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Soundings

The Stanford Storytelling Project is an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories and how we can use them to change our lives. Our mission is to promote the ... Read more

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Grace Greenwald: The Ridaelong Curse

Grace Greenwald: The Ridaelong Curse

A day at the firehouse, finding where the action is.

25 Mar 2019

10mins

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Devon: what we talk about when we're not talking about climate change

Devon: what we talk about when we're not talking about climate change

Class projects

15 Jun 2019

7mins

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What I’m Grateful For -- Besher’s Story

What I’m Grateful For -- Besher’s Story

Besher grew up in Syria till the war forced him, and his family, to flee. This non-narrated portrait follows his journey... Read more

23 Dec 2018

12mins

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Columbae by Mo Asebiomo

Columbae by Mo Asebiomo

Course work from students in "Your American Life" Oralcomm 130 Winter18. Storytelling.stanford.edu

26 Mar 2018

9mins

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You Are What You Eat

You Are What You Eat

This special episode features three documentary stories about the ways in which, as the old saying goes, "you are what y... Read more

21 Mar 2014

59mins

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Respite: a journey into Foster Care

Respite: a journey into Foster Care

You’re six years old. Child protective services removed you from the only life you’ve ever known and placed you in state... Read more

15 Dec 2018

12mins

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Animal Kingdom II

Animal Kingdom II

More stories about the ways that animals shape our lives. A tour of Stanford's Animal Research Facility, and a short sto... Read more

21 Mar 2014

1hr

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Kris Harris: Ride Along, Animal Edition

Kris Harris: Ride Along, Animal Edition

Dead animals, opera music, and cute cats. Welcome to Animal Control.

25 Mar 2019

7mins

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Hailey

Hailey

Class projects

15 Jun 2019

7mins

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Approaching Africa

Approaching Africa

How do different groups approach Africa? Stories about media coverage of Africa, a student who taught poetry at a Zambia... Read more

21 Mar 2014

1hr 1min

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Shiriel Abramson: el Camino Real

Shiriel Abramson: el Camino Real

El Camino Real is a California icon, but its history is often confused with the one the auto industry used to sell cars ... Read more

25 Mar 2019

4mins

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Coming of Age (Online): Imagining Queer Futures

Coming of Age (Online): Imagining Queer Futures

Producer: Julie FukunagaWhat does it mean to (be queer) and come of age on the internet? In the past ten years, the quee... Read more

20 Dec 2019

16mins

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Brains and Bronze: How Octavius Catto came back to life

Brains and Bronze: How Octavius Catto came back to life

Octavius Catto, a 19th century activist, stands in bronze as the first statue of a black man on Philadelphia public prop... Read more

17 Dec 2018

17mins

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Iceland’s Concealed Conservationists (V1 25min)

Iceland’s Concealed Conservationists (V1 25min)

Iceland’s Concealed Conservationists is about the elf population in Iceland and how Icelanders’ tradition of hidden crea... Read more

22 Jan 2017

25mins

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Immigrant Retirement Homes in the U.S.

Immigrant Retirement Homes in the U.S.

After I retired I thought… what do I do next?” We all the know the rags to riches story of immigration and the American ... Read more

14 Jan 2017

17mins

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The Disappearing Dhami

The Disappearing Dhami

In the rural Himalayas healers called dhami have used local plants and mantras to treat the sick for thousands of years.... Read more

14 Jan 2017

14mins

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Iceland’s Concealed Conservationists (V2-SSP 23min)

Iceland’s Concealed Conservationists (V2-SSP 23min)

Iceland’s Concealed Conservationists is about the elf population in Iceland and how Icelanders’ tradition of hidden crea... Read more

22 Jan 2017

23mins

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Cactus Garden by Ethan Cruikshank

Cactus Garden by Ethan Cruikshank

Coursework from students in "Your American Life" Oralcomm 130 Winter18. Storytelling.stanford.edu

26 Mar 2018

10mins

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Leily Rezvani: Curiosity Kills…

Leily Rezvani: Curiosity Kills…

Judy, a Bay Area native, advocates for the release and fair treatment of inmates. But how did that come to be? In this e... Read more

25 Mar 2019

7mins

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Water on Concrete: An LA River Story

Water on Concrete: An LA River Story

If a river could talk, who’s story would it tell? Running 51 miles through one of the most urbanized landscapes in the w... Read more

16 Mar 2019

25mins

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