Based on five months' research in Washington, The Sound and the Story paints a vivid and entertaining behind-the-scenes portrait of NPR News -- the first such exhaustive narrative by an outside observer. Readers visit their favorite programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition, and meet some of the best-known NPR "voices," including Bob Edwards, Nina Totenberg, Susan Stamberg and Scott Simon.
This critically-acclaimed book includes thoughtful and provocative reflections on the radio medium, which Looker calls "the sightless courier of the air." The Sound and the Story articulates forcefully the importance of public radio to American society and celebrates the unique power of the medium of voices and sounds.
"Creative radio encourages listeners to use faculties of imagination, emotion, and intellect that television dulls or discourages," Looker says. "Radio stimulates us to pay attention in ways that intensify our connection to the world."
Producer of the Peabody-award winning radio series, New England Almanac, and a former producer and reporter for NPR, Thomas Looker now teaches in the American Studies department at Amherst College. The Sound and the Story is a Richard Todd book, published by Houghton Mifflin.
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