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Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz

S***hole Country 8: Developing

Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz

Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Afia makes up her mind.

S***hole Country is a production of Radiotopia from PRX and part of Radiotopia Presents, a podcast feed debuting limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Radiotopia presents from PRX's Radiotopia.

0:07.0

Before we start today's show, we want to shout out another show in the Radiotopia family, Radio Diaries. a on history and beyond. A year after the release of their series The Unmarked Graveyard,

0:25.2

they're back with a slate of new stories this summer and fall. Their new mini series, Making Waves,

0:30.5

will explore the rise of Talk radio in America with stories about four

0:34.4

little-known controversial broadcasters who change the airwaves. You'll also hear

0:39.6

stories about the US Navy's mission to get humans to live in the ocean, a group that led to the rise of American conspiracy theories, and a woman who was part of the greatest climate migration in American history.

0:51.0

More than eight decades ago, her family fled Arkansas in the wake of the

0:55.3

Dust Bowl to find a better life in California. Here's a clip from that story.

0:59.7

I know mama thought when we got to California her and her kids would be fine.

1:05.0

Plenty of work for everybody, places to live, plenty of fruit and vegetables and all this stuff. But that wasn't true.

1:16.0

The New Yorker calls Radio Diaries a venerable and remarkable audio documentary project.

1:22.0

Subscribe to Radio Diaries wherever you get and remarkable audio documentary project.

1:22.8

Subscribe to Radio Diaries wherever you get your podcasts

1:26.0

or visit them at radio diaries.org. You can call me a Fia. This is the story of my family and our lives in a quote unquote

1:50.4

shit whole country. I own to go, the home can be so cold though,

2:04.7

home of sunshine and cold,

2:07.5

home corrupt officials of every inch of home to go.

2:13.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh, where my heart goes.

2:18.0

Home where my mom goes. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to this press conference on behalf of the

2:34.3

International Monetary Fund. I'm Managing Director Campbell. We've just

2:39.0

completed the 2019 Article 4 consultations with Ghana which as you know is the annual economic assessment

2:46.0

we do for our member countries.

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