KPCW Community Voices Interviews

Park City, Utah is the home of the Sundance Film Festival which annually brings 40,000 celebrities and film buffs to this little town of 7,000 people. In addition, Park City is the home of three top resorts. Between the festival and the gorgeous slopes, the town has attracted numbers of CEOs, CFO, and other movers and shakers as second home-owners.

With the listenership such demographics provided, we were able to book great guests on both my Mountain Money show about Business and Money and our Community Voices show which was something of an omnibus program. Here we call it The World at Large.

Here are some of my favorite interviews from Community Voices.
(All recordings are courtesy of KPCW, Park City, Utah)

Judy Collins, Suite Judy Blue Eyes

Community Voices December 15, 2012
Time: 19:02
Larry Warren and Linda Gorton interview the renowned singer Judy Collins about her new autobiography. Music editing by Jan Williams.
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Todd Wilkinson, Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet

[recorded 4/2/2013 at KGBT Bozeman, MT]
Mountain Money April 22, 2013 aired Parts 1 and 4
Time:
Part 1 Intro through Goodwill Games 13:50
Part 2 United Nations 5:03
Part 3 Business 7:09
Part 4 Sam Nunn and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Wrap-up 10:32
Ted Turner. Isn't he that guy who started CNN, married Jane Fonda, and challenged other billionaires to give their money to charity? Yes - the same. But if you want to find why every person on the planet should thank him personally, check out part 4 of the interview.
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RJ Smith, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown

Community Voices Spring 2012
Time: 20:30
Pam Wylie and "JW" John Wells interview RJ Smith, who shows just how "The One" truly defines James Brown's music.
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Steve James and Virginia Pearce, "Hoop Dreams"

PM Park City March 2, 2010
Time: 18:18
"A film like "Hoop Dreams" is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us." So wrote Roger Ebert in 1994 when the documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Pam Wylie interviewed Director Steve James and Virginia Pearce, Associate Director of Artist Relations for the Sundance Film Festival on the tenth anniversary of this powerful film about two inner city kids hoping to play in the NBA.
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John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, The Second Book of General Ignorance

Community Voices October 13, 2011
Time: 10:07
A tongue-in-cheek look at popular misconceptions.
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Sebastian Junger, War

Community Voices June 16, 2011
Time: 28:57
War is the non-fiction book version of Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's movie, "Restrepo". After he had written the book, and shortly before this interview, Junger discovered the bitterest truth a soldier faces.
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Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra

Community Voices April 12, 2012
Time: 19:53
Bernie took Pete Seger's place singing with the Dreamweavers - then an even bigger gig came along. Come on along and listen to the lullaby of The Great Animal Orchestra!
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Jack Abramoff, Capitol Punishment

Community Voices March 1, 2012
Time: 32:23
Pam Wylie and Larry Warren quiz Abramoff, out of prison after being convicted of illegal lobbying activities, on what went wrong and what should change in Washington, DC.
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Dana Williams, Mayor of Park City

Community Voices March 1, 2012
Time: 21:43
If Jack Abramoff is the poster child for how government is not supposed to work, Dana Williams – the skateboarding and rock and roll singing mayor of Park City – shows how government should work. Pam Wylie and Larry Warren chat with Dana about the environment, the economy, sustainability, trips to China, and how to govern from a nonpartisan basis.
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David Kennedy, Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

Community Voices March 22, 2012
Time: 26:36
David Kennedy engineered the "Boston Miracle" that cut youth homicide by two-thirds in the 1990s. David's revolutionary but common sense method is to bring together gang members, drug dealers, cops, and neighbors in a mutual recognition of the need for safety and peace.
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Charles Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Community Voices September 29, 2011
Time: 27:56
A sequel to Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, 1493 shows the enormous globalization that occurred because of trade with the Americas. Parts of the global trade were good: sugar, silver, potatoes, corn. Some of it was horrendous: slavery and microorganisms. Interviewed by Larry Warren and Pam Wylie.
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