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Questions I Wish I’d Asked My Parents

Questions I Wish I’d Asked My Parents

Written by: Mel Foster
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Every episode of Questions I Wish I’d Asked My Parents features a guest with several impressive accomplishments – and one nagging question. No matter the books published, the patients cured, or the corporate ladders climbed, once we have lost our parents we realize how many things we left unasked. Our host, Mel Foster, a veteran interviewer and owner of Your Video Memoir and his co-host, Dr. Jeffrey London, is a retired child psychiatrist. Together they probe the question each guest wishes he or she had asked. Aiming not necessarily for an answer, but instead for an acceptance of one’s self as a son or daughter with an unresolved connection to a beloved parent.

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Episodes
  • "What Gave You Joy?"

    "What Gave You Joy?"
    Jun 9 2026

    In the sixth episode of Questions I Wish I'd Asked My Parents we meet Kathy O'Brien who has been a success at a range of roles from on-air reporter, to owner of a production company, to author. An overachiever, Kathy wanted to ask both of her parents the question about what made them happy.
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    34 mins
  • "Tell Me More About the Uncle I Never Met"

    "Tell Me More About the Uncle I Never Met"
    May 4 2026

    In episode 5 of Questions I Wish I'd Asked My Parents we meet Jack Billi, a retired physician and associate dean at the University of Michigan. Jack's father's older brother died in Italy at the end of World War II. He never spoke much about him to Jack. But Jack has a curiosity about many things in life. And, in pursuit of his uncle's story, he and his dad even traveled to a small town in Italy well off the beaten track. But...we'll let Jack tell it.
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    36 mins
  • "Dad, You Were So Talented."

    "Dad, You Were So Talented."
    Apr 9 2026

    In Episode 4 of Questions I Wish I'd Asked My Parents we meet Mike Zadoorian, author of several novels including The Leisure Seeker, which was made into a motion picture featuring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. Mike, who is obviously talented, wonders why his dad, a talented photographer, gave up on his aspirations.
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    33 mins
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