I'm David Remnik and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, my colleagues and I unpack what's

happening in a very complicated world. You'll hear from the New Yorkers award-winning

reporters and thinkers, Jalani Cobb on race and justice, Jill Lapor on American history,

Vincent Cunningham and Geo Tolentino on culture, Bill McKibbin on climate change and many more.

To get the context behind events in the news, listen to the New Yorker Radio Hour wherever

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From CBC podcasts, radio toopia and mermaid palace, welcome to the heart. I'm Caitlin Prest

and this is Sisters, a five episode series about the great love affair that has been my

relationship with my sister. Natalie, what you're about to hear is the story of siblings,

the story of female friendship, the story of how love grows and changes across decades.

The story you're about to hear is real. Natalie and I spent the last two years talking,

writing and creating this together. All of the recordings are from real moments that

happened while my microphone was around over the past 20 years of our lives. Of course,

there were a few times when the microphone wasn't around. We'll always let you know when

what you're hearing is a reenactment. So you can trust that everything else is real

life. On the note of real life, the series and the story that you hear inside of it is

still a story. It is a narrative thread that was woven by choosing some threads of reality

to focus on and leaving other threads of reality by the wayside. Every story, no matter

how real, is a fiction. I invite you to think about a photograph of yourself from long

ago. The picture is real. It shows who you are, what you look like. If it's a good photographer

who took it, maybe the picture tells a story about what your life was like at the time.

Maybe it gives a window into a moment, but it doesn't tell the whole truth of who you

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