Back Roads Radio shows are produced and distributed by Viewpoint Productions and hosted by Judy Goldberg. Each half hour show is edited together from listener’s writings and music. If you are interested in having your work heard on Back Roads Radio, click on submissions and find out how you can be a voice on the radio.
Below
are short descriptions of the shows we’ve produced since July 2000.
We’ve selected the following show numbers: 5, 19, 21, 25, 27, 30,
39, 40, 42, 44 and 45 for your enjoyment. You can hear these shows, in
their entirety, by downloading Real Audio (free version) then clicking
on “listen
to program” in the show’s description.
We would love to hear from you. Please, let us know what you think about
the shows, if you would like to submit your work or if you would like to
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Show #1 – Beginnings – 27:08
The first Back Roads show, “Beginnings” features
stories about getting started and moving beyond resistance when choosing
to embark upon creative work. Also included in this first show is
the whimsical “Frau Schechter” with her lotion remedies
for particular occasions and a description about writing and storytelling
groups. Featured writers/tellers: Judy Goldberg, Barbara Hagendorf
and Jay O’Callahan.
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Show #2 – Initiations – 28:04
The moment of transition from innocence to a new awareness is the crux
of this Back Roads show. Additionally, a story-making prompt is incorporated
to spark listeners’ imagination and the creation of their own stories.
Featured writers/tellers: Judy Goldberg, Barbara Hagendorf and Joe Hayes.
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Show #3 – First Encounters of the Extraordinary – 30:33
The three segments in this show carry the theme of the unexpected.
Included is the work of Peñasco, New Mexico’s seventh graders, (participants
in an oral history/media arts program entitled “Drawing from the
Well”) who produced a radio documentary, focusing on folklore from
their own community. Featured writers/tellers: Lucy Moore, Peñasco
Middle School students (1999) and Jay
O’Callahan.
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#4 – Family Portraits – 29:12
In each segment, on this Back Roads show, a personal account of grandparents
is depicted with pride and affection by their granddaughters. Additionally,
two poems, at the end of the show, are portraits of a father. From each author
there is a sense of admiration and genuine connection revealed. Featured
writers/tellers: Terry Davis, Lucy Moore, Judy Goldberg and Lorrainne Schechter.
BR#5 – Family – 28:23 Listen
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Looking at the celebrations and the challenges of
family, this Back Roads show features oral histories, personal
narratives, and music as an expression of love, loss and poignant
memories. Featured writers/tellers: Peñasco Middle School
students of 1999, Lucy Moore, Lorain Varela and Jay
O’Callahan.
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#6 – Siblings – 28:00
Early childhood experiences are clearly an impetus for the paths we
choose later in life. In “Siblings” we hear two stories
which demonstrate how a sibling relationship can mark a turning point
for the authors. In the middle of the show is a rousing musical piece,
which adds to the tone of the show. Featured writers/tellers/musicians:
Lucy Moore, The Revels and Judy Goldberg.
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#7 – Where We’re From - 26:50
This Back Roads show features the nationally acclaimed story “The Herring
Shed”, written and told by Jay O’Callahan. ”The
Herring Shed” is a World War II story, told through the voice of a
15-year-old Nova Scotia girl, Maggie Thomas. Maggie leads us through the
cycle of the seasons as she evolves to womanhood through the loss of loved
ones, the devastation of war, the power of community and the redemption of
work.
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#8 – Where We’re From (2) – 26:47
This show identifies a physical place or ones own internal place of origin.
Each participant comes to the microphone with a story or poem, which identifies
a specific essence. Featured writers/tellers: Dana Newmann, Arthur Solomon,
Dorothy Peron, and Lorraine Schechter
BR#9 – Rules – 28:09
How we align with or rebuff what dictates acceptable behavior is the theme
of this Back Roads show. We hear the voices of adults, as their childhood
selves, and as they come to terms with following the rules of today.
Featured writers/tellers: Lucy Moore, Judy Goldberg, Nina Weiss and Arthur
Solomon.
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#10 – Beliefs – 28:40
With an oral historians lens, this show uses “Beliefs” as a focal
point for questioning institutions’ structures. Churches, schools and
places of employment are the targets of investigation. Featured writers/tellers:
Peñasco’s “Drawing from the Well” 1999 participants
and Peter Malmgren’s “Los Alamos Revisited” – an
oral history project.
