Feature-Length Radio Documentaries from Sound Portraits

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FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
from the archive of Sound Portraits radio documentaries.

	My Last Mile (2007) Forty years ago, photographer Danny Lyon was granted unprecedented access to the Texas prison system, where he met inmate Billy McCune. These tapes were recorded by Lyon, documenting their historic partnership. [7:57]
	The Ground We Lived On (2006) Journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality and loss in recordings she made during the last months of her father's life. [11:31]
	My Lobotomy (2005) A groundbreaking documentary narrated by Howard Dully, a patient who received an "ice pick" lobotomy at age 12. [22:00]
	Yiddish Radio Project (2002) All that remains of the golden age of Yiddish radio are one thousand recordings, miraculously rescued from garbage cans and attics. But the story they tell!
	Youth Portraits Series (2002) Stories by young people who served time on Rikers Island.
	The Execution Tapes (2001) The historic broadcast of executions tape-recorded by the Georgia Department of Corrections. [52:19]
	Witness to an Execution (2000) The stories of men and women involved in the execution of deathrow inmates at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. [22:22]
	The Jewish Giant (1999) An audio biography of Eddie Carmel, "The Jewish Giant," by his cousin Jenny Carchman. [28:14]
	The Sunshine Hotel (1998) A journey into one of the few remaining flophouses on the Bowery in New York City, led by Nathan Smith, the hotel's longtime manager. [23:31]
	Looking for Mary (1997) Beverly Donofrio's journey to sites across America where the Virgin Mary has been seen. [23:53]
	Museum of Jurassic Technology (1996) Writer Lawrence Weschler's profile of this singular institution, home to spore-inhaling ants and bats that can fly through walls. [23:11]
	Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse (1996) LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's exploration of the murder of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was pushed to his death from a 14th-floor window by two other boys. [39:19]
	All the Way Broken (1995) The audio memoirs of Iolene Catalano, a former prostitute and heroin addict. [28:08]
	The Gods of Times Square (1994) Photographer Richard Sandler's exploration of religion in the bustle of Times Square. [20:01]
	Ghetto Life 101 (1993) The audio diaries of LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, two young boys living in one of the most notorious public housing projects in America. [30:16]
	They Shall Take Up Serpents (1992) The story of fundamentalist Christians in the Appalachian hills who handle serpent as part of their religious services. [21:44]
	Jefferson County Gospel Quartets (1992) The story of the birth of a cappella gospel quartets from Alabama's steel mills, told by a founding member of the Four Eagles Gospel Singers. [25:17]
	Ward 2-West (1991) A profile of twenty-six men found not guilty by reason of insanity who live in the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in New York City. [24:16]
	Tossing Away the Keys (1990) Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate Wilbert Rideau's report on fellow inmates who are serving life terms without the possibility of parole. [25:25]
	Remembering Stonewall (1989) The first documentary in any medium about the Stonewall Riots, the event that sparked the gay-rights movement in the United States. [23:03]