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StoryCorps Griot: Reverend Eric Williams and Jannette Berkley-Patton

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Reverend Eric Williams tells his co-worker Jannette Berkley-Patton about his first experience with AIDS.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU

Added: Nov 30, 2012
Length: 02:08
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps Griot: Charlie Morris and Sylvester Lewis

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW

Added: Oct 16, 2012
Length: 01:46
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps: Wil and Olivia Smith

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Wil Smith tells his daughter, Olivia, about being a single dad in college.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jun 18, 2012
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 3

StoryCorps NTI: Ayodeji Ogunniyi

From: StoryCorps

Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW

Added: Dec 27, 2011
Length: 02:15
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps Griot: Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop

From: StoryCorps

Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 02:16
Purchases: 3

Kelly Starling Lyons, author of "Ellen's Broom"

From: Eileen Heyes

Kelly Starling Lyons talks about her two new picture books, which draw on African-American history but tell stories that transcend any cultural bou...

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 04:51

StoryCorps Griot: Mary Morris

From: StoryCorps

Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.

Bought by WEZU

Added: Oct 13, 2011
Length: 02:16
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps Griot: Earl and Ashley Reynolds

From: StoryCorps

Earl Reynolds Jr. tells his daughter, Ashley, about meeting James Brown at his father's barbershop in Roanoke, Virginia.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WEZU, Delta College Public Radio, and KUOW

Added: Sep 28, 2011
Length: 02:40
Purchases: 4

StoryCorps Griot: Ellaraino and Baki AnNur

From: StoryCorps

72-year-old Ellaraino tells her friend Baki AnNur about meeting her great-grandmother for the first time.

Bought by WEZU

Added: Sep 27, 2011
Length: 02:22
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps Griot: George and Katie Robinson

From: StoryCorps

George Robinson tells his daughter, Katie, about meeting his biological father after searching for more than 40 years.

Bought by WEZU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW

Added: Aug 15, 2011
Length: 02:21
Purchases: 3

StoryCorps Griot: Mary Johnson

From: StoryCorps

Mary Johnson speaks with Oshea Israel, who killed her son in 1993.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, and KUOW

Added: May 25, 2011
Length: 03:03
Purchases: 4

StoryCorps Griot: Ron and Pepper Miller

From: StoryCorps

Pepper and Ron Miller talk about what led to their divorce.

Bought by WEZU

Added: Mar 07, 2011
Length: 02:04
Purchases: 1

A mother's interview

From: Nurudeen Titilope

A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

Added: Feb 25, 2009
Length: 04:49

A Musician's Life: C.J. Chenier ( the prince of Zydeco music)

From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life

As a young sax player, C.J. Chenier planned to pursue a career in jazz. Then his father Zydeco great Clifton Chenier, recruited his son to play in...

Bought by WGDR

Added: Nov 20, 2008
Length: 05:00
Purchases: 1

Moving up the Income Class: Crystal Patterson

From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus

Fifty hours a week, at the University of Washington Medical Center ER, Crystal Patterson is so busy that she barely has time to go to the bathroom....

Added: Jul 30, 2008
Length: 08:55

For Valentine's Day ... Trudy Pitts and "Mr C," in their own words

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words