Family Ghosts · WALT FM

38: The Reality Map (or The Faith Exam, Part 2)

May 20, 2021·53 min·4 clips
Andrew Chugg shares how discovering family secrets brought painful clarity and relief to his life.
Host Sam Dingman interviews Andrew Chugg, creator of the fictional episode 'The Faith Exam', to explore the real family secrets and personal experiences that inspired it. They discuss how Andrew processed his father's addiction and hidden family trauma through storytelling, using improvisation and fictionalization to find emotional clarity and therapeutic relief.

As heard by us

A family story shaped by secrecy, memory, and the time it takes to understand them.

Family Ghosts treats a family story as a slow look at how truth lands late. The episode stays patient, letting secrecy, faith, addiction, and power settle over the people involved instead of rushing toward a clean verdict. That restraint gives the piece some of its force.

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Why you'd press play

A family story about who knew what, when, and what secrecy changed.

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