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  Producer's Showcase 11/16/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  A potpourri of human interest, documentary, radio drama, and other creative projects. Hosted by D. Bunker and featured WMPG producers. Originally aired between 2010 and 2013.

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  Producer's Showcase 11/09/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  A potpourri of human interest, documentary, radio drama, and other creative projects. Hosted by D. Bunker and featured WMPG producers. Originally aired between 2010 and 2013.

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  Producer's Showcase 11/02/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  A potpourri of human interest, documentary, radio drama, and other creative projects. Hosted by D. Bunker and featured WMPG producers. Originally aired between 2010 and 2013.

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  Producer's Showcase 10/26/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  A potpourri of human interest, documentary, radio drama, and other creative projects. Hosted by D. Bunker and featured WMPG producers. Originally aired between 2010 and 2013.

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  Producer's Showcase 10/19/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  A potpourri of human interest, documentary, radio drama, and other creative projects. Hosted by D. Bunker and featured WMPG producers. Originally aired between 2010 and 2013.

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  Producer's Showcase 10/12/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Roy Gimms (not certain if that’s his name, I couldn’t quite make it out) goes to the State Theatre 6 days before it opens. Roy interviews Lauren Wayne, the general manager of the State Theatre about the history of the venue, the work that is being done, and the Portland music scene.

  Segment 2: Salt Cast producer Rob Rosenthal talks about sound in environments that are visited by the producers. Audrey Dilling visited Biddeford High School to interview the lunch ladies there for a piece called Hot Lunch. Dilling discusses the ways that the environment influenced her piece and how the creation was more organic than planned.

  Segment 3: Promos for older WMPG begathons are aired again.

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  Producer's Showcase 10/05/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Guest Ronan Kelly, a radio producer from Ireland.

  First piece is called Don’t Go Far - Your Dinner’s Nearly Ready and is about two young boys who hopped on a train in Ireland and it took them all the way to London. They ended up getting on a plane to New York. Kelly describes his process for editing the piece and interviewing the boys.

  Second piece is about a Nigerian woman who sings in public. Kelly interviewed her in public and had an awkward interaction trying to explain a joke to her. Kelly uses it as an example of what not to do, but also how to approach public interviews. Kelly also describes how Ireland has changed and documenting a Nigerian immigrant helps to preserve that time in Irish history. Kelly also talks about how American radio has influenced his productions.

  Third piece is called The Meat Factory Earworm. Kelly talks to his coworker Richie Byrne who used to work in a meat factory. While working in the factory he sang to himself to keep himself sane.

  Fourth piece is about John the Man who ran a local pirate radio station. Jim Wallace is narrating and Kelly uses the piece as an example of how the knowledge of local places can color a piece and make it more relatable to the audience.

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  Producer's Showcase 09/28/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Producer Meghan Lasalle discusses two dams in Orrington that are being removed to restore the Sedgeunkedunk stream. Scientists are using the removal of the dams to study the ways that migratory fish react to being able to return to their home waters and the impact that has on the environments there.

  Segment 2: Producer Avery Moore from the Salt Institute profiles laughter therapist Katie West. Rob Rosenthal begins with the Salt Cast about the creation of Moore’s piece. Rosenthal tells about how the use of music generally is frowned upon by documentarians, but Moore used some in her piece despite being averse to it herself. Moore’s piece then plays and talks about founder of the Levity Institute Katie West who is going to a conference on World Laughter Day in New York. West uses laughter as a way to help people combat depression.

  Segment 3: Producer Fred Greenhalgh’s satire called The War on Poverty. The president looks to create more jobs by having the army launch an attack on the poor. The army begins by targeting the poor in New York, declaring poverty as the most sinister enemy of America yet.

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  Producer's Showcase 09/21/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Producer Kevin Astra from Local Scene. Astra interviews Brent Devado, Eric Curry and Steve Williams. Together they talk about the local music scene in Portland and the various music venues. They discuss the struggles that Portland is having supporting local musicians and especially the more niche groups.

