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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...
- Added: Feb 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...
- Added: Feb 06, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Alexei Romanoff tells his husband, David Farah, about a mentor who taught him to be proud of who he was.
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 03:12
Oral History project about the Three Mile Island partial-meltdown.
- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 4
Charisse Spencer tells her teenage son Myles what it was like integrating her elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia in the 1960s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 17, 2018
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In the very soil of the surrounding mountains of Tucson and within the city boundaries lays an age-old history of this local tribe and this story i...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 36:27
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 52:00
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 1
We’ll hear music inspired from events on September 11, as well as some of the composers on this episode of What’s New!
Bought by WRTI, KMUN, Interlochen Public Radio, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 11
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Emily Dickinson about her life and times. She speaks to us from the person of actress Wendy Norris.
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 29:01
In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
On June 24, 1973, an intentionally set fire tore through a New Orleans gay bar killing 32. Rev. Troy Perry came to StoryCorps to recall the aftermath.
Bought by Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and WRIR
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 3
A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 20:25
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
SPECIAL NOW AVAILABLE -- Please purchase and download the program files from the PRX piece linked in the description below.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 2
Host, Richard Hadlock investigates performances by some of Jazz's greatest dramatic players while connecting their performances with that of the Gr...
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 57:55
The San Francisco Bay Area Jazz scene is a special place known for its diversity and camaraderie among its musicians. Host, Richard Hadlock samples...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 01:01:51
Musical Instruments referred to by musicians as "Axes" are investigated. Often home made or manufactured there are hundreds of instruments. Host, R...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 02:02:36
Host, Richard Hadlock explores the players of yesteryear who showed immense talent as teenagers. Musicians, Jabbo Smith, Mary Lou Williams and Gene...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 59:43
What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
Consider Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl in the segregated city of...
Bought by KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 5
Here's a little fact about Les Paul that you might not know: rock icon Steve Miller is Les Paul's godson. In this hour, Steve talks about his memor...
Bought by WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Radio New Zealand, KHNS, KMUN and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 26
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
Yankee pride, shoot-outs, and an eclectic square dance hall. The story of Ed Thrall’s Hall is a drama made for the big screen, that took place in t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 14:40
Thompson Williams talks about his father's legacy with his son, Kiamichi-tet Williams.
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 6