Episode 63 (Other Bodies)

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.

Thank you kindly.

The music in this one: "An Ending, A Beginning" by Dustin O'Halloran. "I am Piano" by Peter Broderick. Two songs from the soundtrack to "With a Song in my Heart": American Medley, and That Old Feeling. The one at the end is "I'll Never be the Same." My version's on a collection called "Can't get out of this Mood." There are also a couple of other Jane things that I found on You Tube. The plane crash stuff is scored by a piece of Claudia Serne and Leopold Ross' soundtrack for "Broken City," called "Missing Pieces." Then there's a song by The Caretaker called "Stairway to the Stars."

I read a lot about Jane for this but nothing was as useful as Ilene Stone's lovely book,"Jane Froman: Missouri's First Lady of Song."

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace, a mnate to mayo.
0:05.4	The stutter came when her father left.
0:08.5	That's the way the story went.
0:10.5	Elmer Froman was a traveling salesman, selling ballgowns and fine dresses to rich southern
0:15.3	ladies.
0:16.9	In one time he hopped the train to Memphis and never came home.
0:20.8	His daughter, Jane, was five.
0:23.6	And after that she couldn't speak clearly anymore.
0:26.5	That's how her mother explained it to her later on.
0:28.9	And how her mom would explain it to her teachers.
0:31.4	When Jane's words simply wouldn't come out.
0:33.3	When asked to recite a poem.
0:35.4	Or say your ABCs.
0:36.5	Or try to shout back at the kids who would make fun of her.
0:40.8	It's how Jane Froman herself came to tell the stories and adult when people would ask.
0:45.6	Because people wanted to know why this attractive, otherwise self-possessed young woman, was
0:50.7	such a reluctant conversationalist.
0:54.0	This story wasn't true.
0:55.8	Stuttering doesn't start as a psychological problem.
0:58.7	It's just how your body is made.
1:01.2	But no one had figured that out yet.
1:03.1	Let alone Jane.
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