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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A Pilgrimage For Annie Leibovitz [9.27.2013]
Photographer Annie Leibovitz on the project that saved her. She ...
Photographer Annie Leibovitz on the project that saved her. She calls it “Pilgrimage.” Also in this show: Robert MacFarlane talks about walking the world's ancient paths; and organizer Laurie Jo Reynolds offered prison inmates in solitary cells to take photos and send them to them. The requests she got were remarkable.
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After The Lebanese Civil War, An Apology [9.26.2013]
Assaad Chaftari had served as an intelligence official during the ...
Assaad Chaftari had served as an intelligence official during the Lebanese Civil War. It was years later, when heard his son saying disparaging things about Muslims, that he decided to repent publicly for his actions during war. Also in this show: For more than 50 years, Wally Boot has been working for the Steinway piano company, helping to make the pianos that are shipped to the grandest concert halls in the world; and newly discovered recordings from musicians Don McLean, Jerry Jeff Walker, Pete Seeger and others at the tiny coffee house Caffe Lena.
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After World War II, Only A Scarf As A Reminder [9.25.2013]
When Sheila Hutton was a seven-year-old girl growing up in ...
When Sheila Hutton was a seven-year-old girl growing up in England before the war, her parents shipped her away to the U.S. Six years later, when the war had ended and she’d become a teenager, she returned and had only a navy blue head scarf to recognize her mother. Also in this show: When Becky Cullinan’s husband was deployed to war for a third time, she wrote a list of things to not say to the spouse of a soldier; and when the U.S. led an invasion on the island of Grenada in 1983, an American medical student used his ham radio to send dispatches of the conflict to family and reporters.
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Avoiding The American South, Then Finding It [9.24.2013]
For years, the writer Wilton Barnhardt avoided living in his ...
For years, the writer Wilton Barnhardt avoided living in his home state of North Carolina or writing about it. But in his newest novel, he dives into the ups and downs of a prominent family from Charlotte, N.C. Also in this show: The song writer and banjo player Old Man Luedeke talks about the inspiration he draws from old country and Canada’s northwestern reaches of Yukon province.
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From The Classroom To The Graduation Stage [9.23.2013]
Over the last 20 years the rate of students dropping ...
Over the last 20 years the rate of students dropping out before graduation has steadily declined. But a stark figure remains: On average, about one million leave every year before graduation. Host Dick Gordon speaks with students and educators about traditional and new ways to help young people succeed.
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The Modern Midwife: Ina May Gaskin [9.20.2013]
Ina May Gaskin, the midwifery pioneer, on natural birth in ...
Ina May Gaskin, the midwifery pioneer, on natural birth in America. Also in this show: Three daughters and one son tell the stories of growing up with their mothers’ kitchens in this story by the Kitchen Sisters producers, Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson.
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For Accused Witches, A Last Resort [9.19.2013]
When Leo Igwe was a child in Nigeria, he saw ...
When Leo Igwe was a child in Nigeria, he saw his father get beaten for being accused of witchcraft. Igwe has made it his life’s work to help people accused of being witches and visits camps where they take refuge. Also in this show: For the last five years, photographer Murray Ballard has followed the practice of cryogenics and the people who choose to freeze themselves after death in the hopes that technology will allow them to come back to life.
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A Couple's 'Edge Of the World' [9.18.2013]
Eight years ago, Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler moved to ...
Eight years ago, Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler moved to a brick farmhouse in rural Ohio. Their band Over the Rhine’s latest album is a love letter and an ode to the joys of home. Also in this show: Allen Dorough was cleaning out a barn when he found boxes full of illustrations by a black architect who’d been ahead of his time.
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Your Dad’s Job Isn’t So Bad [9.17.2013]
As a young man, Bert Stratton resisted joining his family ...
As a young man, Bert Stratton resisted joining his family property rental company. Now that he has two grown sons of his own, he’s trying to convince them that it’s not so bad. Also in this show: Bob Stewart, whose arcade on the Jersey Shore was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy last fall, had just re-opened his business when a massive fire tore through the board walk, burning everything he had rebuilt; and after her parents died, Anya Yurchyshyn cleaned her mother’s house, and what she found completely changed her view of her father, her mother, and their relationship.
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Fighting For A New Heart [9.16.2013]
Paul Corby is a 23-year old Pennsylvania man in need ...
Paul Corby is a 23-year old Pennsylvania man in need of a new heart, but he has not been placed on a transplant list. Paul is autistic and doctors have deemed him ineligible for the transplant list. Also in this show: Al Golub, a freelance photographer based near Yosemite National Park, has been photographing the nearby Rim Fire, even as it edges toward his own home; lobster wholesaler Joe Ciaramitaro on a monster lobster and one his workers dubbed the “Phantom of the Lobster;” and Jerry Howland, one of the founding teachers of the live homework help TV show “Extra Help,” on one caller he’ll never forget.
