For Release: 2009-05-18 13:18:00
On the next One to One with Bill Goodman, Murphey Coy, a University of Kentucky student who participated in the American Heart Association's Central Kentucky Heart Walk just 49 days after his March 2009 heart transplant, and author Kim Richardson, whose memoir chronicles the abuse she experienced growing up in a rural Roman Catholic orphanage in Anchorage, Ky., share their stories of survival. The program airs Sunday, May 31 at 1 p.m./noon CT on KET1 and Tuesday, June 2 at 7:30/6:30 p.m. CT on KET2.First, Coy recalls receiving the unexpected diagnosis of a life-threatening heart disease just as he was preparing for college. He discusses his decision to come to the University of Kentucky for treatment, efforts to raise thousands of dollars with his friends and family for the American Heart Association, and how his outlook on life has changed since his diagnosis.
Then, in a separate interview, Bill speaks with author Kim Richardson about her book The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable, which details the brutal abuses the children suffered at the hands of the nuns, priests and employees who ran the rural Kentucky orphanage where she grew up. Richardson and 44 former orphans were the first in U.S. history to receive a monetary settlement from a Roman Catholic order of nuns, arising out of decades of institutional abuse. She talks about why she wrote the book, what a typical day at the orphanage was like and how she survived.
One to One with Bill Goodman is a KET production, produced by Goodman and Cindy Asher. Following the broadcast, One to One is available for on-demand videostream viewing at www.ket.org/onetoone and podcasting at www.ket.org/rss. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
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