Anabel has been with Death, Sex & Money since August 2017. She produces the show and works on new project development for WNYC Studios. Before that, she worked as a producer on Audible's original content team and NPR's Ask Me Another. She got her master's degree in comparative literature at Oxford, and is originally from Boston.
Anabel Bacon appears in the following:
Trevor Noah Talks Depression, Radical Honesty, and Braiding Hair
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
The former host of The Daily Show sometimes struggles to get out of bed. But he's comfortable saying that with a smile.
Maria Hinojosa on Partying, Partnership, and Her New Pulitzer
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
After her Pulitzer Prize win, I catch up with Maria Hinojosa and revisit our talk on harnessing confidence at work, and the point in her marriage that made her reevaluate her priorities.
André De Shields On Living With His Shadow
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
André De Shields shares his wisdom from 50 years on the stage, and 76 years on this earth.
“What I Live With”: The Aftermath of Fatal Accidents
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
In the U.S., nearly 200,000 people die every year from accidental injuries. But what happens when you cause one of those accidents—and you survive?
Succession's J. Smith-Cameron On Old Haunts and New Normals
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
I talk with the Succession actor over egg creams and omelets in New York City.
Your Infertility Stories Have Many Different Endings
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
What happens when you hit speed bumps on the road to having kids? Today, your stories of IVF, IUI, adoption, choosing to not have kids and managing your expectations through it all.
The Deep Value of Financial Therapy
Wednesday, September 01, 2021
The WNYC Studios podcast "Death, Sex, and Money" recently aired a series of conversations that highlight the value of speaking openly in relationships about financial decisions.
Jack Antonoff on Growing up Jersey
Friday, July 30, 2021
The musician says that the Garden State gave him the motivation to grow beyond his upbringing. Like Springsteen before him, Antonoff writes anthems that are deeply personal.
The Golden Arches in Black America
Friday, July 16, 2021
The historian Marcia Chatelain talks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about McDonald’s and its complex relationships with Black franchise owners, workers, and communities.
Jon M. Chu on “In the Heights”
Friday, June 11, 2021
An Asian-American director from California was tapped to adapt Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit stage musical, a love letter to the Latino community of Manhattan. No pressure!
A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention
Friday, June 11, 2021
The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisis over the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism.
Spike Lee on the Knicks’ Resurgence
Friday, May 28, 2021
The acclaimed filmmaker is also the Knicks’ most fanatic booster. And this has been a very good season for his team.
Can We Finally End School Segregation?
Friday, May 21, 2021
A California school district was ordered to end the de-facto segregation that kept many Black and Latino children in a neglected school. What would it take to integrate?
Joe Biden Wants to Be Like Roosevelt. But Can He Get the Votes?
Friday, May 14, 2021
Are the President’s ambitions grand enough to withstand the realities of American politics?
The Post-Pandemic Dress Code
Friday, May 07, 2021
The scholar Richard Thompson Ford argues that the symbolic value of what we wear should never be underestimated.
Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee on the State of the Pandemic
Friday, May 07, 2021
With a hundred million Americans vaccinated, the nation is at a turning point, while India and other nations are overwhelmed by yet another devastating wave.
On “Night Watch” in a Xinjiang Internment Camp
Friday, April 16, 2021
A Kazakh woman imprisoned for more than a year without explanation reads the poem she wrote about a lonely night looking through the barbed wire.
What Can the World Do About Xinjiang?
Friday, April 16, 2021
The State Department has determined that genocide is taking place in China against ethnic minorities. The 2022 Winter Olympics are in Beijing. What should the world do about Xinjiang?
Inside the Internment Camps of Xinjiang
Friday, April 16, 2021
Accounts from a camp survivor and a woman who fled detainment show how life in the Chinese region came to resemble a prison, even outside the walls of the camps.
Why Has China Targeted Minorities in Xinjiang?
Friday, April 16, 2021
The staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian explains how Xi Jinping’s government used an obsession with “stability” to justify a genocide against ethnic Uyghurs and Kazhaks.
