
S17E1719 - How Can I Tell You?
Published: January 27, 2026
Duration: 56:38
Stella Mayerhoff and Rebecca Heron tell stories about the unbearable weight of truth.
🎙️Radio Story: In Ways I Never Could Have Imagined by Stella Mayerhoff
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, out in the field studying bonobos, Stella has to get a local man back home by lying to him, saying his baby is sick, when in fact, his baby has already died.
Keywords: Congo field research, bonobos, primatology, grief in the jungle, moral dilemma, scientific fieldwork, malaria loss, human conflict abroad
💻Workshop Story: Unfolding by Rebecca Heron
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