Radio Pieces

When it comes to the mecca of sourdough, separating scientific fact from lore means breaking a few taboos. Also, baking your own highly questionable bread — for science.

In grade 8, Julia Scott was bullied so badly by a group of girls that she changed schools without telling anyone. Soon after, the girls from her old school showed up at her house and rang her doorbell.

Produced by Julia Scott in partnership with KQED, this 60-minute Detour asks: What does it mean to “belong” in the Mission District, a San Francisco neighborhood in the midst of unprecedented upheaval and gentrification?

Reported and written by Julia Scott, this 50-minute Detour invites you to walk San Francisco’s most misunderstood neighborhood with people who call it home.

The Back Story’s Leah Rose interviewed Julia Scott on the high highs, low lows, and endless trade-offs of the group relationship.

Julia Scott is interviewed by OnPoint host John Donovan about her New York Times article, “A Wash On the Wild Side.”

I got a very odd magazine assignment that involved applying live bacteria for a month — and giving up my normal soaps and shampoos. What did my co-workers have to say about my “bacteria experiment”?

HowSound’s Rob Rosenthal caught up with me to ask: what was it like reporting from the inside of an iron lung? The answer: strange. Here’s what else I had to say.

Meet Martha Lillard, one of the last American polio survivors who still relies on an iron lung to breathe. Her archaic respirator has kept her alive for 60 years, and she would rather die than try to live without it.

“Mi Pueblo” was founded by a Mexican immigrant, and hires mostly Latino workers. Now, the Northern California supermarket is under a federal probe to expose undocumented workers.

A Bay Area man and his husband try to greet death in style. But they discover that death has its own agenda. BON VOYAGE has now aired across three continents. It won the 2013 Excellence in Journalism Award from the NLGJA and was nominated for a 2013 Sony Radio Academy Award.

I spent some time with three homeless people in San Francisco to find out how they got there and how they survive day to day. People end up homeless for all kinds of reasons. Why they stay homeless is more complicated.