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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Gambling is more accessible than ever, but what kind of impact has that had? We talk about everything from what people who work at sports betting companies say to the impact on college students. -
We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one. Except the phones didn't work. -
On this episode of Audacious, a woman shares her harrowing experience with delusional infestation, while two experts explain its causes and treatments. -
First, we get the latest updates on housing policy from CT Public's Abigail Brone. Then, we learn how the arson wave of the 1970s has long been misunderstood. -
This hour, we took your calls … about whatever you wanted to talk about. The conversation winds around to old radio shows, "No Kings" protests, the phrase "Let's go", The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, culverts, Garrison Keillor … Anything. (Seemingly) everything. -
Two very different stories of settling down in places built to move, and what those choices reveal about comfort, logic, loss, reinvention, and the search for home. -
We talk with registered dietician Dalia Kinsey about the book, Decolonizing Wellness. We also hear from two local women business owners working to make beauty and wellness accessible to all. -
We learn how craft can be a part of activism, and we hear from a local potter whose indigenous Wangunk ancestry informs the way he understands his work. -
A funny, moving obituary for a mother, a heartfelt goodbye to one very good dog, and a professional obituary writer on making those last words reverberate. -
This hour, we took your calls … about whatever you wanted to talk about.
