Ghetto Life 101: Radio Documentary
Ghetto Life 101 Recorded in Chicago, Illinois. Premiered May 18, 1993, on WBEZ Chicago. In March, 1993, LeAlan Jones, thirteen, and Lloyd Newman, fourteen, collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to create the radio documentary Ghetto Life 101, their audio diaries of life on Chicago's South Side. The boys taped for ten days, walking listeners through their daily lives: to school, to an overpass to throw rocks at cars, to a bus ride that takes them out of the ghetto, and to friend