasmatic guy. But, I find that while I’m always trying to stick a microphone (or sometimes a camera phone) in his face, he’s always trying to impress me with a new trick. Card magic! Close up magic! Illusions!
Today, after having asked [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, when I should’ve been feverishly working on my first story but couldn’t handle any more without some sort of unpleasant brain implosion, I gave a call to Catie Talarski, a Salt radio alum from 2005, to see how things have been going since her semester here. She is now a senior producer for a morning news talk show called “Where We Live” on Connecticut Public Radio.

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My Niche In Life

For the past two days, all of Salt got together in the Red Room for a critique session of every single person’s story. Having 35 people giving you their opinions about your piece is kind of scary, but so so helpful–it was a pretty unique experience to be able to carve out time for everyone [...]