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UnFictional

The 24 Hour Radio Race 2015

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4923 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The winners of our third annual whirlwind radio competition!

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From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.

0:20.0

I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

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Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries and on this episode it's the winners from the third annual KCRW 24-hour

0:37.2

radio race. On August 8th, 2015, over 200 teams from around the world set out to the exact same

0:48.0

minute with the same goal to create an entertaining broadcast quality radio story in less than 24 hours.

0:57.0

At the start of the race, the contestants all received the theme to this year's race by a video message.

1:07.0

And now it's time to deliver what radio racers around the world have been waiting for. The theme to 2015's KCRW radio race.

1:17.0

Time Change. And with that, racers set out to collect sound and create a story somehow using the theme

1:30.0

time change. All of these stories had to be under four minutes long and the next day

1:35.8

as time ran out dozens of radio stories were uploaded to SoundCloud. There were

1:41.3

pieces that were funny, strange, beautiful, and moving.

1:45.0

Here are just a few samples of some of them.

1:47.0

Some may change me

1:51.0

but I can't change I can't change. I'm on Governor's Island doing a living history

2:00.4

portraying life of a Civil War soldier just what it would have

2:04.5

looked like for a soldier bring that to the public I am in Civil War uniform

2:09.2

head to toe and wool. It's handsome.

2:13.0

55 was a good year.

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