Summary: Hosts Molly and Zoe are too busy coping with the tragic end of Summer Soundwave to fabricate a theme from two very different stories. First, we hear how a girl who grew up with deaf parents learned to speak. Then we take a tour of a beautiful park that protects our water supply from terrorists. Grab your tissues!
Summer Soundwave was a truly ambitious Weekday High summer program where kids produced features four days a week during August of 2010. The girls who produced this episode, the last one of the season, are very understandably bummed about the program's end and apologize for the lack of a theme that unifies this episode. They shouldn't--the two features are both very strong: interesting topics, solid editing, and professional-sounding narrator voices. It reminded me a little of This American Life (it covers the cool, small-town stories that get overlooked in hard news shows) but was clearly a youth show in its freshness and the banter between the hosts. Best line: "I'm concerned about the equipment over there getting wet...with your tears."
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This piece belongs to the series "Summer Soundwave"
Produced by Zoe Sheinkopf, Molly Freed, Jenny Asarnow, and Nathan Friend
Other pieces by KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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Charlotte Mcdonald
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 04:50 PM | Permalink
Not too cohesive, but at least they're upfront about it
Summer Soundwave was a truly ambitious Weekday High summer program where kids produced features four days a week during August of 2010. The girls who produced this episode, the last one of the season, are very understandably bummed about the program's end and apologize for the lack of a theme that unifies this episode. They shouldn't--the two features are both very strong: interesting topics, solid editing, and professional-sounding narrator voices. It reminded me a little of This American Life (it covers the cool, small-town stories that get overlooked in hard news shows) but was clearly a youth show in its freshness and the banter between the hosts. Best line: "I'm concerned about the equipment over there getting wet...with your tears."