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Ongoing History of New Music

Introducing... Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy | Through A Glass Darkly | 1

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8604 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Taj Khyber Rowland knows he’s not who people think he is but he can’t quite remember how his life went so off course. He decides to spool backwards, to his younger self. A daredevil seven year old Chellamuthu, living happily, but in abject poverty, with his large family in rural India. But when Chellamuthu disobeys his mother and goes to play at the bus station, he’s persuaded to board a bus with some bigger boys. He’s kidnapped. And there’s no going back. Contact: Facebook: ⁠⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠⁠ Blanchard House website: ⁠⁠blanchard-house.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

0:04.3

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

0:09.2

Hey, it's Alan, and today I want to share the first episode of an emotionally charged 10-part

0:15.2

podcast documentary series that unravels one of the most astonishing true stories that you're

0:20.6

ever going to hear.

0:21.8

It's called Stop Rewind, the Lost Boy, and it tells the story of a child from India who is kidnapped, falsely

0:30.0

declared an orphan, and then adopted by a family in Utah.

0:34.0

No one around him understands him, but he records the clues to his past onto a cassette tape

0:39.6

before he completely forgets the language and the tape gets stored away for decades.

0:44.7

Told through rare recordings, immersive sound design, and unforgettable first-person testimony,

0:50.5

Stop Rewind is a story of a stolen childhood, the quest for truth, and the long road back home.

0:57.6

If you like what you hear, make sure you search for and follow Stop Rewind, the Lost Boy, wherever you're listening to right now. It's Christmas time in Utah, and a small boy is singing into a cassette recorder.

1:25.6

He's putting everything he's got into his performance.

1:31.6

He likes hearing the sound of his voice on the tape.

1:36.0

He likes having an audience.

1:39.6

Then he stops.

1:42.0

He doesn't want to sing anymore.

1:44.5

He wants to talk. He wants to talk.

1:47.9

There's something really important the child needs to say,

1:52.6

something he wants put on record in his own language.

1:58.1

But he's frightened, because it's a secret he's not supposed to tell. He's been warned never to speak about it.

2:08.5

It's a painful secret and a shocking one. And the little boy doesn't really want to remember it at all, but he knows he has to remember.

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