Betsy Kaplan
Producer, The Colin McEnroe ShowBetsy began producing for Where We Live and the Colin McEnroe Show in 2011, shortly after obtaining a Master's Degree in American and Museum Studies from Trinity College. She began as an intern.
She was the Senior Producer of the Colin McEnroe Show between 2013-2021, during which time the show received three national awards from the Public Radio News Directors Association (PRNDI), and a 2015 Mental Illness Media Award from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Psychiatric Society, the National Alliance on Mental Illness-CT, and the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for a show titled, “Unlocking the Mysteries of Alzheimer’s Disease.â€
Prior to that, Betsy worked as an intensive care registered nurse in several ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø hospitals and raised three daughters with her husband, Keith. In 2021, she decided to step down and return to the nursing field. However, she still produces some shows with Colin and the team when her schedule allows.
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This hour, we look at our cultural fascination with dead bodies. What do we owe the dead? We talk to a death investigator, a poet/mortician, and a reporter.
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This hour, a look at how family ‘truths’ handed down to us shape the people we become.
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This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, a look at humanity’s ongoing quest to end epidemics and escape contagion.
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This hour, a look at the exclamation point and why this controversial form of punctuation evokes such strong emotion. You either love them or you hate them.
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This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, we look at how family ‘truths’ handed down to us shape the people we become.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look ‘back’ at the science, history, and culture of butts.
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This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, humanity’s ongoing quest to end epidemics and escape contagion
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, humorist Alexandra Petri offers an irreverent take on how we remember U.S. history.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, incarcerated content producers share TikTok videos, podcasts, and journalism to challenge perceptions of prison life.