Hearing Voices

Series produced by Hearing Voices

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An Hour of Personal Visions and Collective Fantasies

Hearing Voices are themed compilations of adventurous audio, from broadcasts, podcasts, slam poets, sound-portraits, features, found-sound, audio art and docs.

Featured Hours:

October

• John Lennon (Oct 9 1940 – Dec 8 1980): "John Ono Lennon
• World Series: "Home Team"
• Halloween: "Bloody Hell"

November

• Native American Indian Heritage Month: "Native America" | "Solidod, an Apache Original"
• Veterans Day: "Vet Vox"
• Thanksgiving: "Let's Eat"

December

• AIDS Awareness Day (Dec 1): "Portrait of a Plague" | "AIDS Diaries"
• Winter: "Snow and Ice"
• Christmas/Hanukkah: "Christmas Mashup" | "Hanukkahchristmashup" | "Shopping for Santa"


58 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: Electoral Map of US
Producer Barrett Golding found remnants of Jefferson's theories and Toqueville's writings still very much in play, as he followed Montana's two inc...

Bought by WPSU and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: U.S. soldiers in Iraq, Credit: Jake Warga
For Veterans Day: Vietnam, Korean, and World War Two vets, recorded by StoryCorps, along with a Marine Sergeant's recent "Don't Ask Don't Tell" dis...

Bought by KALW, KVSC, WITF, KQED, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
Caption: Painting of Hell
An hour of horror for All Hallows' Eve, the first half is bloody, the second goes to hell: ESP, dreams and intuition drip "Blood on the Pulpit" by ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, KMUN, KMUN, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Canoeing the Tribal Journey
A tour of our nation's First Nations: NPR's Alex Chadwick rides into the Bitterroot Mountains with Natives and Forest Service workers. We paddle th...

Bought by WRGY, Michigan Radio, Troy Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 34
Caption: Painting by Solidod
The Life and Times of Solidod Woods, the last remaining member of her village of Mescalero Apache who lived on the edge of Death Valley.

Bought by WSHU, Michigan Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: John Cage composing at piano
A tribute to the composer on his 100th birthday: We listen in on a 1942 John Cage radio play, "The City Wears a Slouch Hat." We have a vox-pop aski...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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For Labor Day: The work we do, from Wall Street traders to taxi cab drivers. People who work with brassieres, with dead bodies, and off-the-books i...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 42
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Portraits of Past Presidential Campaigns: Politicians who fancy themselves president tromp thru the New Hampshire mill town of "Claremont," produce...

Bought by WNIJ and WYSO


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
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Host Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org, for Earth Day, presents Sounds for and from Mother Earth: The Quiet American takes an audio trek through Nepal...

Bought by Prairie Public, Troy Public Radio, KQED, WRVO Public Media, KISU and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Radio stories about radio, then stories about radio stories: Jake Warga paints sound-portraits of "Urbana FM" in Uruguay and "Radio Gondor" in Ethi...

Bought by KGLT, KSUT, WYSO, and WPSU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Symptoms of heat fatigue: A sound-poem for "Dead of Summer" in the city by Marjorie van Halteren & Lou Giansante. Tuscon residents reflect the dese...

Bought by KUT, WNIJ, and KQED


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A memorial and celebration of John Lennon: Oct 9 1940-Dec 8 1980.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KZYX, KISU, KSUT, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 42
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For Memorial Day, the voices of veterans remembering their comrades.

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KCNP, WGCU and more


  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 91
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Health caretakers: "Bad Teeth at King Drew Dental Clinic" by Ayala Ben-Yehuda: the Dental Divide, South L.A.'s clinic of last resort. "The Breast C...

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KGLT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WKMS


  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Three hearts travel to a place once called home.

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jul 29, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
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An hour of creeping, crawling, flying critter sounds for of Summer:

Bought by KISU, KUOW, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
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International travelers’ tales of touring the Republic of Georgia with ex-KGB friend of a friend, a cross-country hitchhiking expedition, and trave...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WITF, KVNF, KUHF, KUNM and more


  • Added: May 31, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 38
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Groupies, Gravediggers & Rock n' Roll Singers

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3