This week’s show is about things Lost and Found in the Bay Area and beyond. Cynthia Dizikes interviews radio producer Davia Nelson about tracking down sound for NPR’s Lost and Found Sound series. David Gelles profiles a UC Berkeley church group that offers some students a needed spiritual community. Jessica Meyers reports on a group [...]
Luck of the Irish. The Ides of March. Knocking on wood, staying away from black cats and avoiding a walk under a ladder. You guessed it—this week’s North Gate Radio show is all about luck. Our stories? Andi McDaniel talks to a family that provides the “fortunes” for fortune cookies. Rina Palta follows a group [...]
For the first show of spring, we’re examining the concept of walls. Laurie Burkitt talks with a Bay Area marathoner and his techniques to avoid “hitting the wall.” Robert Lewis looks at some of the bigger victims in the sub-prime mortgage crisis — minority small business owners. Abbie Fentress Swanson speaks with residents of Oakland’s [...]