  Segment 2: Producer Kelly Libby from the Salt Institute presents A Reason for the Purpose. Colby Paron is a 13 year old who works for Bisson’s in Topsham. Paron talks about farming, and working with cattle. Paron discusses the popular perception of farmers and how different that is from the reality. Paron has been around cattle that’s being slaughtered and has witnessed every facet of cattle farming.

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  Producer's Showcase 09/14/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Producer Meghan Lasalle from WERU profiles the Beehive Collective in Machias. The Beehive Collective is working to make anti-globalist and anti-colonialist art. Lasalle goes to the Collective and talks to the members about their activism and the history of their work. They work with other people throughout the country. The Collective’s most recent image is of the coal industry in Appalachia. The Collective discusses their method, and why they make the art the way that they do. Their art depicts what the best strategies for combating climate change is, and the impacts of industry on the natural landscape.

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  Producer's Showcase 09/07/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Salt Radio producer Zachary Mccuin. Mccuin talks about Robbie Elowitch, an art dealer who is also a professional wrestler named Robbie Ellis. Ellis is a crowd favorite, and he is still going strong even though he is nearly 70 years old. Ellis’ wife doesn’t like to watch his wrestling matches, and doesn’t like that he gets injured frequently.

  Segment 2: Salt Radio producer Meghan Reid talks about Crossroad Games, a game store in Standish. People at Crossroad Games have formed their own little community based around their mutual love of games. Social workers have been bringing kids who struggle with their social skills to Crossroad Games to help them learn and feel a part of a community.

  Segment 3: Salt Cast about the making of a piece called Truck Stop Love Affair. Producer Rob Rosenthal tells the story of Sarah Paul. Paul was returning from an abandoned project on bear hunting when she went to Dysart’s Truck Stop in Lewiston to do a story on that instead. Jackie, a waitress at Dysart’s was the original subject of the story, but she ended up not giving as much of an interview as was required, so Paul had to improvise with what she had. Dysart’s has a famous restaurant, but the truckers and tourists have separate rooms (although they aren’t explicitly divided). Jackie works in the trucker’s room and is very popular with her clientele. Paul was able to get a more complete story about Jackie from talking to the truckers at the table.

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  Producer's Showcase 08/31/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Salt Institute graduate Kelly Libby discusses a young woman named Becky’s struggle with addiction while living in Vinalhaven in a piece called Talk of the Town. Vinalhaven is a small island, and everybody knew her. Becky got caught breaking into people’s houses to steal pills. Now she is sober and is trying to repair her reputation and let the community of Vinalhaven know that she is sorry and wants to be accepted again. Vinalhaven has an addiction problem due to economic struggles, and the feeling of isolation from living on an island.

  Segment 2: Emily Lafonde from the Blunt Youth Radio reads her essay called The Cigarette Bath. Lafonde discusses the time her aunt got angry with her for stealing cigarettes from her grandfather to destroy them. She reminisces about her memories of his smoking and her fears surrounding them. Her friend Erin invited Lafonde to ride bikes and then smoke cigarettes with her.

  Segment 3: Gabriel Hegman interviews people at the American Legion Hall in Dixfield. The various members talk about their time as members of the American Legion and their status as veterans. They send supplies to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and support various charities. Young people don’t join the Legion as much, and the current members are trying to reach out more to younger veterans.

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  Producer's Showcase 08/24/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Episode 5 of The Troll of Stoneybrook by Fred Greenhalgh entitled Sunset With the Hermits. The troll died following his encounter with the police after the sun came up and turned him to stone. Jamie takes the troll’s head into the forest and meets a woman who mourns for the troll. The woman tells Jamie that he has some of the troll’s blood in him now, and invites him to her camp for a meal.

  Segment 2: Part 1 - Blunt Youth Radio producer Iris SanGiovanni award winning piece called Homelessness: It Can Happen to Anyone, Even My Dad. SanGiovanni’s father was homeless for 6 months in 2004 and talks about his experiences, and the ways that it has shaped his outlook and hers.

  Part 2 - Gavin Bower Housing the Homeless talks to Ed Page about his life living as a homeless person for 20 years. Page lives in Logan’s Place, an Avesta housing project that allows for a full time support system and safe housing place for him. Because of the support of Logan’s Place Page is able to pursue an education and new employment opportunities.

