Re:sound #256 Toccata in Dream Murder
This hour more of our faves, including Gloria Gaynor, a seventeen year-old retiree, and two spoofs: one microbiological and one murderous.
2018 / TCF / WBEZ 91.5, USA

This hour more of our faves, including Gloria Gaynor, a seventeen year-old retiree, and two spoofs: one microbiological and one murderous.
Episode 1: A Perfect Murder
by Katy Yeiser, David Sidorov, Ryan Natoli, and Fran Hoepfner for A Very Fatal Murder from The Onion
In the first episode of “A Very Fatal Murder,” longtime Onion Public Radio reporter David Pascall, who has searched tirelessly for the most resonant true-crime podcast that is also about middle America, heads to Bluff Springs, NE where the small town is reeling from the death of 17-year-old Hayley Price.
Dear Dream
By Jess Shane for The Doc Project from the CBC
A lot of us define ourselves by our jobs.
Which is why people often struggle when the time comes to retire. They don't know who they are any more. And we're not just talking about people who stop working after a lifetime in a career — the girl at the heart of this documentary is 17. She retired from a promising rhythmic gymnastics career — she was competing at a national level and was Olympics-bound — about a year ago because of an injury. And retirement? She still hasn't accepted it.
“Inside the National Recording Registry: I Will Survive”
by Devon Strolovitch for PRI’s Studio360
Originally released as a B-side, so many deejays began playing Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” that the record company reissued it as a single. It was immediately embraced as an emblem of women’s empowerment and soon became anthem among the LGBT community and survivors of all kinds. Music writer Vince Aletti joins Gaynor herself to tell the story of the recording.
Toccata
by Mira Burt-Wintonik & Cristal Duhaime feat. the voice of Jane Lewis for Falling Tree Productions and The Essay from BBC Radio 3
Canadian producers Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime blend reality and fiction to explore a parasitic relationship.
This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk
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Katy Yeiser (@KatyYeiser) is a writer and director who started working at The Onion in 2012 before following her dreams of becoming a full-time drifter in 2018.

Fran Hoepfner (@franhoepfner) is the associate video editor at The Onion, as well as a writer and stand-up comedian.

Ryan Staples is the sound designer/mixer of A Very Fatal Murder, and the supervising sound editor at The Onion.

David Sidorov (@DavidSidorov) was formerly a senior writer for The Onion 's video department and is currently a field producer/director on The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET.

Jess Shane (@iamjessshane) is a Canadian radio producer and multimedia artist. Her radio docs have aired on CBC's The Doc Project and Love Me. She also co-produces Constellations , an experimental radio and sound art project. Recently, she's worked as an associate producer on CBC's Personal Best podcast.

Born and raised in Montreal, Devon Strolovitch earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics before pursuing radio professionally.

Mira Burt-Wintonick (@mirabw) is co-creator and Senior Editor of CBC's Love Me.

Cristal Duhaime (@cristalliond) is the award-winning co-creator of CBC’s Love Me, a documentary podcast about the messiness of human connection.

Dennis Funk was formerly Third Coast's senior producer.