Erica Heilman invites herself into people's homes to find out what they know, hate, love, what they’re afraid of, and what makes them more like you than you'd realized. These are messy, obsessively crafted stories of the everyday.
Rumble Strip's Finn and the Bell won a Peabody Award in 2022. Rumble Strip was named #1 Podcast of 2022 by The New Yorker and among the top 10 podcasts of 2022 by The New York Times. The Our Show series was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Atlantic. For more information about the show, visit the press page where other writers are more articulate about Erica's show than she is.
Rumble Strip has aired on 99% Invisible, Radiolab, Snap Judgment, SOUNDPRINT, CBC, BBC, KCRW, and on major public radio affiliates across the country.
Photo by Tara Reese
“It’s rough, raw, unpolished, yet crafted and utterly true."
--New York Times, 2020
“Erica Heilman sometimes sounds as if she's calling from a closet in which she has barricaded herself against an intruder.”
—Chelsea Edgar, Seven Days, 2023
Rumble Strip feels like an antidote to “For who? For what?”—the rare kind of documentary art that connects and edifies without bumming us out.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2022
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Gallery of Excellent Listeners
(send me your pic and I’ll add it to the gallery)
Forrest Foster who will never see this picture because he doesn’t have internet. Hardwick, VT
Wendy Morrill, host of MetaPod, lives in Amsterdam, but is REALLY from New Hampshire.
Luke plus axe plus attitude.
An awesome picture of Gary in Minneapolis.
My boy wearing the colors
Willie and Sons! Soon to be Charlotte, Vermont.
Jeremy is a very good drummer.
Sam Wolff, Durham NC!
Someone in Halifax who also happens to be my nephew
David Herman looking GOOD in Brooklyn!
Liam in Ireland looking thoughtfully into the middle distance…
Tristan’s awesome van in Tasmania.
Robin and Jesse at summit of Mt Burns, Fiordland, New Zealand.
Nicola and son. In a tree. In Denmark.
Jesse Dukes frickin bringin it in the Piedmont region of Virginia