StoryCorps Then and Now: StoryCorps is Born

StoryCorps

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we go back 20 years to the origins of StoryCorps–the challenges of building a recording booth in Grand Central Terminal– and we catch up with the participants from the first ever radio story we broadcast on NPR.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dave Ice, founder of StoryCorps.
0:03.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from Dignity Memorial.
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0:11.0	Plan your life celebration in advance to protect your loved ones.
0:14.6	For additional information, visit dignity memorial.com.
0:20.4	It's
0:23.8	iconic Grand Central Terminal, a small crowd has gathered around this
0:28.1	8 by 10 foot glowing box.
0:30.7	Welcome to the launch of StoryCorps.
0:33.0	I'm Dave Iceay and I'm the founder of the project.
0:36.1	Documentary producer Dave Iceay and a small staff of enthusiastic 20-somethings have somehow
0:42.1	managed to get a recording booth built inside one of the busiest
0:45.7	train stations in the world. And for opening day they got legendary oral
0:51.2	historian Studs Turkle to cut the ribbon.
0:54.0	This is a very exhilarating moment.
0:59.0	It's one of celebration.
1:02.0	I should point out if I'm deaf as a post, haven't heard a word that
1:05.8	was said. The reason I'm here this morning is that we're about to celebrate this the first day. We shall begin
1:16.1	celebrating the lives of the un-celebrated. We're at the Grand Central Station now.
1:22.3	We know there's an architect, but who hung the iron?
1:27.0	Who were the brick masons? Who swept the floors? who kept the trains going.
1:35.0	These are the non-celebrated people of our country.
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