About In House

IN HOUSE with Ann Leary is a weekly public radio program about interesting people and their homes (and interesting homes and their people.) IN HOUSE is broadcast every Saturday at 2:00 PM(ET) from Robin Hood Radio (AM 1020 WHDD91.9 FM out of Sharon, Connecticut and globally via the Web and podcast.

Each week, Ann Leary invites listeners to join her in the homes of writers, directors, actors, artists, ghosts, eccentrics and others. IN HOUSE conversations are not so much about style or design as they are about the undeniable influences that our environment and habitat have on our creative, intellectual and spiritual lives. Ann Leary has found that interviewing subjects in their homes helps her draw out intimate and compelling narratives about the way they live, about the choices they’ve made - their memories, desires and dreams as they relate to past, present and sometimes future homes.

Why do we choose to live the way we do? What influences do our childhood homes have on the homes we find ourselves in as adults? Why do some people become emotionally entangled in their homes, while others do not? And most importantly, what is each person’s idea of the meaning of home?

Ann’s guest roster includes Academy Award winning director Milos Forman, who discusses the Bohemian childhood home from which his parents were taken by Nazis; screenwriter/director Richard LaGravanese who, as the son of a cabbie living in Brooklyn, dreamed of living in the types of grand homes he admired in the classic movies he loved as a child; and the residents of an historic Massachusetts tavern, once owned by a famous colonial African-American entrepreneur. We’ll visit playwright A.R Gurney, authors Dani Shapiro, Jane Green and other writers and artists, as well as the residents of celebrated and historical homes throughout the United States.

So join Ann each week, IN HOUSE.