About the Book
From award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua comes a rare and exciting collection of radio documentaries, features, and dramas.
One Song at a Time
This radio performance includes many stories about the Kerrville Folk Festival, the longest continuously running music festival in North America.
Lady Bird Johnson
One of the most licensed audiobooks on the Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson is an award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman.
From Moonshine to Armadillos
Veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this hour long program outlining the history of Threadgill's and Armadillo World Headquarters, which contributed to the birth of the Austin music scene.
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis
Recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans, this radio program features jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and others, who talk on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong.
Healthy Living in the Catskills
In this radio documentary, a husband and wife explore the rural byways within four miles of their home in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, and find local business owners working to promote healthy lifestyles that have a national impact.
Radio Tales for the Road, Volume One
Combining storytelling, documentary, radio drama, and original music, Radio Tales for the Road are vivid recollections of the 1960s.
All Things Joe Bev
This radio production is a collection of sixteen short audio features created for public radio by award-winning producer Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev.
We Take You Now to Grover's Mill
This 1988 documentary looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman and writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson and the people of Grover's Mill, New Jersey who lived through the "Martian invasion."
About the Author :
Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, began making up stories into a tape recorder when he was twelve in 1971. Forty-four years and hundreds of hours of radio broadcasting later, and he's still creating unusual audio that defies categorization. Whether it is creating a half-hour radio play for XM Satellite Radio, documentaries, features or personal essays for National Public Radio, or performing on stage before a live audience, he has made a career out of imaginative storytelling in the best aural traditions of the past.
Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, began making up stories into a tape recorder when he was twelve in 1971. Forty-four years and hundreds of hours of radio broadcasting later, and he's still creating unusual audio that defies categorization. Whether it is creating a half-hour radio play for XM Satellite Radio, documentaries, features or personal essays for National Public Radio, or performing on stage before a live audience, he has made a career out of imaginative storytelling in the best aural traditions of the past.
Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, began making up stories into a tape recorder when he was twelve in 1971. Forty-four years and hundreds of hours of radio broadcasting later, and he's still creating unusual audio that defies categorization. Whether it is creating a half-hour radio play for XM Satellite Radio, documentaries, features or personal essays for National Public Radio, or performing on stage before a live audience, he has made a career out of imaginative storytelling in the best aural traditions of the past.
Barbara Bernstein has been producing radio documentaries for over twenty years and has received numerous awards, including quite a few NFCB Golden and Silver Reels and several NLGJA Radio awards. Her most recent productions are several one-hour documentaries, including Sculpted by Fire and Urban Green. Bernstein is also a guitarist, vocalist, violist, and composer. She plays with Padam Padam, a French cabaret and tango band.
Barbara Bernstein has been producing radio documentaries for over twenty years and has received numerous awards, including quite a few NFCB Golden and Silver Reels and several NLGJA Radio awards. Her most recent productions are several one-hour documentaries, including Sculpted by Fire and Urban Green. Bernstein is also a guitarist, vocalist, violist, and composer. She plays with Padam Padam, a French cabaret and tango band.
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, and educator. He is the artistic director of Jazz at the Lincoln Center. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Willie Nelson has sold over 50 million records, recorded 250 albums, written 2,500 songs, appeared in 25 films, and written two New York Times bestsellers: Willie (an autobiography) and The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes. Lorie Kellogg is a busy graphic and voice-over artist as well as a skilled improv comedian. She studied painting, printmaking, and video and film at the Kansas City Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts.
Leonard Maltin is one of the most recognized and respected film critics of our time. He spent thirty years on the hit television show Entertainment Tonight and appears regularly on Turner Classic Movies as well as news programs and documentaries. An established author, he is best known for his annual paperback reference, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, and currently co-hosts the podcast Maltin on Movies, with his daughter. He has taught at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for more than twenty years.
