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.


123 Pieces

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How do they remember that? Meet two world-class memory champions
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two memory champions - including one world record holder - and find out about the methods they use to memorize a...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
When actors teach: Embodying the lives of an enslaved woman and a medical patient
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a woman who was a character interpreter of an enslaved woman, and a man whose job it is to act like a patient to...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Audacious Paloozas: Lovers of pogo sticks, origami, lighters, and John Philip Sousa share their passions
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who love something so much that they made a palooza out of it: Pogoing, lighters, origami, and John Phili...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Intersex advocacy and the fight for bodily autonomy with Pidgeon Pagonis
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear the story of intersex activist, Pidgeon Pagonis. They successfully changed one hospital's policies on surgeries ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
For the love of farts! From animal biology to musical mastery
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who love farts! Including animal researchers, a hand-farter, and a man born without an anus who now farts...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jayson Greene reflects on grief and parenthood nine years after his daughter's death
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear from Jayson Greene, author of “Once More We Saw Stars“. On the 9th anniversary of her death, he talks about life...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 50:02
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations with two dragons
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two people - Legion the Dragon and Burns the Dragon - who use extreme body modifications to turn themselves into...

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  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pawn queens: Tales and treasures from women pawn shop owners
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet women in the pawn industry: Sandy Meier, owner of Pawn Queen in Wethersfield, CT, and Lauren Kaminsky, founder o...

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  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
What it's like at the bottom of the world with Dr. “Deepsea Dawn” Wright
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Dr. Dawn Wright! She is the first and only Black person to ever descend to the lowest point on Earth, known as "...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Stunt performers David Holmes and Jonathan Goodwin on life after paralysis
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On this episode of Audacious, hear about life in the stunt industry from two people who've been paralyzed on-set: Jonathan Goodwin and David Holmes...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Beyond the BeyHive and Swifties: The heartbeat of music superfans
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet superfans of Beyonce and Taylor Swift, and hear the lengths they go to to experience - and share the love - of t...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Laugh and then think: What it's like to win the Ig Nobel Prize
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Stolen cars and abandoned grocery carts: Taking matters into your own hands
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet one man who's recovered 200+ stolen vehicles. And the Cart Narc uses humor to shame people when they don’t retur...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anorexia is complex. Two people talk frankly about their decades-long journeys
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Hear from an eating disorder specialist, and two people - including one who is in recovery - talking about their lives with anorexia.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Audacious therapists who specialize in helping those on death row, the gifted, and the wealthy
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Meet therapists who specialize in treating unique populations like those on death row or the extremely wealth.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
The joy of collecting barf bags, miniature chairs, and bricks
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Meet people who collect uncommon items like barf bags, tiny chairs, and bricks.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Life after abortion
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Ten people talk about why they had an abortion, how they feel about it years down the road, and how they felt when Roe v. Wade was overturned.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:21:34
The Guts & Glory Of Getting Into The Guinness Book Of World Records
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What’s it like to get in the Guinness Book of World Records? Hear from people who've set records for the size of their mouth, the amount of toothpi...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Happens When You Act Like You Belong
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Today, we'll hear stories about conning morning shows, sneaking into meet and greets, impersonating a famous megachurch pastor, a photographer posi...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 48:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Story Of The First African American Face Transplant
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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There have been fewer than 50 full face transplant recipients in the world. And up until 2019, there had been zero done for African-Americans. Toda...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00