Strangers Archives

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For Valentine’s Day we return to theme of love, with a story about someone else’s heartbreak for a change, featuring an award-winning story by producer Annie McEwen. As for Lea’s heart, well, you’ll see…

Annie McEwen in St. John’s

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To mark the three-year anniversary of Strangers we share with you the very first story ever featured on the show, about Stephen Rochelle and his son Matthew, and we return to Stephen to see how they’re doing now, three years later.

In July 2011, Matthew Rochelle stood trial for murder. This is the story of what happened, told from the point of view of his father. How did his sweet little boy end up in this place? How do you cope when your own child becomes a stranger? Can you make a difference if you do everything in your power to get him back?
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Lea received hundreds of messages in response to her raw, personal four-part series, Love Hurts. In this follow-up episode, she strings together the funny, poignant and moving voice mails she received from listeners in response to the series and tries to make sense of this thing called love, finally. She also gives an update on her most recent dating adventure…
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Greg O’Brien has been a writer, journalist and thinker all his life. Now he is losing his mind due to early on-set Alzheimer’s, and he’s an astute observer of his own decline, speaking with precision an poetry about the darkness that is enveloping him. In one moment he accidentally puts his laptop in the microwave, in the next he writes beautiful sentences to describe his experience. He compares this clicking in and out to the flickering light of a loose plug in a socket. He’s in a race against time to share his story before the plug falls out for good, and he recently published a book about his struggle with Alzheimer’s called On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s. His web site is www.onpluto.org. 
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Sam Feirstein takes a broken heart to Alaska and finds surprising kindness in “enemy territory.” Also, producer Lea Thau takes a broken heart to India and has a “stranger” experience that inspires her to create this show.

Sam’s virgin voyage in a Kayak