Is truth relative and based on subjective interpretation?

Featuring: 
media critic, Jay Rosen
history professor, Kathryn Morse
visual artist, Michelle Letharis
PolitiFact fact-checker, Manuela Tobias
& documentarian, Miao Wang

Music:
Blue Dot Sessions
Podington Bear

Cover Art by Katharine Carroll

Matters of Fact Episode 2: Relative Truth

How do human beings communicate truth?

Featuring: 
poet & biographer, Jay Parini 
Portuguese professor, Mario Higa
philosophy professor, John Spackman, 
& students of Middlebury Union High School

Music:
Blue Dot Sessions
Podington Bear

Cover Art by Katharine Carroll

Matters of Fact Episode 3: Representations of Truth

Are there truths that exist outside of what we can possibly know? 

Featuring: 
physics professor, Eilat Glinkman
congregationalist pastor, Andy Nagy-Benson
sacred sexuality educator, Sarah Bryden
& divinity school student, Lizzie Apple

Music:
Podington Bear
Blue Dot Sessions

Cover Art by Katharine Carroll

Matters of Fact Episode 4: Truth Beyond What We Know

I asked people waiting at the DMV, "If there is anywhere you could be in the world right now, where would it be?" It was almost cruel considering the long line they were waiting in, but I got a glimpse into the places people's imaginations wander to.

This piece was produced at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. 

Music by:
"Quark Gutter" by Podington Bear
"Little Do" by Podington Bear 
"The Original Swiss Folk Music" by Hannelimusig
"Awakening" by Ketsa

DMV Vox Pop

Shape note singing, or sacred harp singing, is America's oldest form of choir music. While the tradition has been a form of Christine worship for 150 years, many singers are abandoning the religious context to find meaning in other ways.

This piece was produced at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. 

Music: 
Blue Dot Sessions
Podington Bear

Image: 
State College Sacred Harp

Sonic Postcard: Shape Note Singing

On September 17 2019, state health officials warned Mainers that mosquitos tested positive for the EEE virus. 

I produced this news spot in one hour for an assignment at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Music: 
Podington Bear

News Spot

In June 2017, Mount Auburn opened up it's archives to the public. Join Meg Winslow, curator of historical collections, on a tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery and their spectacular archives that hold stories of those buried. 

This piece was produced for The Kitchen Sisters series, "The Keepers."

Photo from "The Keepers" blog

A Landscape for the Dead

Is there is such a thing as absolute truth based on objective facts?

Features:
Judge William Sessions
physics professor, Eilat Glinkman
philosophy professor, John Spackman
& philosophy professor, Kareem Khalifa

Music:
Tell the Truth by Ray Charles
Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini 
The Truth, the Whole Truth, Nuthin' But the Truth by Ian Hunter
Blue Dot Sessions
Podington Bear

Cover Art by Katharine Carroll

Matters of Fact Episode 1: Absolute Truth

The sounds of Bryant Stove & Music in Thorndike, ME transport you back the 1800s in New England: player pianos, nickelodeons, stove repair machines. Owners, Torie and Julie, are "bringing back the quality of old" by giving antique stoves new life.

This piece was produced at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. 

Music:
Blue Dot Sessions
Podington Bear

Sonic Postcard: Bryant Stove & Music

In Maine, one university is revolutionizing health care education by teaching empathy. The school has integrated virtual reality as a mandatory part of the curriculum for med students. But can 7 minutes really change you? And is empathy even teachable?

Produced at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Juliette Luini