Summary: Two mentally ill and homeless repeat offenders attempt to break the cycle -- one that for years has spun from jail, to psychiatric hospitals, to the streets, and back to jail again (Winner: Public Radio News Directors' Award; National Federation of Community Broadcasters' Golden Reel Award)
Pristine, professional production - traditional "trac-and ac" NPR style news reporting at its best. The reporter captures lovely details, from the succinct expression of the homeless man's appreciation of life on the upside - "beautiful. Clean clothes, a place to sleep. Lately I've just been so glad to be alive," to the downside, "I don't know. I don't...know. Around" when asked where he's been. I am as fascinated by the careworkers on the job as I am by the subjects themselves - and being sinside their experience takes us - well (I'll speak for myself) - ME to a basic place where I bottom line place I feel profoundly called to over and over.
Comments for Life on the Outside
This piece belongs to the series "Waiting it Out Series"
Produced by Dan Collison
Other pieces by Long Haul Productions
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Marjorie Van Halteren
Posted on December 20, 2005 at 02:26 AM | Permalink
Review of Life on the Outside
Pristine, professional production - traditional "trac-and ac" NPR style news reporting at its best. The reporter captures lovely details, from the succinct expression of the homeless man's appreciation of life on the upside - "beautiful. Clean clothes, a place to sleep. Lately I've just been so glad to be alive," to the downside, "I don't know. I don't...know. Around" when asked where he's been. I am as fascinated by the careworkers on the job as I am by the subjects themselves - and being sinside their experience takes us - well (I'll speak for myself) - ME to a basic place where I bottom line place I feel profoundly called to over and over.