I have news. I’m making a change to Stories To Tell. I am putting my focus on audio.
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Because everyone deserves to tell their story.
Read MoreLost in the Junk Drawer and other Rookie Mistakes
Eleven years ago I conducted my first personal history interview. I’m sorry to say the recording is gone, lost to history. Only the fragments of my memories remain. I was a wannabe radio producer and desperate to join the cool kids at This American Life. To gain interviewing experience I asked a nun named Sister Beth...
Read MoreThe Sound of Character: The Legend of Clyde Torrey
A true Maine storyteller gives tribute to a real character, Clyde Torrey, a hermit, accordion player, and a farmer who continued to use a horse and ox. This audio story has something we can’t have with just words on a page or a screen – Clyde’s music, and the way Sonny tells the story: his dramatic pauses, the timber of his voice, the emotion welling up in his throat, his characteristic expressions.
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