Kismet's How We Met: Recent Episodes
Radiotopia
These are all episodes that inspired Bart Warshaw to create Kismet. They are all unexpected stories of connection, discovery and adventure and highlight the “chance” of meeting. Many of the episodes are so visceral that the listeners are immersed in a world, and get to feel the same connection as those inside the story.
Radiolab brings together two people from two fields of study who discover the importance of looking further afield.
One of my favorite episodes of Love + Radio brings how making a connection can do so much to prevent hate and separation.
Clint is a bottle hunter, but his passion is beyond finding the bottle itself, but connecting with the message sender.
This classic from Jonathan Goldstein shows the changing perspectives of meeting someone again after many years.
With the advent of online dating, are meet cutes a thing of the past? Andrea Silenzi explores a modern Meet Cute story and explores where people draw a line with commercials.
Kismet is often a sonic immersion into a place, and this episode from Ann Heppermann’s Serendipity highlights why sound design is so important.
One of the things that people who live in New York know is that “you don’t talk to people on the subway.” We explore what happens when two people, with the help of impulse and chance, decide to ignore all they have been told.