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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The Clues Behind Amelia Earhart’s Last Radio Transmission [10.11.2013]
Betty Brown was a teenager when she heard distress radio ...
Betty Brown was a teenager when she heard distress radio transmissions of the aviator Amelia Earhart. Decades later, what she heard became a key in the search for the famously disappeared pilot. Also today: One half of the legendary comedy duo Smothers Brothers on how to develop jokes and timing.
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BEST OF THE STORY: A House Divided [10.10.2013]
All this week, more of our most popular episodes from ...
All this week, more of our most popular episodes from our eight year history. Mohammed El Kurd grew up in the East Jerusalem house where his family has lived for more than 50 years. In 2009, a group of Israeli settlers moved into a building on the property, claiming it as their own. Also: A trumpet was what got Jack Tueller through childhood, through World War II and was the reason he met his wife.
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BEST OF THE STORY: Did The Beatles Steal A Song My Father Wrote? [10.09.2013]
When Michael Humphrey was growing up, he would sometimes hear ...
When Michael Humphrey was growing up, he would sometimes hear his father telling strangers a story about how the Beatles stole the composition for “Lady Madonna” from him. Eventually, he looked into the story himself. ALSO TODAY: Jim Sadwith had written the script for his high school play based on J.D. Salinger’s classic “The Catcher and the Rye,” when he decided to look for the reclusive author to get permission to do the play; and Mark Hagerty tells host Dick Gordon how New York City shaped his father and about their special meeting place under Grand Central Station’s clock tower.
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BEST OF THE STORY: Love At Ninety [10.08.2013]
Nate Kalichman was 90 and Paula Givan was 67 when ...
Nate Kalichman was 90 and Paula Givan was 67 when they got married. They share their stories of finding love late in life and making plans. Also: Tending Monet’s Garden, and Judy Garland’s flight attendant on a cross-country flight.
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BEST OF THE STORY: In a Classroom, Two Longtime Rivals Meet
Growing up, Yafinceio Harris and Michael Wilder were members of ...
Growing up, Yafinceio Harris and Michael Wilder were members of rival crews and came close to armed confrontation. They eventually had a meeting neither expected – in the classroom of a community college. Also in this show: A dreamy trip to Brazil, Argentina and France through the music of Dom la Nena.
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BEST OF THE STORY: Mr. Ishiyama [10.04.2013]
Dana James and Patricia Coleman were newlyweds traveling across Asia ...
Dana James and Patricia Coleman were newlyweds traveling across Asia on a tight budget when they met a friendly man who wanted to give them a generous present. Also: Jacques Vroom used to have a pass to fly anywhere in the world aboard first class. And: A U.S. Air Force serviceman tells the story of dating a Japanese woman whose family distrusted Americans.
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BEST OF THE STORY: Looking To Clean India’s Holy Ganges River [10.3.2013]
We continue listening back to some of the most memorable ...
We continue listening back to some of the most memorable stories we’ve aired. Today, Producer Phoebe Judge visits the Ganges River, one of the holiest yet most polluted places in India, and meets people who want to clean it up. Also in this show: Arun Gandhi was 10 years old when he was beaten up and bullied because of the color of his skin. He wanted revenge, so his parents sent him to spend time with his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi; and for more than 25 years, few people have been allowed to enter the 1,600-square-mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Writer Henry Shukman tells the story of a family who returned there.
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BEST OF THE STORY: Life On The Line [10.2.2013]
For years, Emma Pender and Rita Perry faced harsh conditions ...
For years, Emma Pender and Rita Perry faced harsh conditions and physical injuries working at a chicken processing plant in North Carolina. But the money was too good to pass up living in a town where the jobs were few. Also in this show: When Jenny Brown was laid off from her job in Oregon, she was offered a job as a captain of a river ferry even though she had no experience in boats at all. And while she was happy she found the job, it wasn’t what she was looking for.
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BEST OF THE STORY: Grizzly Bear Attack [10.1.2013]
Joe Williams was a 20-year-old looking for adventure at Montana’s ...
Joe Williams was a 20-year-old looking for adventure at Montana’s Glacier National Park when he ran into a grizzly bear and it mauled him. Also in this show: On the weekend when the hurricane hit the shore, Mike Petro was in his home in Gulfport, Miss. He survived the storm by riding on the roofs of houses that were swept away by the storm surge; and when Miriam Novogrodsky was 8, her father decided to take the family on the only vacation it ever had: a three-week hitchhiking trip.
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BEST OF THE STORY: Growing Up In The White House [9.28.2013]
Luci Baines Johnson was 16 when her father Lyndon Johnson ...
Luci Baines Johnson was 16 when her father Lyndon Johnson was thrust into the presidency. When her family moved to the White House, she was fully aware of the tragic reason for their move. ALSO: Buddy Edgerton, a neighbor of the illustrator Norman Rockwell, tells the story of how Rockwell painted people in their small town into what became the most famous portraits of Americana; and John Hope Franklin, who as a young black man in Oklahoma was turned away from and the military, became one of the most respected chroniclers of African-American history.
