A Father’s Story – Then and Now
STORIES by Lea Thau
Lea Thau
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
To mark the three-year anniversary of Strangers we share with you the very first story ever featured on the show, about Stephen Rochelle and his son Matthew, and we return to Stephen to see how they’re doing now, three years later. In July 2011, Matthew Rochelle stood trial for murder. This is the story of … Continue reading A Father’s Story – Then and Now →
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to strangers from KCRW and Radiotopia. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Leah Tau. |
| 0:11.0 | Happy New Year and Happy Strangers Anniversary. |
| 0:16.0 | I've been doing this podcast for three years now. |
| 0:18.0 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:20.0 | And to mark that occasion, I'm going to |
| 0:21.8 | play the very first story we ever featured on this show. It's been offline for a while, |
| 0:27.1 | but if you're one of those wonderful people who tuned into strangers from the very, very beginning, |
| 0:32.6 | you know, one of the five, you may have heard the story before about Stephen Rochelle and his son Matthew, but we'll have a little update for you today. |
| 0:43.8 | I went back to Steve to see how it was going now, three years later. |
| 0:48.7 | But first you'll hear the original story. |
| 0:51.1 | It was the first radio piece I ever produced, and it's still a story that's close to my heart. It's kind of a heavy story. It was the first radio piece I ever produced, and it's still a story that's close to my |
| 0:55.9 | heart. It's kind of a heavy story, so if you're looking for light and sweet entertainment today, |
| 1:02.3 | just be warned that it's more in the sad category. But it's not without sweetness. It's about |
| 1:09.8 | what happens when your own child becomes a stranger. |
| 1:14.3 | Here's Stephen Rochelle. |
| 1:18.4 | Let me see if I can get a real good picture of Matt. |
| 1:21.1 | I think you go. |
| 1:22.1 | Oh, that's the picture I love. |
| 1:25.1 | That face and that smile and those eyes like his mom's big eyes that took take up all |
| 1:32.9 | this space. He was a handsome child. I used to cut Matthew's hair myself because they charge so much |
| 1:40.5 | so I just bought a set of clippers and that's Matt with his little |
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