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Dec 2020
29m 7s

Looking Back at an Unimaginable Year

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
About this episode
It’s a cliché now, but by no means an overstatement, that the past twelve months have been unimaginable. This week, we’ll hear four short reflections on the events of 2020. Dhruv Khullar describes the early days of the pandemic, when he was taking care of patients in a COVID-19 ward. Anna Wiener visits California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which burned ... Show More
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