Strong at the Broken Places on WABC Radio
"Strong at the Broken Places" is now a regular program on WABC Radio in New York City, the largest talk radio station in the United States. Each week the show looks at a different coping issue. Sometimes the program is disease specific. More often, it examines a coping problem that applies to many illnesses. "Strong at the Broken Places" runs each Sunday from 6:05 to 7:00 p.m. at 77AM It also is available online at wabcradio.com, streamed live.
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Blindsided
Richard Cohen, a veteran writer, producer and distinguished journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. Cohen describes his lifelong struggle with multiple sclerosis, his first bout with colon cancer, a loving marriage to Meredith Vieira, the effect of illness on raising children, and the nature of denial and resilience, all told with grace, humour, and lyrical prose.
Cohen chronicles and celebrates a life brimming over with accomplishment, adversity and personal endeavour and his story has struck a chord with readers nation–wide. He has been interviewed by Barbara Walters for a nearly hour–long segment that ran on 20/20, he also appeared on wife Vieira's program, The View, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and the Paula Zahn Show, among others. Blindsided also received outstanding print attention and People magazine ran a first serial piece.
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Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial and expansive, Blindsided builds on Cohen's story as a task aimed at emotional well–being, if not survival, pursued in sober tones that explore coping to its most redemptive and complex levels. Despite his extreme circumstances, Cohen's is a common struggle, recognisable as an integral part of humanity, and one which he explores with varying amounts of diligence, respect, personal revelation and humour.