Welcome to the Radio Ephemera archive. Here you'll find a collection of short audio stories (2:30 - 3:00 minutes). Each is inspired by two of the books below, and includes the voice of a stranger. Click on each cover for a good look or the link below to browse through each title.


                               "Trees as              "Control of Body       "The Big Strike"           "Trailer Ahoy!"      "The Facts of Life
   Good Citizens"              and Mind"                                                                                       for Teenagers"
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The Radio Ephemera (RE) audio challenge is a happy collaboration between the Third Coast Festival and the singular Prelinger Library, based in San Francisco, CA. Four RE submissions will be chosen as the 2008 TCF ShortDocs, and those producers will be invited to Chicago to present their work at the 2008 TCF Conference, in October. These four submissions will also be announced and featured prominently on the website in early November.

We're no longer accepting submissions for Radio Ephemera but thanks to everyone who contributed to the mighty collection of 72 (!!) submissions below. We're enormously proud of the amazing work you've produced!

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72) Family Tree
by Kyle Sweet-Chavez and Sergio Chavez / Durham, NC / USA

Description: Two families share very different reasons for planting a tree when their baby is born.

Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens (specifically Chapter IX - "Trees As Memorials") /
The Stork Didn't Bring You! (Chapter 12 "Calling All Parents" = Planting a tree to memorialize your baby's birth)
Strangers: We placed an ad "Did You Plant a Tree When Your Child Was Born?" Everyone we interviewed were strangers who responded to the ad. Their stories were wholly unknown to us until we showed up on their doorstep with a microphone.

71) Good luck bestows upon you. You will get what your heart desires.
by Andrea Silenzi / New York, NY / USA

Description: Grandma Phyllis reads me her fortune.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: waitress from New Green Bo Restaurant in Chinatown, NY

70) Too Much Shade
by Annie Baxter / St. Paul, MN / USA

Description: This piece traces the devolution of a trailer to a tree.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Trees as Good Citizens
Strangers: Bob Rialt, a trailer park resident in Minnesota

69) The Searchers (based on a true story)
by David P. Earle / Los Angeles, CA / USA

Description: Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You! / Trees as Good Citizens
Strangers: The good people of big book stores everywhere
* Chosen as a 2008 TCF Shortdoc

68) Harvey Carne Workout Method, Cassette 6
by Laura Vitale, Eric Barkin and Tye Pemberton / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: In this next calorie-cutting installment of the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance, Harvey shares his patented philosophy and scientific knowledge of body, mind and fitness to help you sculpt a leaner, more muscular physique guaranteed to turn you into a wolf - a successful stalker of prey.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Don Gomez, found character actor
Website: detectivesradio.com

67) Lady Bait
by Laura Vitale, Eric Barkin and Tye Pemberton / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: Lizzie and her sister think they are coming to Ray's just to see his monkey, but little do they know that Ray and Oscar have been sweating to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Don Gomez, found character actor
Website: detectivesradio.com

66) Kid Lit
by Kristina Lund / Minneapolis, MN / USA

Description: A periscope of my grandmother's death and how babies are made.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Strangers: Friar Tuck and Prince John from Robin Hood Cartoon

65) The Good Citizen's Control of Body and Mind
by Sara Vogel and Aliza SImons / Berkeley, CA / USA

Description: A mad professor attempts to bring a cadaver to life.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Strangers: Lee Cressey, community radio producer, students
Acting credits: Micah D, Lee Cressey, Sam Cohen

(sounds obtained from freesound.org: music box, wood saw, chalk board writing, breath group shocked, heart monitor, fan starting, drill getting closer, vacuum start and stop, zipper saw, electric school bell, classroom, power up, electric shock)

64) Are You Sure?
by Carrie Shepherd / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A look at the age old dilemma - the unexpected pregnancy, and a peek into how today's busy, independent woman approaches the unexpected news.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: fellow shopper at the drugstore

63) Stork-Bird Brain
by Carolyn Hoerdemann / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A journey through the mind of heartache, on an Island, that is really a peninsula.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Dawn, Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center, Bob

62) Mr. Alm's Garden
by Tom Horan / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: The story of a discovery of a secret garden.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: distortion of my own voice

61) Telepathic Trees
by Amber Cortes / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: Brief encounters of the inter-species communication kind...

