Larry Massett has narrated 9 audiobooks on Listento.it by 11 authors. The most-rated is Gramma Elsie.
When the Rainforest Burns
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The most outspoken proponents of saving the rainforest in Brazil were initially the region’s indigenous tribes, particularly the Kayapo tribe. Producer Cecilia Vaisman visits the town of Gorotire, where chiefs discuss their fight against ranchers, and how they are making accommodations, including mining and logging concessions. Some were looking at the immediate benefits, such as electricity, solid homes, and even airplanes. Others looked at what the tribe could be losing, such as traditions, hunting or a nutritious diet. We go to a seminal conference of tribes held in Altimira in 1989, where several chiefs, including Kuben'i and his cousin, Payakan, focused the world’s media attention on the Kayapo resistance. Members of the Brazilian government, representatives from the World Bank, the rock star Sting, corporations like The Body Shop and environmental and human advocacy groups met to hear the Indians’ issues. The effort stopped World Bank funding for a mega-dam project near Altamira on the Xingu River. As important, the world began to understand the value of maintaining tribal life. As anthropologist Darrel Posey put it: “The Indian is not an exotic footnote to history. There is much we can learn from them about managing the land so that ecological diversity is maintained.” The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here some related documentaries: Funeral in Irian Jaya Produced by: Vicki Monks and Moira RankinSoybean Wars Produced by: Charles LaneSoundprint Executive Producer: Bill SiemeringProducer: Moira RankinAudio Engineer: Anna Maria de FreitasAssociate Producer: Debra Morris
©1989 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI
Side by Side
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The intricacies of friendship, the complexities of love and trust — we learn and relearn as we grow from child to adult. Producers Miriam Graham, Jo Ann Mar, and Jill Lawrence bring us three pictures of friendship. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: Mother-in-Law Produced by: Judith KampfnerThe United States of Dating Produced by: Gemma HooleyUpright Grand Produced by: Tim WilsonWho's Got the Dog? Produced by: Judith KampfnerSoundprint Executive Producer: Moira RankinAudio Engineer: Anna Maria de FreitasAssociate Producer: Debra Morris
©1989 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI
Journey to the Other Side
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Producer Njemile Rollins follows two teens coming of age in two different African-American communities. We meet Camilla, a vivacious and head-strong African-American 13-year-old, and follow her through a church-led retreat and a naming ceremony. Rodney, a thoughtful 16–year-old single father, is in a first time offenders program where he’s getting direction and support. Although they are going through different rites of passage, they both approach the eve of maturity with hope, apprehension and the support of family. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: Children and God Produced by: Richard PaulMosaic: South Boston High School Produced by: Adina BackSoundprint Executive Producer: Moira RankinAudio Engineer: Anna Maria de FreitasAssociate Producer: Debra Morris
©1990 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI
Washington D.C. Riots: Then and Now
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The 1968 Washington, D.C. riots and the federal government's response altered the social and political climate of the nation's capitol. Producer Dan Collison presents a portrait of Washington, D.C. in 1988 against a backdrop of history, drawn from the perspectives of a variety of individuals, including Ira Sabin, a record store owner, Lillian Johnson Green, a jazz club and restaurant owner, community activist Ruth Webster, poet Gaston Neal, the mayor in 1988, Marion Barry and Senator Fred Harris, a member of the Kerner Commission. Told in the first person by writer Debra Morris, the documentary looks at the conditions which brought on the riots then, and visits neighborhoods to see what the conditions and attitudes are twenty years later. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: Keysville, GA: Old Dreams, New South Produced by: Dan CollisonRemembering Kent State Produced by: Mark UryckiSleeping Through the Dream Produced by: Askia MuhammadSoundprint Executive Producer: Moira RankinSenior Producer: Neenah EllisTechnical Director: Anna Maria de Freitas Associate Producer: Debra MorrisAudio Engineer: Dave Patschke
©1993 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI
Plastics: Here Today, Here Tomorrow
