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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Discovering delight - and despair - in dumpster diving
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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This week on Audacious: Dumpster Diving! A pro takes host Chion Wolf into the depths of a dumpster, plus a TikTok star talks about how she got hook...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
Audacious therapists who specialize in helping those on death row, the gifted, and the wealthy
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On this episode, meet three Audacious therapists who work with people who are on death row, people who are “gifted”, or people who are super-rich.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
How Craigslist's 'Missed Connections' is humanity’s story
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In this week's episode of Audacious, hear stories from Craigslist’s 'Missed Connections,' including what a researcher learned from studying over 10...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
I downloaded my soulmate: Stories of love and AI
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who have romantic relationships with artificial intelligence chatbots, including Chion’s new chatbot girl...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Going Flat, or Building New Breasts: Two Women’s Post-Mastectomy Stories
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This hour, we hear very intimate conversations with two women who go through the process of getting a double mastectomy - the removal of all the br...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
Dress to unrepress: Women who dressed like men, broke rules and made history
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This hour on Audacious: A conversation with Tracy Dawson, author of 'Let Me Be Frank: A book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 50:02
The meteoric rise of comedian Zarna Garg
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Zarna Garg. As a 40-something Indian stay-at-home mom, she started her comedy career just five years ago. Now sh...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Clothing as identity: Two women share their experience with the hijab
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On this episode of Audacious, hear from one woman who grew up in Iran, and another who is a Muslim in America, about their very different experienc...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Female truckers: Meet the women behind the wheels
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Fewer than 10% of truck drivers are women, and this episode of Audacious, meet three of them: One drives a tow truck, another owns a CDL training s...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
From tyrants to torchbearers: Confessions of reformed bullies
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who were once bullies, talking about how they turned their lives around.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
What is foreign accent syndrome? After a stroke, one man’s southern drawl turned British
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Kenley Byrd, who is one of fewer than 100 people ever known to have had Foreign Accent Syndrome.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Why'd You Do It: I snuck my incarcerated boyfriend out of prison in a dog crate
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On this episode of Audacious, hear the story of Toby Dorr. She was on the run with John Manard for 12 days after she helped sneak him out of prison...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
The game changers: Female referees in chess, boxing, and softball
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three female referees in the world of boxing, chess, and softball, including one who was punched in the face (an...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
The declassified life of former CIA agent Valerie Plame
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On this episode of Audacious, hear about how undercover CIA operative, Valerie Plame, was outed by members of the Bush administration in 2003, and ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Conception deception: The fight for transparency in the fertility industry
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On this episode of Audacious, what if you found out that your sperm donor was not the man your parents chose... But their fertility doctor? Two wom...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
“Tell the world what’s happening”: Uyghur refugees on escaping genocide in China
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Zumrat Dawut and Tahir Izgil, two Uyghur refugees who fled to America to escape the genocide against their peopl...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
A coffee-fueled celebration of passion, purpose, and pursuing an impossible goal
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On this episode of Audacious, meet one of the best baristas in the world, an artist who uses coffee as a medium, and a man determined to visit ever...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Falling in love with objects: The experience of being an Objectum Sexual
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Most of us know what it feels like to fall in love. But what’s it like to fall in love with an ashtray? Or a chandelier? In this episode of Audacio...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Why you so salty? The anger episode
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Are you heated about healthcare? In a rage about racism? Are you perturbed about pumpkin spice, or salty about speaker phones in public? It’s impor...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
What it’s like winning a little or a lot on The Price Is Right, Wheel Of Fortune, and JEOPARDY!
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On this episode of Audacious, what does it take to go through the audition process and get on those shows? Meet three people who did just that and ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 50:00