Memorial

Summary:

Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

Website:

http://stories1st.org/sound.php

Additional Credits and Funding:

Produced orginally for Stories1st.org with funding by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Timely on:

May: Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Asian Pacific American History Month

Tones:

Emotional, Engaging, Personal

Language:

English

Description:

What's left after someone passes on? Photographs and phone messages. The reality of death hits hardest when the loved one no longer calls you on the phone. Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away five years ago as a living memorial and as a way to still get a phone call from her mom.

Memorial follows the caretaking and illness of Chu-Yin Roberts through the phone messages.

This piece can be aired on Mother's Day or Memorial Day. Could also be appropriately during holidays for those who have lost loved ones.

Also appropriate for Asian History Month in May.

There is one minute of music tail to read credits to close a magazine show with.

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