Jay Allison has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is The Life Stories Collection.
The Sonic Memorial Project
Summary
The Sonic Memorial Project is a collection of radio stories and audio artifacts commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood. Shortly after September 11, 2001, NPR's Lost & Found Sound brought together radio producers, archivists, new media artists, historians, and public radio stations nationwide to collect and preserve the stories and sounds of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood. With National Public Radio, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva (The Kitchen Sisters) set up a phone line and invited listeners to contribute their voice mails, remembrances, home recordings, and shards of sound to this documentary effort. Hundreds called with their stories and audio artifacts, both personal and historic. These recordings, along with interviews gathered by radio producers across the country, are presented in this collection of stories broadcast on NPR during the year following the attack. The archive and project continue online at www.sonicmemorial.org where one can explore the archive, contribute sounds and stories, and immerse oneself in the Sonic Browser, an interactive soundscape of stories and audio fragments. The Sonic Memorial Project is a national collaboration with Lost & Found Sound, NPR, Picture Project, WNYC, transom.org, Radio Diaries, Ben Shapiro Productions, dotsperinch, Sound Portraits, Creative Time, MPR/Public Radio Collaboration, and independent producers nationwide. Major project funding provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting & The National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by The Ford Foundation, California Arts Council, and the Sonic Memorial Fund.
©2001 The Kitchen Sisters Productions
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski
Summary
In 1966, a young Marine took a reel-to-reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War. For two months, until he was killed in action, Michael Baronowski made tapes of his friends, of life in foxholes, of combat. And he sent those audio letters home to his family in Norristown, Pennsylvania. 34 years later, his comrade Tim Duffie brought those tapes to radio producer Jay Allison, as part of the Lost & Found Sound series. This radio story originally aired on NPR's All Things Considered. It was produced by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison.
©2001 Jay Allison, Atlantic Public Media
The Life Stories Collection
Summary
These are public radio stories made in recent months and over many years by acclaimed producer Jay Allison - working together with friends, colleagues, neighbors, strangers and whoever would take the loan of one of his tape recorders. They are stories about life as we find it, and record it. Including... Family: Women and Children First Concerning Breakfast My Daughter the Trapeze Artist Alone Like a Stone in the New World Family: Sons and Brothers Dad's Moving Out My Brother, Tom Jones Dad and Sam Descended from the Holocaust Jobs: Women at Work A Pastor's Journal After Labor Day Retiring the Robe Jobs: Teaching Educating Esme Friendship Baseball, Church, Kids Carolyn: A Portrait of Race in Boston Fire and Ice Cream The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Cpl. Michael Baronowski Memory Beginnings Jack Murdurian Sings Jungles of Memory Cypress Knees Ghosts
©2001 Jay Allison, Atlantic Public Media