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Dr. Simon Evans, Neurologist / Cleve Backster, Polygraph Expert
Website: youneverknowradio.com

60) I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
by Molly Adams / Portland, ME / USA

Description: This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: My mom's friends of forty years, Susie and Rolla, and my mom herself, telling secrets and stories from before I was born

59) Trees Have Full Control of Body and Mind and Are Thus Very Good Citizens
by Amy Denes / Evanston, IL / USA

Description: A very comic and nervous "Monty Python" type exploration of the life of a tree.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: a creaky tree-sounding accordian

58) Govern the Ganglia
by Ken Cormier / Storrs, CT / USA

Description: A found poem - all text from chosen books.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You! / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: laughing students of Bristol Central High School and the Clear-space Theatre
Website: thelumberyardjournal.com

57) Teen Mind
by Frank Karall / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yea.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Eric R. Kandel M.D and Richard J. Davidson Ph.D.
Website: ftkcpa.com

56) The Highway 57 Breakdown in Three Part Harmony
by Dan Zellner / Skokie, IL / USA

Description: Busting out, breaking down, success, failure, positive thinking and finding the right trailer hitch.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: Rob Kempton - mechanic
Website: studioz.com

55) Scared
by John Biewen / Durham, NC / USA

Description: A guy muses on the fears associated with a loved one's body.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: voicemail lady
Website: cds.aas.duke.edu/audio/index.html
* Chosen as a 2008 TCF Shortdoc

54) The Big Meeting
by Catherine Halley and Wendy Jo Carlton / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town.

Inspired by: The Big Strike / Trees as Good CItizens
Stranger: voice from television show "Heroes"
Website: juicyplanet.com

53) The Persistence of Ephemera
by Ceil Muller / San Francisco, CA / USA

Description: A slighty wacky look at my own ephemera collection.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: kid on answering machine message

52) Trees Die for the Sins of Our Legislators
by Kay Collins / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good CItizens / and the Congressional documents that comprise perhaps the world's greatest collection of ephemera.
Stranger: opponents at City Hall rally

51) Traveling and Trees
by Pauline Kochanski / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: How trees effect me as a photographer.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Trees as Good CItizens
Stranger: young girl on Michigan Avenue near the Chicago River

50) If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
by Fereshteh Toosi / Syracuse, NY / USA

Description: Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhoodthat has higher than average rates of asthma.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees As Good Citizens / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: Kathy Mecca, narrator from "Free Air" (Prelinger Archive), narrator from "Dialogue with Life" (Prelinger Archive)
Website: fereshteh.net

(sounds from freesound.org)

49) Pills
by Cambra Moniz-Edwards / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: A weekend away begets new interactions, with a little help from Andrew Jackson.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: kindly, bewildered young man with a lovely accent

48) Misplaced Memories
by David Green / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: When you get rid of things, you never know what you are truly giving up, so keep everything.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: Italian singer and woman recorded in piazza in Lucca, Italy
Website: prx.org/user/dgreen3

47) How I Got the Facts on China
by Wayne Peter Liebman / Los Angeles, CA / USA

Description: A cold-war son becomes a new-millenium dad.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: narrator of the film "Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence" (Crawley Films, Ltd. 1953) courtesy of Prelinger Archives
Website: Wayne Peter Liebman

46) A Now Famous Tree
by Lynn Thompson / Lantzville, BC / Canada

Description: When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.

Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Dr. Wayne Dyer and Oprah Winfrey
Website: livingonpurposelynn.com

45) Silvergirl
by Julie Caine & Lisa Morehouse / San Francisco, CA / USA

Description: It's not made of Plexiglass, it's not made of fiberglass, it's not square.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Meredith Klassen, Santa Barbara, CA
Wesbite: lisamorehouse.com

44) Government! Hold My Hand...
by Zachary Baiel / West Lafayette, IN / USA

Description: A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Anne Janeczko, cafe patron
Website: themediacollective.org

43) The Haymarket Incident
by Rehman Tungekar / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and US) history.

