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Sprouts
Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
In 1960, Valdivia a city in Chile, experienced the most powerful earthquake in recorded history — 9.5 on the Richter Scale — followed by a devastating tsunami. MIT students traveled to Valdivia to record stories of survival: the personal survival of those who lived through the disasters of 1960; the local Mapuche indigenous people; the ecology of a unique wetland created by the earthquake/tsunami.
Also, two MIT students document a close-up look at animals and birds of the Galapagos, and the ecological pressures on them, created by the fishing and tourism industries.
This Sprouts show was produced and first aired in 2007.
Credits:
Produced by Terrascope Radio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Executive producer: Ari Epstein
