Living with Dying

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On Valentine’s Day 2020, Peter Fodera’s heart broke. It stopped working. He collapsed in the middle of teaching a dance class. Someone performed CPR, someone called an ambulance. EMT’s showed up and he lay motionless. Many people in the class thought they had just witnessed the death of their favorite teacher. But later at the hospital, Peter’s heart started beating again. On the anniversary of Peter’s brush with death, he sat down with his daughter Juliana who has Noonan Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. While Peter’s experience may seem miraculous to some of us, it doesn’t to Juliana. By her count, she’s died 21 times.

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Music this week from Podington Bear, Blue Dot Sessions, Man Man, and Gotan Project.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radio Diaries, this is Joe.
0:03.1	And before we get started, we want to shout out another show in the radio topia family.
0:07.6	In the scenes behind Plainsight is back for its fourth season.
0:11.1	It's a rewatch podcast hosted by two stars of Behind Plainsight, a mid-2000s hit TV
0:17.2	show set in a nudist colony.
0:20.0	And if you don't remember Behind Plainsight, it's because it never existed.
0:23.8	The podcast is pure fiction and funny.
0:26.6	From a New York magazine named the show one of the best podcasts of 2023, so check it
0:30.6	out.
0:31.6	Listen to In the Scenes Behind Plainsight, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.6	From PRX's Radio Topia, this is Radio Diaries, I'm Joe Richmond.
0:49.4	On Valentine's Day, three years ago, Peter Fodera's heart broke.
0:53.4	I mean, it stopped working.
0:56.4	Fodera was 72, a big man with a big smile and a big belly.
1:01.2	You wouldn't look at him and think, dance teacher.
1:03.9	But on that Valentine's Day, he was DJing in teaching a class.
1:07.8	He just started playing this song by Gotown Project, when he collapsed to the ground and
1:12.8	the music stopped.
1:16.0	I was in the class that day.
1:18.2	It took a while for all of us to realize what was happening.
1:21.4	Someone started doing CPR, someone else called an ambulance.
1:25.2	The EMTs came, but through it all, Peter wasn't moving.
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