WBRU & BSR Radio History

From Gaspipes to Websites: Radio at Brown University 1936-2006 is an audio documentary produced in early 2007 by BSR and WBRU staff.
Scroll down for more photos, and to download an MP3 of each part of our series - the audio is all posted, for your enjoyment, for free! Please consider donating to help cover costs. See http://www.bsrlive.com or http://www.wbru.com for more info.  We want your feedback - it’s easy to post comments on this page at the end of each segment.
Hosts: Paul Payton, Brown University Class of ‘69 and Rita Cidre ‘07

Executive Producer: Paul McCarthy ’01.5

Associate Producers: Rita Cidre ‘07, Lindsey Gaydos ’08.5, Jason Sigal ‘07

Narration Recorded at: Recording Duplication Services, Summit, NJ. (908)277-1090. Thanks to Dave Barr. More info at http://www.bsrlive.com and http://www.wbru.com

A note from the producers: When we started this project, we realized that it was an impossible undertaking. After all, radio is an ephemeral and immediate medium – it doesn’t want to be captured and packaged up nicely. But we did our best, digging through dusty files, rusty reel-to-reel tapes, and countless yearbooks and news clippings. Unfortunately the nature of a student-run organization is that it’s usually a bit disorganized, and there’s often a long-term memory problem, because new staff are cycling in every four years. That means that things get lost.

But even if many of the tapes are gone, the memories certainly live on. We know, because you told us. We interviewed more than sixty-five people, listeners and staff alike, to bring you this audio history, and the stories you told us are amazing. We know that there are hundreds, probably thousands more stories out there, and we regret only that there was not more time to hear them all. Thank you, listeners, staff, and friends, for everything you’ve done, and for inspiring and supporting the new generations of radio producers at Brown. We couldn’t do it without you.

Thanks to: Jean Cummings ‘40, Joseph Parnicky ‘40, Shurwin Drury ‘41, Gordon Graham ‘44, Richard Lukin ‘47, Robert Watkins ‘47, Bernard Frechtman ‘49, Bruce Chick ‘50, Harvey Sindle ‘51, Richard Walton ‘51, Robert Fearson ‘51, William Eaves ’52, Eugene Kay ’52, Jerome Bernstein ‘54, Charles Hackett ‘58, Will Stamm ‘58, Eugene Kay ‘59, Linda Lederman ‘61, Charles Sokoloff ’63, Jack Edmonston ‘64, John Peck ‘64, Joseph Nardino ‘64, Don Harris ‘65, John Leistritz ‘65, Robert Cope ‘65, Steve Alterman ‘65, John Meier ‘66, Stu Aaronson ‘66, Jerry Hubeny ‘67, Fred Brack ‘68, Mark Jordan ’68, Don Berns ‘69, Penny Dixon Gumm ‘72, Graydon Goss ’73, Lawrence Moss ‘73, Bette Schultz ’73, Vincent Thomas ‘73, Barnet Malin ‘76, Ben Weiser ‘76, Skip Kelly ‘77, Eric Schultz ‘79, Angus Rockett ’80, Philiip Kaplan ‘80, Jeff Lesser ‘82, Mary Julian ‘82, Hunt Blair ‘83, Jonathan Groff ‘83, Sam Zwetchkenbaum ‘83, Stephen Hill ‘84, David Malm ‘86, Doug Mayer ‘87, Alison Stewart ‘88, Beth Marx Lorge ‘88, Neil Bernstein ‘88, Jacob Levy ’93, Jason Bordoff ‘94, Mark Stachowski ’97, Dan Oppenheim ‘98, Pam Young ‘98, Nick Noe ‘99, Seth Resler ‘99, Ben Harvey ‘00, Mike Tassone ‘00, Shauna Duffy ‘04, Adam Conrad ‘07, Sean Garcia ‘07, Zach Harnett ‘07, Adam Vasconcellos ‘07, Natalie Rubin ‘08, Jenny Weissbourd ‘08, Amanda Murray GS ‘08, Eric Spindler, Mary Dalton, Paul Andrews, Craig Healy, Debbie Rich, Mark Rosati, Tom Carrazzo, Jack Reich, Jonathan Lev, Susan Smulyan, the Student Activities office at Brown University, the Hay Library at Brown University, the current staff of WBRU and BSR, the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown, the Creative Arts Council at Brown, and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

An extra special thanks to Peter Tannenwald ’64, who has probably done more for radio at Brown than anybody in its entire history.

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