The Heart

By Kaitlin Prest & Radiotopia

Sexuality

What's The Heart about?

The Heart is an audio art project about intimacy and humanity. A proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

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Mermaid Palace

10.29.2019

Named after the very bedroom within which many of the episodes of The Heart were made. In this ep you heard the singing of Sharon Mashihi and phone answering of Mooj Zadie. The manifesto writing of Nicole Kelly and Phoebe ...

The Heart episodes:

10.29.2019 Mermaid Palace Named after the very bedroom within which many of the episodes of The Heart were made. In this ep you heard the singing of Sharon Mashihi and phone answering of Mooj Zadie. The manifesto writing of Nicole Kelly and Phoebe ...
12.04.2018 Love Me: To My Heart Our friends Cristal Duhaime and Mira Burt-Wintonick launched Season 3 of their amazing show LOVE ME. The story we are featuring from them is about a man who learned all about love while imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Website: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/loveme/\ Twitter: ...
10.10.2018 It's Here: The Shadows It’s here. Finally. All 6 episodes of The Shadows, presented by Kaitlin Prest and CBC Podcasts. Subscribe to The Shadows. Follow on Insta / Twitter at @theshadowscbc. You can find our FB group here.
08.29.2018 KP + CBC Present: The Shadows ~* Things are happening. *~ The Shadows, presented by Kaitlin Prest and CBC Podcasts, launches in late September. Here’s a sneak peek. Subscribe to The Shadows –> here.
12.20.2017 Dream Kaitlin has a dream, and The Heart says goodbye (for now). Listen on headphones.
12.08.2017 An Announcement In 2018, The Heart will be taking a break.
12.06.2017 Man Choubam (I Am Good) Sharon is a weirdo.
11.22.2017 God + The Gays Phoebe was a Jesus kid.
11.07.2017 Signature Research I still hear his voice. [Trigger Warning]
10.24.2017 Darqness Darqness: where techno, party, and, protest all meet in one beautiful, sweaty night.
10.11.2017 A Woman on the Road is Alone A hitchhiked trip to Vegas and women with agency doing whatever the F they want.
09.19.2017 Bodies: Goddess How Maria R Palacios became a woman.
09.05.2017 Bodies: Itch Cassie has an itch.
08.22.2017 Bodies: Meat Jonathan Zenti is fat.
08.09.2017 Bodies: It’s not me it’s you When penetrative sex is painful or impossible.
07.10.2017 People Who Need People A re-release of ‘Samara + Kelsey’ with a life / wife update.
06.21.2017 Doing Time This story is part of Radiotopia’s network-wide theme, Doing Time. In the early 2000’s, Kathleen reads through the personal ads of a magazine; on a whim, she writes to a man. Thus begins a relationship with the greatest love of ...
06.14.2017 No: Questions A processing party. [Trigger Warning]
06.07.2017 No: Answers Kaitlin questions the men in her life she trusts the most. [Trigger Warning]
05.23.2017 No: Inheritance Episode two of No: We catch up to Kaitlin while she is in her mid-twenties, waiting to fall in love. [Trigger Warning]
05.10.2017 No: Advance Episode One of No: the story of Kaitlin's non-psychedelic trip through girlhood. [Trigger Warning]
04.28.2017 Trailer: No Our new season, starting May 9th.
04.04.2017 First Comes Marriage Ryan Kailath’s parents met for 15 minutes before they married.
02.20.2017 Pansy: Local Honey transfemme artist + noise diva
02.07.2017 Pansy: The Beloved A Meditation
01.25.2017 Pansy: Ultraslut No Fats//No Femmes
01.11.2017 Pansy: Twirl Kaitlin talks to friends, exes and her dad about what it’s like to be feminine as a cis-man.
12.07.2016 That Smell Rhonda spends their entire day relishing the sensation of going down on their girl.
11.23.2016 Mariya – Extended Cut An extended version of the story, Mariya, which took home the Gold at the 2016 Third Coast International Audio Festival for Best Documentary. This is a story about FGM.
