Bonus Episode: Hear the World Differently

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

There’s an old saying that “sound is like touch from a distance.” We think it’s a perfect metaphor for what we at Radio Diaries — and all the shows at Radiotopia — try to do. We want to help you hear the world differently.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia. From PRX is Radiotopia, this is Radio Diaries. I'm Joe Richmond.
0:10.0	There's a saying that sound is like touch from a distance.
0:15.0	It's lovely as a metaphor, but of course it's also literally true.
0:19.0	We can feel the touch of sound waves and vibrations in our ears and our bones on our skin.
0:26.4	Bernard Greenhouse was a famous cellist, one of the founding members of the acclaimed
0:29.9	Bozart's trio.
0:31.6	You already met Bernard Greenhouse if you listen to the last episode of our
0:34.4	podcast, a guitar, a cello, and the day that changed music. Greenhouse died in 2011 at the age of
0:40.8	95. Not long before his death I interviewed him and one thing he said
0:45.7	is always stuck with me. It was a lesson about touch from a distance.
0:51.3	I can't tell you why that is different from from that
1:02.4	but you hear a difference don't you listen again the opening it can be played. That's one way of
1:17.0	that's one way of playing it,
1:20.0	but here. If you feel it on your skin you know that they're going to feel it the same way.
1:39.9	If you feel it on your skin you know that they're going to feel it the same way.
1:45.0	Feeling the sound in your skin.
1:49.0	I think that's a pretty good metaphor for what we at Radio Diaries
1:52.0	and all the other shows at Radio Topia
1:53.8	try to do. Whether it's Roman Mars investigating the invisible design of the
1:58.5	world or Helen Zaltzman showing us the hidden secrets of language. The podcast on Radiotopia
2:04.2	help you hear and feel the world differently. We are a proud member of
2:10.3	Radiotopia for many reasons because it's a collective of the best
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