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“Plastics,” said the character in the movie The Graduate. “There’s a great future in plastics.” Today we understand how plastics degrade the environment. However, in 1988, research was just beginning to show the damage plastics could bring, from plastics bags and six-pack rings in the ocean to bottles clogging drainage areas and sea animals ingesting bits of plastic. In this pioneering documentary, producer Vicki Monks takes us through the research known at the time, including studies that showed that plastic will survive in aquatic conditions for hundreds of years. Today, as more and more landfills and seas are polluted with plastic, the warnings from those early researchers still ring true. Plastics: Here Today, Here Tomorrow won the 1989 Environment Award from the Prix d’Italia. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: The Evolution Boomerang Produced by: Soundprint Staff Surviving Extinction Produced by: Soundprint StaffSoundprint Executive Producer: Bill SiemeringProducer: Moira RankinAudio Engineer: Anna Maria de FreitasAssociate Producer: Amy Zeirler
©1988 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI
Reaching the Power Through Pain
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When poet, writer and lesbian Audrey Lorde was diagnosed with breast cancer, she immediately began to chronicle her experience with the disease. She began to raise awareness about the risks for African-American women, and for lesbians. In interviews with Lorde and other women, producer Njemile Rollins explores what it means for minority women to live with breast cancer. Reaching for Power Through Pain received the Ohio State Award for Outstanding Documentary in 1992. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here is a related Soundprint documentary: My So Called Lungs Produced by: Joe Richman and Laura RothenbergSoundprint Executive Producer: Bill SiemeringProducer: Moira RankinAudio Engineer: Anna Maria de FreitasAssociate Producer: Debra Morris
©1991 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI
Death at the Door
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The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Lasting 13 years from 1979-1992, the war saw extreme violence from both sides and according to the United Nations over 75,000 people were killed during this time. Producer Chris Brookes takes us in and around the capital city of San Salvador, talking to both Salvadoran citizens and government officials about the conflict, and about their daily lives. Through stories of death squads and other human rights abuses, the profound socioeconomic inequalities that continue to mark the country, as well as the role of the U.S. government in the war, Brookes creates a poignant impression of El Salvador in the final years of the war. Death at the Door received the Grand Prize for Informational Programming at the International Radio Festival of New York. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: The Arc of Crisis: Bringing Context to Journalism Produced by: William DrummondLegacies Produced by: SoundprintThe New Generation in Russia Produced by: Brooke GladstoneNationalism Produced by: Mike SchusterIn the Long Run: The Tarahumara Indians of Mexico Produced by: John BurnettSoundprint Executive Producer: Bill SiemeringProducer: Moira RankinAudio Engineer: Anna Maria de FreitasAssociate Producer: Amy Zeirler
©1988 SMCI (P)2015 SMCI
Speaking With One Heart: The Mayan Languages of Mexico
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Over one million Mayan Indians live and work in Southern Mexico, and six Mayan languages continue to thrive there—languages more than 3,000 years old. In the 1950s, anthropologist Robert Laughlin and his wife Mimi arrived in Chiapas, where Laughlin planned to conduct his linguistic research. At that time, he expected to learn the Tzotzil language without too much trouble, and be welcomed into the indigenous culture. As he soon found out, Tzotzil is a fantastically detailed language full of metaphors, word play, and poetic description that require the speaker to fully understand the Mayan culture and worldview in order to effectively communicate. Vocabulary and grammar were only the tip of the iceberg. Producer Katie Davis tells the story of the decades Laughlin spent learning the relationship between Mayan culture, the Tzotzil language, and the evolution of the Mayan relationship to the modern world. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: Curanderismo: Folk Healing in the Southwest Produced by Maria Martin The Day of the Dead Produced by: Marco Vinicio Gonzalez and Maria HinojosaIn the Long Run: The Tarahumara Indians of Mexico Produced by: John BurnettMending the Hoop: Native American Culture and Spirit Rituals Produced by: Alex Van Oss, Dick Brooks and Dale Looks TwiceSoundprint Executive Producer: Moira RankinTechnical Director: Anna Maria de FreitasEditor: Jude DohertyAudio Engineer: Robin WiseField Recordings: Leo del AguilaProduction Assistant: Francesca Raimand
©1995 SMCI (P)2015 SMCI
Gramma Elsie
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Listeners eavesdrop on a family crisis triggered by the sudden need for 24 hour health care for eighty six year old Gramma Elsie Fay Johnson. Using his family as a model, through candid interviews and personal narration, Elsie's eldest grandson and producer Gary Johnson describes the dynamics of caring for Gramma Elsie. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: Hospice Chronicles: Joe and Roger Produced by: Dan CollisonTouchstones of Reality Produced by: Jean SnedegarTho the Body May Be Frail Produced by: Linda MackUpright Grand Produced by: Tim WilsonSoundprint Executive Producer: Moira RankinAudio Engineer: Anna Maria de FreitasAssociate Producer: Debra Morris
©1992 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI