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A Perfect Match

The Documentary, BBC World Service
October 20, 2020 (Re-broadcast on NPR’s Code Switch, January 6, 2021)

A personal story about bone marrow transplantation that illuminates a much larger story about health care disparities in the US. It all started with a very close friendship.

Click here to listen to A Perfect Match on the BBC World Service’s The Documentary.

Click here to listen to Finding ‘A Perfect Match’ on NPR’s Code Switch.

More Than Paper Cuts

Men, part 5
Scene on Radio, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
September 5, 2018

The #MeToo Movement has shed a harsh light on sexual harassment in the workplace. Just how bad, and how pervasive, is sexism on the job in the U.S., from day-to-day expressions of disrespect all the way to rape? Spoiler: It’s bad.

Click here to listen to the full episode, part 5 of Scene on Radio’s series Men.

Tornado

Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4
June 20, 2017

Where did my kitchen go?

Twenty-five years ago the artist David Walker moved into an old falling down general store and made it his home. One night he took his son Toby and his date Lindsey onto the roof, so they could watch the chaos of a lightening storm, which in retrospect, may not have been a great idea.

Click here to listen to the full episode.

Pony

Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4
June 13, 2017

Pony is an artist, a writer, a sister, a daughter, a recovering drug addict, and an ex-felon. This is one of the letters she wrote to her best friend Sue, in a recording made after her release.

Click here to listen to the full episode.

Losing Yourself, Short Cuts Version

Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4
November 7, 2016

Click here to listen to the full episode.

Losing Yourself

Scene on Radio, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
February 10, 2016

ibby in hospitalIt happens. A happy, healthy young person suddenly gets a grave diagnosis. What does not usually happen: The patient rolls tape. This story was eight years in the making.

Crying Dry Tears

Radiotonic, Australian Public Broadcasting
October 2, 2015

eyeballs
Ain’t gonna make these eyes cry.

Some aspects of life are so essential, yet we rarely think about them, like breathing, blinking, and crying. In our moments of grief, frustration, joy and sadness, from our eyes flow forth a physical expression beyond words…unless it doesn’t.

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