PRX - Pieces for Topic: Senior
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Best friends Greg Klatkiewicz and Gary “Zooks” Bezucha came to StoryCorps to look back on their memories as classmates, wingmen and lifelong friends.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
In 1971 George Ju was working as a chef and running a Miami restaurant. One fateful night he met Angela Rivas, and in less than two weeks they were...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Mar 24, 2021
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
84-year-old musician William Salter tells his granddaughter, Jada, how he first found his sound, and what their relationship means to him.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 1
81-year-old Navy veteran Joseph Patton remembers his service and the discrimination he faced as a gay man in the 1950s.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
We're staying with the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania for a conversation with another artist. This time it's a nun living according to the spir...
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 06:07
A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we heard from 90-year-old Kenneth Felts, a man who amidst quarantine, decided it was time to confront a tr...
- Added: Dec 13, 2020
- Length: 02:20
Two Italian women living in San Francisco compare their experiences during the pandemic.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 15, 2020
- Length: 13:20
- Purchases: 1
Feeling isolated during the pandemic, Jinny Savolainen sought to connect with her neighbors. Using StoryCorps Connect, she created a collection of ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 02:55
In the late 1950s, Kenneth Felts met the love of his life, Phillip. But he kept their relationship a secret for more than 60 years. It wasn’t until...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WERA-LP
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 2
Lillian Bloodworth speaks with her husband, John Bloodworth, about why she spent nearly half her life donating blood.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 01:54
- Purchases: 1
Ruth Owens tells her grandson, James Taylor, about the four decades she worked as a nurse in rural Tennessee.
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 02:07
Topic 1: A pediatrician who promotes public health awareness through writing for TV shows. Topic 2: The risk of suicide among seniors is a growing ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2020
- Length: 49:32
104-year-old Gil Seltzer speaks with his granddaughter, Sarah Seltzer, about what it was like to be part of a top-secret deception unit in World Wa...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 02:59
Joel and Julia Helfman remember how they became friends -- and how that friendship blossomed into a decades-long love story.
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Aug 08, 2019
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 1
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
Old friends Jeanne Satterfield and Barbara Parham talk about how their unexpected reunion in a shelter led them closer to home.
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 01:47
Jonathan Bogarín talks processing grief, autopsying clothing,and blending cultures.
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 19:30
Shlomo Avni devoted the last few years of his life to a fight to be buried the way he wanted. Although, buried isn't quite the word - he wanted his...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2018
- Length: 22:00
- Purchases: 1
Sky Bergman talks wise words, forgotten history, and living life to the limit.
- Added: May 08, 2018
- Length: 17:42
Dr. Samuel Harrington, MD, is the author of At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life. He argues the case for taking a clear-eyed yet compa...
- Added: Feb 15, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Military war veterans John Banvard (100) and Jerry Nadeau (72) live in a veterans home for seniors in Southern California. At StoryCorps, they talk...
Bought by KALW, Radio Catskill, WCQS, and WEZU
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 4
The scene could be a bleak one — a hospital room, a patient near death, and no family or loved ones present during their final moments. But David W...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
John Carroll Lynch talks souls, the five longevities, and the special light that Harry Dean Stanton radiated.
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 17:45
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
