StoryCorps

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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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12.05.2023

Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011 to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. In the latest episode from our special series celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we'll share updates on a conversation none of us ...

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12.05.2023 StoryCorps Then and Now: Mother Mary Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011 to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. In the latest episode from our special series celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we'll share updates on a conversation none of us ...
11.28.2023 StoryCorps Then and Now: Family Pride StoryCorps' initiatives have long helped us gather voices that are usually omitted from the historical record, like our LGBTQ+ Outloud initiative. In our continuing celebration of twenty years of StoryCorps, we're sharing some of our favorite recordings from that collection... ...
11.21.2023 StoryCorps Then and Now: Beyond the Booth For most of StoryCorps' existence, we've recorded people in person at our storybooths. But on this episode of our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps, we're looking back to when we stepped outside the recording booth to capture stories. ...
11.14.2023 StoryCorps Then and Now: The Griot of Knoxville As we celebrate StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we bring you the story of a man who integrated his high school as a teenager in Knoxville, Tennessee, and how a StoryCorps listener comment helped him reckon with his past five decades later.
11.07.2023 StoryCorps Then and Now: On the Road In the third episode of our special series celebrating two decades of StoryCorps, we're bringing you inside the Mobile Booth—the recording studio we built in a trailer to circle the country, capturing voices that would otherwise never be recorded. Hear ...
10.31.2023 StoryCorps Then and Now: Love Letters As we continue celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we bring you two of our favorite stories that made a strong impression on our listeners, and we share updates with the participants from the last two decades.
10.24.2023 StoryCorps Then and Now: StoryCorps is Born In this episode, we go back 20 years to the origins of StoryCorps–the challenges of building a recording booth in Grand Central Terminal– and we catch up with the participants from the first ever radio story we broadcast on NPR.
09.26.2023 EXTRA: Why I'm On This Earth As StoryCorps' 20th anniversary approaches, we'll be looking back at important moments both in our history and the country's. This week — one more short story from our Military Voices Initiative. Sergeant Ocean Subiono tells his father, Russell Subiono, about ...
09.19.2023 EXTRA: The Kids From North Baghdad In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, StoryCorps will be revisiting some of our most memorable conversations from the past two decades. This week, we announce an upcoming special series with this short story from our Military Voices Initiative.
08.01.2023 Living for the Dead There are people who help us at every stage of life –– from the moment we're born to our last breath. But at the end, who's helping us when we're gone? On the season finale of the StoryCorps Podcast, twin ...
07.25.2023 Same Train, Different Tracks When a train ride to work veers into a life or death situation, two strangers become an important part of each other's lives.
07.18.2023 To Speak Up 50 years ago, most of the nation was glued to "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings that would uncover major abuses of power by the Nixon administration. In this episode – how a decision to speak up blew the ...
07.11.2023 The Long Way Home Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and her partner Felipa Deleon grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In this episode, they share the long and sometimes painful journey of fighting for their love, their community, and their ancestors...all while ...
07.04.2023 Seeing The Way Jason Romero was given a serious diagnosis. But to stop running from it he'd have to do something no one had ever done before.
06.27.2023 Thank God For Coney Island In 1920, a father made a split-second decision to save his newborn's life by taking her to an incubator exhibit at Coney Island. We meet her in this episode, and she shares how a sideshow attraction saved her life, and ...
06.20.2023 A Lasting Shot In 1968, just moments after Robert F. Kennedy was shot, a young photographer for The Los Angeles Times — Boris Yaro — captured the scene in an image that's haunted the nation ever since. In this episode of the StoryCorps ...
06.13.2023 In Safe Hands Rabbi Philip Lazowski remembers a quick decision that saved his life during the Holocaust.
06.08.2023 Turning Points This season on the StoryCorps Podcast from NPR, eight stories about eight moments that changed everything.
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.

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StoryCorps episodes:

StoryCorps Then and Now: Mother Mary

StoryCorps Then and Now: Family Pride

StoryCorps Then and Now: Beyond the Booth

StoryCorps Then and Now: The Griot of Knoxville

StoryCorps Then and Now: On the Road

StoryCorps Then and Now: Love Letters

StoryCorps Then and Now: StoryCorps is Born

EXTRA: Why I'm On This Earth

EXTRA: The Kids From North Baghdad

Living for the Dead

Same Train, Different Tracks

To Speak Up

The Long Way Home

Seeing The Way

Thank God For Coney Island

A Lasting Shot

In Safe Hands

Turning Points

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

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