"For Their Own Good"

I don't usually listen to NPR or any other audio podcasts, so I really had trouble thinking of my "favorite" audio piece... I've only listened to a few. But last semester, Merrill alum Kelley Benham French came to Knight Hall to talk about her story in the St. Petersburg Times about a reform school for boys in Florida. When she visited she talked about the story, the people she interviewed and also played an audio slideshow that was on the site. It's around seven minutes long and includes narration plus quotes from some of the men who were abused at the school, as well as some pictures of the school itself. The story itself was interesting enough, though hauntingly so, to keep my attention on the audio piece, but I do think they (her and her colleagues) did a great job at picking interviews and pairing them with certain pictures. It was a very moving, albeit disturbing, slideshow. The background music also added to that... It was sort of creepy. That being said, I do recall her mentioning something during the discussion about how she did not pick out the music and did not necessarily like it. But I can't remember it all that well, so I could be wrong. However, some parts of it are actual video of interviews, not just pictures and audio, so hopefully it still counts. Overall, I thought it was a powerful piece and they did a great job at telling the story.