The Living Room

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We're thrilled to present a piece from one of our favorite podcasts, Love + Radio (Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker).

Producer Briana Breen brings us the story: Diane’s new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.

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0:00.0	Hey Lulu here. There is this thing that radio producers love to say. Radio is the most visual of all the storytelling forms. More than the movies, more than
0:16.9	photography, more than TV, which maybe sounds counterintuitive, but the
0:21.0	idea is that because your imagination is a bottomless resource,
0:25.4	the visual experience you get here is way more immersive and vivid and lush and has better
0:31.8	special effects than any film studio could ever just financially
0:38.0	logistically produce. Who knows if that's always true but I will say the story that has stuck with me
0:45.0	visually the most over decades of listening is the one I'm about to play for you.
0:50.5	It's called The Living Room. The it actually comes to us from another podcast that's been around for just about 20 years
0:57.8	called Love and Radio.
0:59.5	If you haven't heard of them, they make beautiful sound-rich stories, sometimes a little dark, always
1:04.6	special. And this episode it is about bearing witness to something that maybe
1:10.2	you weren't supposed to bear witness to the images from it.
1:15.2	I literally have never been able to get them out of my head.
1:19.5	Before I play it, two quick notes.
1:21.2	One, whereas we usually try to talk to everyone involved in a story.
1:26.5	This episode is based on one person's vantage point. We did fact check it to make sure the
1:31.6	key elements did in fact take place, but you know take it as one very powerful sliver of a complex situation.
1:39.6	And secondly, warning, adult themes ahead,
1:43.0	probably not the best one to listen to with kids.
1:46.7	All right, let us slip into the living room
1:51.4	from Love and Radio.
1:52.4	Yeah, wait, you're listening.
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