Portrait of the artist as an answering machine. Fake Radio Broadcasts - Recreated dispatches from the battle front. The number of languages spoken in the world is diminishing.
Experts say it's a tragedy.
Diamonds in the Dungheap - A idiosyncratic collection of sound based at the University of Michigan, and the character who curates it. These Pennyland home recordings, lost for the last fifty years, have just been found. The series is a collection of richly layered stories that explore the ways recorded sound captured history, how sound changed the course of the closing century, and how the sound of life has changed in the last hundred years. Family home recordings and audio artifacts will be gathered from listeners and featured in segments that provide glimpses of the century in the sounds and stories of everyday life. They also include love poems, Pancho reading the trades announcing the sale of the screen rights for The Glass Menagerie, some of Tennessee's gorgeous and moving prose, and the sounds of life on Royal Street in 1948.