Jay Allison
Contributors List
Is it weird to say Jay is the king of independent radio producers? He's done hundreds of great series and stories. He founded the public radio stations on Cape Cod. He also founded Transom.org, an amazing and inspiring website to teach people how to make radio.
26: Father's Day '96
Ira's own father Barry Glass co-hosts this special father's day edition of the show.
31: When You Talk About Music
Stories of people whose lives are transformed by music.
35: Fall Clearance Sale
Evocative, funny, emotional stories collected over the last few months that haven't fit into any of our regular "theme" shows.
40: Lessons
Stories from acclaimed storyteller Spalding Gray and others.
51: Animals Die, People Ponder
Stories of people who handle dead animals. Don't worry — it's not as gross as it sounds. In fact, not disgusting at all. A story by George Saunders about an animal control man who falls in unrequited love. A woman who studies illuminated...
67: Your Dream, My Nightmare
Could it be more obvious? Stories in which someone's dream is someone else's nightmare. All of us get into these situations with strangers, with the people we love most, with our own parents, with our children.
68: Lincoln's Second Inaugural
A show for July 4th weekend. We begin with perhaps the most moving, poetic inaugural speech in American history, and look at its legacy today. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln wondered aloud why God saw fit to send the slaughter of...
108: Truth and Lies at Age Ten
Two stories of children lying to themselves and others. A woman who'd been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis talks about the lies she told herself as a child. And Dan Gediman tells the story of how he was cast in the public TV show Zoom,...
117: You Gonna Eat That?
The family table is stage on which many family dramas are played out. We hear three stories...of three families...at three meals.
149: Bedside Diplomacy
In the hospital, we give up our normal schedule and sleep patterns; we give up our normal food and clothing; we're in a place that has its own rules and its own language and its own customs.
161: Million Bubbles
Imagine that you could somehow look down from above, onto all the streets and avenues and country roads and highways of this nation...each car below its own tiny subculture on wheels...glass and steel worlds rolling down the street...
223: Classifieds
In this show we take the classifieds from one Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times and one edition of the local alternative weekly Chicago Reader, and fill a program with stories that come from the ads. Through the jobs offered, the...
256: Living Without
Stories of people living without. Nubar Alexanian explains what fish can do for him that his own ears cannot. Sarah Vowell explains the cheerful journalism of deprivation. And other stories.
378: This I Used to Believe
Stories of people forced to let go of their firmly held beliefs. When the daughter of a pro-choice activist concludes that abortion is murder, her mother goes to extraordinary lengths to persuade her daughter to switch sides. And after a...
388: Rest Stop
Nine radio producers. Two days. One rest stop on the New York State Thruway. In this show, we'll bring you stories of people who are just passing through, and people who are at the rest stop every day—working. One of them has worked there...
409: Held Hostage
A kidnapping victim in Colombia spends his nights listening to a radio station that plays messages from the families of the kidnapped. That and other stories of people held captive—by criminals, by paperwork, and in one man's case,...
