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
Charles Lewis Jr: Juvenile Justice?
Team Long Haul follows the sentencing of a boy in Lansing, Michigan, who was 13 years old at the time of a murder in which he took part and for which he was convicted. The judge in the case had the o…
00:17:14 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Execution Day: Huntsville, Texas
On March 11, 1998, 47-year-old Jerry Lee Hogue was put to death for the 1979 arson-murder of an Arlington, Texas, woman. Unlike the lethal injection earlier that year of Karla Faye Tucker (the first …
00:21:48 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Aunt Mary's Storybook Project
For the past several years, detainees at Chicago's Cook County Jail have been reading to their kids. These parents in prison meet in one of the jail's small libraries, pick out a children's book and …
00:05:08 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 African-American men who refused to go back to work l…
00:25:12 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Huntsville Prison Blues
Texas has the largest prison system in America, with more than 150,000 prisoners behind bars. The headquarters of the state's Department of Criminal Justice is in Huntsville, a small, conservative to…
00:09:32 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Regent, North Dakota: The Enchanted Highway
North Dakota's population is shrinking dramatically – so much so that many counties there now meet the U.S. Census' definition of frontier land, much as they did before homesteading began in earnest …
00:28:34 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Branson, Missouri: Postcards
Branson is home base for aging country and pop stars such as Mickey Gilley, Roy Clark, Wayne Newton, Tony Orlando, and Charlie Pride. With a population of 5,000, Branson boasts over 50,000 theater se…
00:29:00 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
New England, North Dakota: Building a Community Grocery
Usually, the opening of a grocery store in a small North Dakota town wouldn’t get our attention. But in 2007, in New England, ND -- which had been without a grocery store for a year-and-a-half -- it…
00:07:30 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Three Oaks, Michigan: Poet Laureate
Throughout America, a growing number of communities have selected their own poet laureate. Among the smallest is Three Oaks, Michigan – population 1,800 – located just across the lake from Chicago. L…
00:07:45 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Three Oaks, Michigan: 2008 Obama Sign Thieves
The presidential election of 2008 was particularly acrimonious in rural America. At Long Haul, we saw it first-hand in our own neighborhood when a neighbor, who'd had his sign stolen one too many ti…
00:04:06 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Three Oaks, Michigan: Friday Night Bites
The River Valley High Mustangs, in the southwest Michigan town of Three Oaks, lost eighteen football games in a row from 2003-2005. But it's not just the number of consecutive games the Mustangs lost…
00:11:16 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
LaPorte, Indiana: A Portrait Photographer's Legacy
For more than 25 years, Frank Pease was the primary portrait photographer in LaPorte, Indiana - a town of about 20,000 just south of Lake Michigan. Starting in the mid-1940's, Pease took tens of thou…
00:13:11 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Mississippi: Catfish Culture
From songs and literature, folklore and fishing, the catfish occupies a special place in American culture. It's also replaced cotton as the number one cash crop in many parts of the Mississippi Delta…
00:26:17 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Lockport, Illinois: The Roxy
The Roxy, a private nightclub on the main drag in Lockport, Illinois, may be the only one of its kind in the nation. The club's sole clientele are people with serious mental illness. There, customers…
00:05:11 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Braddock, Pennsylvania: City of Magic
"David Lynch goes into clean neighborhoods and finds the germs and bugs beneath; I go into dirty neighborhoods and find the life." That's how filmmaker Tony Buba describes his twelve documentaries ab…
00:24:25 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Keysville, Georgia: Old Dreams in the New South
On January 4, 1988, 63-year-old Emma Gresham became the first black mayor -- the first mayor in a half century -- of Keysville, Georgia, winning the election over her white opponent by ten votes. In …
00:29:02 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Dovekie's DNA (Part One)
Part one of the story behind our mystery puppy – allegedly a Chocolate Lab/Golden Retriever mix -- as heard in 2011 on All Things Considered.
00:04:43 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Catfish Handgrabbers
The Harrington family explains how they catch gigantic catfish by hand on the Ross Barnett Reservoir in Mississippi. Produced in 1994.
00:06:22 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Dovekie's DNA (Part Two)
Part two of the story behind our mystery puppy – allegedly a Chocolate Lab/Golden Retriever mix -- as heard in 2011 on All Things Considered.
00:07:13 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Cheepers (baby bluebirds, day 16)
Little narratives we crafted for the joy of it.
00:00:14 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
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