Ira Glass is speaking over the song, which I found kind of difficult to understand because I wasn’t sure which one to listen to. However, throughout the story, Glass gives continuity with the ‘radio voice’. I think everyone else’s accents and dialects really add to the story, especially the granddaughter’s voice. I like the music and the different narrators because I didn’t find it hard to focus, which is a problem I have often. Margaret’s side commentary is awesome, and shows the side of the people affected.

Much like theme music, the music used in this segment helps link Ira’s narration to the story the other narrators tell. The human side really comes through in Margaret, a granddaughter of Bobby Dunbar. She really made enemies in her family for meeting with the descendants of a woman who had claimed that Bobby was actually her son and that the Dunbar’s had kidnapped him. Almost like an episode of Maury unfolding, this story was hard not to listen to because of the sheer drama. Glass’s narration helped flesh out details, which helped a lot (and showed how good he is at his npr job). To me, the other narrators were special because of their way of narrating, in that not one person did it the same. When Margaret was reading the excerpts from the trial, she would comment after she finished reading the selection. This added a hugely emotional side that a reader would never get simply reading the document. Rather, her insertions helped in making the whole story be personal for many people, not just one. I only hope I can do the same with my storytelling.  (I’m good at talking, so we’ll see). I’d like to listen to this again later in the semester to see if I notice different things after I do more of my own work with audio.