This American Life can be a little corny at times, but Ira Glass has a real talent for getting moving stories out of everyday people.
I discovered this absolutely compelling piece about Phil Collins (Against All Odds) and one of his biggest fans. Even if you are NOT a Phil Collins fan, check out this piece with him on the show.
It’s extraordinary radio. The episode starts with a simple premise — girl with a broken heart wants to talk to Phil about heartbreak, and then it evolves into something quite different. By the end, barriers come down, and its turns into one of the most personal and affecting interviews about loss I think I’ve ever heard.
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1 Jarome Hollingsworth
// Sep 2, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I simply loved this radio’s episode, it was very interesting also highly emotional. Ira Glass pours her heart out, and somehow during the process it seems like a healing process. For example telling the radio how she felt, and what she was going through, and even opening up to Phil Collins who was willing to listen. I do hope she does let him go, and continue with her life.
Betsy seems like she never healed from her parents divorce, it is a hard thing to go through, and especially at the young age of 8, having to go through that, it must have been hard. She made a good decision to open up to the radio and tell her story, and 16 or 17 years later continue a follow up. I personally think these breakups or issues we go through as people, no matter what age, is a learning experience, if we could not handle it, it would not happen to us.
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