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Signal Hill
Signal Hill
24 episodes
2 weeks ago
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Dear listener, it's really nice to meet you all, at last. I’ll call you if I need anything. Support the show Signal Hill is a listener-funded nonprofit. Help us continue doing this work by signing up for a monthly membership, and we'll send you our special Inspirations Newsletter, and other nice things.
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Episodes (20/24)
Signal Hill
Issue Two Credits
Signal Hill is edited by Omar Etman, Jackson Roach, Annie Rosenthal, Lio Wong and Liza Yeager. Jackson and Liza are the editors in chief. The stories in Issue Two were created by Omar Etman, Rachel James, Mitra Kaboli, Zoe Kurland, Andrew Leland, Jaclyn Moyer, Amelia Schonbek, and Lio Wong, with support from the editors, and also from their cohort of fellow contributors. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
2 minutes

Signal Hill
Editors' Note: Issue Two
Dear listener, it's really nice to meet you all, at last. I’ll call you if I need anything. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
1 minute

Signal Hill
SCIENCE | Ghost Forests
Jackie tries to see the most underappreciated trees in her neighborhood—before they’re all gone. This story was produced in partnership with High Country News. Read the companion print feature here. Jaclyn Moyer lives in Corvallis, Oregon. She’s the author of On Gold Hill, which won the 2025 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Jackie reported and wrote this story, and it was edited by Annie Rosenthal, Liza Yeager, and Jackson Roach. It was produced and sound designed by Jackson Roach. ...
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2 weeks ago
35 minutes

Signal Hill
FEATURE | Unknown Unknowns
How to make a life-changing decision when all you have is the sparse and noisy data of an uncertain world? First, try posting on Lex. Lio Wong is a writer and cognitive scientist who lives in San Francisco. This story was written by Lio, and edited by Jackson Roach, Omar Etman, and Liza Yeager. It was produced and sound designed by Lio Wong, Jackson Roach and Liza Yeager. Additional editorial support from Annie Rosenthal and the Issue Two cohort. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
47 minutes

Signal Hill
POETRY | Voice Lessons
In the middle of Amelia’s family, there’s a silence. She wants to crack it open, so she starts learning to sing. Amelia Schonbek writes, edits, and builds community in New York. Amelia reported and produced this story, which features the voices of Andrew Schonbek, Laura Joviala, and Emilia Kallonen. It was edited by Liza Yeager and Annie Rosenthal. Sound design and additional production by Jackson Roach. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
35 minutes

Signal Hill
ESSAY | The Snail
My brain, I discovered, is like a mouth that demands something to chew. If I don't give it chewables, it starts eating itself. Andrew Leland is the 2024-6 Koeppel Fellow in Journalism at Wesleyan University, and the author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. This story was written by Andrew, and edited by Omar Etman, Jackson Roach, and Liza Yeager. Production and sound design by Jackson Roach and Liza Yeager. Fabian Cere...
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2 weeks ago
18 minutes

Signal Hill
FEATURE | The Learning Play
If at last you could change the world, what would make you too good to do so? Featuring an interview with Silvia Federici. Rachel James is a poet, artist, and author of An Eros Encyclopedia (Wendy's Subway, 2022). She resides in New York City, Lenapehoking, where she teaches seminars on sound, poetry, and performance scores. Rachel wrote and produced this story, and it was edited by Liza Yeager and Jackson Roach. Sound design by Rachel James, with help from Jackson Roach. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Signal Hill
DISPATCH | Making Utopia
First it was the Shakers. Then, other people started coming to the mountain. All in the hopes of starting their own little utopias. Mitra Kaboli is an audio documentarian, sound designer, and artist. This story was produced, reported and sound designed by Mitra. The editors were Jackson Roach, Liza Yeager and Jess Shane. Additional editorial support from the Signal Hill cohort. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
26 minutes

Signal Hill
FEATURE | Cotton King
Omar’s grandfather ran the biggest cotton company in Egypt. It was a workman’s paradise, owned by the people of Egypt. At least, that’s the story his family has always told him. Omar Etman is a writer and editor from New York. Omar wrote and produced this story. It was edited by Annie Rosenthal and Lio Wong, with editorial support from Liza Yeager and Jackson Roach. Liza and Jackson mixed the story, too. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
54 minutes

