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 Soldier's Eye: Rediscovered Photos From Vietnam (9.13.2013)
Charlie Haughey shot almost 2000 photographs of his fellow soldiers ...
Charlie Haughey shot almost 2000 photographs of his fellow soldiers in Vietnam, but left the photo negatives untouched in a box for 45 years. Recently, a friend encouraged him to digitize the images and Charlie says he didn't sleep for days after revisiting the faces from his past.Plus, at 91 years old, Henry Stone is still at work as a record producer. He remembers producing one of Ray Charles' earliest recordings, and hand-selling early R&B albums in barbershops.
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Chef and The Farmer [9.12.2013]
A southern girl moves to New York City to become ...
A southern girl moves to New York City to become a chef and swears she’ll never look back. But now Vivian Howard is home in rural North Carolina, making southern staples fancy at her restaurant Chef and Farmer.
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Night Raid [9.11.2013]
Combat photographer Louie Palu tells the story behind his portrait ...
Combat photographer Louie Palu tells the story behind his portrait of a wounded Afghan soldier aboard a U.S. Army Medevac helicopter. The photo is being recognized by the Smithsonia's National Portrait Gallery. Also in this show: Danny Lewin was on the first plane to hit the World Trade Center in 2001. He’s often called the “first victim” of those attacks. What many people don’t know is that Lewin developed the web technology that allowed millions of people to quickly access the same websites at the same time, as many did on September 11.
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From The Military Base To The Marshlands: A Soldier Returns to Iraq [9.10.2013]
Helicopter pilot Carina Roselli faced enemy fire in Iraq. Recently, ...
Helicopter pilot Carina Roselli faced enemy fire in Iraq. Recently, she returned as an environmental worker. Also in this show: In 1948, 28 Mexican citizens being flown by the U.S. to their native country perished in a plane crash in California. Woody Guthrie protested their anonymity and decades later historian Tim Hernandez set out to find their names.
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Helping Kids Inside Syrian Refugee Camps [9.6.2013]
Helping kids inside Syrian refugee camps. Also in this show: ...
Helping kids inside Syrian refugee camps. Also in this show: Searching for the Little Prince’s baobab tree in Nigeria; performing the un-performable “Vexations” composition; and creating a new font for the old problem of dyslexia.
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When Women Were Birds [9.6.2013]
Western writer Terry Tempest Williams spent 25 years sorting out ...
Western writer Terry Tempest Williams spent 25 years sorting out the message her mother gave her when she left her three shelves of blank journals.
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Dessa’s Parts of Speech [9.5.2013]
She uses just the one name, but don’t be fooled ...
She uses just the one name, but don’t be fooled by that brevity. Dessa, a rapper from Minneapolis, has earned a following with her song-writing skills and her work with the hip hop collective Doomtree. Also in this show: In 1973, the American war against communism in Laos ended, leaving their Hmong allies behind; and in a room across from Carnegie Hall, the exuberant young piano phenom Lang Lang demonstrates how he approaches a Brahms Intermezzo.
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The Cost of Truth (09.4.2013)
James Holzrichter became a reluctant whistleblower after finding evidence of ...
James Holzrichter became a reluctant whistleblower after finding evidence of misconduct by his employer, Northrop Grumman. He became a pariah in his field, and eventually found himself unemployed, homeless, and unable to protect his family. Also in this show, we honor a former guest, Lindy Linenberger, who survived the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Lindy died this past summer at the age of 88.
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Fighting For A Higher Minimum Wage (09.3.2013)
In today's show, we hear from a student who, with ...
In today's show, we hear from a student who, with her classmates, successfully raised the minimum wage in San Jose, California; a golf league for Detroit detectives; a novelist who is teaching Chicago Police Officers to write fiction; and a 2004 conversation between Dick Gordon and the late Seamus Heaney.
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After Innocence: Jennifer Thompson & LaMonte Armstrong
Jennifer Thompson was a college student when she was raped. ...
Jennifer Thompson was a college student when she was raped. During the attack Jennifer tried to memorize what the man looked like so she could identify him later. Jennifer wrongly identified Ronald Cotton, and he served 11 years before he was exonerated.Also, Lamonte Armstrong was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his elderly next door neighbor. He was exonerated last summer and is still trying to negotiate life in a world he was removed from for years.
