PORTRAIT RADIO: An Appeal to the Masses
Portrait Radio profiles people and stories, casually steals from NPR’s “This American Life” and does a not-so-bad a job of it.
Right now we are in the midst of putting together our upcoming episode for Halloween, an episode we are calling “BOO, are you?’ — And in thinking about scary stories that we might bring you for this season, it got us thinking about all of those classic Halloween characters that always seem to come back to life this time of year. Characters like the Vampire, the Witch, the Werewolf, Frankenstein. It got us thinking, what if we could find actual people who at one time or another found themselves or someone they knew, actually embodying some of the traits and behaviors of these classic characters? Not literally of course, but metaphorically. After all, aren’t these characters just archetypes of our own all-too-human qualities, perhaps the ones that we’re most afraid of?
What if for instance, there was someone out there who went around using people; who fed on the energy of others and then discarded them? Someone not unlike a “Man-pire”, say. Or what if there was another person who found themselves walking through life in a trance, devoid of human emotion and feeling, totally alienated from the world of the living, kind of like a Zombie? Or what if there was yet another person, this time one who felt alive, but suffered because it seemed like the world wasn’t seeing them, like it chose not to see them, as if he or she didn’t even exist?; kind of like, a Ghost.
— Well, it is in the interest of perusing that idea, that we are now asking for your help — yes, your help, — in bring us these stories to us. We want to know if you or someone you know has a story about a time when it felt like they were being a Ghost, or a Werewolf, or a Dr. Jekyll character, or maybe even a total Witch. If you would like to help us and maybe even be interviewed yourself, then please get in touch. Send us a message through facebook or through the website. There are only two weeks left until Halloween so there is no time to waste. And if you live far away and you’re out of Montreal, this is not a problem, we can (apparently) interview you through Skype and would love to talk to you. Thanks.