This interview with Whitney Casey gives us the final chapter of her Connecting Two Worlds story.  Part one and part two take us into her inquiry about, and her reunion with, her first family.  But we needed to ask what Whitney’s birth parents felt – and to hear the answer to the burning question of why she was relinquished. Whitney finishes her story in this short podcast. Whitney asked us to make a correction: Whitney is not the “fourth child in the family,” but the second child, and fourth family member.   Click arrow to play audio  

Welcome to Adoption Voices Magazine podcast series, Sounds in the Silence. Podcast #2: Janet Graham talks about finding and acquiring the orphan’s letters. In a two-part series, Jane Ballback, Executive Editor, interviews Janet Graham co-producer and co-director of the compelling PBS documentary, “The Orphan Trains.” After receiving unprecedented exclusive access to the archives of the New York Children’s Aid Society, Janet and her co-director/producer, Ed Gray, spent five years fundraising, researching, filming and editing the film. It was broadcast on the PBS history series, “The American Experience” and received numerous awards including three Emmy nominations for Directing, Writing and Editing. David McCullough, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, described the film as “scholarly, groundbreaking, fine filmmaking that resulted in genuine historic discovery.”   In Jane’s previous interview with Edward Gray, Ed described the history of this historic predecessor program to foster care. In this podcast, Janet describes how she and Ed gained access to the archives that contained thousands of children’s letters and pictures that brought history alive.  Since the film’s broadcast, Janet has worked on a wide range of multimedia projects in photography and documentaries as well as interviews for the BBC Radio-2. Additionally, Janet launched and produced the website for the Sirius XM Read more

Welcome to Adoption Voices Magazine inaugural podcast, Sounds in the Silence. Jane Ballback, Executive Editor, interviews Janet Graham and Edward Gray, co-producers and co-director of the compelling PBS documentary, The Orphan Trains.  After receiving unprecedented exclusive access to the archives of the New York Children’s Aid Society, the filmmakers spent five years fundraising, researching, filming and editing the film. It was broadcast on the PBS history series, PBS American Experience series and received numerous awards including three Emmy nominations for Directing, Writing and Editing. David McCullough, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, described The Orphan Trains as “scholarly, groundbreaking, fine filmmaking that resulted in genuine historic discovery.” In this interview with Jane Ballback, Ed describes his experiences with the project. Janet’s podcast will be available in the next edition. The script for The Orphan Trains earned Gray an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Gray began producing documentaries in 1986 and is a three-time Emmy winner and a two-time winner of the Writers Guild of America award. During his career Gray worked with such leading journalists as Peter Jennings, Seymour Hersh, and Thomas Friedman. From 1998 to 2004 he was a writer, producer and director in the television production unit of the New York Times. After Jane’s interview Ed Read more