Audacious with Chion Wolf

Series produced by Connecticut Public (WNPR)

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Audacious with Chion Wolf highlights the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking questions that get right to the heart of things.

Transcend assumptions. Humanize the stereotyped. Understand the misunderstood.

Audacious with Chion Wolf highlights the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking questions that get right to the heart of things. With curiosity and compassion, Connecticut Public producer and host Chion Wolf digs deeper, encouraging you to ask hard questions in your own life.

Chion is the winner of a 2021 Gracie Award, from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her Audacious episode, Going Flat, or Building New Breasts: Two Women’s Post-Mastectomy Stories.

She won a second Gracie Award in 2022 for the episode, I Regret Becoming A Parent.

Her third Gracie was awarded in 2024 for Best Host.


113 Pieces

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Beyond the BeyHive and Swifties: The heartbeat of music superfans
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet superfans of Beyonce and Taylor Swift, and hear the lengths they go to to experience - and share the love - of t...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Laugh and then think: What it's like to win the Ig Nobel Prize
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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Stolen cars and abandoned grocery carts: Taking matters into your own hands
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On this episode of Audacious, meet one man who's recovered 200+ stolen vehicles. And the Cart Narc uses humor to shame people when they don’t retur...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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Anorexia is complex. Two people talk frankly about their decades-long journeys
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Hear from an eating disorder specialist, and two people - including one who is in recovery - talking about their lives with anorexia.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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Audacious therapists who specialize in helping those on death row, the gifted, and the wealthy
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Meet therapists who specialize in treating unique populations like those on death row or the extremely wealth.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
The joy of collecting barf bags, miniature chairs, and bricks
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Meet people who collect uncommon items like barf bags, tiny chairs, and bricks.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Life after abortion
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Ten people talk about why they had an abortion, how they feel about it years down the road, and how they felt when Roe v. Wade was overturned.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:21:34
The Guts & Glory Of Getting Into The Guinness Book Of World Records
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What’s it like to get in the Guinness Book of World Records? Hear from people who've set records for the size of their mouth, the amount of toothpi...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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What Happens When You Act Like You Belong
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Today, we'll hear stories about conning morning shows, sneaking into meet and greets, impersonating a famous megachurch pastor, a photographer posi...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 48:59
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The Story Of The First African American Face Transplant
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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There have been fewer than 50 full face transplant recipients in the world. And up until 2019, there had been zero done for African-Americans. Toda...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Models On Beauty
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Hear from a fashion model with decades in the industry, a model who uses a wheelchair, and two non-binary models about what beauty means to them.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Actors Mary Elizabeth Kelly and Dean Edwards on the art of impressions
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On this episode of Audacious, Dean Edwards and Mary Elizabeth Kelly talk about how they develop their craft of doing impressions of famous people.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Audacious Live! Show & Tell in Stamford
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On this episode, Audacious takes the show to Third Place by Half Full Brewery in Stamford! Hear stories about special doilies, passports, and even ...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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Give it your best shot! When throwing balls - or plungers - is a big part of your life
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On this episode of Audacious, hear from a guy who went viral for throwing plungers onto store signs, a Harlem Globetrotter on his slam dunk from 13...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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Welcome to the Punderdome! We're entering NYC's punniest pun competition
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On this episode of Audacious, come with us to Brooklyn to compete in The Punderdome! See if Chion has what it takes to go head-to-head with some of...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
The misunderstood pain of persistent genital arousal disorder
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three people who have persistent genital arousal disorder, including one woman who has around 100 orgasms a day.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Fighting for truth: The struggle to overcome pathological lying
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On this episode of Audacious, why do pathological liars do what they do? Hear from two people who have spent years reconciling their relationship w...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Wings, pouches, and snouts: The world of uncommon emotional support animals
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who’ve paired up with pigeons, sugar gliders, and pigs to make their lives - and mental health conditions...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
The reality of 'Forever Parenting' when your child needs lifetime care
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear reflections and wisdom from “forever parents” whose children have conditions that require lifetime care.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
The magic never ends for Disney adults
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Disney adults! Including one woman who has spent tens of thousands of dollars on merch; and a man who spent near...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00