The Selects Podcast

This month we're sharing some selections from the 2012 special Mushroom Cloud, hosted by Larry Massett for Hearing Voices. Series Credits: Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has “Wild Dreams of a New Beginning,” an excerpt from “One of These days (or Nights)” produced for radio by Erik Bauersfeld (Bay Area Radio Drama), with sound design by Jim McKee (Earwax), and original music by Wieslaw Pogorzelski.Residents recall the Nevada and Utah nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s in their “Downwinder Diaries,” produced by Claes Andreasson.

At sunrise, on the banks of the Ganges river, the poet and radio producer Pejk Malinovski picks out a cow at random and starts to follow her. He continues to follow her until sunset.A consideration of the nature of radio, a pondering of inter-species relationships, Pejk's programme invites you to un-follow your digital stream and exercise your ability to be just present.Written and produced by Pejk Malinovski.First broadcast 24th February 2018, BBC Radio 3Check out the new Falling Tree Productions Archive Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/falling-tree/id6812121787

This week, we offer a bittersweet Pride tradition from the memory palace.  This episode of the Memory Palace was written and produced by Nate DiMeo with engineering support from Kath Tu and research assistance by Andrea Miln.  It was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.  

Today we're sharing a classic from the WNYC Archives - an unnamed reporter goes on the hunt to interview Beat poets in the Village, but has a hard time finding anyone willing to admit to being one.   Selects Live at Tribeca Festival (Limited seating, RSVP Required): eventbrite.co.uk/e/radiotopia-and-selects-present-new-york-stories-tickets-1989237542037********The original WNYC Municipal Archive discs of this program are missing. The old catalog indicates there were 2 - 16" discs. The recording on CD 993 was taken from a Rhino Records reissue of an excerpt of the longer work. Municipal Archives # LT 9089.  Based on the Peabody archive # this dates from February 8, 1959.  WNYC archives id: 12099

Today we're sharing a piece from our Early True Crime collection, an early podcast from KRCC (now Colorado Public Radio) in 2015.  The story follows a retired detective corresponding with a suspected serial killer while looking back at his own career.  The Gods Must Be Bewildered was produced Jake Brownell and Noel Black.  With voice acting by Kurt Bunch and Mike Percell.  The Production Assistant was Amelia Whitmer and the Intern was Emily Frogen.  Music by Jake Brownell.SELECTS LIVE AT TRIBECA!  RSVP Here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radiotopia-and-selects-present-new-york-stories-tickets-1989237542037