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The Heart

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The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

There is a way that these narratives are supposed to go. But life isn’t simple and linear, it’s messy and loud, and everything keeps coming back again and again and again. This piece by Dylan Gauche won the Best Student award at the 2017 Hearsay International Audio Festival. [Trigger Warning]

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0:00.0

My name is Maddie Kelly. I'm a writer and comedian and along with my co-host, Mark

0:04.6

Chavez, and Ryan Biel. We are setting out to write a romantic comedy movie script that

0:09.5

is genuinely romantic and actually funny.

0:12.9

Give me something that's both sexy and romantic.

0:15.6

LaCrosse. The sport.

0:18.2

And when we run into trouble, we'll get help from some serious rom-com experts. People

0:22.3

who have worked on everything from 10 things I hate about you to Mamma Mia.

0:25.5

This is all gold.

0:27.7

It's Let's Bake a Rom-com.

0:29.4

Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts.

0:33.3

From PRX's Radio Topia, welcome to the heart.

0:39.5

I'm Caitlin Prest.

0:45.3

There's a tiny town in Ireland called Kielfinan where the most magical radio festival in the

0:50.0

world happens. It's called Here Say.

0:54.9

The September, Phoebe and I went to that tiny Irish town. To that most magical radio

1:01.3

festival. To make radio art.

1:05.8

We took an airplane and two buses and the festival director, Dearman McIntyre, picked

1:10.0

us up.

1:12.2

On the long drive down the narrow winding roads to our little cabin, Dearman shared with

1:17.2

us a radio piece that he thought was very, very, very special.

1:22.8

We listened to a guy named Dylan's first radio story.

1:27.8

Dylan was our roommate for the week and after we heard this piece, we kind of felt like

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