NPR: StoryCorps Podcast

At StoryCorps in Louisville, Kentucky, Wanda Zoeller came in with her partner, Susan Herndon. During the interview, Wanda tells Susan about the most important person in her life...

Carly Dreher interviews her 90-year-old grandfather Lyle Link. Lyle grew up on his family's dairy farm in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. But, as he told Carly, he never quite fit in...

10-year-old Rahsheed McKenstry and his mom, Rhonetta, came to StoryCorps in Memphis, TN. They decided not to use any of the questions that StoryCorps provides, and instead, Rahsheed came up with his own, sometimes surprising questions.

Michelle Miller met Joe Buford at the Nashville Adult Literacy Center. She is a tutor there and Joe is one of her students. In this episode, Joe talks to Michelle about what life was like before he could read.

Donald and Cheo Taylor came to StoryCorps in Oakland, CA. They talked about Donald's marriage to Cheo's mother, Doris. The story begins 50 years ago...

On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, TN. He was in that city to lend support to sanitation workers--who were mostly African American--protesting terrible working conditions and low wages. Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers were two of the 1300 sanitation workers to walk off the job in 1968. They both came to StoryCorps in Memphis to remember why they joined that strike. In another story, Taylor Rogers and his wife, Bessie, remember being at Mason Temple ...more

Every night Julio Diaz ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early just so he can eat at his favorite diner. But last month, Diaz's evening routine was interrupted. He came to StoryCorps in New York to talk about that night.

In early 2007 StoryCorps launched a nationwide initiative to record the stories of African-Americans. Known as StoryCorps Griot, it's the largest oral history of African-American life since the Works Progress Administration recorded Slave Narratives in the 1930s. The tour started in Atlanta, Georgia and ended last month in Montgomery, Alabama after recording close to 2,000 interviews. Mary Ellen Noone came to StoryCorps Griot in Montgomery, Alabama to remember her great-grandmother Pinky Po...more

Eric Lamet was a boy living in Austria when Nazi Germany annexed that country. Eric's family fled to Italy as Jewish refugees and got separated from his father. They had no contact with him throughout WWII. Eric came to StoryCorps in Miami to talk about that time.

When Tia Smallwood was in college in the late 1960s, she was one of the few women pursuing an economics degree. Her daughter, Christine, brought her to StoryCorps in New York to talk about that time.