Good Faith podcast with Curtis Chang: Redeeming a Wrongful Conviction
What do true faith and forgiveness look like in the face of wrongful conviction? Host Curtis Chang is joined by award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty and Ben Spencer, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 34 years. They share Ben’s powerful story of faith, resilience, and redemption in the face of wrongful incarceration.
February 13, 2025 | Redeeming Babel
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Interview with Glenn Kirschner | Justice Matters
In this three-part interview series, Barb details the story behind her book “Bringing Ben Home”. Click here to watch the videos.
PART 1 | A Wrongful Murder Conviction, A Judicial Exoneration but Continued Incarceration?
PART 2 | Life After Exoneration: Ben Spencer and the Triumph of Character!
Interview with Tamron Hall
Journalist and author Barbara Bradley Hagerty joins our latest edition of “Reporter’s Notebook” to discuss her latest book “Bringing Ben Home,” which follows the story of Ben Spencer, who was convicted of murdering businessman Jeffrey Young. Barbara and Ben reflect on the 34-year journey to get him home.
Interview on Amanpour | CNN/PBS
This innocent man spent over three decades behind bars. Now, he's free.
Bianna Golodryga speaks with Ben Spencer, who was wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit, spending more than 30 years behind bars, and Barbara Bradley Hagerty who helped free Ben, as she details in her new book, "Bringing Ben Home".
September 4, 2024 | CNN/PBS
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Up First from NPR | Two Part Series
Today on The Sunday Story from Up First, part one of a two-part series looking at why it is so hard to get a conviction overturned even when evidence of innocence is overwhelming. Part two is also available now on the Up First podcast feed.
The Luckiest of the Unlucky
In part two of our story about Ben Spencer, a man sentenced to life in prison for a crime he said he didn't commit, former NPR correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty begins her own investigation.
In this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, a look at what finally happens to a man who pinned his hopes on the idea that the truth would eventually set him free.
Maggie Freleng with Ben Spencer | Wrongful Conviction Podcast
On the evening of March 22, 1987 a businessman and father were robbed and killed in Dallas, TX. Just a few days later, 22-year-old Benjamine Spencer, a newlywed with a child on the way, was arrested for the crime. A reward for any information on the killing would lead several eyewitnesses to fabricate a story implicating Ben. Despite the fact that he had an alibi and there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime, Ben was sentenced to life in prison. He fought for the next 37 years to finally be declared an innocent man.
Interview with Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR On Point
Today, On Point: Inside the wrongful conviction of Ben Spencer. No witnesses. No physical evidence. An ironclad alibi. Nevertheless, a Texas jury sentenced Ben Spencer to life in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Journalist and author Barbara Bradley Hagerty shares what it took to set Spencer free.
August 08, 2024 | WBUR On Point
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The possibilities and pleasures of middle age
In America, the word “midlife” is so often followed by the word “crisis” that we’re likely more inclined to dread entering this phase of life, rather than relish it. In the book "Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife, Barbara Bradley Hagerty uses emerging information from neurology, genetics, sociology—as well as her own story—to reimagine the possibilities, purposes, and pleasures of middle age.
March 2016 | WHYY'S Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane
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The Art and Opportunity of Midlife
When Barbara Bradley Hagerty hit her 50s, she braced herself for a midlife crisis. Exhausted by her career as an NPR correspondent and scrambling to pay off a mortgage, Hagerty reached the final straw when her father died and her mother suffered a stroke. Instead of collapsing, Hagerty embarked on a quest to grow and thrive in the second half of her life.
March 2016 | KQED's Forum
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The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
Midlife is a time supposedly defined by crisis. But as Barbara Bradley Hagerty learned during a two-year exploration, midlife is really a time of renewal, a time to shift gears.
March 2016 | KUER'S RadioWest Podcasts
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Chitra Ragavan’s When It Mattered
A Christian Scientist forsakes her religion after taking meds for the stomach flu and takes a life detour to uncover the science of spiritual experiences
December 2019 | When It Mattered
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Diane Rehm Show. Barbara Bradley Hagerty: “Fingerprints of God”
Some researchers claim humans may be “hard-wired” to believe in God. NPR’s religion reporter discusses her search to uncover whether science can explain belief in a higher power.
May 19, 2009 | NPR
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Searching For The 'Fingerprints Of God'
"It all depends on how you define 'God,’” Hagerty says. “If you see God in the breathtaking complexity of our brains, as the architect of our bodies and our minds who planted the question Is there more? — well, science has room for that kind of God.”
December 17, 2009 | NPR’s Talk of the Nation
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