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About
Sex and relationships are intimate — and sometimes intimidating to talk about. In this award-winning show, host Anita Rao guides us on an exploration of our brains and bodies that touches down in taboo territory. Program feed schedule via the Exchange.
Length
Each episode is 59 minutes long.
Number of programs
Ongoing, weekly
Program feed schedule via the Exchange
Files delivered Fridays at 12 a.m. EST
Station Licensing Information
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Embodied is available to PRX affiliate stations. Prior to carrying this series, stations must contact their Station Services Manager.
Program Web site:
www.wunc.org/show/embodied-radio-show
Show Examples
Public radio has not always made room for conversations about sex, relationships and health. Embodied is trying to change that through journalistic curiosity, intimate interviews, and poignant conversations. Browse the shows below to see how Embodied approaches each of these themes.
Sex
Embodied doesn’t shy away from talking about sex and pleasure. We believe both are fundamental components of the human experience, and our show models how to talk about them with honesty, curiosity, empathy and intention.
Relationships
Connection is a core value of our show and one that we share with many of our listeners. Embodied examines relationships from all angles: platonic, romantic and familial.
Health
The human body is fascinating, and our understanding of it is shaped by our own assumptions, backgrounds and lived experiences. Embodied aims to explore diverse aspects of our health (physical, mental and emotional), and how they inform everything from the way we interact with others to how we understand ourselves and our communities.
Production Team
HOST
Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist and the host and creator of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health. Anita is passionate about exploring identity, connection and power through storytelling. She grew up in an immigrant, mixed-race family in the Midwest, and this constant straddling of multiple worlds fueled her curiosity. She studied Women's Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and started her journalism career as an intern for the nationally distributed public radio program The Story. From 2011-2014, she worked in Brooklyn for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department. She traveled and recorded interviews around the country and produced select pieces for NPR’s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. Anita moved back South in 2014 and spent almost seven years working for North Carolina Public Radio WUNC’s flagship state-wide daily talk show. She served as a producer, lead producer, managing editor, guest host and regular host of the program and won three Gracie awards for her work. During this time she also co-founded and co-hosted a podcast about millennial feminism in the South called She & Her and edited the narrative-driven podcast The Double Shift which aimed to challenge the status quo of motherhood in America. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
PRODUCERS
Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied and has been with the team since the very beginning, in 2019. Previously she produced daily talk shows for WUNC and WPR, and she's helped to create three different radio shows (including Embodied!). She studied journalism and cinema studies at NYU and enjoys reading, horror movies and weightlifting in her spare time.
Kaia Findlay is Embodied's lead producer and has been with the show since 2020. She has a background in science communication and is a double Tar Heel, graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill with a bachelor's in environmental studies in 2018 and a master's in journalism in 2019. She loves spending time outdoors and being from Minnesota.
Gabriela Glueck is a producer for Embodied. Gabriela graduated from Duke University with an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts and a specialization in audio journalism. Prior to working at Embodied, Gabriela worked as a freelance reporter/producer for the Eat This Podcast, a research assistant and vox pop reporter for Scene on Radio and as a podcast intern at Click Here. In addition, Gabriela has produced a variety of independent audio projects and short films.
Paige Miranda is a temporary producer for "Embodied". She is an audio storyteller, who first dipped her toe into journalism as WUNC’s 2023 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. Previously, she earned her PhD in neuroscience at New York University, where she spent her days studying memory formation in sea slugs. In the evenings, she could be found broadcasting her science podcast, Benchwork, on WNYU. When she's not making radio, Paige loves to curate playlists and DJ.