UnFictional

UnFictional

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UnFictional episodes

  • Breaking Away

    Luzer Twersky, who grew up within Hasidic communities in New York and London, decided to leave the community and make a new life in the secular world...

    30 min
  • The Accidental Parent

    In the first of two stories, 4-year-old Lexi takes on parenthood.  Then a professional musician's life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes a full-time father.

    30 min
  • The Lonely Funeral

    A soulful and moving Dutch documentary about a civil servant who works with a professional poet to plans funerals for people who have died alone, bodies that were never claimed from the morgue...

    30 min
  • The Two Proms of Carlos Kotkin

    Stories about a special rite of passage. Carlos Kotkin went to two high school proms, more than ten years apart. Plus, Curie Youth Radio's Will You Go to Prom with Me?

    30 min
  • Stories about Dads

    Mike Birbiglia on battling an online porn virus for his tech-challenged parents, Laura Silverman on bad marriage advice, and seeing the city on a stroll with a newborn's blind father, Ryan Knighton. (This program originally was broadcast on October 12, 2010.)

    30 min
  • Night on Earth

    Stealing an idea from Jim Jarmusch, we drop down to five random locations and hear personal stories that all take place in the nighttime.

    30 min
  • Care

    Two stories about looking after the welfare of others, one at the beginning of life and another near the end of life. 

    30 min
  • Separated by Birth

    Two stories about families who have been driven apart... David Ellis Dickerson’s mission to save his family from a faith he considers hypocritical and dangerous. Also, Carol Brobeck and Joel Woodruff recount the adoption and reunion that defines their relationship.

    30 min

About UnFictional

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In this season of Unfictional, Stories of Transformation, and the ways in which the world — and all of us — have fundamentally changed since the pandemic began. One man watched his children…

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