Haunted

Stories of people who are haunted, not by ghosts or phantoms, but by other people. Prologue: Ira reads an excerpt from James Ellroy's memoir My Dark Places. (4 minutes) Hearing Voices: Ira with Lynnette Nyman, who, as a girl, recorded her parents fighting with a cassette recorder she got for Christmas. (15 minutes) Act Two: Binjamin Wilkomirski and New York writer Blake Eskin try and figure out if they are related. NOTE: A few years after this interview aired, Binjamin Wilkomirski and his Holocaust memoir Fragments were shown to be fabrications. Blake Eskin chronicled this story in his 2002 book A Life In Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski. (20 minutes) Ashes: David Sedaris, on his mother's lung cancer. (11 minutes) Ghost Story: An excerpt from Heather Woodbury's epic eight-hour solo show WhatEver: An American Odyssey in Eight Acts. (7 minutes)