The Story
The Story with Dick Gordon brings the news home - through passionate points of view and personal experiences. The program brings together ordinary and extraordinary people to provide perspective on the issues which affect us all. Our goal is to inspire conversation, thinking and understanding. ...
The Story with Dick Gordon brings the news home - through passionate points of view and personal experiences. The program brings together ordinary and extraordinary people to provide perspective on the issues which affect us all. Our goal is to inspire conversation, thinking and understanding. Produced at North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC.
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Grayson: The Baby Whale [8.2.2013]
Swimmer Lynne Cox meets a baby whale. Also in this ...
Swimmer Lynne Cox meets a baby whale. Also in this show: The Purple Hotel is a Chicago landmark.
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One String Makes Big Music [8.1.2013]
Andrew Chin, a.k.a. Brushy One-String, has crafted a unique style ...
Andrew Chin, a.k.a. Brushy One-String, has crafted a unique style playing a one-string guitar and singing in an utterly original voice. Also in this show: A sculptor recreates Rome’s Trevi Fountain - in cardboard.
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Journey To The Centroid Of The Country (7.30.2013)
Orion Magazine writer Jeremy Miller explores the exact center of ...
Orion Magazine writer Jeremy Miller explores the exact center of the U.S. population, and finds that its movement has paralleled the country's westward expansion and development. Also in this show: An audio meditation on riding the bus to work every day; and artist Bo Gehring makes portraits with a slow moving camera set to music.
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Mapping With Clicks [7.30.2013]
Brian Bushway became legally blind when he was 14 and ...
Brian Bushway became legally blind when he was 14 and learned to use a soft clicking sound to orient himself. He now teaches the technique, echolocation, to other blind people. Also in this show: Photographer George Steinmetz talks about his glider, and how he uses it to soar above deserts and vast wild spaces to capture the view from above.
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Growing Up With Anne Frank [7.29.2013]
A childhood friend of Anne Frank remembers a vibrant, curious ...
A childhood friend of Anne Frank remembers a vibrant, curious girl. Also in this show: Robert Macfarlane reads from his latest book, "The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot."
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A Digital Detox From Wired Technology [7.26.2013]
When Levi Felix left his power job, he set out ...
When Levi Felix left his power job, he set out to travel the globe. He wound up learning how to help people disconnect from technology. Also in this show: One afternoon, Ed Rosenthal went for what he thought would be a short hike in the Mojave Desert and wound up lost; Margareta Claesson and her husband, noted physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, studied the camel and found the key to its survival is in its nose.
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An American And Stalin’s Family [7.25.2013]
While reporting in Moscow during the Cold War, American journalist ...
While reporting in Moscow during the Cold War, American journalist George Krimsky found himself entangled in the personal drama of the Stalin family. Also in this show: how the first and only women's professional baseball league came into existence during World War II; and how sound designers make sports sound exciting - even if they have to fake it.
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Opening A Window: Getting Started As Labor Activists
Workers from a bankrupt window factory in Chicago have opened ...
Workers from a bankrupt window factory in Chicago have opened their own employee-owned cooperative. We look back at the 2008 worker lock-in of the Republic Windows and Doors factory. Also in this show: Host Dick Gordon speaks with two former Chicago factory workers about starting an employee-owned factory; and since the verdict of the Trayvon Martin case, playwright Nicole Anderson Cobb has been thinking about where we, as a country, are.
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For Evangelical Pastor, A Road From Belief To Atheism
Jerry DeWitt spent most of his life working as an ...
Jerry DeWitt spent most of his life working as an evangelical preacher in Louisiana. Two years ago, he realized he could no longer lead others to believe in something he didn’t. Also in this show: A group of students and professionals created a human-pedaled helicopter that can rise higher than 10 feet and hover for more than a minute.
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Hunger Strike: A Protest Across California
Steven Czifra spent 10 years in prison – eight of ...
Steven Czifra spent 10 years in prison – eight of them in solitary confinement. Also: Author Ron Rash reads his short story “Something Rich and Strange,” from his new collection, “Nothing Gold Can Stay;” and violinist Hilary Hahn, who learned to play Bach when she was four, still loves to play his compositions as a soloist – and with other musicians.
