The Sound Of My Father

Rita Attwood, host and writer of The Sound of My Father, introduces you to your next podcast listen, the new RNZ podcast All In Her Head. A young woman is starving to death. Some doctors say she needs life-saving surgery; others say the diagnosis doesn't exist. All In Her Head is a seven-part investigative podcast from RNZ’s award-winning journalist Anusha Bradley about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), and explores the grey area where medicine, belief and evidence collide.
Listen to the first episode of All In Her Head, The Girl Who Couldn't Eat and hear the rest of the series on the RNZ website or on your favourite podcast app.
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John takes emotional steps on his journey of self-discovery, walking onto his ancestral marae for the first time, shoulder to shoulder with his American brother Ron Asher. John sits down to listen to the cassette, and finally hears the sound of his father.
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In California, Rita plays the cassette to Don’s children and receives the shock of her life. What if everything we knew up until now is wrong? Back in New Zealand, Rita connects with Jean’s children to reveal the trauma she faced in her life after Don left.
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Rita travels to Ferndale, California, retracing John’s journey in 1996 to meet his American family. We learn just how much John meant to Don, and what impact John had, not only on Don’s life, but also on Don’s wife and children.
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John is given a purse of letters that shakes the foundations of everything he knows. John learns that his father, Don Asher, not only knew about him, but had been trying to make contact with him.
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