podcast analysis

i listened to a story about "switched at birth" from "this american life." it was a really good story about how the daughters of the millers and mcdonalds were switched at birth, and the truth was not revealed until 40 years later after such a switch has happened. the podcast went by first reading the letter from the millers to mcdonalds, and then they did sort of interviewing format where they asked each of the party invovled to talk about what their perspective was. and the characters tell about how after they found out about the truth, they all thought that it had to be, because for some reason the daughters had different characteristics as the parents or even their siblings. apart from this interviewing format, some other elements of composition i noticed was the switch in music and stop in the talking once in a while to indicate that there will be a switch in the person talking, or some kind of development in the story.

i enjoyed listening to the radio. i thought that the story was poignant, because i also know someone with a story similar to this one.