Before They Were Famous
Stories that your favorite radio producers made... before you'd ever heard of 'em.
Jay's Kids (2001) / Alix Spiegel, Invisibilia
Confessions Of A Child Beauty Queen (2003) / Roman Mars, 99% Invisible & Radiotopia
The Ring & I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania (2005) / Jad Abumrad, Radiolab
The Dead Can't Do You Nothin' (2007) / Katie Mingle, 99% Invisible
Aftermath (2008) Nick van der Kolk, Love + Radio
Jay's Kids
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Blues musician Screamin' Jay Hawkins had 57 children, some of whom were happier than others to learn of their father's prolific paternity.
- 2001
- 22:56
- Alix Spiegel
Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen
A series of interconnected stories by A. H. Weatherman about the trauma of growing up in the south and participating in beauty pageants.
- 2003
- 30:14
- Roman Mars
The Ring & I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
The grandeur and power of Wagner's monumental work, The Ring Cycle, has permeated our culture to the point that "Wagnerian" is used as an adjective.
- 2005
- 58:58
- Aaron Cohen
- Elena Park
- Jad Abumrad
The Dead Can't Do You Nothin'
Producer Katie Mingle narrates her quest to find ghosts in a "pauper's graveyard" in New Orleans.
- 2007
- 10:53
- Katie Mingle
Aftermath
The Aftermath, Inc., headquarters is nestled in a strip of ordinary office buildings in the Chicago suburbs, but there's nothing bland about the service the company provides.
- 2008
- 17:23
- Laura Kwerel
- Nick van der Kolk