The Lobby

In this episode of Serendipity, a man accidentally tunes into a channel showing a closed circuit image of a lobby and then begins to obsess about a mysterious woman in a pill-box hat. Ann waits in a hotel lobby for Martin who never seems to appear. Featuring the fiction piece "The Lobby" by Jonathan Goldstein. Jonathan Goldstein is an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer. He is a frequent contributor to This American Life. He is the former host of PRI’s Wiretap which he created and produced from 2002-2015. In 2015 he won the Prix Italia for Best Original Radio Drama. At present he is working on a new podcast for Gimlet Media. Serendipity is the monthly podcast of Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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