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The Signal, a weekly radio magazine produced by WYPR, is devoted to exploring Maryland's thriving artistic and cultural scene.
The Signal, hosted by veteran WYPR personality Andy Bienstock, promises to transport listeners to the region's cultural back roads: the studios, recital halls and basement workshops where art is conceived and brought to life.
The minds behind The Signal senior producers Aaron Henkin and Lisa Morgan, as well as Bienstock -- share an abiding love for the tradition of radio storytelling. Every program is crafted like a book of short stories, a radio quilt sewn together with thoughtful narrative transitions and embroidered with contemplative musical interludes.
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Debbie Page works for the Baltimore Country Public Schools in the Office of Special Education, she’s the co-president of the Autism Society of Baltimore-Chesapeake, and she’s also the mom of an autistic son. She shared her tale at the recent Stoop Storytelling event, “Parenthood: Stories about birthing, finding, raising, (and surviving) children.”
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One of the most bittersweet things, perhaps, about parenthood is that your kids don’t stay kids forever. Poet Kwame Alexander speaks for many a misty-eyed dad.
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The oral history project, “For All the World to Hear,” brings together the stories of living witnesses to the civil rights struggle. Participants Janice Grant and Barbara Redfearn join the program to share their recollections of social tumult and hard-won racial progress.
At the Stoop Storytelling Series, Joe Sugarman tells the tale of not quite getting his pregnant wife to the hospital in time.
Debbie Page is co-president of the Autism Society of Baltimore-Chesapeake. She’s also the mom of an autistic son. She shared her story at The Stoop
Ten Reasons Why Fathers Cry at Night
Aerial theater artist Mara Neimanis finds a strangely poignant way to portray the story of her aging mother’s upside-down world.
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Baltimore independent tour guide Zippy Larson has built her reputation on taking visitors off the beaten path. We’ll talk with her about her shoe-leather research methods and what she’s learned about the real character of Charm City.
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We look at the intersection of political action and parenthood with China Martens, editor of Don’t Leave your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities.
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On the eve of her 30th birthday, Marianne Amoss takes stock of her life and ponders the meaning of the impending milestone.
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The co-founders of Ink Press Productions aren’t likely to be hired by Hallmark this Valentine’s Day – they join us with their new book of darkly humorous verse, titled “Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today”
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Tour guide Zippy Larsen has built her reputation on taking visitors off the beaten path. We’ll talk with her about her shoe-leather research methods and what she’s learned about the real character of Charm City.
We look at the intersection of political action and parenthood with China Martens
On the eve of her 30th birthday, Marianne Amoss takes stock of her life and ponders the meaning of the impending milestone.
The co-founders of Ink Press Productions join us with their new book of darkly humorous verse, “Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today”
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Stephen Wade always loved listening to old Library of Congress field recordings. Then one day he decided to hit the road to search out the real-life roots of these iconic time capsules of American music. For 18 years, this folk pilgrim traveled the country, meeting the friends, families, and sometimes the musicians themselves who were immortalized back in the 1930s and 40s by John A Lomax and his portable disc-cutting machine.
In this hour on The Signal, Stephen Wade takes us across America and back in time to the story of a fiddler who grew up in a cave in Kentucky, a singing quartet from an Arkansas prison work camp, a playground song from a Mississippi schoolgirl, the mournful ballad of a Virginia girl named Texas, and the washboard rhythms of a street band from Nashville, Tennessee.
Join us, as Stephen Wade shares the songs and stories of his book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, and his Grammy-nominated CD, Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition.
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A conversation with punk-rock firebrand Ian Svenonius, who exploded onto the music scene in the 1980s with a frenetic, high-octane band called “Nation of Ulysses.” He’s been burning bright ever since, fronting groups like “The Make-Up” and “Chain and the Gang,” and he’s just written a book called “Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group.”
Check out Ian Svenonius' book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group
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