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Signal Hill is an audio magazine. Find out more at signalhill.fm
Episodes
The newest 20 of 34 episodes
- FEATURE | What's Inside the Moon · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 4In 1970, Kenneth Koch published a groundbreaking book about writing poetry with kids. Half a century later, Jess Shane tracks down his students to ask what it meant for their…
- DIARY | Still Life with Lavalier · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 7On the first day of this year, Sharon decided to clip a microphone to her shirt and record her life. Every waking minute of it. Sharon Mashihi is an audio storyteller and…
- Editors' Note: Issue Three · 3 min · Season 3 Episode 1Where we're coming from and where we're going. Signal Hill is an independent, listener-funded, nonprofit publication. Help us continue making it by signing up to be a…
- Letters to the Editors · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 9Signal Hill's first-ever installment of Letters to the Editors. We want to hear from you! Tell us what you thought of the issue. Send a voice memo to [email protected]…
- ESSAY | On Another Rock · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 5On November 19th, 1969, two American astronauts landed on the moon. The next day, eighty American Indians landed on Alcatraz Island. Lou Cornum is a writer, editor, and professor…
- FEATURE | Lute Dogs · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 6The lute is an instrument facing giant panda levels of endangerment. Ruby enters the lute-iverse to meet the people trying to save it. Ruby Tandoh is a writer and lives in…
- INVESTIGATION | "Buddy" · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 3What that nerd Charles Darwin did for finches in the Galápagos, Boen is doing for “buddy” in Pittsburgh. Boen Wang is a writer, audio producer, and educator in Pittsburgh. This…
- DISPATCH | The Sound of a Red Car Passing · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 2A tour of Madrid, New Mexico, made by the kids who live there. Produced in partnership with Transom Story Lab’s The Listeners project. This story was reported and recorded in…
- FICTION | May Day · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 8Everything was bright and the day felt ordained. The sky was right there. Every object was real, finally, and true. It was impossible to imagine a commodity. Mitchell Morgan…
- Coming Soon: Issue Three · 1 min · Season 3 Episode 1Signal Hill, Issue Three comes out on July 7th. Cover art by Zak Ziebell. Signal Hill is an independent, listener-funded, nonprofit publication. Help us continue making it by…
- STYLE | Push-Up Contest · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 2Zoe’s dad designed a bra that changed the world. Can it change her life? Zoe Kurland is a writer and audio documentarian based in Marfa, Texas. This story was written and…
- FEATURE | The Learning Play · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 4If at last you could change the world, what would make you too good to do so? Featuring an interview with Silvia Federici. Rachel James is a poet, artist, and author of An Eros…
- FEATURE | Unknown Unknowns · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 6How to make a life-changing decision when all you have is the sparse and noisy data of an uncertain world? First, try posting on Lex. Lio Wong is a writer and cognitive scientist…
- DISPATCH | Making Utopia · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 8First it was the Shakers. Then, other people started coming to the mountain. All in the hopes of starting their own little utopias. Mitra Kaboli is an audio documentarian, sound…
- Editors' Note: Issue Two · 2 min · Season 2 Episode 1Dear listener, it's really nice to meet you all, at last. I’ll call you if I need anything. Signal Hill is an independent, listener-funded, nonprofit publication. Help us…
- FEATURE | Cotton King · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 7Omar’s grandfather ran the biggest cotton company in Egypt. It was a workman’s paradise, owned by the people of Egypt. At least, that’s the story his family has always told him…
- SCIENCE | Ghost Forests · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 3Jackie tries to see the most underappreciated trees in her neighborhood—before they’re all gone. This story was produced in partnership with High Country News. Read the companion…
- Issue Two Credits · 2 min · Season 2 Episode 9Signal Hill is edited by Omar Etman, Jackson Roach, Annie Rosenthal, Lio Wong and Liza Yeager. Jackson and Liza are the editors in chief. The stories in Issue Two were created by…
- ESSAY | The Snail · 18 min · Season 2 Episode 1My brain, I discovered, is like a mouth that demands something to chew. If I don't give it chewables, it starts eating itself. Andrew Leland is the 2024-6 Koeppel Fellow in…
- POETRY | Voice Lessons · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 5In the middle of Amelia’s family, there’s a silence. She wants to crack it open, so she starts learning to sing. Amelia Schonbek writes, edits, and builds community in New York…