  Part 3 - Zoey High How We See the Homeless. High interviews people about what they think is the reason for homelessness is. Steven LaChance, a former homeless person, works for Homeless Voices For Justice and is working to educate the public about homelessness and preventing hate crimes against them.

  Segment 3: Salt Institute Producer Jennifer Formoseovitch Trash. Formoseovitch interviews people who work for the sanitation department in Portland, and the difficulties they face on the job.

  Segment 4: Satirical knife commercial from Business as Usual compilation CD.

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  Producer's Showcase 08/17/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Episode 4 of producer Fred Greenhalgh’s The Troll of Stoneybrook entitled The Showdown at Stoneybrook. The troll and Jamie are on the run after the corpses of the police and Rick are discovered. They’re found, and the troll leaves Jamie after telling him that he needs to work to protect the natural world so that trolls can continue to live in peace away from humans.

  Segment 2: Producer Steve Kane reviews The Obsidian Conspiracy by Seattle based metal band Nevermore. Kane raves about the album and Nevermore.

  Segment 3: Producer Jay Holt from the Salt Institute’s segment is called The Last Bridge. The sardine cannery in Gouldsboro is getting ready to close down. The cannery is the last one in Maine, and with its closing Goldsboro will struggle with a lack of jobs. There are a number of options for what can replace the cannery, but there is a lot of uncertainty. Dana Rice has been working to figure something out as a replacement, but he doesn’t think anything will replace the cannery for at least another year.

  Segment 4: Producer Libby Donovan from Blunt Youth Radio talks about living without a car, and having to take the bus in South Portland. The bus system in the Portland area is difficult to navigate, and Donovan asks for some advice before taking it.

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  Producer's Showcase 08/10/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Podcast by Salt Institute, called the SaltCast. Producer Rob Rosenthal describes the production of a radio story. Rosenthal talks about the difficulties that come with editing productions, trying to figure out what to take out to make the story flow better even if it means cutting out things that the producer is personally attached to. Andy Mills, the producer who Rosenthal was talking to, then plays his story that he was working on about medical marijuana.

  Segment 2: The Troll of Stoneybrook Part 3: Missing Persons Report. Produced by Fred Greenhalgh for Radio Drama Revival. Jamie and Rick don’t show back up to work, and their coworkers are looking for them. While investigating the hit and run, the police call for backup. The troll interrogates Jamie in his cave while eating Rick. The troll laments about how his way of life is being ruined by humans developing the forests before killing the cops who show up to look for Jamie. The troll then takes Jamie to the mountains.

  Segment 3: Dan Bernard and Michael Townsend produced a promo for the WMPG car donation service

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  Producer's Showcase 08/03/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Radio Drama Revival producer Fred Greenhalgh presents The Troll of Stoneybrook Part 2: A Strange Discovery. Rick drags Jamie out to figure out what Jamie hit. They stumble upon the troll’s lair. Rick tries to shoot the troll, but the troll kills him.

  Segment 2: Producer Marge May interviews Rachel Kauder Nalebuff for the Women’s Windows series about her book My Little Red Book. The book is about women’s experiences having their first period. Her great-aunt had her first period while fleeing the Nazis in Poland. Because of her great-aunts story Nalebuff treated the book as an oral history, but began to discover that women have been having their first periods at younger and younger ages. Men have also been reading Nalebuff’s book and learning from it, and she also has a website called mylittleredbook.net that is active with people sharing their stories.

  Segment 3: Producer Chandra Touch’s story The All America Cambodia about her experience as a Cambodian immigrant who is also a cheerleader. Touch’s mother doesn’t understand cheering and wants her to be a more active member of the family. The American experience is alien to Touch’s mother and she discusses the difficulties that come with being raised in a traditional Cambodian household in the United States.

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  Producer's Showcase 07/27/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  First Segment: Fred Greenhalgh is producer of Radio Drama Revival. An excerpt from one of the series called The Troll of Stoneybrook, Part 1: Something in the Road. It tells the story of a man named Jamie who leaves early from a party and hits a troll on his way home.

