Documentaries

Based on a True Story

What can someone else's true story help us discover about our own?

Documentaries, biopics, memoirs: some true stories stay with us long after they end. Guests share the ones that changed how they see themselves, and what a stranger's life revealed about their own choices and blind spots. Each Season Two episode brings a small group of people with different lived experiences to one table in Amesbury to explore this question over an unscripted, hours-long conversation.

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A microphone at the table inside The Unscripted Room, with the glowing Unscripted Room sign against the brick behind

One table. Four seats.

Bring the experience behind your answer.

You do not need a polished point of view. The room is interested in what you have lived, what shaped you, and what you are still working out.

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