You're a great person, you have a lot of strength, it is a pleasure to hear...

If you tune around on a shortwave radio, you might stumble across a voice reciting an endless stream of numbers. Just numbers, all day, everyday. These so-called "numbers stations," say nothing about where they are transmitting from or who they are trying to reach, but they can be heard in Spanish, Thai, German, Russian, Chinese, and any number of other languages from around the world.
These mysterious shortwave transmissions caught the attention of producer David Goren when he was just a kid. His piece, Atencion! Seis Siete Tres Siete Cero: The Mystery of the Shortwave Numbers Stations, aired in 2000 as part of the series Lost and Found Sound.  In tuning into these weird little broadcasts, Goren joins a curious community that has been listening to numbers stations for decades, some suspecting that the stations are run by intelligence agencies sending encrypted messages to individual agents in the field.

99% Invisible-97- Numbers Stations

Mercy, So Much Noise

Obama on CB Channel One-Nine

I made this piece in May 2000 and it aired as part of the Kitchen Sisters' Lost and Found Sound series on All Things Considered. Endless thanks to The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson) and to Jay Allison.

The Shortwave Numbers Mystery

Episode One of my Shortwaveology podcast, originally commissioned and distributed by Big Shed in 2007.(http://bigshed.org)...fine purveyors of independent audio productions and more. Eternal thanks to Jennifer Deer and Shea Shackleford.

Shortwaveology #1

Shortwaveology #2 Spring. Thanks to Shea Shackleford and Jennifer Deer of the Big Shed for it's first home. 

Time to make Episode #3 perhaps.

Shortwaveology #2

Victoria tried to get her life back after the removal of a brain tumor. Sadly, she is no longer with us. 

This is part of a larger group of audio portraits of people living with cancer called Squirrels Stories. You can hear more stories at www.SquirrelsStories.com.

You can also follow along at www.facebook.com/SquirrelsStories.

Her speech

Dolma Lhamo
English and Tibetan
Poem Written for EarSay Youth Voices at the International High School.
Voiced and Written by Dolma Lhamo
Produced and mixed by Judith Sloan 
with recording engineer Touré Southpaw Harris

Dolma Lhamo ring ring earsay voices

A linguist told me "squirrels" is the hardest word in the English language to say. Squirrels Stories is the place for the things that are difficult to talk about. The first Squirrels Stories are audio portraits about people living with cancer. These stories are good for those who listen as well as those who tell. 

Stayed turned for more Squirrels Stories and other curiosities to warm your ears. 



Her speech

Squirrels Stories

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