Dan Rott
Episodes
In this episode, Hal George revisits the childhood upheaval that taught him to hide his feelings and move through life like a robot. Tim Yearnshaw shares two snapshots of 1950s boyhood: the triumphant homemade police wagon that made the local paper and the shocking moment a single swear word opened the door to growing up. And Dan Rott recalls the wild freedom of chasing DDT fog trucks on bikes, a reminder of the danger and innocence that shaped his generation.
David Blake entertains us with the babysitter who somehow finds the ‘special’ brownies, while Dan Rott’s service station uniform seems to change size. Xiaomei Chen’s story begins when her mother was a girl at the beginning of the cultural revolution in China.
Michael Lewis’ “The Parlour Maid’s Pearls” is the story of a house maid who’s given a lovely string of double pearls for her wedding. “Skateboarding with Billy” and “The Fight” describe our “go-outside-and-play” generation of children’s games.