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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On this episode of Audacious, meet three sports superfans! Banjo Man (SF 49ers and Oakland A's), Ronnie “Woo Woo“ Wickers (Chicago Cubs), and Bob Labonne (UConn Huskies). -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two memory champions - including one world record holder - and find out about the methods they use to memorize anything. -
This hour on Disrupted, we look at representation in beauty pageants, from Miss Connecticut to the first-ever Miss AI Beauty Pageant. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet a woman who was a character interpreter of an enslaved woman, and a man whose job it is to act like a patient to train med students. -
Hear from a Paralympic swimmer who lost part of her leg in a shark attack last year and a competitor in the first-time Olympic sport of breaking, which has its roots in hip-hop culture. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet people who love something so much that they made a palooza out of it: Pogoing, lighters, origami, and John Philip Sousa marches! -
We’re talkin’ about beer-can chicken with PBS host and James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Steven Raichlen. Plus, the Seasoned team gathers to reflect on the show's four-year run. -
A panel dissects the latest in the movie industry from the lack of a Barbie/Oppenheimer phenomenon this year to the possible end of the summer blockbuster as we know it. -
On this episode of Audacious, hear the story of intersex activist, Pidgeon Pagonis. They successfully changed one hospital's policies on surgeries for intersex children. -
This hour, we revisit segments that teach us about the LGBTQ+ rights movement. We learn about history, present-day policies and trans joy.
