Re:sound #221 The Writing Out of Trouble Show
This hour we're featuring two stories of love through loss... plus an interview with the producers who've written their way through these troubled moments.
2016 / TCF / WBEZ 91.5, USA
This hour we're featuring two stories of love through loss... plus an interview with the producers who've written their way through these troubled moments.
The Updates
by Sophie Townsend with Sound Engineer Louis Mitchell. ( 360documentaries , ABC RN 2014)
When Sophie Townsend’s husband Russell was diagnosed with lung cancer, she became the family spokesperson, a task she found endless, difficult and confronting. People’s questions about his sickness left her reeling, because the news she had to give them was never good. Soon she started the Russell Updates, a weekly email that laid it all bare for friends and family. The updates were not just a way to keep everyone informed, but Sophie’s way of working things out in her own head, and keeping herself afloat. Note : Sophie's updates were read by Gabrielle Rogers
ASK ME
by Sara Brooke Curtis ( Unfictional , KCRW 2016)
Sara spent her days riding buses and walking the beach alone, thinking of someone who wasn't there. In time, she found an unlikely stranger to share her thoughts with, and help her grieve.
This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk
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Sophie Townsend (@sophietown) (she/her) is a senior producer and editor at ABC Audio Studio. She also works internationally as an audio features maker and writer. Her podcast for the BBC, Goodbye To All This, made with Falling Tree Productions, was one of the New York Times's best podcasts for 2020. In 2015 she won the HearSay International Audio competition with her piece “Mr Fix-it.” Her works “Stories and Driving” and “The Updates” were featured at Third Coast in 2015, and she was a speaker at Third Coast in 2019. Through her personal stories for radio, she explores relationships, loss and family, and her work has been played on the BBC's Short Cuts, Radiotopia's The Heart and the CBC's Love Me.
Sara Curtis spends her time making radio stories. Her work is steeped in the desire to know, understand, and archive the moment, and our personal human histories in the making.
Dennis Funk was formerly Third Coast's senior producer.