Signal Hill
STYLE | Push-Up Contest
Zoe’s dad designed a bra that changed the world. Can it change her life? Zoe Kurland is a writer and audio documentarian based in Marfa, Texas. This story was written and produced by Zoe, and edited by Liza Yeager and Jackson Roach. Sound design and additional production by Liza Yeager. Additional editorial support from Omar Etman, Annie Rosenthal, and the Issue Two cohort. Support the show
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2 weeks ago
35 minutes

Signal Hill
Coming Soon: Issue Two
Signal Hill, Issue Two comes out on November 3rd. (Art by Aidan Koch) Support the show
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3 weeks ago
1 minute

Signal Hill
Hey.
Signal Hill is a listener-powered publication, and we're running our first-ever membership drive right now. If you can, sign up to support us. We'll send you our special Inspirations Newsletter (with curated recommendations from our editors, contributors, and special guests). And, for a limited time, members at every tier will receive a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted mystery shirt. When Issue Two comes out in the fall, you'll be able to say: "Hey! I helped make that happen!" Thanks f...
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6 months ago
1 minute

Signal Hill
Editors' Note: Issue One
The first transatlantic radio signal ever received hit an antenna attached to a kite attached to a wire attached to a tower on top of Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada on December 12th, 1901. It said ‘s’ in Morse Code (‘dot dot dot’). We’re named after all the places in the world called Signal Hill. There are eighteen that we know of. Support the show
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9 months ago
5 minutes

Signal Hill
FEATURE | Caterpillar Roadshow
Annie’s mom, an esteemed entomologist, knows a lot about bugs. Her ten-year-old Japanese pen pal might know more. Annie Rosenthal is an editor at Signal Hill and the Virginia Spencer Davis fellow at High Country News.
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9 months ago
59 minutes

Signal Hill
CALL-IN | On the Family Group Chat
We return to the goo goo ga ga psychobabble of our first selves. Hannah Kingsley-Ma is a writer and audio producer living in Brooklyn.
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9 months ago
17 minutes

Signal Hill
FEATURE | My Movement Summer
Over four sticky months, Cheryl Rivera went to protests, and meetings, and hung out with her friends. She brought a microphone with her. Cheryl Rivera is an editor at Lux Magazine and culture worker organizing in Brooklyn.
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9 months ago
44 minutes

Signal Hill
ESSAY | Desperado
Neena Pathak conquers her senses at hot yoga. Kind of. Neena Pathak is a writer and audio maker based in Los Angeles. Desperado features Alex Laughlin, Lasha Madan, Salimah Mohamed, Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr., and Schuyler Swenson as yoga teachers. Yoga consult by Utkarsh Sanjanwala. Sanskrit consult by Vijaya Chitre.
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9 months ago
15 minutes

Signal Hill
PROFILE | Pie Down Here
Robin D. G. Kelley listens back to the oral histories that became his groundbreaking book Hammer and Hoe. Music in this piece is by Nathan Bowles. Conor Gillies is the audio editor at Jacobin, where he makes shows such as Long Reads and People's History.
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9 months ago
36 minutes

Signal Hill
DISPATCH | Fishing the Sky
Every spring since 2020, people from all over LA have come to a windy downtown park to make and fly kites at The Community & Unity People's Kite Festival. Jackson Roach is co-editor-in-chief of Signal Hill. They live in Chicago.
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9 months ago
11 minutes

Signal Hill
FEATURE | A Porous Place
Hannah Sassoon went to southern France to work on a sheep farm. Then she learned about the military camp. Hannah Sassoon is a writer living in New York.
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9 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

Signal Hill
Dear listener, it's really nice to meet you all, at last. I’ll call you if I need anything. Support the show Signal Hill is a listener-funded nonprofit. Help us continue doing this work by signing up for a monthly membership, and we'll send you our special Inspirations Newsletter, and other nice things.