Morning Splendor

Love and Radio: Blood Memory

Love and Radio

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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I've been pretty obsessed with the idea of forgiveness the last few years, trying to tease apart when it empowers and when it becomes something that appeases the worst kind of behavior. So when my friend Katy told me about Wilma Derksen, a woman who chose forgiveness in the face of unimaginable tragedy, I had to figure out how she was able to do it. PLAYLIST (in order of appearance): https://blackdecelerant.bandcamp.com/track/three https://isikkural.bandcamp.com/track/grown-one-iota https://florelaurentienne.bandcamp.com/track/kamouraska https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/drop https://isikkural.bandcamp.com/track/interlude-2 https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/vespere https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/track/dock https://rvng.bandcamp.com/track/father-of-light https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/track/synth-2-2 https://dialect-trax.bandcamp.com/track/half-moon https://msage.bandcamp.com/track/crick-foam https://florelaurentienne.bandcamp.com/track/fleuve-v https://florelaurentienne.bandcamp.com/track/1991 https://paulineannastrom.bandcamp.com/track/morning-splendor More information about Candace Derksen can be found here: https://www.candacederksen.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Nick. Before I play today's episode, I've got some big news for you. Love and
0:07.2	radio's long-awaited season 10 is finally coming. I'll begin dropping weekly episodes on February
0:14.0	2nd, although Patreon and Apple subscribers will be able to listen to the entire season a week early.
0:20.5	For season 10, I'm doing something completely different.
0:23.6	I'm focusing on a single 11-part story,
0:26.6	which is the culmination of decades of interviews and reporting.
0:30.6	And I seriously cannot wait to share it with you.
0:34.6	And it's not just me that thinks it's going to be good,
0:36.6	the pilot episode one
0:38.6	best independent nonfiction podcast at this year's Tribeca Festival. I'll have more details out in December
0:46.1	in this feed, but in the meantime, I could use your help spreading the word that love and radio is
0:52.1	finally back. Tell everyone you know at that Halloween
0:55.4	party next week, make your family uncomfortable at this year's Thanksgiving, even more
1:01.6	so than usual. Or you could even post about it on a social media website if that's
1:07.8	a thing that you like to do. I've heard that TikTok is a popular one.
1:12.7	Their URL is https colon slash forward slash ticktock.com. For now, enjoy this story made
1:23.6	in collaboration with producer Katie Davis. Thank you for listening, and thank you for your patience.
1:30.6	It will be worth the wait.
1:37.0	We were at the kitchen table when there was a knock on the door.
1:40.3	I just suspected that it would be somebody coming back for gloves or something that'd forgotten.
1:45.0	There was a stranger at the door.
1:48.0	He was a tall man, dressed in black, very handsome.
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