Deborah Blicher

Media producer, essayist

Sudbury, Massachusetts

We swim in stories.

Deborah Blicher

Media producer, essayist

Sudbury, Massachusetts

We swim in stories.

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Cycling & Sweating Sue: Two Decades Outriding Metastatic Breast Cancer
A narrated story about an athlete. One protagonist, two hosts (I was one), three medical experts. I made this during my tenure as a producer on My Body Odyssey. My roles: I found, managed, and interviewed the protagonist and experts (was my own recording engineer). Wrote the first few drafts of the script. Edited later ones. Suggested the sound design but can't take credit for it.
Fluent Knowledge
audio interviewing scripting
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Sample video episode of "The Lonely Palette"
I produce videos of every episode of this art history podcast, some of which I also help record.
YouTube channel for "The Lonely Palette"
video audio
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Caring for Owls at Cape Wildlife Center
I visited the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts to find out how the veterinarians and staff care for birds in winter. A "podcast extra" for Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds. My role: End-to-end production. Interviewing, scripting, narrating, editing, etc.
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
Audio all production
Talkin' Birds: Fifteen Questions for Fifteen Years
A three-way Zoom interview about Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds with the man himself. Freya McGregor and I conducted the interview, which I edited.
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
Audio all production
Hands-on Bird Science at Hog Island Audubon
A week at Hog Island Audubon Camp exploring different kinds of bird science. My role: End-to-end production, including the outdoor recordings.
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
Audio all production
Love lessons from a latrine
HANGING BY MY HANDS in the pit of an outhouse in rural Brazil, I ponder my impending marriage. I’m furious. Now 38 years old, I spent what felt like forever searching for a trustworthy partner. I found him, followed him here, fell into an outhouse, and where is he? Directing a clinic in another village.
The Boston Globe
Essays
Birding to Help Prevent Burnout on the Job
Dr. Joshua Schor published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine about the benefits of birding for relief from professional stress. I interviewed him via Skype to get the lowdown. A "podcast extra" for Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds. My role: End-to-end production.
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
Audio all production
Stearns Farm: Season Closing
Final episode of the 2019 Stearns Farm podcast. The challenges of late-season farming. The third of three episodes I volunteered to make for a local CSA. My role: End-to-end production, including the outdoor recordings.
SoundCloud
Audio all production
Stearns Farm: Mid-Season
It's hot & heavy out there: lots of harvesting and lots of sun. Second of three episodes I volunteered to make for a local CSA. My role: End-to-end production, including the outdoor recordings.
SoundCloud
Audio all production
Stearns Farm: Early Spring
Interview with farm manager Ember Fleming about how the farm season starts up. The first of three episodes I volunteered to produce for a local CSA. My role: End-to-end production, including the outdoor recordings.
SoundCloud
Audio all production
Why Study Crows?
Dr. Andrea Townsend, a.k.a. "The Crow Lady," explains why it's worth studying this ubiquitous urban bird. A "podcast extra" for Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds. My role: End-to-end production.
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
Audio all production
A Grand Canyon Ranger
Ranger Ron Brown's perspective on what it's like to work at Grand Canyon National Park. A "podcast extra" for Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds. My role: End-to-end production.
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
Audio all production
The Comeback of the California Condor
The comeback of the California Condor as told by Tice Supplee of Audubon Arizona. A "podcast extra" for Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds. My role: End-to-end production.
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
Audio all production
Leap of Faith
The little boy I hope will become my son lines up his scuffed shoes on the edge of the sandbox, gauging the distance to the ground. It’s sixty degrees out, but like all the children I have seen in this Russian city, he’s overdressed to my American eye. Between his striped, knitted cap and puffy blue coat, I can hardly see his face.
Mom Egg Review
Essays
How My Church-Going Boyfriend Made Me a Jew
I started attending synagogue out of revenge. In the mid-1980s, while living in Texas, I abandoned a Ph.D. program. My research involved hours alone in the lab with a speech synthesizer, building and rebuilding single syllables. I hated it, but I resolved to finish my Masters project because I didn’t know what else to do.
Lilith
Essays
Rock Rock Boom
The little blond boy sits too still on the playroom carpet, his feet out in front of him like a doll’s. He stares vaguely at his sister, his cousins, and me. He should be crying. A minute ago I was in the kitchen, scrubbing peanut butter off the lunch dishes, when the cousins surged in yelling, “Misha hit his head!
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers
Essays