Long Haul: Public Radio Documentaries to Go!
Everyday Americans tell their own stories in narratives and documentaries produced by award-winners Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister. As heard on NPR and public radio stations nationwide.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 92
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
The House of Pain
The House of Pain was the gang name for a ten-story high-rise at Stateway Gardens, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development that once sat across from U.S. Cellular Field (a.k.a. Comiskey Park)…
00:29:03 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Public Housing Relocator
Right now in Chicago, thousands of public housing residents are being forced to move as the Chicago Housing Authority systematically demolishes their notorious high-rise apartment buildings and plans…
00:08:48 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Movin' Out the Bricks
In the fall of 2002, Catherine Means was living on the tenth floor of what she describes as "hell" -- Chicago's Stateway Gardens high-rise housing project. In September, she finally got out from unde…
00:27:46 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Hospice Chronicles
Over the course of eight months, Long Haul followed two hospice volunteers through their training and first assignments in patients' homes. Trained to provide "respite care," the volunteers set out t…
00:54:20 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
American Dreamer
American schools teach students that with hard work, they can realize their dreams. But some kids do everything right, only to graduate from high school and find the American Dream isn’t for them.
S…
00:45:51 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
IVF: Suzanne's Story
Each year, more than 100,000 women use some form of doctor-assisted artificial insemination to try to get pregnant. Suzanne is one of these women. She's single, in her mid-40s, and has been trying fo…
00:12:32 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Mom's Good Move (part 1)
PART 1 of 4.
Whether they are forced to, or whether they plan to, each year more and more seniors move into retirement homes. In 2000, Peg Collison was one of them. Peg left the town of San Mateo, …
00:12:57 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Mom's Good Move (part 4)
PART 4 of 4.
Whether they are forced to, or whether they plan to, each year more and more seniors move into retirement homes. In 2000, Peg Collison was one of them. Peg left the town of San Mateo, C…
00:10:54 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Mom's Good Move (part 3)
PART 3 of 4.
Whether they are forced to, or whether they plan to, each year more and more seniors move into retirement homes. In 2000, Peg Collison was one of them. Peg left the town of San Mateo, C…
00:11:28 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Mom's Good Move (part 2)
PART 2 of 4.
Whether they are forced to, or whether they plan to, each year more and more seniors move into retirement homes. In 2000, Peg Collison was one of them. Peg left the town of San Mateo, C…
00:12:43 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Dear Birth Mother
After waiting for Mr. Right – and after years of fertility treatments – Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to adopt. She chose transracial adoption. We follow her through workshops desig…
00:29:00 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Autism Chronicles
Most autism experts generally agree that early intervention beginning immediately after diagnosis can help a child conquer some of the most debilitating aspects of the disorder. Yet, society's appro…
00:57:59 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
The Sad Decline of the Passenger Pigeon
At one time, it was believed there were as many as five billion passenger pigeons in eastern North America. By the mid nineteenth century, their numbers began to decline sharply – killed by sportsman…
00:07:15 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Waterman
Eastern Montana is a land of extremes. The mercury can swing from 50 degrees below zero in the winter to over 100 in the summer. A recent drought has made life even harder on people relying on water …
00:05:16 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Journey of the Asian Carp
This is the story of a good fish gone bad … an immigrant brought here with good intentions … a tasty fillet with a bad rap. A victim of stereotypes. Of fish profiling. A fish that can fly! And, a…
00:09:35 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Buffalo Commons
Twenty years ago, academics Frank and Deborah Popper wrote what they thought would be a little-noticed, four page article subtitled "A Daring Proposal for Dealing with an Inevitable Disaster," which …
00:20:16 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Birdathon!
Every spring since 1989, bird lovers in Berrien County, Michigan (directly across the lake from Chicago), have taken part in a grueling competition to see which team can track down the largest number…
00:24:00 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Nachusa Volunteers
About twenty years ago, some locals got together with The Nature Conservancy to buy about 300 acres that was slated to become a subdivision near the town of Dixon, Illinois. Since then, Nachusa Grass…
00:10:23 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Hogwash!
Every year wild boar cause an estimated 1.8 billion dollars in damage to farms, lawns, and natural areas, primarily in the southern United States. Experts contend the roaming swine also carry a numbe…
00:20:32 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Oh, Coqui!
The coqui is the national symbol of Puerto Rico: a tiny, but vociferous tree frog that's a beloved part of the Puerto Rican soundscape, lulling residents to sleep every night with the male's lusty “c…
00:25:08 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
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