Underground April 17, 2008
This week we take you “underground” both figuratively and literally. Brett Wilkison takes listeners on a radio expedition to Colma, California, where most of the residents spend their time underground. Rina Palta reports on undocumented students, who are forced to live their lives below the surface. Reporter David Gelles interviews a transportation official about the Devil’s Slide tunnels. Have you ever been driving around, messing with the FM dial, and you come across a totally new radio station you never heard before? Anrica Deb brings us a little bit about pirate radio. And Jessica Meyers reports on a man who makes his living from the underground…literally.
Credits:
Our “underground” show was produced by Andi McDaniel. Assistant producer was Robert Lewis. Ben Hubbard and Angelica Marin are our engineers. Our webmaster is Kevin Jones. Ben Manilla is the executive producer. And our anchors were Cynthia Dizikes and Abbie Swanson. The songs you heard were:
“Good News When I Die” by The Charlie Sizemore Band
“This is Radio Clash” by The Clash
“Turn it On” by The Flaming Lips
“Bilgemunky Radio” by Bilgemunky Radio
“Worm Guts” by The Rockin’ Worms
“Forever Night Shade Mary” by the Latin Playboys
“Go Underground” by B.B. King
Underground…9-feet to be exact
Brett Wilkison takes listeners on a radio expedition to Colma, California, where most of the residents spend their time underground.
Web exclusive: Here, Frank Maffei, 77, a former PG&E construction supervisor, shares his memories of what it was like growing up in Colma in a family of cemetery workers.
Right click here to download.
For more on the history of Colma and its cemeteries visit the Colma Historical Association’s website, go here.
Undocumented
Rina Palta reports on undocumented students, who are forced to live their lives underground.
For information on RISE, UC-Berkeley’s support group for undocumented students, visit their blog.
The Tunnel
David Gelles interviews a transportation official about the Devil’s Slide tunnels.
For more information on California’s newest tunnel, go here.
Pirates
Have you ever been driving around, messing with the FM dial, and you come across a totally new radio station you never heard before? Anrica Deb brings us a little bit about pirate radio.
The worms crawl in…
Jessica Meyers reports on a man who makes his living from the underground…literally.
Click on the picture to the right to see a slide show prepared by Jessica Meyers.
To find out more about Bay Worms and worm castings, go to here.
If that’s not enough, to learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about worms, check out this.
No Comments
No comments yet.
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
Leave a comment