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#11 – Shopping – 25:50
As a response to the holiday season, the Back Roads show, “Shopping” is
a collection of stories and writings that relate to the dynamics of commerce – large
and small. Featured writers/tellers: Lorain Varela, Terry Davis, Lucy Moore
and Goose E. Fedders
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#12 – Gifts – 29:41
In keeping with the spirit of the winter holidays, we have three stories
about giving and the notion of gifts. A phone version of “man-on-the-street” uncovers
attitudes towards gifts. Featured writers/tellers: Joe Hayes, Jay
O’Callahan,
Lucy Moore & Judy Goldberg
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#13 – What’s Been Passed Along – 29:24
What we inherit from our relatives is often a surprise and steers us
in unanticipated directions. The entries in this Back Roads show reveal
unique forms of “hand-me-downs.” Also
included is an exercise for prompting new stories from listeners. Featured
writers/tellers: Dana Newmann, Lucy Moore, Terry Davis and Judy Goldberg
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#14 – Inheritance – 28:30
From material inheritance to the spiritual, this Back Roads show offers a
multi-cultural expression of legacies. Featured writers/tellers/musicians:
Deborah Begel, Ana Katherine, Ray Maestas and Consuelo Luz
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#15 – Crossing Over - 28:28
Leaving one place and arriving at another is the crux of this Back Roads
show; whether this means a new life, a new land, a new identity or a new
understanding. Featured writers/tellers: Ursula Moeller, Lucy Moore, Lorain
Varela, and Dana Newmann
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#16 – In Search of Chemistry – 27:30
The stories on this Back Roads show delve into the power of attraction
and the desire for connection. Also included is a “man-on-the-street” inquiry
to the meaning of this search for chemistry. Featured writers/tellers: Judy
Goldberg and Jay
O’Callahan.
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#17 – Reflections – 28: 40
“ Back Roads” travels to a performance of Seniors Reaching Out
(SRO) where four performer/writers presented their work from a years’ writing
project in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The unifying theme was reflections through
the years. Featured writers/tellers: Sharon O’Neil-Wirtz, Francis O’Neil,
Bob Lemme and Carol Hubbell
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#18 – Dispelling Myths – 29:15
Realizing “things are not as they seem” is the undercurrent
of this Back Roads show. In all three stories a belief is undone and
a new one is revealed. Featured writers/tellers: Eve Tolpa, Tom Baumgartel,
and Frederick Turner
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#19 – Dispelling Myths (2) – 29:45 Listen
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This show probes the dramatic contrast between assumed
societal norms and our personal experiences. In this Back Roads show
there are a range of voices from a Vietnamese-American, a male Taoseño,
to three middle-aged Anglo/Catholic or Anglo/Jewish women. Featured
writers/tellers: Lan Tran, Miguel Santistevan, Betsy Tighe, Barbara
Mayfield, and Judy Goldberg.
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#20 – Making Tracks – 29:15
How we travel through our days is tied to where
we have to go and what we have to do. The unifying theme for this set
of stories is “Making
Tracks” because, in one way or another, the authors are either bustling
about or witnessing the passing of motion. Featured writers/tellers: Lucy
Moore, Sophia Jaramillo, Miguel Santistevan, Pat Craig and Judy Goldberg
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#21 – Loss of a Father – 30:33 Listen
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Dealing with the issue of loss is the axes of this Back
Roads show. We hear from three women who have thought long and hard
about the impact of their fathers’ lives and how their own lives
have been changed. Featured writers/tellers: Linda Sweet, Rima Miller,
and Mary Charlotte Domandi
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#22 – The Silver Lining – 28:22
If we look deep enough there are often shafts of hope in every sadness
or tragedy. In this week’s Back Roads Radio show we hear from four
performers whose stories find tat ray of light after the pain of loss.
Additionally, there is a guided imagination exercise to inspire new stories.
Featured writer/tellers: Jaymie Meyer, Lorain Varela, Miguel Santistevan,
Barbara Mayfield.
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#23 – Getting what you Ask for – 28:
55
From a Children’s Literature author, to a composer of avant guard
music to a whimsical storytelling professional this Back Roads Radio
show accentuates the belief that if you know what you want, you stand
a greater change of getting it. Or, to extrapolate from Mic Jagger,
you may not get what you want, but you get what you need. Featured
presenters are: Pat Mora with an excerpt from her book, “La Panaderia”, Kent Carter with
his music composition, “St. Cybard” and Jay
O’Callahan with
his dynamic story “The Salmon and the Bird
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#24 – What comes from Wanting – 27:06
The twist and turns of projecting ones desires out into the world is
the central theme of this Back Roads Radio show. You will hear how
the aching heart is matched, one way or another, with resolution and
contentment. Featured artists are: Paul Ingles with two stories, “Habitat for Humanity” and “Book
of Cowboys”, Lorain Varela’s story, “Valentines” and
Jim Terr’s song, “Ain't It Funny How We All Turn Out.”
