Amanda Bennett ponders ‘The Cost of Hope’
Listen
Hour 2
“Doing nothing is not something I do well,” says our guest, AMANDA BENNETT, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of projects and investigations at Bloomberg, in her new book, “The Cost of Hope: The Story of a Marriage, a Family and the Quest for Life.” Retracing her steps to doctor visits and poring over old financial records and complicated medical bills, she examines her search for a cure to her husband’s rare kidney cancer. The former Philadelphia Inquirer editor tells the story of meeting her unusual husband and her 20-year marriage as her family moves from New York to Portland, Oregon, to Lexington, Kentucky, and finally to a sad ending at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Listen:
[audio: 061412_110630.mp3]
WHYY is your source for fact-based, in-depth journalism and information. As a nonprofit organization, we rely on financial support from readers like you. Please give today.
Brought to you by Radio Times
Radio Times
WHYY's Radio Times is an engaging and timely call-in program that tackles wide-ranging issues of concern to listeners in the Delaware Valley.
Subscribe for free
Dems line up behind Medicare-for-all, GOP tries to repeal ACA
Air Date: September 22, 2017
Listen 00:49:54
Combating the opioid epidemic in the Philadelphia region
Air Date: March 28, 2017
Listen 00:49:30
The Johnson Amendment; a view from the GOP; news fatigue
Air Date: February 6, 2017
Listen 00:49:24