Kate & Lola
A child mauled so severely by a dog that she isn’t expected to live, grows up to become a passionate dog lover.
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Credits
Featuring Kate Forsyth
Producer/ Host Michelle Ransom-Hughes
Editing/ Michelle and Seja
Composer/ Seja Vogel
Sound design/ Seja Vogel (w. Michelle Ransom-Hughes)
Studio dog/ Whiskey
Theme “Come to Me” written and performed by Seja (w. Ben Corbett)
Poem* read by Lea Redfern
Song “I Am Yours” by Seja
Illustration by Lily Mae Martin
“Dogs are very intuitive, even almost psychic sometimes... I say to my children, if you listened and watched as closely as dogs do, you too would always be aware of how people around you are thinking and feeling.”
Discover Kate’s work on her website.
*The poem, Scars, was first published in Quadrant in 1994; and was later included in Kate’s award-winning essay, Stories as Salvation, in Griffith Review Ed. 42.
Thank you
Dylan Ransom-Hughes, Simon Graydon, Jeremy Santolin (The Picture Club), Romina Gerhards, Nicola Harrison, Benython Oldfield, Mirko Vogel, Rebecca Armstrong, Sarah Kanowski, Brianna Peterson, Marco, CB, and Lola.
Thanks to tech angels, PM and MP.