David Isay on the Art of Preservation
Kurt Andersen and the MacArthur Genius-recipient and award-winning radio producer David Isay talk about the art of preservation. Isay spent much of his time in radio producing stories about preserving...
View ArticleDavid Isay on the Art of Preservation
Kurt Andersen and the MacArthur Genius-recipient and award-winning radio producer David Isay talk about the art of preservation. Isay spent much of his time in radio producing stories about preserving...
View ArticleMemorial in Sound
For Memorial Day, Dave Isay brings a personal tribute to one American soldier killed in Iraq from his two sisters recorded at the StoryCorps booth. Also: historian Ken Davis on the Civil War origins of...
View ArticleMemorial in Sound
Dave Isay, public radio producer and founder of the StoryCorps oral history project, returns with a StoryCorps interview for Memorial Day.
View ArticleHearing with the Heart
Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded the life stories of ordinary Americans, some of which are collected for a new book and cd, Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the...
View Article"The End"
StoryCorps closes its Grand Central booth at the end of this month. Founder Dave Isay looks back at some of the personal oral histories New Yorkers have provided over the years. Also, a new book on New...
View ArticleThe Art of Listening
Storycorps founder Dave Isay talks about the end of an era: the closing of one of the project's flagship recording booths in Manhattan. Annie Perasa and her husband were one of the first interviews in...
View ArticleThanks for Listening
The day after Thanksgiving might be a national day of shopping for some, but Dave Isay of StoryCorps wants it to be a national day of listening. He offers advice for recording the act of listening to a...
View ArticleListening, Not Shopping
Learn how to preserve someone's story with master-listener Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps, who offers how-to advice for observing the second annual National Day of Listening on November 27th....
View ArticleMom
StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares his new book, Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps.
View ArticleStoryCorps: Thank a Teacher
To celebrate StoryCorps' National Day of Listening, founder Dave Isay is gathering stories about great teachers. Isay is the editor of Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps.
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StoryCorps ProFile: 'If I Could Share A Coffee With Anyone, It Would Be My...
This morning, Steve Inskeep admitted to Morning Edition listeners that he, like many of them, often finds himself choked up over the Friday morning StoryCorps segments on NPR. These intimate...
View ArticleHappy Birthday StoryCorps!
Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps (Penguin Press, 2013), plays selections and talks about ten years of gathering...
View ArticlePreserving LGBT Stories
Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps and author of Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps (Penguin Press, 2013), is set to launch OutLoud, a project to capture...
View ArticleWhat We've Learned from Ten Years of Storycorps
Storycorps founder Dave Isay commemorates ten years of StoryCorps. His book, Ties that Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps draws from ten years of the oral...
View Article#TheGreatListen 2015
StoryCorps, the oral history project that launched in 2003, has created an app to bring the recording power to the palm of your hand.Since its public launch in March of this year, the app has been...
View ArticleHave You Found Your Calling? Stories From People Doing What They Love
StoryCorps founder Dave Isay joins us to discuss his new book, Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, a collection of some of the best personal stories told by people who have found their paths and...
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