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The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 2: Finding Rita

Young Rita and two of her siblings
Young Rita and two of her siblings

If political news is too much right now, we’ve got a solution. It’s a story we aired a while back: The Third Time Rita Left. The story takes place in the fall of 2016. Another election season. In Chapter 2: Finding Rita, we hear how Kayte and Rita first met, then met again, and whether, according to cat expert Mikel Delgado, there was any chance Rita remembered.

Alex Chambers runs WFIU’s arts desk, and produces and hosts WFIU’s Inner States, a weekly podcast and radio show about arts, culture, and ideas from southern Indiana and beyond. He’s the co-creator of How to Survive the Future, a podcast about the present, produced in partnership with Indiana Humanities. He has a PhD in American Studies, with a dissertation called Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, and a book of poems called Bindings: A Preparation, about domestic life and empire. In his spare time, he teaches audio storytelling at the IU Media School. When he’s not in the woods gathering sound, you might see him out for a run on the streets of Bloomington.