Producer Picks

One of the best-known stories from the Bible reenacted with an armadillo. Sort of.

Brady Udall
This American Life
23 min 00 sec
Air Date: 03/10/2000

Playing around with audio samples taken from pornography films, producer Ed Prosser was struck by how much the moans and groans came to resemble the calls of whales.

Ed Prosser
On The Nature Of Things
02 min 16 sec
Air Date: 05/16/2012

The man who helped bring the Hubble Space Telescope into focus.

Tim Skoog
TAPEdocs
10 min 57 sec
Air Date: 05/11/2012

For centuries, the Newfoundland fishery was hailed as the greatest in the world. Then, in 1992, the cod disappeared and island culture was poised to go the way of the cod.

Chris Brookes
Homelands Production
14 min 58 sec
Air Date: 01/28/2005

Private investigator Paul Bieber heads to Colombia for answers to a question victims of paramilitary violence are rarely — if ever — asked: What does justice look like to them?

Paul Bieber
Transom
10 min 37 sec
Air Date:

The effects of bullying, discussed by an often ignored expert: a young bully himself.

Jones Franzel
Transom
09 min 33 sec
Air Date: 03/13/2012

Aspiring young DJs without much money, post-blackout looting, and abundant hi-fi stores. Delaney Hall explores how the New York riots of 1977 sparked hip-hop music.

Delaney Hall
Sound Bank
11 min 47 sec
Air Date: 08/2011

For over 40 years, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sponsored a program that placed Native American children in Mormon homes. The program aimed to help bring a “cursed race” back to the Kingdom of God.

Kate Davidson
Homelands Production
15 min 40 sec
Air Date: 01/23/2005

In 1942, Edna Lavilla Haynes died from a backyard abortion. After her death Edna was never mentioned again. More than 60 years later, Edna’s granddaughter looks for clues.

Eurydice Aroney
Sharon Davis
RTÉ Radio 1
42 min 47 sec
Air Date: 04/19/2009

Legions of fetal cells hang out inside a mother for decades after she gives birth — and might even help heal her when she’s sick or hurt.

Robert Krulwich
Radiolab
20 min 29 sec
Air Date: 04/30/2012