Audacious with Chion Wolf

Series produced by Connecticut Public (WNPR)

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Audacious with Chion Wolf highlights the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking questions that get right to the heart of things.

Transcend assumptions. Humanize the stereotyped. Understand the misunderstood.

Audacious with Chion Wolf highlights the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking questions that get right to the heart of things. With curiosity and compassion, Connecticut Public producer and host Chion Wolf digs deeper, encouraging you to ask hard questions in your own life.

Chion is the winner of a 2021 Gracie Award, from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her Audacious episode, Going Flat, or Building New Breasts: Two Women’s Post-Mastectomy Stories.

She won a second Gracie Award in 2022 for the episode, I Regret Becoming A Parent.

Her third Gracie was awarded in 2024 for Best Host.


115 Pieces

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The Big Picture: What Billboards Do To Us
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Hear about the 5000 year history of billboards, and meet the man behind the “I LOVE YOU JESUS” billboards on I-84 and I-91 here in Connecticut. And...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Scars To Prove It: Living Through Animal Attacks
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Today, you’re gonna hear from three people who had close encounters with wild animals - and have the scars to prove it.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
Extreme ironing, cheese rolling, and shin kicking: The world of weird sports
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Meet an extreme ironer, cheese roller, and shin kicking referee (also called a "stickler") on this weird sports episode of Audacious!

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Hearing every color, feeling every earthquake: Life as a cyborg
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man who was born colorblind but can now hear colors thanks to an antenna implanted into his skull. And a chore...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Sensitive sounds and sweaty skin: Unraveling hyperacusis and hyperhidrosis
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man with hyperacusis - extreme sensitivity to sound, and a woman with hyperhidrosis - unpredictable, controlla...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Francesca Abroad: Following an American high school student’s year in Sarajevo
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On this episode of Audacious, follow an American high school student studying in Sarajevo. You’ll hear what she felt, what she learned, and how she...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Facing the world with visible facial differences
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Today, meet three people with visible facial differences: One whose face was burned by fire, another whose face was burned by a botched medical pro...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
How the daughter of a serial killer became a mental health advocate
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious meet Dr. Jenn Carson. When she was 9, she found out that her father and his second wife were serial killers. She grew ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Beatboxing, battling, and belonging
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three beatboxers: Rahzel, who helped found the craft, Gus Mcafoos, a 12 year-old who competes, and Kaila Mullady...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Full house: The line between collecting, clutter, and hoarding disorder
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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In this episode of Audacious about de-cluttering and hoarding, a woman gives Chion a tour of her home. Plus, how YouTube helped another woman manag...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Aftershocks: Life after getting struck by lightning
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear how two people's lives were changed after getting hit by lightning. And an expert will talk about ways to avoid ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Poet Zulynette on “Seeing in the Dark”
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Zulynette is a Hartford-based poet whose book, Seeing in the Dark, just came out. On this episode of Audacious, she joins Chion around a fire to ta...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Why the world needs comedians with disabilities
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Doing stand-up comedy isn’t easy for most human beings. So...what’s it like for comedians who have a disability like cerebral palsy, amputations, o...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Actors with facial differences discuss what it means to be seen
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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This episode of Audacious is the second installment about people who have facial differences. In this episode, meet two actors who worked together ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
A fireside conversation with Hartford’s “Love Poet”, Olusanya Bey
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On this episode of Audacious, hear from Hartford's "Love Poet" Olusanya Bey. He's featured in this third installment of a series of conversations w...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
The playfulness of poetry with Andrew Dean Wright
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Hartford-based poet, Andrew Dean Wright joins Chion around a fire in her backyard to talk about poetry on this episode of Audacious. Why this mediu...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
Forgiveness: How we define it and how it defines us
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On this episode of Audacious, we rebroadcast an episode featuring conversations about forgiveness. Hear reflections from Chion two years since its ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
What's jury duty like? The verdict, well, it's case by case
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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The stories you get from jury duty can be funny, absurd, or, like you’ll hear from a juror from the Derek Chauvin trial, traumatic. That's on this ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Who knew antiquing could be such a rush? The producers of Antiques Roadshow
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious: What goes into producing an episode of Antiques Roadshow? And what does it feel like to find out your heirloom is wor...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
Shocking protests: A look at the impact of bold action
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet protestors who've thrown soup at a Van Gogh, worn all white with a splotch on the crotch to protest circumcision...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1