Inside Stories

We asked listeners to record and send us their stories related to Covid-19 and this time of social distancing. Jasmine Banks shares her story of being part of a 5 generation family in Madison and how through her daily walks during Covid-19 she is rediscovering Madison. Kerry Schumann shares her Get Out The Vote story when Wisconsin held its election during a Pandemic. Timothy Yu reads a poem he wrote about this election. Vivek Balasubramaniam shares a story about his experience as a resident physician.

We asked some of our favorite storytellers to record and send us their stories related to Covid-19 and this time of social distancing. Ann Garvin shares her family's story of four generations of nurses and the advice she gives to her daughter, a brand new ICU nurse. Darian Wilson takes advantage of this unexpected time at home to share his love of music with his young son.

We asked our previously featured storytellers to record and send us their stories related to this time of social distancing. Brendon Panke (episode 2), Linda Hedenblad (episode 19), and Marisol Gonzalez (episode 3) all submitted a story for this first Covid-19 episode. Angela Trudell Vasquez (Madison's poet laureate) shared her poem, Fragments in Time.

Wilson Seely shares a story about being adopted and his process of deepening his understanding of what it means to be a family. We talk with Wilson about how being a middle school teacher has made him a better storyteller.

Sich Slone, co-founder of the Barrymore Theater, joins us to share a little known piece of Madison history. He tells the backstory of turning a rundown theater showing porn films into the Madison institution it is today.

(Here is the link to the article Wilson published in the Wisconsin State Journal about traveling to S. Korea and meeting his birth mother - https://tinyurl.com/qoc8sfd.)

Susana de Alvarez and her family had to flee Venezuela after her uncle was murdered. Living in Wisconsin with her children and elderly father, she had to find a way to provide the 9 different medicines and insulin that her father required. We talk about how she put this story together and the political context of her family's decision to flee.

We did our first 'activist origin story' and interviewed Jenny Pressman.

Ann Garvin has teenagers who don't listen to her and a mother who no longer knows her name. In this funny and poignant story, she ponders why we remember the hard memories so much more readily than the good moments. We talk about writing versus oral storytelling and the value in telling a story you are excited to tell.

Season 3 of Inside Stories will start on March 11. Until then we are replaying early episodes from season 1. This is a rebroadcast of Bill Stork's episode that she told at the Moth StorySlam in Madison.

Season 3 of Inside Stories will start on March 11. Until then we are replaying early episodes from season 1. This is a rebroadcast of Jennifer Esperanza's episode that she told at the Moth StorySlam in Madison.

Season 3 of Inside Stories will start on March 11. Until then we are replaying early episodes from season 1. This is a rebroadcast of Lenora Rodin's episode that she told at the Moth StorySlam in Madison. Theme of the night was 'love hurts.'

Season 3 of Inside Stories will start on March 11. Until then we are replaying early episodes from season 1. This is a rebroadcast of Raj Shukla's episode.