Re:sound

This hour: kids sing opera, they talk about life on a remote island, and they opine about running the world.

This hour: one woman’s comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country.

This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries.

This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach.

This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more.

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.

This hour: the untold story behind one of the most famous, groundbreaking, and disturbing experiments in the history of psychological research

This hour: families, in all their messy, dysfunctional glory.

This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.

This hour: journeys to the far north, the moon, and other places near and far.

This hour: a seismic shift in a man's identity, a bad dog who refuses to change, and more.

This hour: the weird, wonderful results of the Radio Ephemera ShortDocs Challenge. We sample from some of the submissions, talk with Third Coast Artistic Director Julie Shapiro, and learn more about the amazing Prelinger Library, our project collaborators.

This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world.

This hour: two stories that get incredibly, intimately, close to their subjects.

This hour: here, there, and in-between.

This hour: best friends who will never meet face to face, an abandoned wedding dress found floating in a lake, and more

This week: a worm digger in rural Maine, a remarkably effective citizen spy, and more.

This hour: a peek into auditions at one of the most competitive conservatories in Australia, and more.

This hour: melodies from the world around us.

This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.