Listen Now
Add to Playlist
Family, Friendship, and Mother Nature
iTunes | Spotify | RadioPublic | RSS
A woman finds an unexpected new family when she adopts a son, a bad soldier learns to write from personal loss, and a man is working at a nuclear power plant when disaster strikes.
Jillian Lauren found a new family when adopting a son from Ethiopia.
Etgar Keret was an Israeli soldier who discovered the power of writing after losing a friend.
Carl Pillitteri experienced an earthquake from inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor.
Find
Stories in this Episode
Listen Now
Add to Playlist
Listen Now
Add to Playlist
Extras From This Episode
Jillian Lauren
Jillian with her young son shortly after adoption.
Jillian with her young son.
Etgar Keret
Etgar as a young man.
Etgar Keret reads his short story “Pipes”.
Carl Pillitteri
Inside Ikoi after the quake.
Carl in front of Ikoi restaurant when he returned to the exclusion zone on December 3, 2011, nine months after the earthquake.
The music in this story
-
The Drift - Uncanny Valley
-
Sam Sklair, Dan Selsick and Pops Mohammed - Ethiopian Lullaby
-
Nigel Kennedy & The Kroke Band - Time 4 Time
-
Eric Satie - Gnossienne 1 (Buddah Bar Remix)