Long Haul: Public Radio Documentaries to Go!

Jan 23 2025 89 ep. 16 mins 3.1k
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Everyday Americans tell their own stories in narratives and documentaries produced by award-winners Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister. As heard on NPR and public radio stations nationwide.

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Pie v Cake medley_1_24

Jan 23 2025 6 mins  
Pie v Cake medley_1_24 by Long Haul Productions

Poo Poo in the Potty

Jan 09 2025 1 mins  
Poo Poo in the Potty by Long Haul Productions

Dog Mountain: A Love Story

Nov 20 2014 22 mins  
The story you’re about to hear is, at its heart, is a love story — between two artists, and a whole lot of dogs. It’s also the story of what it means to follow a dream — and the difficulties that can bring. Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister have the story of Vermont artists Stephen and Gwen Huneck, and their life’s work: a place called Dog Mountain. As you list

Coming Home: Nick's Story

May 21 2013 19 mins  
A young Marine comes home after his first tour of duty in Afghanistan. His parents tell his story.

The Lord God Bird

Apr 17 2013 11 mins  
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was thought to be extinct – until recently, when a bird was allegedly spotted near the small town of Brinkley, Arkansas. The sightings were big news in a community depressed by recession and population loss. Our story weaves the locals' reaction with an original song written and performed by musician Sufjan Stevens. Winner of the Sigma Delta Chi awar

The Swap Shop

Apr 17 2013 7 mins  
For the past 60 years, people in northwest Tennessee have tuned each weekday at noon to a radio program on WENK/WTPR called The Swap Shop. For twenty minutes, listeners call or write offering to buy, sell or trade an item or a service in a radio version of the classified ads, things which range from a piece of used plywood, to a green cloth Berkline recliner, to a ten-acre farm. Lo

Sî Se Puede

Apr 17 2013 22 mins  
It's been 71 years since the "strike heard round the world" - when autoworkers in Flint, Michigan, occupied a General Motors plant and and jumpstarted the union movement in the United States. But in recent years, as the power of unions in the US has wained, sit-down strikes have been more common in Latin America, Europe, and even Canada. Things finally changed last December when i

Loaves and Fishes

Apr 17 2013 7 mins  
Since the 1930s, delighted throngs have gathered just outside Linesville, Pennsylvania, to toss bread to a writhing stew of carp and ducks at the Linesville Spillway. The carp are so thick that mallard ducks literally hop, skip and jump on the fishes' backs to compete for a slice of bread. Famous worldwide as the place “where ducks walk on the fish,” the Spillway draws as many

The Tower

Apr 17 2013 7 mins  
The small town of Baudette, Minnesota, sits on the U.S./Canadian border, about as far north in the contiguous U.S. as you can get. Famous for snowy winters and a giant concrete walleye that sits downtown, it's also home to a now-decommissioned Coast Guard navigational beacon, a LORAN tower built to guide people across and around the Great Lakes. The Tower is a Baudette landmark, r

Mother Nature Kneels (Instrumental, by Bonnie "Prince" Billy)

Apr 17 2013 2 mins  
Written and performed by Bonnie "Prince" Billy in 2011 for "The Natural State," a Long Haul Song+Story.