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FAQs about Saving Stories:How many episodes does Saving Stories have?The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.
October 14, 2015UK Perspectives: The Story Behind WBKY In BeattyvilleWUKY turns 75 this week. To celebrate the occasion Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and guest host Alan Lytle discuss the origin story for the radio station now known as WUKY, which began as WBKY, an ambitious community radio experiment in the town of Beattyville in Eastern Kentucky....more4minPlay
May 05, 2015Saving Stories: Kent State Protests At UKThis week marks the 45th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Alan Lytle and Doug Boyd from the Nunn Center recall student reaction on the UK campus....more4minPlay
March 26, 2015Saving Stories: UK And National ChampionshipsA highly talented basketball team, top ranked all season long, heavily favored to win a national title...sound familiar? It should. In this special edition of Saving Stories we recall Kentucky's triumphant march to the title in 1978. Who better to talk about that historic run than Mr. Wildcat? Bill Keightley served as the team's equipment manager until his death in 2008....more4minPlay
February 26, 2015Saving Stories: UK's History of DesegregationAs the University of Kentucky continues to celebrate its sesquicentennial we take a look back at efforts to desegregate the school. Lincoln County native George Logan, one of the first African American students to attend UK talks about the racism he encountered back in 1951....more4minPlay
January 12, 2015Saving Stories: 2010's Haitian EarthquakeThis week marks the fifth anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people. The Nunn Center's Doug Boyd talks about a major oral history project surrounding that disaster, the ongoing rebuild, and the challenge of translating many of these eyewitness accounts from Haitian-Creole into English....more4minPlay
December 15, 2014Saving Stories: Bourbon Tales Coming To A Television Near YouA new documentary being aired in Kentucky will introduce viewers to the colorful characters who craft bourbon. The documentary draws from oral history interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. In this special edition of Saving Stories Alan Lytle talks with Center Director Doug Boyd about " Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Distilling the Family Business."...more5minPlay
November 11, 2014Saving Stories: Trench Warfare In World War IOn this Veterans' Day, we get a rare first-hand account of life in the trenches during the "War To End All Wars" fought a century ago....more4minPlay
FAQs about Saving Stories:How many episodes does Saving Stories have?The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.