The Gondolier

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🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What happens when doing what you want to do means giving up who you really are? We travel to Venice, Italy with reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice, we learn about the nearly 1000-year old tradition of the Venetian Gondolier, and how the global media created a 20-year battle between that tradition and a supposed feminist icon. Reported by David Conrad and Kristen Clark. Produced by Annie McEwen and Molly Webster. Special thanks to Alexis Ungerer, Summer, Alex Hai, Kevin Gotkin, Silvia Del Fabbro, Sandro Mariot, Aldo Rosso and Marta Vannucci, The Longest Shortest Time (Hillary Frank, Peter Clowney and Abigail Keel), Tim Howard, Nick Adams/GLAAD, Valentina Powers, Florence Ursino, Ann Marie Somma, Alex Overington, Jeremy Bloom and the people of Little Italy. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate. You can find Alex Hai's website here, where you can check out the photographs discussed in the piece.

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0:22.3	Today we have the story of just how hard it can be to be who you actually are,
0:26.9	when it seems like the entire world is doing its best to make you who you actually aren't.
0:31.5	Well, I guess I could, I mean, this could be too many details, but...
0:34.9	The story starts for us with reporter David Conrad. So for me, it was back in
0:40.8	late 2014. I was living in Philadelphia as a grad student. And at the time, David was applying for
0:47.1	jobs. And one of the jobs he was applying for was at a radio show that was doing a series
0:51.7	about international women's issues. And so I had this on my mind, and I was taking a bus to the university, and I just overheard
0:58.8	somebody talking about their recent trip to Venice.
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