Transcript: An Ode to Tennessee Radio's 'Swap Shop'

MICHELE NORRIS
All Things Considered (NPR)
04-14-2006
An Ode to Tennessee Radio's 'Swap Shop'

Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM

MICHELE NORRIS, host:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, from NPR News. Im Michele Norris.

For the past 60 years, people in Northwest Tennessee have tuned their radios each day at noon to a program called The Swap Shop. For 20 minutes each weekday, listeners write or call in to buy, sell or trade anything from a piece of plywood to a 10acre farm. Independent producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister were driving through Tennessee when they first heard The Swap Shop. They thought the show would be a good subject for a song, so they sent Nashville-based ...

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