38 episodes
Bodies KCRW, Allison Behringer
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- Health & Fitness
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4.8 • 47 Ratings
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Each episode of this documentary series begins with a medical mystery. Sometimes the sickness is in the body, and sometimes the sickness is in the system. Once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge. Created by Allison Behringer and supported by KCRW.
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Trailer: Season 4
Sneak peek: Bodies, new season 4 is full of medical mysteries and self-discovery. New episodes coming April 19.
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Touch
A vending machine ritual, a life-changing massage, a spiffy velvet outfit and a belly full of caterpillars. Four stories of touch. Transcript at kcrw.com/bodies .
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Diverging
No matter how hard producer Hannah Harris Green tried, there were certain areas of life where she found herself to be deficient. Until she realized that a diagnosis could help relieve her shame instead of adding to it. Transcript at kcrw.com/bodies .
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The Great Beyond
Angelina Fanous has been living with ALS for nearly a decade. She is almost fully paralyzed and losing her ability to speak. As she prepares for death, she’s thinking about the story she’ll leave behind. Transcript at kcrw.com/bodies.
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Early Birds
Puberty is starting younger and younger, especially estrogen-dominant puberty. We talk to three kids and one teen about extra early puberty and the funny, scary, embarrassing and joyful experiences that come with it.
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The Fourth Trimester
Jess was overjoyed when she got pregnant. But after giving birth, her reality spiraled out of control. She didn’t know it, but she had postpartum psychosis, a mental health condition that occurs after about 1 in every 500 births. Read the full transcript here .
Customer Reviews
Just keeps getting better
This series finale about abortion training was incredible. So empathetic, illuminating and responsible in protecting the identities of people operating in states where abortion is illegal.
Great no nonsense honest storytelling
Really liked the podcast, how people get to tell their stories and also gently conveys how women have such a long tradition of shame and silence about their bodies.
It's also glorious free of men blaming, but focused on women and their stories.
Don’t call me ‘cis’
Why must women who are born female be called ‘cis’? It is not transphobic for females to be called women with no descriptor before. I am sick of transwomen being the default when females have had to fight for every little scrap of dignity since humans existed. Transwomen have benefitted from male privilege up until they transition, and often ‘transitioning’ means growing long hair and having breast implants. Is that all a woman is, boobs and a wig?
All women do have vaginas, that’s a fact, and not a single woman in the world has a penis. And don’t bring DSD (previously known as intersex) into it, they are sick of being brought into the TRA argument, people with DSD are either a man or a woman, their chromosomes exist as either XX or XY.
And yes, call me a Terf, but I don’t accept that label, I am inclusive of transmen, women who have transitioned to escape the crap women have to endure.