Act Two: Classified Dad
Chris Benderev speaks with writer Georgie Codd, who went searching for someone to be the father she never had.
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Act Two: Father of Invention
There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it. But it’s a ghost that appears to just a small handful of people. Jean Hannah Edelstein tells the story to Ira.
Act Four: The Importance of Meeting Earnest
For more than fifty years, Jeanne Darst’s dad neglected to tell his entire family about their entire family. (13 minutes)
Act Four: Boiling Under
Lots of things go unspoken between family members, sometimes for years. We searched for a parent who had a question for their kid that they’d never been able to ask before.
Act One: Dreams From My Father
Writer Etgar Keret tells a story about his father, who was constantly imagining parallel universes. In a way, they saved him.
Act Two: Distant Replay
Producer Emanuele Berry and her dad only talked about basketball. But they never talked about a game that her dad had botched.
Act Three: Rosie’s Paradox
One night Rosie’s father, busy working, told Rosie, then 9, to stop distracting him with her questions. She should write them all down, he said.
Act Two: RSV-Pa
Larry speaks English. His dad speaks Chinese.
Act Two: This Is Just As Hard for Me as It Is for You
Producer Miki Meek tells the story of a man named Will Ream who is trying to figure out what is best for his children, and having some regrets about how things worked out. To tell this story we collaborated with songwriter Stephin Merritt.
Act Three: Ellis Island
Ayelet Waldman says her dad is a bookish man ... a very smart man ... but no man is everything his kids want him to be.
Act One: Busman’s Holiday
Radio Diaries’ Joe Richman continues William Cimillo’s story and talks to his two sons about what it was like to have lived through the drama that ensued after their father’s big journey.
Act Five: Happy Accident
Etgar Keret always had a good relationship with his dad, except for one thing. This was read for us in English translation by actor Michael Chernus.
Act Six: Route Talk
Chris Garcia and his dad were driving home, listening to oldies, sharing a bag of chips. A totally familiar scene for them.
Act Four: Don't Lift the Manhole Cover
More stories of dazzling coincidences: an old boyfriend is conjured in Morocco, a jazz singer seems to rise from the dead, and three boys believe they’ve seen a corpse. Plus stories of errant fathers, lost and found.
Act Two: Maul in the Family
Amity Bitzel was a teenager when her parents decided to adopt a 27-year-old man. And that wasn't the strange part.
Act Four: Not My First Time at the Rodeo
A man has a very clear vision of how he always stood up to his father,protected his mother and fought hard for the truth. Until one day hediscovers actual raw data — secretly recorded conversations — thatthreaten to change his picture of everything.
Act One: Does a Bear Hit in the Woods?
Ryan Knighton, who was interviewed in the prologue, tells this story about trying to get his daughter to understand his blindness. Ryan is the author of the memoir Cockeyed.
Act One: The Audacity of Louis Ortiz
2008 was a hard year for Louis Ortiz. He had lost his job and was playing in pool tournaments in The Bronx to scratch together some money.
Act One: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Nubar Alexanian was forced to give up one thing—and then gave up another thing by choice. This story was put together by Nubar and his daughter Abby, with help from Jay Allison, for Transom.org, with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Prologue
Host Ira Glass plays clips of interviews with several people whose dads have tried reach out to them the best way they know how, which often means...awkwardly.