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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Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K. Smith joins us to talk about the power of poetry to create connection. -
On this episode of Audacious, we celebrate the best kind of bad - bad news, bad movies, and bad dates - and the people bold enough to share them. -
This hour, the conversation winds around to spiders, healthcare, conspiracy theories, walking, election results, and more spiders. … Anything. (Seemingly) everything. -
Vanessa Priya Daniel has spent years working in social justice movements. She joins us to talk about the leadership lessons she thinks we need in our political moment. -
On this episode of Audacious, a woman donates her kidney to someone with opposing beliefs, changing them both. Plus, one donor changes lives, including her own. -
The life of U Thant is the subject of a new book by Thant Myint-U titled “Peacemaker U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World.” -
On this episode of Audacious, poet Zulynette proves that laughter can slice as deep as truth, and poetry can be the machete that frees you. -
This hour, the conversation winds around to Halloween, trolleys, fundraising, politics, Quakers… Anything. (Seemingly) everything. -
Karine Jean-Pierre discusses leaving the Democratic Party and the challenges of being White House Press Secretary. CNN Senior Writer Matthew Vann talks about what it's like covering politics in D.C. -
Legendary Chef Jacques Pépin discusses his storied career cooking for heads of state and working in television alongside Julia Child.
