Soundings
Soundings is the sandbox for all student work from the Stanford Storytelling Project (SSP). SSP is an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories and how we can use them to change our lives. Our mission is to promote the transformative nature of traditional and modern oral storytelling, from Lakota tales to Radiolab, and empower students to create and perform their own stories. The project sponsors courses, workshops, live events, and grants, along with its radio show State of the Human.
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Episodes
Thursday Nov 23, 2017
Thursday Nov 23, 2017
Producer: Megan Calfas
After delivering one child, the Head Nurse Nassara turns around, changes her gloves, and delivers another. In Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar, 30-50 babies are born a day. Often, in the maternity ward, there are only 3-4 nurses working at a time. As the largest public hospital in Zanzibar, Mnazi Mmoja faces the island’s high rate of maternal mortality head on, yet, the root of the problem is hard to uncover--it’s tangled up in a much larger system. This piece would not be possible without the Program in Global Health Technologies at Boston University led by Dr. Zaman, the Stanford Storytelling Project, and the kindness of everyone at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital.
Music: Rui -- “Caress me to Sleep”, “Selbstheilend”, “No sudden movements”, Johnny Ripper --”Nicolas”, Orbique-- “Simple”, Cuban Cowboys-- “Outro”
Thursday Nov 23, 2017
Thursday Nov 23, 2017
Sandbranch is a community outside of Dallas that hasn’t had running water or well water for decades, but the residents refuse to leave.
Founded by former slaves, it used to be a thriving town of over 500 people. In the 1980s, its wells were contaminated. The residents have been fighting for running water ever since. Now, led by a pastor, an environmental lawyer, and past and present residents of the community, Sandbranch is on the brink of change.
Producer: Claudia Heymach
featuring:
Eugene Keahey, Mary Nash, John Wiley Price, Mark McPherson, Ivory Hall, Chess Jones,
and the choir of Mt Zion baptist church.
Special Thanks: Carol Francois, Clay Jenkins, Edward Shore, the residents of Sandbranch, Catherine Girardeau, Jackson Roach, and Jake Warga.
Music: Music used (Title(s), Artist, Album. Include links and permissions)
From freesound.org: Slow Sad Tones by TJ Mothy https://freesound.org/people/TJ%20Mothy/sounds/92734/
Wind Howl 2 by swiftoid
https://freesound.org/people/swiftoid/sounds/117610/
Friday Jun 30, 2017
Friday Jun 30, 2017
A touching and honest non-narrated produced portrait of one of the first people to be detained at JFK under the initial Trump travel ban order. Stanford PhD student traveling from Sudan: Nisrin Abdelrahman
Aired on:
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-doc-project/segment/13703580
https://www.radioproject.org/2017/09/arrival-trumps-travel-refugee-ban/
http://kalw.org/post/stanford-grad-student-was-one-first-trump-travel-ban-detainees#stream/0
“80s interlude” (Album: Or Up We Fall), by Fanas
“Theme 4”, “Sleep”, “Intermission” & “In a Dream” (soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist), by Johnny Ripper
“Data” (don't), by Johnny Ripper
Saturday Jun 17, 2017
Saturday Jun 17, 2017
Title: The Unthinkable Brink (working title)
Elisabeth Dee & Tyler Brooks
Kim: I would say keep your head down. I would say be careful. I would say that self-preservation is your upmost responsibility because until you can come out in a safe and open and caring environment, the system that you’re growing up in is designed to destroy you. So you may have to keep your head down. And it may be the thing that drives you to the brink. The unthinkable brink.
Elisabeth #1: I’ve known Kimberly for eight years. She taught photography at my high school, right outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. There was something about her I was drawn to. I felt like she saw things in me I didn’t know where there. When she came out as intersex and transgender, I realized why we had been pulled into each other’s orbits: we were both outsiders. We were both Mormon and queer and struggling.
Anchor #1: We regard same sex marriage as a particularly grievous or significant serious kind of sin that requires church discipline.
Anchor #2: Well the number one killer of Utah’s kids is suicide according to new numbers from the state health department. And there’s no definitive reason for this abrupt rise in suicide among Utah youth but there are many pointing to Utah’s religious culture.
Tyler Glenn: Please don’t let this be a summer of more gay suicides, please make a space for your gay members, please tell them they are okay and they are made in the image of god.