This American Life: Love Is A Battlefield. From This American Life: Alix Spiegel tells the story of a couple, Heidi and Rick Solomon, who adopt a son who was raised in terrible circumstances in a Romanian orphanage, unable to feel attachments to anyone…and what they do about it. Alix reports on mental health for NPR. (27 minutes)

HowSound: Love Is A Battlefield
Rob Rosenthal interviews Invisibilia’s Alix Spiegel about her story “Love Is A Battlefield,” and the massive planning and interview prep that can go into making a great radio story.

Jack Hitt tells the story of a small town production of Peter Pan, in which the flying apparatus smacks the actors into the furniture, and Captain Hook’s hook flies off his arm and hits an old woman in the stomach. By the end of the evening, firemen have arrived and all the normal boundaries between audience and actors have completely dissolved

Bring Extra Batteries! The Audio Gospel According to Rob Rosenthal

Kaitlin Prest makes radical radio at The Heart. She brings voice to the thoughts, that even when we’re not keeping them to ourselves, we’re definitely not putting on the air.

In the 1950s, the Swan Silvertones turned the old spiritual “Mary, Don’t You Weep” into a recording that has inspired everyone from Paul Simon to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

The pursuit of lock picking is as old as the lock, which is itself as old as civilization. But in the entire history of the world, there was only one brief moment, lasting about 70 years, where you could put something under lock and key — a chest, a safe, your home — and have complete, unwavering certainty that no intruder could get to it.

Susanne and Mike met and fell in love with each other…and heroin. They stuck together through addiction and recovery, but things haven’t fallen into place the way they had hoped.

The Invisible World of This American Life made visible.

“I went down to the nurse’s station, and when I asked, they freaked out. Everything went into a panic. It was pure chaos.”