Podcast Assignment-Katherine Ellis

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/loveme

Context: Love me was produced by two award-winning producers, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime. 

They wanted to tell different stories about the messiness of human connection. 

It can be found on iTunes or cbc.ca 

Content:

The narrator of this story begins the episode describing that there are a history of people who were known to have some inexplicable sadness and loneliness always luring over them, then eventually at some point in their life they discovered that they had a long lost twin, and the narrator decided that she was going to believe that she had some long lost twin somewhere out there in the world. The narrator was going home one day and the doorman of the building she lived in chased her up the stairs and was trying to rape her and they ended up barging into a classroom of fourth graders and he ran away. The narrator then goes on to talk about how she was sexually assaulted when she was only 6 years old. She ended up having to quit her job babysitting Jacob because he was so terrified of being around her after she was assaulted infant of him. Then she grows up and reveals that she got married and her husband ended up passing away. 

Form: The story is told in chronological order of the events that happened. There are short breaks in the episode when the scenery or focus point of the story changes, and when this occurs this repeating song plays. There is also other music selections used. For example, when the narrator is talking about the fictional stories that her and the boy she babysat made up there is magical music playing to help convey the idea of a fantasy occurring. When the mood of the story changes to a more negative tone, more negative background music starts playing. As the narrator grows up and gets married the narrators voice changes to more of an elderly voice. The podcast also used a male to speak when she is talking about meeting a man at the bar.