The Last Chapter
When Bill was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he asked his best friend to help him die.
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Rumble Strip
Good conversation that takes its time, hosted by Erica Heilman.
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Summertime and dead batteries
This is the third episode in a periodic series called Life of Kaye, which is about the life of Kaye, but also about what life mostly sounds...
Places Go
This is a special guest show from the excellent CBC series, Love Me. For the past few months, Chris and his partner Beth have been crying. A...
Rest in Peace Bonnie Tyler
A few days ago we lost a power ballad hero. Bonnie Tyler is gone. She wrote my favorite song, Total Eclipse of the Heart. Years ago I forced...
Let's make a show about the fourth of July
This weekend is the fourth of July. The 250th. LET'S MAKE A SHOW ABOUT IT. Record voice memos on your phone and send them to me at rumblestr...
Life of Kaye: Healthy Dollars
This is the second episode of a periodic series I’m making called Life of Kaye. Making Rumble Strip is the closest I can get to understandin...
Life of Kaye: Some kind of a speaker
Welcome to a new, periodic series called Life of Kaye. This first episode is called: Some Kind of a Speaker. The series is produced by me an...
A Day on the Road with a Visiting Nurse
Home health and hospice nurses provide all kinds of healthcare to people in their homes...day and night, and in mud and snow. I knew of thes...
Ladies' Day at Vermont Quick Lube
Vermont Quick Lube is a stay-in-your-car oil change place and car wash in Barre, Vermont. Wednesday is Ladies' Day and since I love Vermont...
A Requiem for Larry Massett
From The Kitchen Sisters Presents: Pioneering radio artist Larry Massett, a producer's producer, who led listeners into unexpected worlds an...
I Eat the Marshmallow
This is a same-day reaction to this morning’s story called: A springtime show about how about the economy that partly explains why we feel a...
A Springtime Show about the Economy that Partly Explains why We’re Ashamed
This is a conversation with a money manager in Scotland who has given a great deal of thought to why many of us feel confused and ashamed ab...
Hold On
This is a story about a song. Six years ago, seventeen-year-old Finn Rooney killed himself in his home in Walden, Vermont. A couple days lat...
What class are you, Habib and Arwa?
I met Arwa and Habib Meiloud because they’re Anne’s kids and Anne works at the post office in the village here in East Calais. They live in...
What class are you Kaye?
Kaye Phipps lives in Montpelier, Vermont. Right now she works as a custodian at a local grocery store. She’s also been a florist, a housekee...
What class are you Jules?
Jules Guillemette grew up on their family farm in Lamoille County, Vermont, which has been in the family nearly 100 years. Since then, Jules...
What class are you Trudy?
What Class are You? is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public, which started back in 2022. I wanted to talk with people about growing p...
The Thanksgiving Show
This is a show about Thanksgiving, and what it sounds like. It is made entirely of your recordings. Thank you everyone for sending me record...
Thanksgiving show SAMPLER
A couple days ago I asked you to send me some recordings from Thanksgiving. I figured I'd give you a little better sense of what I'm looking...
Let's Make a Show about Thanksgiving
Let's make a show about Thanksgiving. I have always wanted to do this, and the time has come. Anyone who is willing, I would love you to rec...