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Minnesota Public Radio to Present Live Taping of The Story with Host Dick Gordon
American Public Media's compelling national interview program to feature conversation with Twin Cities hematologist/oncologist Stuart Bloom, M.D. on his mid-life career change from acting to medicine
March 27, 2007
WHAT: Live taping of The Story with host Dick Gordon, in an interview with Dr. Stuart Bloom
WHEN: Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m.
WHERE: The UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio, 480 Cedar Street, St. Paul
TICKETS: This event is free, but reservations are requested. Visit www.mpr.org and click on Events for reservation information.
MEDIA: Print, broadcast and internet journalists are welcome to attend. Please contact Jennifer Haugh at 651-290-1369 or jhaugh@mpr.org for accommodations, including a media mult box.
TUNE IN: This event will be recorded for future broadcast on The Story, aired locally weeknights at 9 p.m. on KNOW 91.1 FM.
Minnesota Public Radio welcomes Dick Gordon to The UBS Forum for a live taping of American Public Media's The Story. Gordon will interview Stuart Bloom, M.D. about his decision to abandon his career in acting to study medicine and become a hematologist/oncologist at the age of 42.
The Story is daily interview program that brings the news home by sharing first-hand stories of individuals personally experiencing the events in the news in their own lives. The show is a passionate, personal and immediate program that inspires conversation and provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the lives of ordinary people.
The Story is real news and real people, fueled in part by sources from American Public Media's Public Insight Network. If the topic is health care, The Story interviews doctors and patients instead of experts and analysts. It's not experts in think tanks that will tell the story of the war in Iraq; it is soldiers and Iraqis who will share their personal experiences with listeners.
The Story is produced by North Carolina Public Radio–WUNC and is co-produced and distributed nationally by American Public Media.
About Dick Gordon
Dick Gordon, host of The Story, is a trusted guide to first-person accounts, expert guests and ideas that provide context and analysis. Gordon is well-known as a seasoned journalist, experienced in international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, the national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television. He was formerly the host of the public radio program The Connection.
About Stuart Bloom, M.D.
At the age of 20, Minnesota native Stuart Bloom set out for New York City in an effort to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. While in New York, he enjoyed a fair level of success landing regular acting roles in plays, touring with a Broadway show, performing stand-up and even writing a musical; but after a decade of working in the industry and realizing little fame or fortune, Bloom found himself questioning whether he was in the right line of work.
At the same time, his father was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Bloom took refuge in a book called Love, Medicine and Miracles. Reading this book changed his life and was ultimately the catalyst for his decision to abandon acting entirely and begin studying medicine.
Bloom completed his pre-med coursework and moved his family back to Minnesota to train and be with his father during the last two years of his live.
Twenty-two years after moving to New York, 42-year-old Bloom completed his medical training and began practicing hematology and oncology. Today, he runs the breast cancer program at North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale. He now uses many of the lessons he learned as an actor and says he's thankful for the perspective he's gained by coming late to medicine.
Minnesota Public Radio® operates a 37-station radio network serving virtually all of Minnesota and parts of surrounding states and produces programming for radio, Internet and face-to-face audiences. Programs produced by Minnesota Public Radio, operating as American Public Media, reach 14.5 million listeners nationwide each week. Of those, more than 790,000 listen regionally, in Minnesota and surrounding states. A complete list of stations, programs and additional services can be obtained at www.mpr.org and www.americanpublicmedia.org.
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Source: Data are copyright Arbitron, Inc. Arbitron data are estimates only. Fall 2005/Spring 2006 average
Press Contacts:
Jennifer Haugh
Minnesota Public Radio
651-290-1369
jhaugh@mpr.org
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