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With Oppenheimer winning 7 Oscar awards, nuclear testing and its side effects remain in conversation. Recently the U.S Senate passed a bill to prot...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 11:49
Caption: Peter Jesperson's record room, Credit: Todd Melby
Peter Jesperson is a music legend. Born in Minnesota, Jesperson was a seminal figure in the Minneapolis punk and new wave scene of the 1970's and 1...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 23:01
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A piece about an ornery asthmatic cat named Garlic, and what it means to care for and love a being that can't communicate in your language.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 07:13
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This weekend features HIAS’ Refugee Shabbat, an opportunity to show solidarity with global Jewry’s effort to protect and welcome refugees. Join me ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
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When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:41
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we pay tribute to some of the composers and musicians that have passed away in 2023. We hear pieces by Harry Belaf...

Bought by WUAL, Delmarva Public Media, KCCU Radio, WBAA, KVNO and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 17
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Part 2 of music special producer Paul Ingles' thoughtful, heart-felt, year-end music mix program that allows us all to honor many of the music grea...

Bought by WORT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSJE, KFSK, KRVS and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
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In the early 20th century, a potent wave of anti-Semitism began to sweep across Europe. Fuelled by deep-rooted prejudices and exacerbated by econom...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:14

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Caption: Daniel Moon in Seoul, Korea 1948
Sergeant Daniel Moon came to StoryCorps with his daughter Laura Moon to reflect on his memories of the Korean War.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Award winning bass-baritone Gerald Finley performs works by Schubert, Korngold and more.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Rhythm & News Service, KPOV, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Camp Christopher is available for campers who have lost a loved one to suicide, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
KFAI's Matthew Schneeman shares two stories of grief, family, and healing in and around Sax-Zim bog in Northern Minnesota.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 07:54
Caption: Gwen Timbimboo Davis at her StoryCorps interview in Brigham City, Utah on August 9, 2007., Credit:  By Rachel Falcone for StoryCorps.
Gwen Timbimboo Davis tells her daughter, Heather Timbimboo Jorgensen, about visiting the Shoshone Reservation as a kid, and remembers her grandmoth...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Larry Candelaria and Connie Candelaria
Army Lieutenant Colonel Larry Candelaria was deployed to Vietnam in 1970. He came to StoryCorps to reflect on his service in the Casualty Branch o...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Two stories about people finding stability when things feel out of control.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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How will you honor Memorial Day? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we listen to Eric Ewazen's “A Hymn for the Lost and the Living”, James Beckel, J...

Bought by KECG, RadioStPete Florida, WQCS, Interlochen Public Radio, WBAA and more


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Tina Turner
In this special from producer Paul Ingles, listeners will hear a mix of tracks from over 50 years of recording and performing by Tina Turner - firs...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, WVIA, RadioStPete Florida, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #51 - Hour 2
This week's program inspired by the new recording "Capacocha" from Lucas Tripaldi, about an ancient sacrificial rite among the Incas. We also hear...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Fresh back from the Tucson Jazz Festival, we continue ’23 with high level music. For example bassist Domi Edson brings in pianist Spencer Zweifel a...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, WOUB, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Jeff Beck passed away on January 10, 2023, and I'm celebrating his guitar playing and his constant search for the sound with some deep cuts, some c...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KRCB 104.9, KRPS, and KRSC


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we remember those talented musicians and composers who passed away in 2022. We hear music of Ned Rorem, Pharoah Sa...

Bought by WUAL, RadioStPete Florida, Interlochen Public Radio, KWAX, KUCO and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 11