This summer the TTBOOK team has been on an audio recording roll, gathering interviews and field tape for about a dozen segments for a three-part series that will air in November.
We’re partnering with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to bring you “Going for Broke,” a series about economic struggle in our time. The three episodes focus on housing, health and work, and feature real life stories alongside some ideas for solutions.
You’ll hear Anne talking with Angela Garbes about motherhood as essential work, and Steve in conversation with the economist David Harvey about housing justice. Charles talked with Daniel Bergner about mental illness, and shared some personal stories. I traveled to upstate New York to interview Rodrigo Toscano, a labor poet, who was reading at Opus 40, itself a testament to the intersection of art and making a living.
Joining us on this project is longtime public radio host Ray Suarez, whose latest podcast "The Things I Thought About While My Body Was Trying to Kill Me," explores his own experience with cancer, as well as the EHRP’s executive director, Alissa Quart, as she puts the finishing touches on her new book out soon, "Bootstrapped."
Now, we’re editing, sound designing, and figuring out how all the puzzle pieces fit together for the three shows. You’ll hear more in this space about the series. In the meantime, I hope your summer has been full of interesting conversations, and learning new things, too.
–Shannon