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Invisible Ink: For Love

From: Roman Mars
Series: Invisible Ink: Series #1
Length: 29:00

Stories about the extremes people go to all in the name of love. Read the full description.

Headphone_small 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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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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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.

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Review of Invisible Ink: For Love

I 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.
The narrator sounded a bit stilted and emotionless in the intro but she really came to life when responding to the interviewees and when telling her own story which had a crust of humour with a heart of pathos.
The only thing - and its a small matter - I didn't like in this piece was the music - both its choice and the decision to use it pretty much non stop through the piece. It worked well in the beginning and the end, but became musical wallpaper throughout the stories and as irriating as shopping mall muzak.
On the whole though an entertaining piece that will make many listeners think about the love dramas in their own lives.

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.

Related Website

http://www.invisibleinkradio.com