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The things we do for love. As a cure for the cloying Hollywood depiction of romance, we have these stories about the extremes people go to in the name of love. It's not pretty. Sue Mell, you will soon hear, has done some extreme things in the name of love and after being told an equally distressing story about the ends her friend goes to just to please her boyfriend, she went a mission collecting stories. What we discovered is that these stories could also be described as the things we do when we fail to realize that we aren't in love. We here at Invisible Ink want you all to know that we are decidedly pro-love, even though it rarely sounds like it.
This program was originally boradcast as Invisible Ink #50 on 02/15/04 on KALW in San Francisco.
Featured on Transom.org. For more information and conversation, visit the "For Love" on Transom.
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Piece Description
The things we do for love. As a cure for the cloying Hollywood depiction of romance, we have these stories about the extremes people go to in the name of love. It's not pretty. Sue Mell, you will soon hear, has done some extreme things in the name of love and after being told an equally distressing story about the ends her friend goes to just to please her boyfriend, she went a mission collecting stories. What we discovered is that these stories could also be described as the things we do when we fail to realize that we aren't in love. We here at Invisible Ink want you all to know that we are decidedly pro-love, even though it rarely sounds like it. This program was originally boradcast as Invisible Ink #50 on 02/15/04 on KALW in San Francisco.
Featured on Transom.org. For more information and conversation, visit the "For Love" on Transom.
2 Comments
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Review of Invisible Ink: For LoveI love the way radio allows you to be a privileged voyeur to a story that sparks emotions in the listener. And in this way I think this piece did a fine job. The stories and their pacing were generally good though sometimes I wanted to hurry the speakers just a teensy bit to a conclusion.
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Broadcast History
This program was originally boradcast as Invisible Ink #50 on 02/15/04 on KALW in San Francisco.It was also a feature on the website Transom.org.




Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on September 30, 2004 at 02:01 PM | Permalink
Review of Invisible Ink: For Love
There is so much to like here. The voices are engaging and you feel like the show is reaching for something big and even noble. There’s a nice mix of personal narrative and interview, and while some of the “stories” aren’t quite stories, they still manage to convey something human and occasionally deep. Invisible Ink is sure to have something for everyone.