Keyword: longing

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Growing Up With Radio November 22, 2011

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Radio as a surrogate parent, a comfort, and a formative presence. Armand reads listener memories of golden-age programs, transistor radios under pillows, and male voices that filled the absence of distant or missing fathers, revealing a common emotional thread running through decades of devoted listening.

The Ghosts We Keep Alive August 15, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Depression & Mood, Emotions & Inner Life

Why do certain people, places, and memories haunt us long after they’re gone? Armand DiMele argues that ghosts serve a function: they keep us from sinking into depression by giving us a focus outside ourselves. Callers share their own ghost stories, revealing how anger, longing, and comparison all sustain these invisible presences.