Hello, my name is Eric Klein and I loved this radio show of mine. It aired from fall of 2010 to fall of 2011 in the Bay Area of Northern California on KPFA. It was a story telling radio show. It was also a live call in show. It was a creative experiment.
For a purely experimental live show, take a listen to this episode first: “The Ballad of Mr Fantiso” because it combines live music, story telling, and listener calls.
Or just pick a show below and give it a listen. We did a series of shows called “Unemployed” and another called “Our Dead Friends and Facebook,” both using recorded stories and live listener calls.
Greetings. I have moved to Portland, leaving my life in the Bay Area and my job at the radio station behind me.
Someday I will make a new story telling radio show that belongs under the Crowsnest banner. Meanwhile…
I am working on this program with a good friend of mine: The Lost Generation Podcast. The above episode is the second in the series. We are covering news and politics from inside of the Great Recession.
I hosted ‘Letters and Politics” on April 22, 2011 – which was the day President Obama concluded three days of fund raising in the San Francisco Bay Area, which he kicked off with a “Facebook Town Hall.” As I was producing coverage of the president’s trip, I was surprised to learn about Facebook’s growing political foot print. We spoke with Dave Levinthal, editor with OpenSecrets.org at the Center for Responsive Politics; as well as Carla Maranuci, the political writer with the San Francisco Chronicle.
Maranucci was reporting from Obama’s fund raising breakfast in San Francisco when a group of ticket holding donors stood up and sang the president a song against his will: “…we payed our dues, where’s our change?”
Finally, I spoke with Heidi Shierholz, an Economist with the Economic Policy Institute about the dismal state of employment for young people during this Great Recession. America’s Lost Decade?
I hosted and produced "Letters and Politics" on April 20, 2011. The first part of the show covered the State of Vermont's ongoing legal battle with the Corporation that owns the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.
Guests were:
Professor Richard Stewart, Director, Center for Environmental and Land Use Law at NYU James Moore, Clean Energy Program Director and Co-Director VPIRG Energy
Stay tuned to this frequency for the forthcoming “Our Dead Friends and Facebook” documentary, which will borrow bits from the above three programs and include a few unheard bits as well.
Click to download “The Winds of Darth Vader’s Heart”
Ambrose Desmond took a trip to South Africa where he made a new friend who took him to Ecotopia, on a small island off the coast of Finland. Later, he meets a hermit who lives on an oasis in the New Mexico dessert. Ambrose also shared a story on the previous episode.
Ambrose Desmond, and a few other folks, share their tales. Mere seconds before this podcast file begins I asked the radio listeners to share their true stories of street protest, but that’s not what I got.
One Listener’s Story involved serendipity and the sculptures of Beniamino “”Benny” Bufano. This one is on display at San Francisco State University. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Tony Millionaire’s Maakies website as well as the valentine he described on the show:
real talk from Pearl Millionaire
SONGS
Most music from the show, as always, is from the Free Music Archive. The FMA is heroically supplying creators and connoisseur’s with music that likes being shared!