Inspired by: The Big Strike / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Larry Spivack, Michael Castagna (teenager)

42) Beyond the Tree Line
by Jane Cramer / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Unknown visitor who left bird calls

41) That Close
by Eva Boodman / Montreal, QC / Canada

Description: Montreal's Royal Park is the backdrop to a woman's memories and the place where she is most at home.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Roz Pinker- grandmother, lifelong Montrealer and Royal Park walker

40) Feeling Small But Dreaming Big
by Anastasia Ivanova / Nizhny Novgorod / Russia

Description: 'Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?' - Once she found the answers to these questions in a book "7 Fantastic Stories' a young interpreter perceived her real dream.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Olga - a young interpreter feeling small but dreaming big

39) Invisible Greek Rain
by Anastasia Ivanova / Nizhny Novgorod / Russia

Description: Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like 4 "visible" percent of this universe. Sometimes we choose books only looking at their covers...What can we say about the "invisible" 96 percent of the world that hides behind the book cover and its title?

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Nikolaos of Mesogaia (Greece), B.S. in Physics from the Aristotelian University of Thessalonica, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Harvard University

38) Birth, Birth, Rebirth
by Chris Sewell / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Tom, Melanie, Kylie, Thomas (Columbus, OH)

37) Ad Absurdum
by Sarah Boothroyd / Ottawa, ONT / Canada

Description: A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta.

Inspired by: The Big (Lucky) Strike / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: various ad celebs, including the woman who has fallen and can't get up, as well as the Whassup guys

36) When Condos Travel
by Sara Robberson / Austin, TX / USA

Description: This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel - removing Austin residents and their beloved trees. Interview with Cynthia Reily and Eduardo Loera - residents of Mobile Manor RV Park on Barton Springs Rd in Austin, TX (just a hop, skip and a jump from the old Shady Grove RV park.)

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Local news anchor of CBS 42 and musicians David Holt, Doc Watson

35) Pink George
by Kay Collins / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: McCarthyism and me.

Inspired by: The Big Strike / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: the Dragnet guy
(Sen. McCarthy tape courtesy Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, IL)

34) A Large, Well-Rounded Head
by Michelle Legro & Kate Daloz / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: A gregarious friend of a friend as Walt Whitman, and all sorts of people out for a Saturday afternoon at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn
Website: storyvilleradio.blogspot.com

33) Restful, Shady Places
by Sean Hurley / Thornton, NH / USA

Description: The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Rick Ganley
Website: radioghost.com

32) Leaves
by Max Barry / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Li-Young Lee

31) Out of Control. Noise
by Alexander Soleev / Nizhni Novgorod / Russia

Description: From children to adults...

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Big Strike
Stranger: voices of children recorded a few years ago / voices of adults from freesound.org

30) Why Question the Facts?
by Shaun D. Wilson / Wellington / New Zealand

Description: A tired teen talks in the second worst recording device he has.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Those who could be coerced into answering a weird question by a stranger.
Website: shaundwilson.podbean.com

29) The subtle tongue of racism remains unbitten in a "post-racial" america.
by Will Wright / Minneapolis, MN / USA

Description: How do Anglos think Black people talk and how does that feel?

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Big Strike
Stranger: Ernest Comer, III, Jennifer N Anato-Mensah, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne and Keke Palmer
Website: WrightsWords.com

28) The Big Strike!
by Sarah Bernath / Toronto, ONT / Canada

Description: When a venerable neighborhood tree is struck down it's loss is felt by all the residents on the street, but sometimes nature has its reasons.

Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens / The Big Strike!
Stranger: two neighbors who live on the street where the tree fell
Website: stevebellamyaudio.com

27) Tree Body
by Alix Lowrey Blair / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees As Good Citizens
Stranger: my friend Liisa's children whom I had never before met: Aidan (8), Livia (5), Sara (3)

26) Nerve Machine
by Victoria Estok & Karen Werner / Roosevelt, NJ & MA / USA

Description: Assailed by doubts, fears and illusions on all sides... the warfare within our bodies is a silent one... spin the late Dr. Bridgman's Nerve Machine Wheel and find out how your innermost questions reveal your neurological destiny.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Cosmic Bicycle Theatre (NYC) performing "The Dong With the Luminous Nose"

25) Upon the Black Top Sea
by Mary Mazurek/ Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Joe escapes in his trailer alone but this time he has a visitor.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Trees As Good Citizens
Stranger: Louis Gephardt, recorded on the grounds of Northeastern Illinois University

24) Misguided Meditation
by Sarah L'Estrange / Melbourne / Australia

Description: A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it.

Inspired by: The Stork Didn't Bring You! / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: unknown person in office building in which I work

23) Sending Books to Africa
by Sarah Yahm / Felton, CA / USA

Description: A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: voice from a public domain sex ed video (1957) entitled "As Boys Grow" from Medical Arts Productions

22) In Order to Remember
by Sue Mell & David Graham / San Francisco, CA / USA

Description: Stories, photos, tape...all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.

Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: A charming policeman in Florence, Italy
Website: suemell.com / unintendeddetours.blogspot.com

21) That Tragic Night
by Catie Talarski / West Hartford, CT / USA

Description: Survivors recount the sinking of the Titanic.

Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: Titanic passengers Mrs. O'Niell, Mrs. Kenyon and Mr. Goldsmith
(Archive tape courtesy of the Titanic Historical Society)

20) Six Minutes
by Katie Ball / Orlando, FL / USA

Description: A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.

Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: Brian - a man who most likely doesn't remember me, his friend of ten years

19) Is That My Imagination?
by Meghan Vigeant / Ripton, VT / USA

Description: The story of a mind on strike.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Big Strike
Stranger: Mario Savio, activist leader during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and Tom Wootton, author of the Bipolar Advantage
* Chosen as a 2008 TCF Shortdoc

18) Trees for Economic and Social Justice
by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: This piece explores the connetions between social justice, activism and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.

Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens / The Big Strike
Stranger: narrator from citizenship video from the 1950s

17) A Transgender Childhood
by Tina Antolini / Northampton, MA / USA

Description: Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.

Inspired by: The Stork Didn't Bring You! / Control of Body and Mind
Stranger: narrator from two sex ed films from the 1950s

16) The Woman in the Tree
by Kathryn Born / Skokie, IL / USA

Description: Here's a story along the theme of "ephmera" - things that were not built to be around for long.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: unknown woman from Laos
Website: diamondlifecafe.com

15) Summer Snow in Moscow
by Anastasia Gorokhova, Daniela Hannemann & Sasha Fomichev / Moscow / Russia

Description: Every summer it snows in Moscow - because of sexual frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?

Inspired by: The Stork Didn't Bring You! / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Evgeniy Sasukhin - poplar tree expert
Website: nada4to.net

14) The Unsustainable Age
by Matt Fleeger / San Antonio, TX / USA

Description: A "History Channel" style short told from the 23rd century

Inspired by: all 5
Stranger: Jessica Halonen, art professor
Website: krtu.org

13) Matt and Bart Sleep in the Airstream
by Matt Fleeger / San Antonio, TX / USA

Description: A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.

