Karen Duffin
Producer/reporter (episode producer) who narrates the Cold War story about the Phantom Orchestra and conducts interviews recounting the mission and its aftermath.
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Feb 6, 2026 • 23min
Coded music
Karen Duffin, producer/reporter who narrates the Cold War Phantom Orchestra mission, and Meryl Goldberg, conservatory-trained saxophonist who encoded messages into music. They recount a covert 1985 trip to Moscow, training in evasion, turning sheet music into code, clandestine concerts under surveillance, and the risky smuggling of stories out of the USSR.
