Gray's Donation

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A donation leads Sarah and Ross Gray to places we rarely get a chance to see. In this surprising journey, they gain a view of science that is redemptive, fussy facts that are tender, and parts of a loved one that add up to something unexpected. Before he was even born, Sarah and Ross knew that their son Thomas wouldn’t live long. But as they let go of him, they made a decision that reverberated through a world that they never bothered to think about. Years later, after a couple awkward phone calls and an unexpected family road trip, they managed to meet the people and places for whom Thomas’ short life was an altogether different kind of gift. Since we first aired this segment, some exciting things have happened in the Gray's world. Our producer Tracie Hunte sat down with Sarah Gray to get the low-down on what's new. Check it out here:

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.5	Hi. This is J Chad. Hi.
0:21.5	Hey, it's me, Chad.
0:22.6	I'm Robert.
0:23.6	And today's story started when we bumped into an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
0:28.4	Were you a little bit weirded out as to why we are calling you?
0:31.4	Yes.
0:32.5	I don't, you know what I mean?
0:33.7	I just don't understand the whole thing.
0:35.5	The story really gets going with a phone call to this woman, Elizabeth Mason.
0:39.7	I'm a receptionist slash switchboard operator.
0:42.6	She works at a research lab in Boston,
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