StoryCorps

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What's StoryCorps about?

Stories of the human heart. A candid, unscripted conversation between two people about what's really important in life: love, loss, family, friendship. When the world seems out of hand, tune in to StoryCorps and be reminded of the things that matter most.

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EXTRA: Living Life For Them

05.29.2023

On this short Memorial Day episode, we'll hear from Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, an Iraq War veteran who lost every other member of his 12-man squad.

StoryCorps episodes:

05.29.2023 EXTRA: Living Life For Them On this short Memorial Day episode, we'll hear from Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, an Iraq War veteran who lost every other member of his 12-man squad.
05.14.2023 EXTRA: Grandma's Hands On this short Mother's Day episode, Madzimoyo Owusu came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, to honor the memory of the woman who helped shape her life.
12.20.2022 EXTRA: The Santa Tracker On this extra holiday episode, Terri Van Keuren, Richard Shoup and Pamela Farrell remember how their father, Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup, started the holiday tradition of tracking Santa Claus on U.S. military radar in 1955. donate.storycorps.org/podcast
12.13.2022 The Voice For My Song What happens when paralyzing fear stops you from following your dream? In our final episode of the season...Jim Von Stein has written 8000 songs, but almost nobody has heard a single one of them...until now...
12.09.2022 SPECIAL: Remembering Lloyd Newman of Ghetto Life 101 In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary they called Ghetto Life 101, one of the ...
12.06.2022 The Last Patients In the second part of our Kalaupapa story, we hear how people exiled from society reconnected with family – and found a new community. donate.storycorps.org/podcast
11.29.2022 A Dangerous Word In this two-part special, we remember a community of forgotten people cast out to a remote Hawaiian island. http://donate.storycorps.org/podcast
11.22.2022 One Who Is Understanding Family names bind one generation to the next. But what if that name is lost? In this episode, a grieving family learns their legacy is being kept alive by a stranger from far away.
11.15.2022 Seeing the Future In You We usually lean on our elders for wisdom and support... but sometimes it's the other way around. In this episode, we hear from queer men who found acceptance in one another.
11.08.2022 You're My Memory Capt. Helen Perry talks with her husband, Sgt. Matthew Perry, about the impacts of Matthew's memory loss – and their enduring love.
11.01.2022 Everything In Between In this episode, we share one couple's story of love and loss under the weight of substance abuse – told through different recordings, twelve years apart.
10.25.2022 Ripples of Hate In 2012, StoryCorps broadcast a conversation with a young woman involved in the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, a Black man in Portland, Oregon. A decade later, we revisit it to look at the ripples of racist violence, and a few ...
10.19.2022 The Things We Carry On this season of the StoryCorps Podcast, stories of the stigmas we carry, and how it feels when we set them down.
09.05.2022 EXTRA: Back Of The Laundromat On this short Labor Day episode, we'll hear from sisters Suzi and Donna Wong about growing up in the back of their parents' laundry business in Hollywood, CA.
08.16.2022 EXTRA: The People That Nurtured Me Growing up in the 1950s in Montgomery, AL., Rev. Farrell Duncombe or "Little Farrell," as he was known by his family and friends, had a mischievous side. In this short episode, he remembers the day he got called out by ...
07.19.2022 EXTRA: More Than Enough Love Growing up in the 1960s, all of the neighborhood kids wanted to be at Mary Mills' house. In this short extra, she tells her mother why.
06.24.2022 EXTRA: When I Was 16 In this short bonus episode, we'll hear fromMs. Betty Thompson on what led her to work at the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.
06.21.2022 It All Starts With A Song Everyone's heard of James Brown and Stevie Wonder, but how about the women who helped make them who they are? For our last episode of this season, we'll get to know the unsung icons behind some of the most iconic ...
06.14.2022 Worthy In Their Own Beauty This year marks two big anniversaries that helped change the world of sports and society. We'll hear from some of the people who were a part of these groundbreaking moments.
06.07.2022 Fellow Travelers In 2018, Tennille Moore got some bad news and was crying in a public restroom. That's when Mumtaz Champsi stepped in and asked her if she'd like to take a walk. In this episode, we'll hear about how that walk ...
05.31.2022 Horses And Helicopters In this episode, we head to the streets of South Central Los Angeles to meet a helper on horseback.
05.24.2022 So They're Not Forgotten With Memorial Day weekend coming up, we're thinking about sacrifice, and the bonds that form between people who literally go through war together; on the battlefield and at home.
05.17.2022 A Neighbor's Promise Several years ago, Jennifer Hidrogo made a promise to her neighbor. In this episode, she shares how that simple act resulted in her gaining three more children and finding her calling.
05.10.2022 The Beginning And The End In this episode, we'll hear about two people who help during the most important moments of our lives: when we're brought into the world and when we leave it.
05.03.2022 In The Comments A few months ago, we asked our listeners one question. We then received hundreds of responses that made even our most hardened producers tear up. In this episode, find out what that question was and how it inspired our new ...
04.26.2022 The Littlest Things This season of the StoryCorps Podcast is all about the helpers around us. It drops May 3rd.
02.14.2022 Three's Company Neil Kramer and his ex-wife Sophia Lansky talk about their unique quarantine experience together.
01.25.2022 You Can Fall, Just Don't Stay There In 1993, Los Angeles County firefighter Derek Bart saved a child from a house fire in Santa Clarita, CA. In our last episode of the season, we'll hear three different perspectives on that night, and how they all intersect nearly ...
01.18.2022 Finding Where You Fit All season long, we've heard from trailblazers at the top of their game in every field. In this episode, we mean that literally. We'll hear from three different athletes who shook things up on the baseball field and on the ...
01.11.2022 We Go Up Together, Or We Go Down Together On this week's episode, we're remembering the final hours of Dr. King's life through the experiences of some of the people who were there at the time.
01.04.2022 Sign Me Up In this episode, Jeanine Menze and La'Shanda Holmes talk about becoming the first and second Black female pilots in the U.S. Coast Guard, what led them to the military, and ultimately, each other.
12.28.2021 Go To The Clouds On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, how three kids who once dreamed of outer space grew up to make their mark beyond Earth's atmosphere.
12.21.2021 When Santas Stormed Macy's At the height of the AIDS crisis, Mark Woodley disclosed his HIV status and lost his job as a Macy's Santa Claus. In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, Mark speaks with his friend Jon Winkleman about the moment they ...
12.14.2021 La Música En Mi On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we'll share the lesser known stories behind some popular songs, and how two families are honoring the musicians behind them.
12.07.2021 Men of The Ages In this episode, we focus on the lives and achievements of two Black men who conducted groundbreaking medical research in the 1940's — as told by the people they mentored.
12.01.2021 Paving Pathways The StoryCorps Podcast returns with new episodes, featuring stories of courage from people who blazed a path, defied the odds, and changed history for those who came after them.
11.23.2021 Pass the Plate, Pass the Mic In this episode, we're encouraging people all across the country to record a conversation with a loved one or someone they admire over Thanksgiving weekend. By featuring several intergenerational conversations, we hope to show just how easy it can be ...
10.05.2021 Just Doing Our Best Scientists Zoe Courville and Lora Koenig work to study the impact of climate change — which pulls them away from their children for weeks at a time. In our last episode of the season, they share some hard-earned wisdom with ...
09.28.2021 The Collision Course In this week's episode, how worlds that quite literally collided, led to unexpected friendships and new career paths.
09.21.2021 Everything Together In this episode, how kids and their parents — who have navigated many changes together — are facing the next big change apart.
09.14.2021 Every Seed Your Mother Sowed When Ileana Watson died, her daughter Sada was just about to become a mom herself. Three years later, Sada sat down with Ileana's best friend, Angela Morehead-Mugita, to learn more about her late-mother.
09.11.2021 To Me, Every Day Is Yesterday: Remembering 9/11 As we mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 — memories of Richard Palazzolo, who didn't make it out of the Twin Towers that day — told by his identical twin brother who did.
09.10.2021 From StoryCorps and Consider This: The Lasting Toll Of 9/11 In this episode of the podcast, StoryCorps teamed up with NPR's daily afternoon podcast, Consider This, to bring you stories from some of the people whose lives were forever changed by September 11th and its aftermath.
08.31.2021 What I Would Say In this episode, we remember Army Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, the first American soldier to be killed in combat during the War in Afghanistan.
08.24.2021 Growing Pains In this episode, we'll hear conversations between family members who have mended and grown their relationships over time.
08.17.2021 Stronger Than Ever In this week's episode, how a father-daughter relationship rebounded after years of periodic estrangement.
08.10.2021 Joy On Saint James Place In this episode, how one family's socially-distant block party brought a neighborhood together during the pandemic.
08.04.2021 Finding Our Way Back On an all new season of the StoryCorps podcast, we're bringing you stories about what it's like to find new footing, and begin again.
03.02.2021 Carrying The Weight On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, how one man's decision to forgive the man who murdered his son brought two families together.
02.16.2021 Local Treasures On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we're sharing stories from people who bring their whole heart to the place they live, and help create a feeling of home for everyone around them.

