Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special
Season 26 Episode 14 | 26m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Six stories from 10 years of StoryCorps.
Listening Is an Act of Love features six stories from 10 years of the innovative oral history project. Each story reflects StoryCorps founder Dave Isay's fundamental belief: "We can learn so much about the people all around us –even about the people we already know – just by taking the time to have a conversation."
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...
Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special
Season 26 Episode 14 | 26m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Listening Is an Act of Love features six stories from 10 years of the innovative oral history project. Each story reflects StoryCorps founder Dave Isay's fundamental belief: "We can learn so much about the people all around us –even about the people we already know – just by taking the time to have a conversation."
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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