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. -
After his wife was killed on 9/11, find out how Charles Wolf successfully challenged the federal Victim Compensation Fund to become fairer and more responsive to families. -
We explore three essential questions about 9/11: What do we remember? How does personal memory become shared history? And what do we choose to carry forward? -
This hour, the conversation winds around to new musicals, Connecticut trails, politics, June bugs, colonoscopies … Anything. (Seemingly) everything. -
Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat talks about her latest book, 'Dèy,' which tells the story of a Haitian American woman in Miami trying to understand a traumatic experience. -
Spend a day at Brimfield, the country’s largest outdoor antiques show, where thousands of people haggle over treasures they never knew they needed. -
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. -
This hour, we take your calls … about whatever you want to talk about. -
We'll learn how the history of discrimination at pools impacts people of color, and we'll talk to a local group who provides adaptive swim lessons to neurodivergent students. -
A tale of two bunnies: One woman loved being part of Playboy. Another never wanted to be a Playmate. Hear two lives shaped very differently by the same famous name.
