The Shadows: An Argument That Should Be Simple
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The original unpublished title was “Anatomy of a Resentment”. This episode chronicles the era of a relationship wherein every minor annoyance is a symbol of the very major sacrifices we make to accommodate the shortcomings of the person we love.
The story underneath the story: Mitchell Akiyama and KP spending 80+ hours pretending to be in a relationship in the summer of 2018. Fortunately, the frustrations you hear in this episode are (mostly) fiction. Six years later, Mitch and KP are Toronto besties.
This is episode 5 of The Shadows, from CBC Podcasts, written and directed by Kaitlin Prest with production and sound design help from senior producer Phoebe Wang. Story editing by Sharon Mashihi. Associate producer Yasmine Mathurin made this episode sparkle. Mitchell Akiyama as Charlie Park with cameos from Kaitlin’s friends as well as Greg, Nancy, and Natalie Prest. Assistant production on this episode of The Heart by Yasaman Mansoori.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Heart Listeners, I want to tell you about a new show from Radiotopia Presents that we're really, really excited about. |
| 0:09.0 | It's called Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative. |
| 0:14.0 | Host Jess Shane puts out an open call on Craigslist |
| 0:17.0 | and works with four strangers to explore the standard rules |
| 0:20.0 | journalists and documentarians use to tell their subject stories. |
| 0:24.8 | This show pulls back the curtain on what goes on behind the scenes of your favorite non-fiction |
| 0:29.4 | shows. |
| 0:31.1 | Radio-topia presents shocking, heartbreaking, transformative, |
| 0:37.0 | available on your favorite podcast platform. |
| 0:42.0 | From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to the heart. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Caitlin Pressed. |
| 0:54.0 | For the last couple months I've been sharing with you a series called The Shadows. |
| 1:02.0 | It's a radio play that I made with CBC Podcasts in 2018. |
| 1:06.0 | A radio play. |
| 1:08.0 | Radio plays. |
| 1:11.0 | Audio fiction. radio drama. |
| 1:19.4 | Before the podcast era, if you were alive then, |
| 1:22.4 | radio drama was sort of, I don't know, schmaltzy. |
| 1:26.7 | My name's Diamond and I'm in business for a very simple reason. I like money. |
| 1:31.2 | Oh sure I could do... |
| 1:32.2 | A lot of people would talk about how they just don't really listen to fiction. |
| 1:37.3 | And when the shadows came out everyone was really excited and the reason why everyone was really |
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