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Allison Behringer
Allison Behringer

Producer, Bodies

Allison is an independent audio storyteller and podcast producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her latest podcast is Bodies. It explores the mysteries of our bodies and and is produced in collaboration with KCRW's Independent Producer Project.

Allison got her start in podcasting as the host and producer of The Intern, a critically acclaimed, first-person narrative documentary about navigating the startup world at betaworks and living in New York City.

She was raised in Maryland. After graduating from Princeton University, she taught English in northern Thailand, then returned to the States to teach 10th grade in the Bronx. Allison also helped to launch a women’s health education non-profit in India. She studied writing and multimedia at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Allison loves biking everywhere she goes, cooking, being outside and choreographed dancing to Robyn.

FROM Allison Behringer

Unraveling
Bodies

Unraveling In a lot of ways, menopause is like puberty. Your hormones are changing and setting off a whole host of bodily changes. It’s something that happens to half the population, but still, it’s full of mysteries.

31 min, 59 sec Oct 17, 2018

Refusing to Feed
Bodies

Refusing to Feed New parents have one job: keep the baby alive. But what happens when the baby won’t eat?

33 min, 45 sec Oct 03, 2018

The Bodies Award
Bodies

The Bodies Award Host Allison Behringer plays the three finalists from the KCRW Radio Race “Bodies Award.” She takes us behind the scenes and explains why she chose these short stories.

15 min, 3 sec Sep 19, 2018

Other Than
Bodies

Other Than Jeromey is sixteen when the hair appears on her cheeks. She thinks she’s transforming into a monster. Stuck in a world where beauty begets womanhood, Jeromey creates her own sexuality and power.

27 min, 43 sec Sep 05, 2018

Anxious Mess
Bodies

Anxious Mess For Reese, the hum of daily life isn't a hum at all. It's exhausting, disorienting and always out of her grasp. What people assume about her work as a stripper is just one of the false assumptions that she must overcome.

33 min, 42 sec Aug 22, 2018

KCRW Selects: Bodies
News Special Programming

KCRW Selects: Bodies KCRW’s Bob Carlson and host Allison Behringer introduce her new show: Bodies. Each episode is about one person’s medical mystery. And this episode is about periods – specifically, one woman’s struggle with debilitating periods, month after month.

28 min, 33 sec Aug 10, 2018

Bleeding
Bodies

Bleeding KalaLea has terrible, awful periods. But don’t a lot of women? Well, yes and no. After more than a decade of suffering, KalaLea discovers that the cause of the pain is common for Black women like herself, but far from normal.

36 min, 36 sec Aug 08, 2018

Bodies Podcast
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Bodies Podcast Allison Behringer was in a serious relationship with her boyfriend, Luke. Then she started experiencing pain during intercourse. It got worse.. And eventually they had to stop.

7 min, 5 sec Jul 26, 2018

Sex Hurts
Bodies

Sex Hurts For Bodies host Allison Behringer, sex suddenly becomes painful. This is her journey to find out why.  Join the conversation in our Facebook group at:  www.facebook.com/groups/BodiesPodcast/ . Nothing is off the table, and everyone is welcome.

33 min, 50 sec Jul 25, 2018

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How the teachers strike affects low-income minority students Negotiations are back on between the teachers and LAUSD. We look at what they should be talking about with an education consultant who’s seen both sides. Also, what happened at two Central LA school where teachers met with parents?

47 min, 53 sec Jan 17, 2019

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48 min, 52 sec Jan 16, 2019

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A radical act of rezoning; UK prepares for Brexit Planners are calling Minneapolis the most radical city in America, after a vote to allow duplexes and triplexes to be built on lots previously zoned for only single-family homes. What are the chances something like this could happen in LA?

28 min, 28 sec Jan 15, 2019

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The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong University of Michigan professor and author Juan Cole explores our biggest misconceptions about the world's second-largest religion.

31 min, 7 sec Jan 18, 2019

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