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Playlist: 2020 KCRW Radio Race

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Short Stories from 2020 participants.

Each year, KCRW hosts the Radio Race - a competition that attracts amateurs and professionals alike. 2020 marks the first race to take place during a global pandemic. The theme - Time Warp. Included below are four of this year's top pieces and more:

1st - One Day by Monique Laborde
2nd - Engulfed in Flames by Alex Lewis, Mooj Zadie & John Myers
3rd - My grandmother's recipes by Sarah Mashman & Lea Redfern
The L.A. Award - Blackness in an Hourglass by Shaka Mali
The Social Butterfly Award - Searching For Our Future Selves by Arlie Adlington & Jess Lawson

One Day

From Monique LaBorde | 04:17

One day in the life of one family, experiencing the day we're all afraid of.

There are standards for making radio, like recording indoors, in a quiet place... But if I turn off this bubble machine, my two-year-old niece might have a meltdown. There’s also fancy, expensive equipment for making radio. But I packed a bag in ten minutes, so every recording in this piece was made on my iPhone.

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One day in the life of one family, experiencing the day we're all afraid of.
There are standards for making radio, like recording indoors, in a quiet place... But if I turn off this bubble machine, my two-year-old niece might have a meltdown. There’s also fancy, expensive equipment for making radio. But I packed a bag in ten minutes, so every recording in this piece was made on my iPhone.

Winner of the 2020 KCRW Radio Race.

Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)

From Alex Lewis | 04:00

Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television.

This piece was produced by Alex Lewis, Mooj Zadie and John Myers, as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project. Music by Alex Lewis.

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Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television.
This piece was produced by Alex Lewis, Mooj Zadie and John Myers, as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project. Music by Alex Lewis.

This piece took 2nd place in the 2020 KCRW Radio Race.

My grandmother's recipes

From Sarah Mashman | 03:57

The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found through protest, through joy and through cooking.
This piece was made for the 2020 KCRW Radio Race.

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When Toni Burnett Rands creates a dish, she's connecting to her heritage and her ancestors. 
Toni recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found through protest, through joy and through cooking.
This piece was made for the 2020 KCRW Radio Race and took 3rd Place.

Searching For Our Future Selves

From Arlie Adlington | 04:22

Jess and Arlie cycle through the London night to see if they can find their future selves... A piece about imagining queer futures!

Default-piece-image-1 This piece was made by Arlie Adlington and Jess Lawson for the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race, 2020. The theme was Time Warp, which got us thinking about queer time and how it can be hard to imagine your future when you're queer and have no road map. In the piece, we head out in the London night on our bikes in search of our future selves...

Look At The World Jaleel

From Raymond Pang | 04:00

Listen to Helen as she makes sense of what happens when new motherhood, a global pandemic, and systemic racism collide.

This piece was made by Ian Fox, Lucy Perkins, Ariana Martinez and Ray Pang as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project.

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Listen to Helen as she makes sense of what happens when new motherhood, a global pandemic, and systemic racism collide.
 
This piece was made by Ian Fox, Lucy Perkins, Ariana Martinez and Ray Pang as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project.

Venmo Reparations

From Beandrea July | 03:56

When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offered the money, $100 at a time, no questions asked, to support black women writers. Amidst America's current racial reckoning, do Venmo donations offer a small but significant new-age form of reparations?

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When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offered the money, $100 at a time, no questions asked, to support black women writers. Amidst America's current racial reckoning, do Venmo donations offer a small but significant new-age form of reparations? 

Beandrea July found the donor and several recipients to ask the question. Produced by Samantha Hodder and Beandrea July, original music by Kolya Salter for the KCRW 2020 Radio Race
How one tweet, which offered anonymous money to support black women writers, opened a whole conversation about race, equity and access in America. Beandrea July tracks down half a dozen of the women who caught a Venmo and learned where this money went, and what to them.

This piece was produced by Samantha Hodder and Beandrea July as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project.Original music by Kolya Salter.
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