2019-10-10
31 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
In 2013, Ann Leary wrote an essay called rallying to keep the game alive.
It was about a rough patch in her marriage.
We turned that essay into a modern love podcast, and now Ann's story has been adapted for television.
On Friday, October 18, you can see Tina Fey play Anne in the new modern love.
Amazon tv show.
Actress Connie Nielsen, who stars in Wonder Woman, read Anne's essay for the podcast, will revisit her performance today.
Then we'll hear a conversation that Ann had with editor Daniel Jones and podcast producer Caitlin O'Keefe.
After a screening of the television episode based on Ann's essay, they talked at WBUR City Space.
When I took up tennis, my husband was happy to play with our two children and me as long as we didn't have to play by the rules.
As Dennis repeatedly explained to us, playing by the rules placed him at an unfair disadvantage because he didn't know the rules and he didn't know how to serve.
Instead of learning the rules, he wanted to play a variation of tennis he had invented with a friend of his.
Their game involved no serving and a complicated but curiously malleable set of rules that often appeared to to me to change mid game and almost always to Dennis's advantage.
This caused some heated courtside squabbles.
I'm ashamed to admit that one year we spent several days of a family vacation not speaking to each other after a game of Dennis tennis that I'd lost unfairly, until finally our son and daughter had to intervene and coerce a truce between us.
This was a tricky time in our marriage.