Finding Emilie

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad and Robert about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again. Then, at the end of the episode, and a full decade later, we catch up with Emilie and talk about her art, her heart, a dog named London, and the movie The Fifth Element. EPISODE CITATIONS - Exhibitions: Emilie L. Gossiaux - Other-Worlding (https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/other-worlding/) at the Queen’s County Museum, through April, 7th, 2024. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected]. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Lulu. This is Radio Lab, and I am about to hit play on what I think is an all-time favorite
0:07.2	Radio Lab. It is certainly one we've heard about from listeners over and over again.
0:12.2	It was originally aired in 2011 and I'm not going to say much more
0:16.8	except that we're going to launch you into the story and then we have two pretty wild
0:21.9	updates.
0:22.6	So think of this as a trilogy, the Emily trilogy.
0:27.4	Here we go with part one in the wall.
0:31.2	Yeah, wait, wait, you're listening.
0:33.0	Okay.
0:34.0	All right.
0:35.0	Okay.
0:38.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:41.0	Radio.
0:42.0	From WNYWNYC.
0:43.0	C, Y, C, Y, Y, Y,
0:47.0	Y.
0:50.0	Hey I'm Jad Abumrod.
0:52.0	I'm Robert Krillwich. This is Radio Lab today.
0:54.0	Sort of a love story.
0:55.0	Here's the guy. My name is Alan Lundgaard.
0:58.0	Do you want to... Do you want to...
0:59.0	Do you want to say anything more than that?
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