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 two people with genetic conditions that make them look much older than they actually are: Cutis laxa and progeria. -
We talk with a gun violence expert who argues it's time for a new approach to preventing gun violence— one that looks at the culture of gun ownership in the U.S. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two unconventional presidential candidates: Paperboy Love Prince, and a man who changed his name to Literally Anybody Else. -
Amy Tan tells us about her relationship to nature and journaling, from meditations on birds and mortality to her changing experience of racism to her former fear of sharks. -
From birds to grief to Colin's hot take on why you don't want to meet him...we took your calls this hour. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet actors Adam Pearson and Crystal Marshall, who have visible facial differences. They are changing the face of leading roles in entertainment. -
This hour, we took listeners' calls … about whatever you wanted to talk about. Inevitably, Taylor Swift came up. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet people who have devoted their lives to loving wild animals: Thumbelina the squirrel and Walnut the endangered crane. -
New Haven’s official historian, Michael Morand, doesn’t sugarcoat the past. This hour on Disrupted, we explore the histories of New Haven and Yale, including their roles in slavery. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who overcame their compulsion to steal, and one psychiatrist who studies impulse control disorders like Kleptomania.
