Non fiction

Ingredients for belonging

A Studio On The Atlantic
In this 2-voice podcast, Sarah reflects on how certain foods become markers of home and so are circulated across continents while Wyatt explores how our appetites connect us to and conflict with the larger ecosystems and environments we belong to. From rooftop pickling in Kathmandu to the industrialized cornfields of the American Midwest, their stories blend tradition and transformation.

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The Sound That Persists

Traveling across Iowa, where vast cornfields seem to smother the wild, Richard reflects on what silence and loss can reveal. With his hearing altered by a gunshot, he explores how to listen anew to what we’ve nearly forgotten.

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The Usurped Struggle of the Farming World

They block highways, but who truly understands them? Farmers, caught between pastoral clichés and harsh realities, feed us while crying out that it’s killing them—their struggles erased by unions that fail to represent them. Aliosha, born on the Larzac plateau but now a city dweller, questions this distance, where the hum of tractors conceals what really matters.

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Love for Real

At the coming of age, Ivan sees his best friend drift away and makes a promise to himself: save the friendship!

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