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The Strand, a program on the BBC World Service, features a segment on One-Ten, the opera being composed in serial form along and about the Pasadena and Harbor freeways by Laura Karpman, M.G. Lord and Shannon Halwes for Los Angeles Magazine's CityThink project. They are up to episode nine. You can listen at the link.
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