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StoryCorps episodes:

EXTRA: Living Life For Them

EXTRA: Grandma's Hands

EXTRA: The Santa Tracker

The Voice For My Song

SPECIAL: Remembering Lloyd Newman of Ghetto Life 101

The Last Patients

A Dangerous Word

One Who Is Understanding

Seeing the Future In You

You're My Memory

Everything In Between

Ripples of Hate

The Things We Carry

EXTRA: Back Of The Laundromat

EXTRA: The People That Nurtured Me

EXTRA: More Than Enough Love

EXTRA: When I Was 16

It All Starts With A Song

Worthy In Their Own Beauty

Fellow Travelers

Horses And Helicopters

So They're Not Forgotten

A Neighbor's Promise

The Beginning And The End

In The Comments

The Littlest Things

Three's Company

You Can Fall, Just Don't Stay There

Finding Where You Fit

We Go Up Together, Or We Go Down Together

Sign Me Up

Go To The Clouds

When Santas Stormed Macy's

La Música En Mi

Men of The Ages

Paving Pathways

Pass the Plate, Pass the Mic

Just Doing Our Best

The Collision Course

Everything Together

Every Seed Your Mother Sowed

To Me, Every Day Is Yesterday: Remembering 9/11

From StoryCorps and Consider This: The Lasting Toll Of 9/11

What I Would Say

Growing Pains

Stronger Than Ever

Joy On Saint James Place

Finding Our Way Back

Carrying The Weight

Local Treasures

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