Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 74 (2-22)
Compiled By: KUT
KUT's O’Dark 30 heads into May with the best from the world of independent radio production. Every Sunday at midnight on Austin's KUT 90.5 and also at 4pm on digital KUT2 we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production. Episode 74 (2-22) includes Diamond Day...Extra Innings#3-The Shot Heard 'Round the World...KUT's Portrait of an Artist with Sally Jenkins...Blind Dog...Clever Apes: Show me where it hurts...The Sleeping Fool...London Walks: Coffee House Tour...Revisiting the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere...A Commentary on Your Computer...Marian Apparitions...New Sounds of China Episode #1: The History of Chinese Alternative Music...On... Show full description
Diamond Day
From Graham Shelby | 06:54
Tradition or cliche? Free tickets to a father-son baseball game lead writer Graham Shelby to question his attitude towards the national passtime and the value of things we keep doing because, well, that's just what you do.
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Extra Innings#3 - The Shot Heard 'Round The World
From Thom Butler | Part of the Extra Innings series | 03:58
It was an unexpected moment in an unanticipated game. Now it’s known as The Shot Heard Round The World...
The Giants didn't win the 1951 World Series, but a lot of people remember it that way because of what might be the most famous call in baseball when Russ Hodges shouted, "The Giants win the penant! The Giants win the penant!"
Blind Dog
From Hearing Voices | Part of the Scott Carrier stories series | 04:22
Fritz catches Frisbees, even though he's sightless.
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Fritz the dog loves to play Frisbee. He still catches it most of the time, though not as much as he used to... before he went blind. Somehow the sightless German Shepherd manages to hear and catch the flying disk mid-air.
Clever Apes: Show me where it hurts
From WBEZ | Part of the WBEZ's Clever Apes series | 12:59
Mirrors treat phantom limb pain, chronic pain changes your brain, and one scientist's colorful guide to insect bites.
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Pain may be the most immediate and undeniable of human experiences. And yet it’s not obvious what it is, or where it comes from. Aristotle thought pain was basically an emotion, located in the heart. Ancient Egyptian physicians argued pain was more of a sensation, and nudged its source up to the brain. By the 19th century, science was starting to get the hang of the nervous system, and proposed there were essentially “pain organs” that existed to convey pain signals from the body -- say, your stubbed toe -- to the mind.
These days, scientists understand pain to involve all that stuff – emotions, nerves, the mind – all at once. It’s a complex experience, giving rise to pain in limbs that aren’t there anymore, to changes in brain circuitry and strange, super-senses, and even to subtle, almost lyrical characteristics in something as nasty as a bee sting.
Pain has become a kind of portal into the inner life of the body and mind. In this installment of Clever Apes, we take a look inside.The Sleeping Fool
From Sofia Saldanha | 10:22
Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.
It may look easy, but the job requires a stressful degree of responsibility, poise, and silence. Some guards may begin to feel trapped inside their own thoughts, or even inside a painting. The Sleeping Fool presents the stories, dreams and thoughts of those who work behind the walls of an art gallery.
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- The Sleeping Fool
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- Sofia Saldanha
Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.
It may look easy, but the job requires a stressful degree of responsibility, poise, and silence. Some guards may begin to feel trapped inside their own thoughts, or even inside a painting. The Sleeping Fool presents the stories, dreams and thoughts of those who work behind the walls of an art gallery.
London Walks: Coffee House Tour
From Francesca Panetta | Part of the Guardian London Walks series | 31:11
Coffee connoisseur Matt Green walks us through the coffee houses of London, from the atmospheric 17th-century to the present day, from Covent Garden to Soho
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- London Walks: Coffee House Tour
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Dr Matt Green takes us back in time to the 1690s, when the coffee bean was a recent arrival from Turkey, and the boisterous noisy atmosphere of Wills', and Button's, was filled with discussions of politics and business. In the salubrious Covent Garden a cup of coffee from Moll's coffee stand came with a tempting wink from one of the many local prostitutes.
The next big coffee fad came in Soho, in the 1950s, and poet Hylda Sims relives those bohemian days in Bar Italia, the first of Soho's hundreds of coffee bars to spring up as the new place for teenage hipsters to talk fashion and music. We drop into surely the longest standing coffee shop of all; the Algerian Coffee Store, which has sold coffee beans and paraphenalia since 1897. Musicians Wee Willie Harris and Clem Cattini tell us about their sessions in the famous 2is coffee house where the sound of Skiffle rang out across Soho, and rock and roll was emerging as a massive hit with teenagers.
The present day 3rd Wave coffee bars take the science of an espresso to a new level, and Cameron McClure at Flat White brews up a cup perfect on a molecular level, whilst Blake Pudding, from the London Review Of Breakfasts sips on brew and predicts where the coffee house goes next.
These walks are also designed to be free downloadable walking gudies. For more information visit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/series/cityguides
The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere
From Jonathan Thomas Stratman | 10:14
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night and why? Did the British General's wife tip off the High Sons of Liberty Committee––and why? And what is the direct link from the night America was born to a #1 pop hit from the early 1950s?
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night and why? Did the British General's wife tip off the High Sons of Liberty Committee––and why? And what is the direct link from the night America was born to a #1 pop hit from the early 1950s?
A Commentary on Your Computer
From The humble Farmer | 01:47
What do you do when your computer quits?
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- A Commentary on Your Computer
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An expert can usually fix your computer in two hours. Would you trust a guru who can fix it in five minutes?
Marian Apparitions
From KVNF | Part of the Belief Systems and Other B.S. series | 03:41
Marian apparitions are some of the planet?s most reliable occult phenomena.
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- Marian Apparitions
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Marian apparitions are some of the planet?s most reliable occult phenomena and the Virgin of Guadeloupe is a particularly good example.
New Sounds of China Episode 1: The History of Chinese Alternative Music
From Peter Vautier | Part of the New Sounds of China series | 58:59
Episode one explores the old sounds that have influenced the new sounds of Chinese alternative music.
In the first episode of a five-part series, we provide a short, opinionated history of Chinese alternative music. Moving from the Cultural Revolution to the Jasmine Revolution, we begin with Taiwanese pop imported into late 1970s China, then progress through rock, electronica, hip-hop and alternative tracks, to arrive at the current Chinese music scene just in time for our second episode on Beijing post-punk and experimental music.
Interview clips include commentary from Andrew Jones, an academic expect in rock music of the Tiananmen Square era; Zuoxiao Zuzhou, an avant-garde musician and friend of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei; and Jon Campbell, author of a book on the history of Chinese rock music.
Paul Kendall, a former music journalist (Time Out Beijing, China Radio International, Billboard) and current Chinese music PhD student presents the show alongside Hu Pan, a Beijing-born rock musician, Peking opera performer, and music journalist.
On Behalf of the Rockstars: Erin McKeown Thanks Public Radio
From Protect My Public Media | 01:00
Erin McKeown is a rockstar with a real career, not just some fleeting fame. She thanks public broadcasting for connecting her with fans who truly appreciate her music.
Erin McKeown is a rockstar with a real career, not just some fleeting fame. She thanks public broadcasting for connecting her with fans who truly appreciate her music.
Clockwise: Mayhem Ensues
From Hans Anderson | 05:02
When the earth rotates backwards, well, it's weird.
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- Clockwise: Mayhem Ensues
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Chicagoans Consider Their Road Not Taken
From Curie Youth Radio | 01:53
Robert Frost's famous poem helps us reflect on our own paths.
Chicagoans recite Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and talk about their choices, regrets, and victories.