StoryCorps
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
- http://www.storycorps.org
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.
Series
584 Pieces
Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.
- From: StoryCorps
- Updated: Oct 26, 2012
Pieces
In 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver was one of 14 black teens who integrated West High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. At StoryCorps, he spoke about h...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 05:41
Air travel can be a stressful experience for just about anyone. But for 26-year-old Russell Lehmann, a flight delay or cancellation isn’t just a sm...
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 02:37
Kyle Cook and Carla Saunders are neonatal nurse practitioners at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville.
They’ve spent decades caring for...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 19, 2017
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 2
On September 11, 2001, Salman Hamdani was a 23-year-old emergency medical technician, NYPD cadet, and aspiring medical student who rushed to the Wo...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 02:09
StoryCorps gives people the chance to talk to each other about the events that have helped shape who they are. Josh Hanagarne did just that with hi...
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 02:51
You may recall the voice of Dr. William “Lynn” Weaver from a StoryCorps interview he did back in 2007, where he talked about his father, Ted Weaver...
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 03:04
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1990s, Reverend Sylvia Bullock was raising two kids on her own near Washington, D.C. while working and going to college full-time.
Her ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
When Wally Funk was 8 years old, she jumped off the roof of her barn while wearing a Superman cape, hoping to fly. That desire never left her, and ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 02:32
Father Noel Hickie was working as a hospital chaplain when he met Marcia Hilton, a bereavement counselor, at a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. For 25 y...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Aug 01, 2017
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 1