StoryCorps

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StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

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583 Pieces

Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.


Pieces

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Jeff Wilson sits down with his former high school classmate Tammie Baird to talk about when he accidentally hit her with his car in 1984.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Nine-year-old Aidan Sykes interviews his father, Albert Sykes, about being a dad.

Bought by WEZU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Rick Abath tells his wife, Diana, about being the night security guard at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the biggest art heist in ...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 3
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Kevin Berthia talks with retired California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Briggs. They met the day Berthia tried to end his life by jumping off the ...

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Just a few years ago, 18-year-old Noah McQueen was struggling in school, had been arrested multiple times, and spent time in juvenile detention. Bu...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Bill Jones, the first single man in California to successfully adopt a child, tells his friend Stu Maddux about his son, Aaron.

Bought by KRVS, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Yusor Abu-Salha (R), one of the victims of the tragic shooting in Chapel Hill, recorded a StoryCorps interview last year. Here, she talks with Muss...

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 2
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Frank Scott remembers his father, Wendell Scott, who recently became the first African American driver in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Colleen Kelly Starkloff (R) talks to her daughter, Meaghan Starkloff Breitenstein (L), about the day she met her late husband Max Starkloff.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 3
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Darlene Lewis, who helps former inmates find employment, interviews James Taylor about his life after prison.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 5