Monthly Archives: April 2015
Welcome to Night Vale
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events.
Turn on your radio and hide.
Dave Isay: Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear
Dave Isay opened the first StoryCorps booth in New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 2003 with the intention of creating a quiet place where a person could honor someone who mattered to them by listening to their story. Since then, StoryCorps has evolved into the single largest collection of human voices ever recorded. His TED Prize wish: to grow this digital archive of the collective wisdom of humanity. Hear his vision to take StoryCorps global — and how you can be a part of it by interviewing someone with the StoryCorps app.
The Moth
The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour features our most beloved tales and the stories behind the stories. The series debuted in 2009 and is now airing on more than 200 stations nationwide.
Scarlett Tells Us The Bremen Town Musicians
I tell the story of The Bremen Town Musicians.
The Thrilling Adventure Hour
The Thrilling Adventure Hour
The creators of The Thrilling Adventure Hour proudly call it “fake radio.” It’s less an homage to old-time radio and more of a clever update. A live monthly performance at Largo, a 200-seat, scruffy-chic Hollywood nightclub is also available as a popular podcast through Nerdist.
-NPR All Things Considered
Sarah Kay, Poetess/Storyteller
Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
Secrets can take many forms — they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful.” Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards.
WireTap
WireTap
Each week, WireTap invites you to eavesdrop on a mix of funny, thoughtful and unpredictable stories and conversations. Whether it’s a tale about what it’s like to date Lois Lane after she’s broken up with Superman, or an interview with a man who works as a ketchup sommelier, you never quite know where WireTap will take you.