Npr: Storycorps

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At recording booths across America, everyday people interview one another about their lives. StoryCorps creator Dave Isay showcases these first-person stories in this weekly podcast. StoryCorps airs Fridays on NPR's Morning Edition. (Author: StoryCorps)
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Recent episodes from Npr: Storycorps

  • Published: Sep 12, 08
    Joseph Natale tells his son Greg about raising three children after the death of his wife. To hear more stories visit http://storycorps.net
     
  • Published: Sep 5, 08
    10 year-old Frankie DeVito remembers his grandfather, Bill Steckman, in an interview with his mother Diana. Bill Steckman was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11th.StoryCorps and the National September 11th Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center have partnered to record stories for each of the lives lost in the terrorist attacks. For more information, visit http://storycorps.net.
     
  • Published: Aug 29, 08
    This week's story comes from Ray Martinez. Days after Martinez was born in 1952, he was sent to an orphanage in Denver, Colorado. When he came to StoryCorps he talked about what it was like to grow up there...To hear more stories visit http://storycorps.net
     
  • Published: Aug 22, 08
    In this episode, the story of a family business. Nearly thirty years ago, Joe Spano Senior moved from Brooklyn to Texas. He wanted to try his hand in the oil business. When an oil bust in the mid 80s left him out of a job, Joe decided to open a small Italian restaurant in Abilene.
     
  • Published: Aug 15, 08
    In this episode we hear from Ileana Smith and her father, Gustavo Mestas.She was ten years old when their family fled Cuba.He was a doctor there.At StoryCorps they talked about coming to the U-S — a journey that happened forty-five years ago this month.
     
  • Published: Aug 8, 08
    Tom Domingue, who had polio as a child, tells his wife Dotty, about the unexpected challenge he faced coming home from hospital.
     
  • Published: Aug 1, 08
    Robert Madden grew up in Mississippi during the 1960s. He was close to both of his parents and could talk to them about anything. One topic in particular kept them talking for years...
     
  • Published: Jul 25, 08
    In this episode, 90-year-old James Lacy talks about another time of economic hardship in this country. Lacy is originally from Sidney, Texas, a crossroads in Comanche county. While he was growing up there in the 1920s and 30s, his father ran a general store in town. And at StoryCorps in Abilene, Texas, Lacy remembers working with his dad.
     
  • Published: Jul 18, 08
    87-year-old Kay Wang doesn't pull any punches as she tells her granddaughter, Chen, and her son, Cheng, about her childhood. Just weeks after their conversation at StoryCorps, Kay Wang died of cancer. In a separate interview, her son, Cheng, and granddaughter, Chen fondly remember their vibrant and strong-willed grandmother.
     
  • Published: Jul 11, 08
    Mark Sullivan had a smokin' summer job. During the 1950s Sullivan was growing up in central Connecticut at a time when the state was the producing huge amounts of shade leaf tobacco. In this episode, Sullivan remembers working those fields...
     
  • Published: Jul 4, 08
    When you come to do an interview at StoryCorps, we provide you with a list of questions. But 12-year-old Joshua Littman chose not to use them. Joshua has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. And when he sat down to interview his mother, Sarah, the questions he asked kept her on her toes...
     
  • Published: Jun 27, 08
    As a young woman, Betty Jenkins didn't have many curves. So her mother decided to give her something to boost her confidence.At StoryCorps in Ohio, Betty Jenkins told her niece Kelly Lin about that gift.
     
  • Published: Jun 20, 08
    In Washington its usually the politicians that get to do all the talking. But when StoryCorps launched its national tour in D.C. in 2005, our first interview was between two guys from South Buffalo. In this episode, the late journalist, Tim Russert, interviews his friend James T. Malloy, a second generation firefighter, and a former doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.
     
  • Published: Jun 13, 08
    In the 1930s, Celedonia "Cal" Jones was living in Harlem with his family. When Cal was 9 years old, his family moved to a new block. And as he told his friend Robert Harris, he quickly learned how the neighborhood worked...
     
  • Published: Jun 6, 08
    Ram?n "Chunky" S?nchez grew up in a small farming town in Blythe, California during the 1950's. In this episode, Ram?n remembers being called by another name (it wasn't Chunky) in elementary school.