Rank #1: Second Chances
In our very last episode of the season, two stories about relationships that start off rocky and the reunions that lead to second chances.
Jan 22 2019
11mins
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Rank #2: No One's Going to Stop Me
We've been sharing stories of LGBTQ elders all season, but for our final episode, we'll hear what the next generation has to say.
Jul 30 2019
25mins
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Rank #3: Close Calls And Patron Saints
In this week's episode, two near-death experiences and what it means to reconnect with the people who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Jan 15 2019
13mins
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Rank #4: The Great Listen
This week's episode is an excerpt from The Great Listen from NPR and StoryCorps, our new one-hour broadcast special hosted by NPR's Audie Cornish. We're bringing you stories that speak to the power of listening, especially during the holidays.
Nov 26 2019
34mins
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Rank #5: We Never Spoke Of It
In this episode, we'll hear about a single night that divided one family for decades; and we'll listen in on the conversations that helped bring them back together.
Dec 10 2019
13mins
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Rank #6: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
In 1963, more than a dozen African American teenage girls were arrested for protesting segregation laws in Americus, Georgia. They spent one night in the county jail, but were quickly hauled outside the city, where they spent the next two months locked inside a stockade. In this episode, the Leesburg Girls shine a light on an overlooked moment in civil rights history.
Jan 08 2019
12mins
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Rank #7: This Is Where I Leave You
In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we share difficult conversations around death; how four families, who are dealing with the impending loss of a loved one, navigate the last conversations they may ever have together.
Dec 03 2019
19mins
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Rank #8: Willie, Shig, And A Bird Named Maggie
Willie Ito and Shigeru "Shig" Yabu, childhood best friends, remember being sent to separate Japanese Internment camps as kids, and how they came together to tell their story decades later.
Dec 17 2019
15mins
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Rank #9: Love and a Life Complete
This week's episode is all about love — what it's like to lose it and how it's never too late to find it.
Jun 04 2019
15mins
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Rank #10: Old Guitars and Purple Hearts
In this week's episode, two stories of people reuniting with family treasures and the way that objects can live on long after a person is gone.
Jan 01 2019
11mins
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Rank #11: A Beautiful Gray In The Gayborhood
In this episode, we visit an LGBT-friendly apartment building in the heart of Philadelphia's Gayborhood. Join us as we meet the residents.
Jul 23 2019
20mins
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Rank #12: A Son Always Remembers His Father
After World War II, there was a radio program that reconnected people live on the air. It was called Reunion. In this episode, we'll revisit their very first broadcast, when Holocaust survivor Siegbert Freiberg was reunited with his father.
Dec 11 2018
14mins
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Rank #13: Holiday Gifts That Can't Be Bought
On this holiday episode, two stories about finding the true spirit of Christmas as the result of a surprising conversation.
Dec 24 2019
7mins
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Rank #14: The Dark Before Dawn
In 2015, Asma Jama, a Somali American woman, was assaulted for speaking Swahili at an Applebees in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. In this episode, how Asma found support from an unlikely source.
Nov 19 2019
12mins
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Rank #15: On The Brink Of Separation
In this week's episode, you'll hear the difficult conversations that one family is having as they deal with the recurring threat of deportation.
Jan 07 2020
12mins
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