This episode of "Radio Roaming" - "Feelings on the Radio with Marjorie Van Halteren" - comes in two parts, presenting three works of Van Halteren's and a brief interview with her recorded by Meredith Kooi. Together, these deeply personal and confessional works trace an arc of the breakdown, which might in fact be a breakthrough. 

In Part 1, we heard a brief introduction by Van Halteren and "Hexagon Heart" (2019), which took the listener through stories and moments of her struggle to belong, acclimate, and find her place in France where she expatriated in 1992. 

In Part 2, we go back to the beginning with "Breakdown and Back, Part 2" (1985). Drawing from Van Halteren's own experience, "Breakdown and Back" is a three-part Peabody Award winning radio series that chronicles the character Annie's nervous breakdown and journey to wellness. Bringing together interviews with those who were close to Van Halteren at the time with poetry, "Breakdown and Back," dives into the depths of the breakdown. Then, we hear "Unquiet Graves" (2004), a work Van Halteren produced in response to her experience of 9/11, but on Northern French soil where she was living, a place soaked with the history and violence of World War 1.

This episode of "Radio Roaming" was curated by Meredith Kooi. 

Radio Roaming bounces across the electromagnetic spectrum, exploring the many possibilities of experimentation with sending and receiving. Produced by Wave Farm staff members, each episode features a selection of contemporary and/or historical radio and transmission art, with the aim of expanding the Wave Farm Radio Art and Transmission Art Archives.