Radio OpenSource producer Mary McGrath and award-winning storyteller Jo Radner discuss their materials including facts, memories, voices, pauses, music, sound effects, and the ways they all come together to create a narrative that inspires the imagination and moves the heart.
This program in the series My Life Touched by Art is supported by a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Video
Arts
The Banjo Project
Television writer-producer Marc Fields and banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka explore America’s quintessential instrument, assisted by Darol Anger on the fiddle.
Arts
I'll Make Me a World
Filmmaker and co-executive producer of the PBS television series, I'll Make Me A World: A Century of African-American Arts, Sam Pollard talks about his dedication to chronicling the Black experience in America.
History
BEFORE 1776: KING PHILIP's WAR AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA
What happens when we challenge the standard narrative of King Philip’s War? We’ve been taught that in Wampanoag country the war ended in total devastation: leaders killed, survivors enslaved. But is that the whole story?