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#25 – On the Edge – 28:08 Listen
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How
many of us walk around clinging to some semblance of order or are literally
on the verge of unraveling? This Back Roads Radio show is devoted to two
stories that bring us as close to the line as we may want to go. Featured
authors are Seth Biderman, with “All I Did for My Father” and
Frank Burke with “It Ain’t that Bad.”
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#26 – When Do We Belong – 27:43
Feeling
settled within ones own identity as the external world challenges our foundation
is this week’s focus on Back Roads Radio. We turn to four women whose
writings prompt us to consider these lines between alienation and feeling
right at home. Featured writer/tellers: Lucy Moore, Mary Charlotte Domandi,
Elise Turner, and Lorraine Schechter.
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#27 – Crossing Borders – 28:02 Listen
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In
this week’s collection of stories we hear what happens when people
consciously or unconsciously come to an intersection in their lives and are
forced to confront change. From dislodgement to reconciliation each story
reveals ways in which we all cope and resolve the shifts from one reality
to another. Featured artists are Carol Graham, Chuck Barry, Lucy Moore and
Judy Goldberg.
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#28 – As Time Marches On – 27:08
For
many of us the passage of time literally is a blink of an eye. At some point
we wake up and realize that years, yes years, have been ticking along and
somehow we’ve gone from childhood to childbearing to grand parenthood.
The one constant is the beat of seconds, underscoring all of our transitions
Featured writers and tellers who marvel at this phenomenon are Joan Logghe,
Jack Goldberg, Carol Graham and Lucy Moore, with a writing prompt by Judy
Goldberg to encourage the expressive spirit.
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#29 – A Joe Hayes Special – Holiday Tales – 27:34
This full half hour is devoted to nationally acclaimed storyteller, Joe
Hayes, who offers up traditional stories through Hispanic, Native American
and English origins. Stories include: The Wise Little Burro, Dancing with
a Star and The Christmas Cherries.
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#30 – Getting to Work – 27:57 Listen
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Work is a primary focus in many of our lives. Whether
our work is our passion or our paycheck we all face what it takes
to get a job done. This Back Roads Radio show features a wide range
of stories from ranchers to paper-pushers, to individuals who are
realizing their dreams. Featured writers and tellers are Wes McKinley,
Charles Blume, Judy Goldberg, Marcia Brenden and Linda Vozar Sweet.
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#31 - Out of the Comfort Zone 27:28
Responding to the undercurrent of angst and fear that many of us experience,
we have a Back Roads Radio show that features different scenarios of dealing
with discomfort and finding ways to overcome it. Representing the humorous,
the traditional, the unresolvable and the practicalities of survival, our
featured writers and tellers include: Lucy Moore, Nasario Garcia, Harriet
Greene, Charles Hume and Wes McKinley.
BR #32 “Those Who Have Touched Our Lives” – 28:01
From wild characters to the familial, it is the people who have paralleled
and crossed our paths that affect us the most. Who else (or
What more) can make us laugh, bring us to tears or give us solace, than
the relationships we hold closest? On this Back Roads Radio show
we hear from our treasured SW Coloradan cowboys, Wes McKinley & Charles
Hume, an esteemed NM poet, Joan Logghe, and an educator/historian and
author, Lou Liberty.
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#33 “Awakening the Writer's Voice” -
28:17
Have you ever contemplated writing and then stopped yourself because you
thought it wasn't so important, or wasn't good enough, or wasn't unique
enough or someone else could say it better – or who cares, anyway? Well,
on this Back Roads Radio show we'll hear from one of the country's imminent
writers and writing teachers who has written a new book called “Writing
Alone and with others.” Pat Schneider will read passages from
her new book and talk about the practice of writing. We'll also hear
from some local writers who have been inspired by Pat's writing methods
and we'll offer-up a story prompt to inspire listeners to take part in
writing from their very own authentic voice.
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#34 “Taking the fork in the Road” – 28:42
On this Back Roads Radio show we'll hear from four writers, Anne Valley
Fox, Tom Ireland, Barbara Rockman and myself, who each in our own way,
demonstrate a response to internal and external changes. Sometimes
it may be under duress, other times prompted by a looming sense that change
is afoot and we have no choice but to step away from what we've known and
enter what ultimately will happen.
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#35 – “What to make of hardships” – 28:45
Often on Back Roads Radio we look for writings and stories that reflect
creative ways to turn upset, tragedy or nagging memories into hopeful and
tangible ways to move forward. This is not so much a PollyAnna approach
or “the world is a bed or roses and ignore the thorns,” rather,
we hope people's stories serve as inspiration for listeners who may be
grappling with their own large or small real life dramas. Featured
artists include Miriam Sagan, Harriet Greene, and Cynthia Homire. Program
host and producer is Judy Goldberg.
