Hello? Is it love you're looking for?

A selection of radio stories about romance and heartbreak

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The Dating Game | Wiretap |

A Valentine's Day Special! A woman jumps through hoops to find romance in a new video game. Plus, what would the man or woman of your dreams smell like? Montreal's Scientists for Love match-up lonely hearts through their five senses.

A woman jumps through hoops to find romance in a new video game, Call of Dating IV: License to Love.

And what would the man or woman of your dreams smell like? Montreal's Scientists for Love match-up lonely hearts through their speed dating event where strangers explore their compatibility through all five senses.

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One year ago today, July 31st, Lea went to interview Robert, a guy she’d dated, about why he’d turned her down. That became the first of a series of episodes called "Love Hurts,” where Lea investigated why she was having trouble finding love again in the four years since she found herself pregnant and alone when her fiancé left.

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This week we have stories of people deciding to take on some very big fears. A prisoner who hasn't talked to anyone in years comes up with a bold plan to re-introduce himself to the world, while a 90-year-old woman shocks her family when she announces a love interest.

Anthony DeVito recently observed his grandmother go through a metamorphosis no one in the family ever imagined they'd see.

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Love makes us do crazy things. But usually not this crazy. This week for Valentine's Day we have stories of people going to extremes to find and pursue their one true love.

Kurt Braunohler and his girlfriend had been together for thirteen years, and they were only 30. They wondered why they had never considered marriage, and realized that they needed to sleep with other people before they tied the knot. Then the adventure began

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Fiction | An accidental romance. Performed by Chet Siegel and Peter McNerney, with Willy Appleman, Louis Kornfeld, Lauren Ashley-Smith, Sebastian Conelli, Quinton Loder, Jon Bander, and Kim Ferguson. 

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Finding Emilie | Radiolab |

In this segment, we take an emotional left turn to a story of a very different kind of lost and found.

In this segment, we take an emotional left turn to a story of a very different kind of lost and found. We begin with a college student, Alan Lundgard, who fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux,describes her daughter, and the terrible phone call she received from Alan nine months after he became Emilie's boyfriend. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad and Robert about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again.

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Falling in love with a superhero IS all it's cracked up to be--except when the guy turns out to be totally, tragically human.

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Just because Keith Ford was homeless didn't mean he was unpopular with the ladies. This story was adapted from Kaitlin Prest's show Audio Smut.

Just because Keith Ford was homeless didn't mean he was unpopular with the ladies. This story was adapted from Kaitlin Prest's show Audio Smut.

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Writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect break-up song and whether really sad music can actually make you feel better. Plus, an eight-year-old author of a book about divorce, and other stories from the heart of heartbreak.

In the wake of a break-up, writer Starlee Kine finds so much comfort in break-up songs that she decides to try and write one herself—even though she has no musical ability whatsoever. For some help, she goes to a rather surprising expert on the subject: Phil Collins.

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One of our favorite storytellers, Joyce Lee, made excuses for why she didn’t show up to tape a piece.  Joyce told us she'd been “busted.”  What?  Busted?  Keep the tape rolling, baby.  We hit the record button while she related the events of her past night.

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Diane’s new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.

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Lea returns to the theme of love and tries to make some sense it, finally.

Lea received hundreds of messages in response to her raw, personal four-part series,Love Hurts. In this follow-up episode, she strings together the funny, poignant and moving voice mails she received from listeners in response to the series and tries to make sense of this thing called love, finally. She also gives an update on her most recent dating adventure…

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In this final installment of Love Hurts, Lea talks to a guy SHE turned down.

In this final installment of Love Hurts, Lea talks to a guy SHE turned down.

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Lea seeks dating advice from two experts and lets it all hang out.

In this third installment of Love Hurts, Lea seeks dating advice from two experts and lets it all hang out. Love Hurts is a series in which Lea investigates why she is single. We recommend listening to the episodes in order.

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Lea Thau tells more stories from her love life and interviews yet another guy who turned her down.

Lea continues her quest to discover why she's been single for nearly four years. She interviews yet another guy who turned her down to find out why he didn't want to date her, and tells stories of her past loves past and present dates.

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While doing a story about online dating, Lea gets her heart broken (yet again).

Producer Lea Thau investigates why she's single. She goes back to guys who didn't want to date her in recent years and asks them why. From ages 15 to 38 Lea was never single, but since her fiancé left her while she was pregnant, finding love again has been hard these last few years. Is she too old? Is she too broken from that last big heartbreak? Is she too much this or not enough that? While looking for answers, the man she is dating disappears. This is the first installment in a series.