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As an adult, Eileen was diagnosed with a learning disability. At StoryCorps, she remembers how she overcame the challenges she faced at work.
Bought by WGUC/ WVXU
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
William’s mother is a chaplain providing spiritual support to seniors and hospice patients. At StoryCorps they discuss how her work affects them both.
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 03:23
This is a story for my son, whose birth was supposed to be completely normal. It was anything but. And then they separated us. (Produced for the KC...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
A father and son talk about working together in an air conditioner repair business that has been in their family for more than half a century.
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 09:24
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 06:03
In recent years it has become more and more common for arrangements to buy and sell sex to be made online and behind closed doors. A lot of the tim...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 06:52
- Purchases: 1
Since 1989, San Francisco has been a sanctuary city -- a place that offers undocumented migrants a chance to start a new life, without the threat o...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 11:40
When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
Enrolling in college at 40 to study art, Sharon Long had no idea an anthropology class would put her on a path to a career as a forensic artist.
Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
Civil rights lawyer Vito de la Cruz grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers. He describes his childhood and the loving aunt who raised him.
Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 5
Barb Abelhauser explains how she quit an office job she hated and became a bridgetender, beginning a career she quickly fell in love with.
Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 2
This week we take you to Nashville for BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS: stories about the blues, jazz, songwriting and a cabin in the woods.
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 59:00
Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
In 1979, Tanya James went to work in the West Virginia coal mines. She came to StoryCorps to share her experiences from those early days.
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WRIR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 6
It's Fiber Arts Week on Area Voices! Producer Alauna Yust took a felting class with fiber artist Patty Lovegreen, and a table full of budding artis...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 06:19
This is the story of Springdale, Arkansas, and how chicken transformed a once-sleepy rural town into the most ethnically diverse city in the state—...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 21:15
- Purchases: 2
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
Marjorie Klindera and Carol Miller have spent the past 30 Thanksgivings answering phone calls about turkey troubles from panicked home cooks.
Bought by WTIP, WUTC, WHYY, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 4
California’s Family Leave Act is a step ahead of the U.S. as a whole, in giving all parents the right to some time off, but it’s complicated. What ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 11:05
- Purchases: 1
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...
Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In this installment of CARGOLAND, Lu Olkowski meets one man who embodies the spirit of the fast-fading waterfront. Morning sunlight streams through...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 30:26
- Purchases: 3
The men and women who load and unload the ships in the harbor belong to one of the last truly strong American unions: the International Longshore a...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 11:57
- Purchases: 3
A profile the pilots who guide container ships... cruise ships and oil tankers... into Long Beach harbor.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 11:31
- Purchases: 2
