Bio

Music

In the early seventies, Jim performed as a singer/songwriter in London, England, and in the Boston Mass, opening for Pink Floyd, Three Dog Night, Free, T Rex, Tina Turner, and Tom Rush, among others.

Media

Jim Metzner has been producing sound-rich radio programs since 1977, beginning his career with a ground-breaking short format series – You’re Hearing Boston. His other award-winning series include You’re Hearing San Francisco, You’re Hearing America, The Sounds of Science, Voices of Innovation, and Pulse of the Planet, which debuted in 1988 and is now a podcast. Jim has produced audio and multi-media projects for National Geographic Online, Discovery, Thirteen/WNET, the American Museum of Natural History, the American Association of Engineering Societies, Marketplace, All Things Considered, and many other clients.

He has received major grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine, the New York Times, Audio Magazine, National Geographic magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the CBS Evening News and NBC’s The Today Show, which showcased an NSF-funded nationwide competition for third to sixth graders, The Kids’ Science Challenge. Jim’s audio archive is now part of the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

A novel, “Sacred Mounds” is available in print and audio. A play, “Rediscovering Poppa” will be performed at a benefit for the Rosendale Theatre, in Rosendale, NY, to be followed by a production in Manhattan early in 2026. The first chapter of Jim’s memoire, “A Listener’s Journey,” will be appearing in the winter 2025-26 edition of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, published online by the University of California Press.

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