Jay Allison
Founder and Executive ProducerJay Allison is the Founder and Executive Producer of WCAI. He one of public radio’s most honored producers and has won virtually every major industry award, including six Peabodys. Over the last thirty-five years, he has independently produced hundreds of documentaries and features for radio and television. He is currently produces The Moth Radio Hour and, before that, was the host and curator of This I Believe on NPR, and co-edited the best-selling books based on that series.
Jay is the Executive Director of WCAI’s production partner, Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, and with APM he co-created the acclaimed websites Transom.org, which helps people tell their own stories, and the Public Radio Exchange (prx.org), which helps get those stories on the radio.
With his friends the Kitchen Sisters, Jay co-produced the NPR series Lost & Found Sound, the post-9/11 Sonic Memorial Project, and Hidden Kitchens.
On WCAI, Jay hosts the Sunday night program, Arts & Ideas, and with the team at Atlantic Public Media he edits the series, Creative Life, The Local Food Report, One Species at a Time, and other local projects, including the Sonic IDs, the interstitial community vignettes, which have served as a model for other public radio stations around the country.
Jay is married to the media producer, Melissa Allison, and has lived in Woods Hole for 25 years. He has five children. He likes to fish and ride vehicles with two wheels. His favorite cephalopod is squid.
jwa@well.com
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December 22, 20127pm: Bill Moyers: The First Storytellers - with Joseph Campbell8pm: Playing on Air: Great American theater with Oscar award actors9pm:…
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December 16, 20127pm: Moyers & Company: Sacrifice and Bliss: with Joseph Campbell8pm: History of Gun Ownership in America: the backstory with the American…
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December 9, 20127pm: State of the Re-Union: Tuscon: the borderlands8pm: America Abroad: Islamism in Africa9pm: Dave Brubeck: In his own Sweet Way10pm:…
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December 2, 20127pm: Native America: The nation's first nations - Hearing Voices8pm: NPR's Debate series: Are the rich taxed enough?9pm: Sidney Bechet: A…
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Jay Allison hosts an updated version of the 1950s radio project, designed to encourage listeners to develop respect for beliefs different from their own. Listen to the introduction.
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Andrew Forsthoefel set out at age 23 to walk across America, east to west, 4000 miles, with a sign on him that said, "Walking to Listen." Later, an…
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Kelly McEvers was the Middle East correspondent for NPR during an increasingly turbulent time. As she reports from Syria, Yemen and Bahrain under gunfire,…