She's Just Like Me
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Length: 14:30
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She's Just Like Me When Leah Rumack was just a baby, her mother Marilyn died of cancer. Her father eventually remarried and Leah has never really asked her family about Marilyn, because she didn't want to bring up painful memories. But she's always felt that something was missing. Now, over thirty years later, she seeks out her mother's best friend to find out about the mother she never knew. Leah Rumack Producer: Kent Hoffman Outfront Opening and Closing Theme available - (see Timing and Cues section for more details) SEE ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS
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She's Just Like Me When Leah Rumack was just a baby, her mother Marilyn died of cancer. Her father eventually remarried and Leah has never really asked her family about Marilyn, because she didn't want to bring up painful memories. But she's always felt that something was missing. Now, over thirty years later, she seeks out her mother's best friend to find out about the mother she never knew. Leah Rumack Producer: Kent Hoffman Outfront Opening and Closing Theme available - (see Timing and Cues section for more details) SEE ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS
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Review of She's Just Like MeThis beautifully produced piece will tug at your heart. It doesn't matter whether you are a parent, a child who lost a parent, or lost someone special too soon. Leah Rumack does an excellent job bringing us with her on her journey to find about a mother she never knew. We eavesdrop on a phone conversation (sounded like it might have been clipped at the top) and sit with her in the living room of her mother's best friend. We cry with them and we feel their pain. Although I was jolted back to reality when she refers to her mother by her name and not mom. Perfect piece to air for Mother's Day or to get people to call in. |
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Review of She's Just Like MeIf you've lost a parent at any age or know someone who has lost a parent very young this piece will bring tears to your eyes. The emotions are so real you can feel them through the radio. Very well done. |
Broadcast History
Broadcast on CBC Radio's Outfront:
October 6, 2004
August 2, 2004
Timing and Cues
RUNS: 14:24
IN: Hi, I'm Leah Rumack...
OUT: (last words at 14:16)...this is Outfront." (music to end)
Outfront Opening and Closing Themes available (free) in a separate file found in the Outfront Series, the piece entitled: OUTFRONT THEMES. The file contains 1 minute of Opening Theme and 2:30 of Outfront Closing Theme.
Outfront opening theme can be used to begin the item. Play theme for approximately 20 secs and fade under introduction.
Outfront Closing theme can be faded in under item signoff and featured for as long as needed following the piece – ends cold or fade out.
Musical Works
Title: Loudspeak
Artist: Darryl Neudorf & Sugarpill Neudorf
Album: Abintra
Label: Independent (SOCAN)
Spine #: MBMOO1CD
Year: 2000
Length of Excerpt: 1 min
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Cleve Pohl
Posted on August 26, 2009 at 01:24 PM | Permalink
Thanks
I listened to this out of curiosity, I am a new parent and this came up on a google search (I read your piece on sleep in a fashion mag). Very well done and almost hard to listen to a times. Thank you for sharing.