NPR: StoryCorps Podcast
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At recording booths across America, everyday people interview one another about their lives. StoryCorps creator Dave Isay showcases these first-person stories in this weekly podcast. StoryCorps airs Fridays on NPR's Morning Edition.
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A Family Business
Fri, Aug 22, 2008
In this episode, the story of a family business. Nearly thirty years ago, Joe Spano Senior moved from Brooklyn to Texas. He wanted to try his hand in the oil business. When an oil bust in the mid 80s left him out of a job, Joe decided to open a small Italian restaurant in Abilene.
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StoryCorps 76: The Greatest Influence
Fri, Aug 15, 2008
In this episode we hear from Ileana Smith and her father, Gustavo Mestas.
She was ten years old when their family fled Cuba.
He was a doctor there.
At StoryCorps they talked about coming to the U-S — a journey that happened forty-five years ago this month.
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StoryCorps 75: Walk or Fall
Fri, Aug 08, 2008
Tom Domingue, who had polio as a child, tells his wife Dotty, about the unexpected challenge he faced coming home from hospital.
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StoryCorps 74: I Want To Know
Fri, Aug 01, 2008
Robert Madden grew up in Mississippi during the 1960s. He was close to both of his parents and could talk to them about anything. One topic in particular kept them talking for years...
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StoryCorps 73: A Man to the Last
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
In this episode, 90-year-old James Lacy talks about another time of economic hardship in this country. Lacy is originally from Sidney, Texas, a crossroads in Comanche county. While he was growing up there in the 1920s and 30s, his father ran a general store in town.
And at StoryCorps in Abilene, Texas, Lacy remembers working with his dad.
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StoryCorps 72: No More Questions
Fri, Jul 18, 20
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87-year-old Kay Wang doesn't pull any punches as she tells her granddaughter, Chen, and her son, Cheng, about her childhood. Just weeks after their conversation at StoryCorps, Kay Wang died of cancer. In a separate interview, her son, Cheng, and granddaughter, Chen fondly remember their vibrant and strong-willed grandmother.
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StoryCorps 71: Asses and Elbows
Fri, Jul 11, 2008
Mark Sullivan had a smokin' summer job. During the 1950s Sullivan was growing up in central Connecticut at a time when the state was the producing huge amounts of shade leaf tobacco. In this episode, Sullivan remembers working those fields...
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StoryCorps 70: Q & A
Fri, Jul 04, 2008
When you come to do an interview at StoryCorps, we provide you with a list of questions. But 12-year-old Joshua Littman chose not to use them. Joshua has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. And when he sat down to interview his mother, Sarah, the questions he asked kept her on her toes...
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StoryCorps 69: 48 or Bust
Fri, Jun 27, 2008
As a young woman, Betty Jenkins didn't have many curves. So her mother decided to give her something to boost her confidence.
At StoryCorps in Ohio, Betty Jenkins told her niece Kelly Lin about that gift.
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StoryCorps 68: Tim Russert and James T. Malloy
Fri, Jun 20, 2008
In Washington its usually the politicians that get to do all the talking. But when StoryCorps launched its national tour in D.C. in 2005, our first interview was between two guys from South Buffalo. In this episode, the late journalist, Tim Russert, interviews his friend James T. Malloy, a second generation firefighter, and a former doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.
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