![]() ![]() We're excited to bring you the first episode today. ![]() The Retrievals, a new five-part series from Serial Productions, is hosted and reported by longtime This American Life producer and editor Susan Burton. What happened at that clinic? What are the stories we tell about women's pain and what happens when we minimize or dismiss it? In the hours that followed, some of the women called the clinic to report their pain - but most of the staff members who fielded the patients’ reports did not know the real reason for the pain, which was that a nurse at the clinic was stealing fentanyl and replacing it with saline. Then a surgical procedure caused them excruciating pain. ![]() (16 minutes)Īt a Yale fertility clinic, dozens of women began their I.V.F. Also: Why it's sometimes better for her to put on a bad American accent. (6 minutes)Īct Three: Is Paris still the racially tolerant place that Richard Wright and James Baldwin discovered in the 1940s? Janet McDonald talks about whether African-Americans are still welcomed in Paris so warmly, even after a half century of African migration to the city. (27 minutes)Īct Two: We hear from two Americans who live in Paris about what it is that draws the people who love France so much. And so the places he's found as his favorites tend to be places where the people aren't mean to him when he speaks French, or places where very unusual and fascinating objects are sold, or place that are unlike anywhere in the States. His head wasn't full of Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and Sartre and Proust he was a blank slate. He moved to France with no special feelings for the place. (6 minutes)Īct One: David Sedaris takes Ira on a tour of his favorite spots in Paris. Where he would take them if they wanted to see the city where he's lived for two years is very different. He says most people go to the Louvre because they think they should. David's never set foot inside, though he lives just a few minutes away. Host Ira Glass talks with writer David Sedaris at the Louvre in Paris. But what's it actually like in Paris if you're an American, without rose-colored glasses? Many Americans have dreamy and romantic ideas about Paris, notions which probably trace back to the 1920s vision of Paris created by the expatriate Americans there. We speak with a teen whose family has since had to flee the state in order to access the care they needed. (2 minutes) The bill passed into law a few months ago. He explains how professors and students have been preparing. (25 minutes)Īct Three: Among the legislation introduced by DeSantis that has passed is a ban on minors receiving transition care. So she spent some time in Sarasota County, where one man - at the side of former Trump appointee Mike Flynn - is creating a sort of little parallel universe for this very thing. (33 minutes)Īct Two: DeSantis has passed law after law about what can and can’t be taught in Florida classrooms, starting as early as elementary school. And last spring, Florida Republicans introduced a bill initially proposing to ban things like critical race theory and identity politics, or students majoring in things like gender studies in Florida universities. Reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi followed how things unfolded at one of the biggest universities there, Florida State, from the bill’s introduction all the way to its passage. Producer Zoe Chace wanted to understand its appeal and its growing popularity. We speak to people who did make the move, at least in part, for DeSantis’s policies. (6 minutes)Īct One: Among the big items in DeSantis's run for president is medical freedom. Prologue: Florida is now the fastest growing state, and DeSantis says people are moving there from all over because of him. Governor Ron DeSantis is running for president on the argument that he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. It turns out he's not the only one looking for an answer to that question. He returns to the town in New Hampshire where he discovered the abandoned house as a kid and tries to find out what happened there. Adam and his friends read the letters, saving some as clues, and never forgot. (30 minutes.)Īct Two: Adam Beckman continues his story. It seemed like the family just vanished one day, leaving salt and pepper shakers on the table, notes on the bedroom mirror, and a wallet with money still inside. The home turned out to be a perfect time capsule, containing the furniture, letters and personal effects of an entire family - abandoned for decades. (1 minute)Īct One: Adam Beckman tells the first part of his story, about how, back in the 70s, he and his friends broke into an abandoned house in the small town of Freedom, New Hampshire. The true story of an abandoned house, discovered by a young boy in the 1970s, and the mysterious family who disappeared without a trace.
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