Lea Thau. Peabody Award producer is right up there with Ira Glass.
Tonight Lea Thau through Kickstarter, raised $20,000.00 enough to begin Season 2. For 10 years, Lea was the executive director of The Moth, a public radio program that features people telling true stories that happened to themselves in front of an audience and without notes. I never delete the stories in my Itunes library because they are enlightening, some are funny, some are sad, some are unbelievable,
but they are all true with none being over 18 minutes. I enjoy listening to some multiple times.
Lea decided to develop a new story-telling program called "Strangers" where all stories are about an encounter with a stranger that turns into a story, an unbelievable tale.
Lea, a talented journalist who interviews the "strangers" and records huge amounts of information and then edits the story down to about 30 minutes. "Strangers" is produced through KCRW in Los Angeles, and is part of the Independent Producers Project whose mission is to give people with creative ideas for radio programming a place to make it happen. "Strangers" aired twice monthly and generated many, many fans. A few months ago Lea announced she wanted to do stories in more depth and hence decided to do the program monthly for an hour.
I can't wait for Lea to return to my collection of public radio podcast subscriptions which are free and easily synced to my beloved Ipod.
Ed falls to sleep quickly, but this is my time for listening to quality radio. (with my earbud fit snugly in my ear and my head resting on a puffy, down pillow.......)
I don't know either of these talented journalists, but on the way to Ohio this summer, we heard a lovely story on NPR about a man and his chickens and how, as a youngster, he remembers letting them out of their coop at the end of the day, and how they loved to go the hill and scratch around for bugs. All the more reason to buy cage-free eggs.
ReplyDeleteYou would enjoy "This American Life" and also "Strangers" -- especially since you liked the story about the chickens.
DeleteA little later we will take down the tomato cages and tidy up the vegetable garden. Much love!!