Life Stories - Families: Women and Children

Summary:

Three stories of young women - Concerning Breakfast, The Trapeze Artist, Alone Like a Stone. One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portraits.

Website:

http://www.jayallison.com

Additional Credits and Funding:

Host: Alex Chadwick. Series Co-Producer: Christina Egloff. Other Producers: Annie Cheney, Jon Carroll, Margy Rochlin. Music is by Benjamin Verdery and friends. Brent Runyon assembled the compilations. Funding came from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thanks to NPR's All Things Considered and PRI's This American Life for their ongoing support, and to the series Lost & Found Sound. If you have a "Life Story" of your own that is worth telling, visit the website www.transom.org.

Tones:

Edgy, Personal, Polished

Language:

English

Description:

These are public radio stories made over many years, by producer Jay Allison -- working together with Christina Egloff, and friends, colleagues, neighbors, strangers and whoever would take the loan of one of his tape recorders. They are are stories about life as we find it, and record it.

HOST: Alex Chadwick

In this hour:

Concerning Breakfast (22:58)
A story about eating, and not eating. About family, love, hospitals, beautiful music, and anorexia. Produced with Annie Cheney.

My Daughter the Trapeze Artist (7:30)
A father interviews his daughter while she's hanging upside-down on her trapeze, about to fly away. There must be a metaphor in there somewhere. Produced with Jon Carroll

Alone Like a Stone in the New World (25:35)
They're thinking about tearing down Margy?s grandmother?s house. Come to think of it, they seem to want to tear everything down. What we choose to save, and why. Produced with Margy Rochlin

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