Radio Storytelling Showcase Spring 2022
We welcome you to the Radio Storytelling Showcase! — produced by the Spring 2022 Radio Storytelling class taught by David Berner.
Story Descriptions & Time Stamps
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(0:50)
“Pool Days” by Lauren Holt is about the recollection of one of her favorite childhood memories. This sweet story will bring you smiles and laughs and remind you of being at the pool as a child. Through looking back at one of her happiest simplest days, Lauren thinks of how to bring that same joy to her life today.
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(6:33)
Robert finds a poem written on the wall of the men’s room at Columbia College. It takes him back to high school when he wrote poetry to deal with his depression and social anxiety. Somewhere along the way, he stopped because of writer’s block. Robert is inspired to continue the poem with his friends.
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(8:45)
Cosme Castillo recalls the months before beginning college and his newfound interest in learning about the history of his father’s family through his mysterious grandma Francis. What was it like growing up? What type of music was popular? What was it like raising all those kids on your own? All of which are questions discussed over a box of classic Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
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(12:53)
Prepared to leave his father to the mirror, Davis Bryant shares the tale of his encounters with Bloody Mary.
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(16:08)
This is the story of Caroline’s first love and her most regrettable moment. Spending all summer working at a Catholic camp, with very little access to the outside world, she, unfortunately, falls head over heels for an older counselor. Getting to know him better, she realizes she isn’t in love with him like she thought and decides to let him know. Awkwardness ensues.
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(24:41)
A six-year-old’s interest in telling stories via model-making and design is ignited after visiting a national traveling model train exhibition with his family in the 1980s. After the experience, he accidentally finds himself with the opportunity to acquire some tools that would enable him to begin to make his own model-making stories. He just needs the courage to ask his father for the gift.
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(34:26)
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(36:53)
This radio essay is a silly yet meaningful story about a girl buying her first bra. You will hear about all the trials and tribulations that come with bra shopping as a young girl.
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(39:53)
Júlia D'Aló tells with humor about her first-ever panic attack. A public experience that included a clueless teacher, a lost bug, tears of panic, and a gentle stranger. Immerse yourself in the first-person experience of a panic attack that in the end is more funny than scary.
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(43:05)
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(45:37)
This essay is a story that is very relatable to anyone who has lost a person in their life. I lost my dad when I was 16, it was hard for me to show emotions because I wanted to be strong for my family. Years passed by until I couldn’t hold my emotions in any longer, I found a way to cope with my feelings which was driving away and speaking with my dad. To some people it was starting to seem crazy that I would talk to my dad, so I started to take those drives alone and I realized that taking some time to speak with a person you have lost is a great way to cope with your emotions, you let everything you’re feeling out and feel relieved at the end. This story is dedicated to my dad.
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(48:35)
Learn about how Pat Nabong, a visual journalist at Chicago Sun-Times, got into photojournalism in this profile from Trent Sprague. Originally from the Philippines, Nabong started learning photojournalism through her father’s interest in bird photography, before moving to the United States.
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(53:26)
Lillian Wade’s is a story of a 48-year-long commitment to the collection of comic books. Lillian’s father is an avid comic book collector. He has every series under the sun. Over the years that has added up and now faced with the overwhelming number of books, Lillian has to come to terms with inheriting them one day. Will she learn to love her father’s collection?
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(57:35)
About 37% of airline travelers experience plane fright. The fear turns even the most frequent of flyers into shivering scaredy cats. In this essay, Shelby Steele shares the story of how daughter turned into caretaker. When flying with her mother, she expects the typical trip home: Chicago CTA to airport to plane to Texas. But after two Xanax and one margarita, should mom be fearful of a crashing plane or an angry daughter?
