StoryCorps

StoryCorps

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StoryCorps episodes

  • 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 mortician brothers look back on a life of caring for the dead.

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    17 min
  • 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.

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    16 min
  • 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 lid off the largest political scandal in American history.

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    18 min
  • 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 making history.

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    22 min
  • 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.

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    21 min
  • 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 thousands of others, when hospitals couldn't, ultimately changing the course of American medicine.

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    14 min
  • 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 podcast, we remember RFK and we revisit the story of that famous photo.

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    14 min
  • In Safe Hands
    Rabbi Philip Lazowski remembers a quick decision that saved his life during the Holocaust.

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    18 min
  • Turning Points
    This season on the StoryCorps Podcast from NPR, eight stories about eight moments that changed everything.

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    1 min
  • 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.

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    6 min

About 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…

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