![]() ![]() Radio would be duller and sadder without them.” These stories often require just as much craft and thought and cunning as the big important stuff. There’s a whole class of stories I love hearing and doing that really are just out for fun. “Now and then it occurs to me that some of my very favorite radio stories would never ever win an award because they’re not about anything Big and Serious and Important. As Glass writes on the Third Coast website: “The Little Mermaid” prize, to be announced Sunday, will recognize a 3-60 minute documentary or story that is “FUN in subject matter and style,” according to the competition guidelines. ![]() We chose this story not only because it’s exceptionally entertaining but because it’s such a classic that it inspired “This American Life” host Ira Glass to create a new award for this year’s competition at the Third Coast audio conference, which opens Friday in Chicago. Titled “Buddy Picture,” it’s better known today as “The Greatest Phone Message of All Time,” or, more simply, “The Little Mermaid.” If you’ve never heard Jonathan Goldstein’s classic story about the phone message that turned an annoyed mother into a Columbia University celebrity, stop reading and click here now. The piece we’ve selected to inaugurate this feature originally aired on “This American Life” in 2002. (For more on that, check out our interview last week with the producers of the hit podcast “Serial.”) Plus, some of the most innovative narrative work out there these days is in audio. ![]() The human voice is, of course, the original storytelling instrument. Annotation Tuesday ventures into a new medium today with our first annotation of a radio story. ![]()
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