K E M. (Rampallion) reviewed Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound, Vol. 1 (Audio Cassette) on + 158 more book reviews
Surprising and amazing radio essays about big and small events in North American life. Included are:
* a children's funeral service for a pet turtle
* a cardboard disk recorded by Tennessee Williams in a New Orleans penny arcade
* stories and songs of Cuban cigarmakers (narrated by Andy Garcia)
* carnival talkers
* fishmongers' sales pitches
* the sounds of the Northern Lights
* the life work of an agoraphobic professor who recorded thousands of everyday sounds within one ZIP Code in New York City
Two cassettes, about two and a half hours total.
* a children's funeral service for a pet turtle
* a cardboard disk recorded by Tennessee Williams in a New Orleans penny arcade
* stories and songs of Cuban cigarmakers (narrated by Andy Garcia)
* carnival talkers
* fishmongers' sales pitches
* the sounds of the Northern Lights
* the life work of an agoraphobic professor who recorded thousands of everyday sounds within one ZIP Code in New York City
Two cassettes, about two and a half hours total.
Karen U. (editorgrrl) reviewed Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound, Vol. 1 (Audio Cassette) on + 255 more book reviews
2.5 hours on two audiocassette tapes. Subtitled "Radio Stories from NPR's 'All Things Considered.'" Hosted by NPR's Noah Adams with Linda Wertheimer and Robert Seigel; produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) and Jay Allison with NPR. I took this to the gym, and it actually made running fun.
The stories:
Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
Gettysburg Eyewitness
Cigar Stories -- narrated by Andy Garcia
Carnival Talkers
LBJ and the Helium-Filled Astronaut
Archival Sound Restoration
West Virginia Steam Trains
Listening to the Northern Lights
Partridge Family Tour
Tennesse Williams: The Pennyland Recordings
The stories:
Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
Gettysburg Eyewitness
Cigar Stories -- narrated by Andy Garcia
Carnival Talkers
LBJ and the Helium-Filled Astronaut
Archival Sound Restoration
West Virginia Steam Trains
Listening to the Northern Lights
Partridge Family Tour
Tennesse Williams: The Pennyland Recordings
