Robyn Doyon-Aitken
Deputy Director of Audio Storytelling and Talk ShowsRobyn is the Deputy Director of Storytelling. Previously, she was the host and senior producer of Seasoned, a radio show and podcast celebrating food and farms. Seasoned won first place in the 2023 Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism contest for the story, The Gift of the Buffalo Creek Squash. She’s filled in as a producer for several of our local shows, most notably, Where We Live. In 2021, she was part of the team that received first place in the Interview category from the Public Media Journalists Association for the episode “Who Owns History? Connecticut Woman Sues Harvard For Family Photos.” She produced The Faith Middleton Food Schmooze® from November 2015 until the broadcast ended. Before that, she ate her way through the previous seven years of Fine Cooking magazine while its web producer.
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This hour, we take your calls … about whatever you want to talk about. -
Jill Lepore and Jon Meacham talk about our shifting understanding of change and who is the funniest president. -
Watercolor painting. Quilting. Bowie on guitar. Astronauts take us inside the strange challenges and surprising beauty of making art and music in zero gravity. -
A year in Bigfoot country. Decades at Loch Ness. Two men explain what it’s like to build a life around mysteries that still refuse to be pinned down. -
Jill Lepore and Jon Meacham discuss what, if anything, the past can teach us about our political moment. They talk about Independence Day and myths from U.S. history. -
This hour, we take your calls … about whatever you want to talk about. -
Guests share stories of prophetic dreams, gut feelings, and premonitions that later proved true, from lottery wins and love to danger, death, and mystery. -
While #MeToo went viral in 2017, the Me Too movement has been around for 20 years. This hour, we explore the role social media can play for survivors and what, if anything, has changed. -
One race offers unmarked trails, hidden books, and brutal climbs in Tennessee. The other is seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Both turn running into a test of will. -
We are reframing failure and celebrating people who forge their own path. We talk to the Founder of the Museum of Failure and host a panel discussion with young people about taking non-traditional journeys.