11.08.2016 Love, Harry Have you ever had a friend you thought you might be in love with? Have you ever slept beside this person in a bed and wondered if their hand was grazing yours on purpose? What’s stopping you?
10.18.2016 For Helen Rest in peace Helen Breger.
10.04.2016 Diaries: My Everything, My Bear Alex and Joan met at a bar in the East Village in 2012. At the time, they were drastically different people, strangers to even themselves
09.21.2016 Diaries: Mortified Our Diary series would not be complete without hearing from fellow Radiotopia show, Mortified.
09.08.2016 Diaries: No Way Out In the vast ocean of the internet there are thousands of diaries that are locked by forgotten passwords and AOL email addresses; Ashley’s Livejournal is one of them.
08.16.2016 Diaries: The Big House On a residential street in a working-class neighborhood of a major American city, there is a house with boarded up windows. The mistresses who work there call it The Big House.
08.02.2016 Diaries: BFF August 31, 2004: Amelia and I hugged and said our goodbyes and now it’s just me.
07.19.2016 The Understudy A widow learns to grieve by dating her worst match.
07.05.2016 Mr. Fix-it A conversation between mother, Sophie Townsend and daughter, Anna about Mr. Fix-it, husband and father.
06.09.2016 SE: Salt in the Wound Episode four of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse.
06.02.2016 SE: Hands on the Wheel Episode three of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse.
05.26.2016 SE: Ten Foot Pole Episode two of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse.
05.19.2016 SE: Not the Right Time Episode one of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse.
05.04.2016 Mariya When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small, but significant part of me.
04.06.2016 Ghost: You “I will listen to the song when I’m 80, a grandmother to children born of someone other than you.”
03.22.2016 Ghost: Violet “It was April, unseasonably cold, cruelly wet. You were in a restaurant pumped hot with studio lights.”
03.08.2016 Ghost: Emily “Her past loves are with her always, in the form of small objects that she keeps. Her boyfriend has his own objects.”
02.23.2016 Ghost: Alex “Sometimes you can be in one place and everything seems right. And then the wind changes, even just a little bit, and everything seems different, or everything seems normal and that's terrifying.”
02.10.2016 Ghost: Bobby “Leaning over my shoulder, you cast a shadow on everything. Things are dark and blurry — and I am drowning.“
01.20.2016 The Wrath of the Potluck "The time that god punished you for having a threesome with my sister."
01.13.2016 Samara + Kelsey I didn’t really know her. I didn’t know why I called her. She came over and watched me watch ‘Sister Wives’ until we fell asleep.

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The Heart episodes:

Mermaid Palace

Love Me: To My Heart

It's Here: The Shadows

KP + CBC Present: The Shadows

Dream

An Announcement

Man Choubam (I Am Good)

God + The Gays

Signature Research

Darqness

A Woman on the Road is Alone

Bodies: Goddess

Bodies: Itch

Bodies: Meat

Bodies: It’s not me it’s you

People Who Need People

Doing Time

No: Questions

No: Answers

No: Inheritance

No: Advance

Trailer: No

First Comes Marriage

Pansy: Local Honey

Pansy: The Beloved

Pansy: Ultraslut

Pansy: Twirl

That Smell

Mariya – Extended Cut

Love, Harry

For Helen

Diaries: My Everything, My Bear

Diaries: Mortified

Diaries: No Way Out

Diaries: The Big House

Diaries: BFF

The Understudy

Mr. Fix-it

SE: Salt in the Wound

SE: Hands on the Wheel

SE: Ten Foot Pole

SE: Not the Right Time

Mariya

Ghost: You

Ghost: Violet

Ghost: Emily

Ghost: Alex

Ghost: Bobby

The Wrath of the Potluck

Samara + Kelsey

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