Inspired by: The Stork Didn't Bring You! / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: Carole Kirkpatrick, chorale singer / Other voices: M. Barton Koch, Aaron Ellington Prado
Website: myspace.com/iwmh

12) Flying Dream Sequence
by Matt Fleeger / San Antonio, TX / USA

Description: The tale of a recurring dream.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: tour guide in the Smithsonian Art Museum, masquerading as the voice of a professor.
Website: silentwhigofthunder.blogspot.com

11) Cicatrix
by Joan Schuman / Santa Cruz, CA / USA

Description: Cicatrix resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness and irreparably damaged nerves
as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Salima, survivor of a cluster-bomb lobbed into her village in Lebanon during the Israeli August 2006 war; her voice (and that of various translators) was shared with me by radio colleague Jessica Dheere who interviewed her and numerous other cluster-bomb victims in Beirut that fall.
Website: joanschuman.com

10) Forest to Desert
by Sarah Boothroyd / Ottawa, ONT / Canada

Description: An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.

Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: Various contemporary journalists as well as narrators from Give Yourself the Green Light (1954) and Destination Earth (1956), two public domain films available via the Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive
* Chosen as a 2008 TCF Shortdoc

9) Two Trailer Love Stories
by Meagan Perry / Whitehorse, Yukon / Canada

Description: A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: John and Judy from the WalMart RV park
Website: rabble.ca/rpn

8) Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming
by Sarah Boothroyd / Ottawa, ONT / Canada

Description: How to make your dreams of happiness come true.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Narrators from the following public domain instructional films available via the Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive: Body Care and Grooming (1948); How to Be Well Groomed (1949); Speech: Platform, Posture and Appearance (1949); Molly Grows Up (1953); and Habit Patterns (1954)

7) Every Morning I Hear This Voice...
by Mikkel Nedergaard / Copenhagen / Denmark

Description: A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger, and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: The young Muslim praying, whom we eventually meet
Website: Kongoconsult

[Production notes: Narrator is Gabrieele Lamourelle. Subject is Umar Kakande.]

6) The Control of Teenagers
by Rick Moody & Michael Hearst / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: “The Control of Teenagers” dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;  “The Control of Teenagers” eschews the verb form “to be,” at least in all public descriptions; no actual teenagers were harmed in the course of the recording “The Control of Teenagers,” and at no time was an actual teenager present; “The Control of Teenagers” cuts things up, assembles them at random, and then breaks for lunch; “The Control of Teenagers” features the concealed voice of at least one celebrated NPR personality; “The Control of Teenagers” believes in the transmigration of souls; “The Control of Teenagers” depends on the Orange Vocoder; “The Control of Teenagers” avoid public nudity and obscenity; “The Control of Teenagers,” amounts to the last in a series; “The Control of Teenagers” returns to the negotiating table; “The Control of Teenagers” once gamboled in open fields; “The Control of Teenagers” has been there and done that.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Carl Kassell
Website: One Ring Zero / 18:59 podcast / Wingdale Community Singers

5) Control of Swimsuit and Mind
by Kathleen Goldhar / Toronto, ONT/ Canada

Description: I was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology...the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: the lucky woman in the change room who helped me get into the suit

4) Labor Pains
by Rich Halten / Marietta, GA / USA

Description: Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.

Inspired by: The Big Strike / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: various
Website: soundrich.com

3) Creative Process
by Kay Collins / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: An entry about making a contest entry.

Inspired by: All five books, in different combinations
Stranger: Bookseller declined, so my vicar found an Englishman willing to read the email

2) Lucky Star
by Julia Grant / Toronto, Ontario / Canada

Description: When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky.

Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: Narrator of "Listen with Mother", BBC Radio 1950-1982

1) The Great Tree Strike of 1934
by Shaun D. Wilson / Wellington / New Zealand

Description: A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history.

Inspired by: The Big Strike / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Lance, who was waiting for Lily
Website: shaundwilson.podbean.com

.5) Sweetgum Handshake (7:45)
by Julie Shapiro with Rick and Megan Shaw Prelinger

NOTE! This is NOT posted as the first Radio Ephemera submission. Rather it's meant to help you better understand the project, and learn more about the Prelinger Library.

Description: Here's a radio explanation of the Radio Ephemera audio challenge, including descriptions from Rick and Megan Prelinger of the books selected for the project.
Inspired by: all five books
Stranger: four strangers contemplate the meaning of 'ephemera'
Website: thirdcoastfestival.org