UnFictional
Where Nobody Knows Your Name
Sometimes you find yourself in an unfamiliar place. A foreign country, jail, or maybe just the wrong smoky club...
By Bob Carlson • • 29m ListenSometimes you find yourself in an unfamiliar place. And whether by choice or by force, you almost always leave a changed person. On our program this week: one man finds himself in a restaurant where the normal methods of communication don’t work; then, a woman's reality shifts when she enters a smoky dance club on the South China sea; but first a man finds himself in the last place he should go, afraid someone will find out who he really is.
Photo: MJ Club in Sanya, China. (Photo by Benjamin Gurr, courtesy Jennifer Dunn)
In this episode
3 storiesJerry Givens' Brand of Justice
In the mid-1970's, most people in Jerry Givens' hometown knew him as a family man or a Sunday school teacher. Givens never told anyone about his day job as a corrections officer and executioner. But when Givens found himself in prison, he had to try even harder to keep his old job a secret.
Read the story11 minBrent Weinbach Orders Meat
When he went to Budapest, Brent Weinbach was far from home and didn't know the local language. In these kind of situations, you usually have to improvise -- even if that means moving yourself further down the food chain.
Read the story4 minPanic on the South China Sea
We close with a story about the romance of travel, the fantasy of finding love and moving to a foreign country. Jennifer Dunn wasn't totally sure what she would find when she snuck into a smokey club in Sanya, China. But she thought she had a pretty good idea ...
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