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#36 – What Can We Depend On? – 27:55
It's inevitable that as we plunge
into life and forge ahead we lose sight of what may have been of deep value. Or,
to say it another way, “You
don't know what you've got until it's gone.” Come with your own philosophical
notions about change and loss to join us on the next Back Roads Radio. Featured
works are by Terry Davis, Rosemary Zibart and Lucy Moore.
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#37 – Being Heard not Herded – 28:29
In a climate where our freedoms are being challenged, the response
to terror is to terrorize others, and where global domination is the
objective of our country’s foreign policy, it is high time for people to speak out on
their alternatives views. Hear the music and comments of Joann Forman,
the thoughts of Bill Christison, and a delightful, relevant story from “the
Tales of the Dalai Lama” by Pierre DeLattres on this Back Roads Radio
show.
BR # 38 – Politics – 28:00
This show is devoted to one story by Jay O’Callahan. Looking
back at a different time in our country’s political climate, one cannot
help from drawing parallels and distinctions between the day’s of the
early ‘50’s. In many ways we have lost the innocence and
the hope, and yet, we still can identify with youthful excitement and human
exchange.
BR # 39 – Parenting – 28:22 Listen
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Ever wonder if your parenting skills bring out the best
in your child? Ever
realize how much you parent exactly like your parents, or not? And
haven't we all thought about how our parent's parenting affected us. On Back
Roads Radio we'll hear from a variety of authors who toss the idea of parenting
around, like a happy baby after its bath. Featured writers include Rob Wilder,
Anne Valley Fox, Linda Monacelli-Johnson and India Court MacWeeney
BR #40 – Crossing the Cultural Divide – 28:53
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Incidents of cross-cultural communications and experiences
can often be perplexing, mind-altering, and humorous. In our attempts to
understand each other, accommodate and respect differences, sometimes we're
taken into unimaginable situations. Listen
to the accounts of Forest Carter, Thayer Carter, Pierre Delattre and myself
as we cross the cultural divide.
BR #41 – What Sticks
and Stays – 28:01
Undeniably, we lay down the foundations of who we are
at an early age. As
we go forward we learn to wrap language and meaning around our experiences
and the emotions they trigger. Our sense of justice, self-exploration,
and engagement evolve as the adventures in our lives broaden. Featured contributors
include: Pat Craig, Lou Liberty, Hunter Riley, Sawyer Reed, Carmen Gallegos
and Stephen Becker
BR #42 – Unraveling – 27:37
(audio coming soon)
One of the most natural responses when we're under stress
is to lose control in one way or another. In the delicate years of transition from adolescence
to adulthood our coping mechanisms are unformed, under-accessed and in
some cases, out of reach. Follow the progression of one person’s
story as she leaves the confines of a small eastern college and enters
a “crack in the cosmic egg.” Featured story is told and
written by Judy Goldberg.
BR #43 – Where Stories Begin – 28:29
Where do we find the stories we want to tell? Sometimes
they're tucked
inside a forgotten object, await us on a mountain path, hide within a body
part or simply reside with a consoling, true friend. William Carlos Williams
stated, "No idea but in things." And "things"
become the prompt for Anne
Farrell, Bob Kanegis, Seth Friedman and (are complemented by)
singer/songwriter Chuck Barry.
BR #44 – Pillars, Signs and New Directions – 27:58
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What does the observation of flowers have to do with love relationships?
How are nested Russian dolls connected to a Vietnam veteran? And are you
aware of any deeply held biases when you get on an airplane? Well, get
random or get down on the next Back Roads Radio show with writer/lawyer
Sarah Karni, artist/Veteran for Peace activist Tim Origer and
writer/environmental mediator Lucy Moore.
BR #45 – Looking Back to Move Us Forward – 28:01
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This show is devoted to the work of Robert Wolf, a writer, publisher,
teacher and oral historian. Robert conducts writing workshops around the
country and, as a result, has published over 21 books of regional stories.
In New Mexico he held a workshop with senior citizens in Santa Fe, where
memories about culture and heritage issued onto the page. Featured readings
from workshop participants and a conversation with Robert Wolf about
capturing authentic American voices fills the 1/2 hour show.
BR #46 – "Hair and Now" – 28:58
There is one indisputable commonality we cannot dismiss; an element of
ourselves that we give great energy and wrangle into our desires. Some find
it a gauge of a successful day, others may find its mercurial quality
frustrating. Listen to Miguel Santistevan, Hollis Walker, Ron Martinez and
Santa Fe High School Theater Director¹s, Joey Chavez, Drama III students;
Carla Roybal, Kir Kipness and Willie Collier on Back Roads Radio show's
theme: Hair and Now.
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