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Is there any hope for authenticity? The Dream Journal speaks with Jungian analyst Susan Schwartz who describes her work on the imposter syndrome an...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:03
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Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011, to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. 12 years later, they share the latest ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Not Old Better Show
Katrina Madsen, Community Manager at Ancestry.com for Find a Grave. We learn from Katrina Madsen about the history of Find a Grave, some of the rec...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 39:29
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Companioning the dying through lucid dreams. Our guest shares some of her experiences of psychopompic dreaming.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:14
Caption: The career ladder at her home health agency allowed Serena Maria to go from home health aide to manager of care teams in four years., Credit: Constanza Hevia H. for Tradeoffs
There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse. Could ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:23
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This week we complete our 4 part series on affordable housing for older adults. In this final episode of the series our panel helps us explore how ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2022
  • Length: 26:46
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This week we continue with part 3 of our series on affordable housing for older adults. During this episode our panel informs us about what is bein...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2022
  • Length: 27:25
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This week we continue with part 2 of our series. Our panel discusses what's being done nationally in terms of best practices to make housing more a...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:09
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This week we kick off our third season! We also launch a new four-part series on affordable housing for older adults. During this episode our panel...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:41
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Vending machines for the homeless.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
Caption: Chuck McDermott, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Over the last 40 years, Chuck McDermott has left his musical mark on audiences on both coasts of the United States. Over the last fe...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:28
Caption: Ruth Owens with her grandson, James Taylor, in April of 2019 at their StoryCorps recording in Cookeville, Tennessee., Credit: Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan for StoryCorps.
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
Caption: Joe Newman and Anita Sampson, Credit: ABC Action News
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Caption: An artist's rendition of Jack Roderick and the world's fastest plane, Credit: artist: Nick Ladas
Hunter White talked with his grandfather, Jack Roderick, a veteran of both the U.S. Navy and Air Force who helmed the USS Saratoga as a 20-year-old...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 03:10
Caption: Lee Plaza at one of her organizing meetings, Credit: Photo by Rebecca Ressler
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2019
  • Length: 07:35
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Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 20:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This is the story of the ripple effect of one good deed. John and Olivann Hobbie had always thought of themselves as conscientious when it came to ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:39
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
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Checkers Barker has obsessed over drums and drumming for more than 50 years. In one year – 1979 – he founded a music shop, joined a successful cove...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:17
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Rita Sommers-Flanagan discusses her novel, Boomers. She also reads two short passages.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio Curious revisits a 1997 conversation with whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg who released “The Pentagon Papers” in 1971.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Focus on elderly healthcare research, prostate cancer treatment and fitness.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:13
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Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, Mendocino County's first and only black sheriff, who reflects on race and the impact of Dr. Martin Luther K...

Bought by WHFR and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2