This hour, a deep dive into the anthem of the Confederacy, two different kinds of waves and a modern take on Romeo & Juliet.

The Song 
By producers Chris Neary, Chiquita Paschal, and Saidu Tejan-Thomas and hosted by Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika for Uncivil from Gimlet Media (2017) 
On this episode, the Uncivil team dig deep into ‘Dixie’, the anthem of the Confederacy only to find out that everything we thought we knew about the history of the song… was wrong.

Migraines & Tsunamis 
By Adrienne Lily (first appeared on Constellations in 2018) 
This is a non-narrative (but highly descriptive) piece about the prelude to suffering. It’s a play on expecting pain, on remembering pain and on the scales of suffering. Going through the warning signs of a tsunami and the nervous anticipation of an impending migraine. Part audio diary, part collage and part soundscape.

Romeo & Juliet 
By Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime for Pen Pals (2017) 
After their suicides, a posthumous textathon between Romeo and Juliet reveals he somehow wound up in Heaven, she in Hell. Can Juliet claw her way through the circles of Hell to join her Romeo or will she be stuck bunking with The Real Housewives of Inferno for good? Starring Love's Paul Rust and Noël Wells of Master of None .

This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk.

Re:sound #258 Tsunami Song

This hour, we trot across middle America, with a story from a Nashville neighbourhood, and a Missouri payphone that won’t stop ringing.

The Great Divide 
By Meribah Knight for The Promise from Nashville Public Radio (2018) 
Big Man, a public housing resident from Nashville’s Cayce Homes, walks across the street to meet the wealthy couple who live in the fancy new home on the hill. In many ways, their lives couldn’t be more different, but in breaking the silence between the two sides of the gentrifying neighborhood, a friendship begins to form — only to be dashed in a way no one could have expected. 
[Note: this is the 4th episode of the series]

Putting Columbia’s Pay Phone Mystery to Rest 
By Emerald O’Brien for KBIA in Columbia Missouri (2016) 
Payphones went from being a staple of many people’s daily lives to nearly completely antiquated in a matter of decades. This is true in Columbia, too – with only a couple dozen phones still standing. But KBIA's Emerald O'Brien looked into why one downtown payphone has an unusual amount of activity, but only in the middle of the night. And answering this question led her down an unexpected path.

Unsent (2017) 
By Laura Barton for Short Cuts from Falling Tree Productions and BBC Radio 4 
A box full of postcards, stamped and unsent, may seem insignificant, but as Laura Barton explains, those cards can capture a time and place long forgotten.

This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk.

Re:sound #259 Divided We Payphone

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