Scott Carrier is an American author, Peabody award-winning radio producer, and educator. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. His second book, Prisoner of Zion, was published in April 2013.[1] He is a former assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University.[2]
Written work
Prisoner of Zion: Muslims, Mormons and Other Misadventures (ISBN978-1619021211)
Carrier's pieces have been featured on radio programs, including This American Life since 1996,[5][6]The Savvy Traveler, Marketplace, Day to Day, All Things Considered, and NPR's Hearing Voices.[7] In 2015, Carrier began producing a podcast entitled "Home of the Brave".[8] The podcast combines original stories with work that previously aired on NPR and other radio shows.
Contributions to This American Life
Episode 12, segment The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals, 1996 (rebroadcast in episode 49)
Episode 21, segment Religious Faction, 1996
Episode 35, Fall Clearance Stories, haiku stories, 1996
Episode 37, segment The Test, 1996 (rebroadcast in episode 181)
Episode 40, segment Swimming Lesson, 1996
Episode 42, segment Finding Amnesia, 1996
Episode 45, segment Whoring in Commercial Radio News, 1996 (rebroadcast as The Friendly Man in episode 181)
Episode 48, segment Kids, 1997
Episode 49, segment The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals, 1997 (rebroadcast)
Episode 53, segment Parent and Child, 1997
Episode 64, segment On the Green River, 1997
Episode 77, segment Kings, 1997
Episode 80, segment Running After Antelope, 1997
Episode 96, segment Book of Job, 1998
Episode 113, segment Pot of Gold, 1998
Episode 141, segment More Powerful Than a Locomotive, 1999
Episode 146, segment Church of Latter Day Snakes, 1999
Episode 181, The Friendly Man, with segments The Test (rebroadcast), The Friendly Man (rebroadcast), Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?, and The Day Mom and Dad Fell in Love, 2001. Entire show rebroadcast April 24, 2009.
Episode 191, segment Just Three Thousand More Miles to the Beach, 2001
Episode 195, segment Are You Ready?, 2001
Episode 241, segment No of Course I Know You, 2003
Episode 243, segment The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends, 2003
Episode 286, segment Invisible Girl, 2005
Episode 333, segment Am not. Are too. Am not. Are too., 2007
Episode 551, segment The Test., 2015
Awards
In 2006 Carrier won a Peabody Award for a story titled "Crossing Borders" which was aired on Hearing Voices on NPR.[9]
^"181: The Friendly Man – Originally aired 04.06.2001". This American Life. April 6, 2001. Retrieved March 17, 2011. A special show, composed entirely of stories from just one This American Life contributor: Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling stories sound like nothing else on the radio.