  Second Segment: Producer Lorenzo Rafa goes backstage at a Ween concert. Rafa talks to the bass player about touring, playing festivals, writing music, and joining the band after having been a fan.

  Third Segment: Blue Hill Science. Producer Bill O'Connell talks to a group of teenagers about lobsters. They talk about the lives of lobsters, their anatomy, reproduction, predators, and the lobstering industry in Maine.

  Fourth Segment: Comes from Salt Institute from producer Zach Mccuin. He talks about Mookie, a monkey who was raised by Karen Hawkins, a woman in Bridgton. Hawkins talks about raising Mookie, the challenges that come from having him, and the time that she lost him for a brief period of time. Her relationship with Mookie is motherly, and she doesn’t know what she would do without him.

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  Producer's Showcase 07/20/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Guest Host Tori

  Segment 1: Barbershop. Producer Elizabeth Donovan goes to a barbershop in Portland that caters to senior citizens. The barber, Norman Millette, and his customers reminisce together.

  Segment 2: Woman Am I. Producer Heather Radkey visits the Feminist Spiritual Community of Portland. The women talk about their routine, rituals and their feminist theology teachings.

  Segment 3: Love Letter to Portland. Producer Tori’s program about Portland and the various memories that she has about living there.

  Segment 4: Crayola. Producer Adam Allington discusses Crayola crayons, their uses, and their meanings. Allington talks about their love of crayons, their perfect forms, and the variety of different colors that they come in.

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  Producer's Showcase 07/13/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Segment 1: Producer Megan Lasalle talks about people who are protesting a wind farm by Earth First.

  Segment 2: Producer Zach Berowitz talks about going being invited to a restaurant and turning it down, and his penchant for collecting things to eventually use as gifts.

  Segment 3: Producer Jennifer Formasevich (?) from the Salt Institute talks about the water system on Deer Island and how the water is going missing. The segment follows the people who work there in their search for the water.

  Segment 4: Producer Charlotte MacDonald talks about her cousin, a PHD Composition student named Hillary at Harvard who sees that women aren’t applying to the composing program. Hillary talks about the inequality in the program and her experience being discriminated against as a woman there.

  Segment 5: Producer Anna Flannegan reflects on her experience in the environmental club at Portland High School. She ruminates on her role in the club, and whether they did enough to get other students involved.

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  Producer's Showcase 07/06/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Jessica Lockhart is the guest on the program discussing Deep Brain Stimulation where she accompanies her friend to a surgery that he is having to help with his Parkinson's disease. She also introduces a segment called Witness to an Execution where they interview people who work on Death Row in Texas. Bunker interviews Lockhart about her approach to radio journalism, and the different styles of editing and presenting information that she admires and uses.

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  Producer's Showcase 06/29/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  Series of segments from the archive in Blue Hill

  First Segment: Esoterica produced by Cynthia Swan. Title: The Universe is a Love Story

  Swan talks about our hearts and the power they have, and compares them to the universe and it’s ever-expanding nature.

  Second Segment: Nature’s Remedies produced by Dr. Tim Hagne.

  Dr. Hagne discusses the Valerian Root and its homeopathic benefits while warning of any adverse effects to look out for

  Third Segment: World Ocean Radio produced by Peter Neil.

  Neil discusses the Deep Water Horizon disaster and its impact, the response of those involved and where to go in the future.

  Fourth Segment: Outside the Box produced by Larry Danzinger.

  Danzinger discusses a murder-suicide where a father murdered his autistic son and then himself. Danzinger argues that this was a hate crime because of the son’s autism. He also talks about what constitutes a hate crime.

  Fifth Segment: Ask WAM produced by Sherry Mason.

  Mason works for the Wildlife Alliance of Maine (WAM) and asks director Daryl Dejoy questions about climate change and the negative impact of the meat industry.

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  Producer's Showcase 06/22/2010

  90.9 WMPG FM

  A potpourri of human interest, documentary, radio drama, and other creative projects. Hosted by D. Bunker and featured WMPG producers. Originally aired between 2010 and 2013.