Tracy Mumford
speaker
9,176 appearances
127 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard yesterday
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 119 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 22.
Appearances
than almost any other show, according to one survey.
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The musical is set in a small town way out on Canada's Atlantic coast, Gander, Newfoundland, where more than 30 passenger planes were diverted on 9-11 once American airspace had been shut down.
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Within hours, the town's population almost doubled, with some 7,000 passengers stranded there for days.
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The people of Gander rushed to help, letting people sleep in their homes and cooking them meals.
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My colleague Michael Paulson, who covers theater, recently went to Gander to talk to the town's mayor, Percy Farwell, and other residents who were there on 9-11, some of whom inspired characters in Come From Away.
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The mayor told Michael that he and others were initially skeptical that their experience was worthy of a Broadway show.
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But over time, they came to see the musical as capturing something bigger than them.
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Those are the headlines.
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If you'd like to play the Friday News Quiz, stick around.
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It's just after these credits.
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And if you are not a Times subscriber yet, you can get a full month of free access to all of the journalism we publish when you download the Times app now.
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This show is made by Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Jan Stewart, and me, Tracy Mumford.
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Original theme by Dan Powell.
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Special thanks to Isabella Anderson, Sam Dolnick, Lauren Jackson, Miles McKinley, Zoe Murphy, and Chris Wood.
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Now time for the quiz.
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Every week we ask you a few questions about stories The Times has been covering.
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Can you get them all?
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go.
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This week, President Trump started publicly toying with the idea of renaming another part of the U.S., saying the state of New Mexico should change its name to New America.
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Now, the president has no legal authority to do that.
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