Focus: Adults in the Room

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• Adults in the Room: Bad Apples 07.04.2026 37хв

  A surprise archival interview with a former Garfield High School principal reveals that teacher abuse was more pervasive than Tom Hudson.
• Adults in the Room: The Boy in the Photograph 31.03.2026 30хв

  Isolde discovers a mystery student’s identity from 1994 and interviews him about his time with Tom Hudson.
• Adults in the Room: The Bet 24.03.2026 32хв

  Ella and Isolde, as adults, start investigating the question of Hudson’s guilt. To start their inquiry, Isolde digs out an envelope containing the school district's records on Hudson, which she requested and received shortly after graduating from college.
• Adults in the Room: Jonathan 17.03.2026 40хв

  One of the students who was closest to Hudson, Jonathan Hill, spends the weeks after his teacher's death trying to ensure his reputation and legacy go untarnished by the allegations that led to his suspension that school year.  But secretly, Jonathan is still reeling from the weeks before Tom's death.
• Adults in the Room: Blame the Messenger 10.03.2026 35хв

  The school district sends an investigator to Garfield to look into the allegations against Tom Hudson. Isolde and Ella wonder if they did the right thing.
• Adults in the Room: The Price of Belief 03.03.2026 40хв

  Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student.
• Adults in the Room: Mounting Danger 24.02.2026 33хв

  In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympic National Park. Six of his teenage students then pull off a daring rescue.
• Coming Soon: Adults in the Room (Trailer) 03.02.2026 2хв

  The production team behind Lost Patients returns on February 24 with a new investigative series: Adults in the Room. Seattle, 1999. At Garfield High School, Mr. Hudson is a legend. With a thundering voice and imposing stature, Mr. Hudson — or “Tom” as select students call him — teaches biology and leads an elite outdoors program. But when teen reporters at the school paper start exploring a rumor that he sexually abused students, all hell breaks loose. Adults close ranks, and schoolmates turn on the young journalists. And then one day, a voice on the school intercom announces that Mr. Hudson is dead. Isolde Raftery is one of the students who first heard about and reported allegations against Mr. Hudson. Three decades later, she is an investigative journalist in Seattle. In Adults in the Room, Raftery re-reports the story to understand what really happened in 1999. Was a whole school community groomed by a charismatic predator? Or was she part of a whisper campaign that cost the life of a great teacher?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
• Lost Patients Live: First-Person Stories from Seattle's Mental Health Crisis 26.06.2024 54хв

  Lost Patients compares the system for treating mental illness in America to an elaborate house, where every room, hallway and staircase was designed independently by a different architect. So what is it like to be shuttled from room to room? What sorts of tradeoffs are doctors working within this system forced to make every day? And what might it look like to design care around the needs of patients?KUOW and the Seattle Times convened a forum at the Seattle Public Library to hear perspectives and answer questions. Featured guests included: Laura Van Tosh, patient advocate and founder and convener of Mental Health Policy Roundtable Carolynn Ponzoha, patient advocate and content creator who goes by @psychotic.in.seattle on TikTok Timothy Jolliff, acting senior director of clinical programs at the Downtown Emergency Service Center in Seattle Dr. Paul Borghesani, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine You can find resources for people with mental illness and related stories from The Seattle Times and KUOW here: https://www.seattletimes.com/component/lost-patients-podcast/https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/lost-patientsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
• Lost Patients: Disease Without Knowledge 23.04.2024 50хв

  "Something is preventing us from building a system that works for people with serious mental illness. In lieu of that, patients are often left to improvise recovery for themselves. They learn to live with their inner voices and build their own support structures. Can their stories give us insight into what a functioning system of psychiatric care might look like — and what might be getting in the way? You can find resources for people with mental illness and related stories from The Seattle Times and KUOW here:https://www.seattletimes.com/component/lost-patients-podcast/https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/lost-patientsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
• Lost Patients: The Way Out 09.04.2024 53хв

  After 10 months at Washington State's largest psychiatric hospital, Adam Aurand is discharged onto the streets of downtown Seattle — ejected into a world shaped by decades of deinstitutionalization and failure to build community-based mental health care. His mother rushes to save him before he gets pulled back into the "churn." A Seattle Times reporter tries to pinpoint where the discharge process failed — and the investigation leads her to new conclusions about the limitations of psychiatric care in the U.S.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
• Lost Patients: Opening 02.04.2024 46хв

  In the middle of the last century, a movement to free patients from state-run psychiatric hospitals swept the U.S. This movement — deinstitutionalization — is widely blamed for seriously mentally ill people ending up on the streets. The real story goes much deeper than a loss of psychiatric hospital beds. It's about how incentives and decisions half a century created the dysfunction many people with serious mental illness are lost in today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
• Lost Patients: Nostalgia 26.03.2024 47хв

  After Carrie Davidson learned that her great-grandmother died in a psychiatric hospital, she spent years tracking down details of her life there. Was the asylum a refuge? Or a prison? This earlier era hangs like a shadow over our approach to care today. We peer into horror and nostalgia that surrounds our societal memories of these mental institutions — and try to sort out which narrative is true.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
• Lost Patients: Against Their Will 19.03.2024 42хв

  Across the U.S., efforts are underway to make it easier to involuntarily commit people to psychiatric hospitals. It's a reaction to the sight of seriously mentally ill people on the streets and the cries of families who say it's too hard to get a loved one help when they're in crisis. But this gets at one of the most delicate questions our society has faced: When does our belief about what's best for someone override someone's right to decide for themselves?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
• Lost Patients: Churn 12.03.2024 47хв

  Heidi Aurand has watched her son Adam spiral from one psychiatric crisis to the next for about eight years, bouncing between emergency rooms, jails, and homelessness. Now, after treatment at the state's largest psychiatric hospital, Adam was just released back onto the streets of downtown Seattle. A mother asks: How could her son pass through so many institutions and none are able to stop his decline?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.