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Hey, this is in Perfect Paradise, a show about the gap between the dream and the reality.

Today, we're bringing you the first episode of the podcast series, Radiotopia presents shocking, heartbreaking, transformative.

In the five-part series, artist and documentarian Jess Shane challenges the

value of some of the basic tenets of documentary storytelling, things like never pay your

subjects and don't share editorial control with them. For a long time, I've been questioning

whether the rules of documentary I was taught are still relevant.

So I'm doing an experiment.

I'm throwing out the rulebook.

I'm casting this series on Craigslist.

I'm paying my subjects and handing them the reins to direct the stories they tell on the show.

The series has sparked so many conversations for us here at Aleist, and we wanted to share it with you as well.

After you listen to the episode, check out my conversation with Jess about the series, which you can also find in our imperfect paradise feed. But first, here is episode one of Radiotopia presents shocking, heartbreaking, transformative,

hosted and produced by Jess Shane.

What is this exactly for?

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