David Kestenbaum
speaker
205 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
David Kestenbaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Quote, as to what caused him to do so, we are not sure.
Today on the show, people who find themselves on journeys they did not intend or agree to.
They find themselves trapped on these journeys and they have to figure out what to do.
In one story, a famous tree disappears from a landscape overnight.
Also, one woman's shockingly difficult quest to get some badly knitted ice cubes.
Stay with us.
It's This American Life, Act One, The Gardener.
Sometimes the bus ride you're stuck on against your will is the thoughts that are spinning around in your own mind.
Eamon O'Ganna has a story like that.
He's a reporter who's been on our show before.
He does his stories from a lot of different countries and conflict zones.
Here he is.
Eamon Ogana is a reporter in Greece.
Act two, no power to the people.
Our show today is about people who feel like they're trapped in some situation they have no control over, like passengers on a runaway bus.
And we turn next to a place where there are actually not a lot of buses running right now because the country is out of oil.
It's from writer Aileen Sosin-Martinez, who lives in Havana.
Because it's hard to even make phone calls from there, we got an actor to read it.
actor Ana Villafane, reading a story by Aileen Sosin-Martinez, whose reporting you can find in The Guardian and elsewhere.
Ana is currently starring in Sinatra on London's West End.
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