StoryCorps

UPR Co-Station Manager Kerry Bringhurst joins us to talk about the celebrated national storytelling project’s upcoming visit to southern Utah beginning April 24th.

In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it.

Avremi Zippel always knew his life would be different, with a commitment to follow in his father's footsteps and serve as the Rabbi in Salt Lake City, he knew his life would defy stereotypes. However, nothing could prepare him for the truly unexpected twists and turns reality had in store. We revisit our interview with Zippel on todays Access Utah.

Revisiting the topic of civil discourse in politics with Patrick Belmont and Dan Johnson, followed by StoryCorps.

Tim Nielsen talks with his mother Mary Jean about their shared faith and the experiences that enliven it.

Mary Heers came to the United States in the 1960s to pick up a trail of activism moving like a whirlwind of change from Stanford to Detroit.

Irja Higginbotham, interviewed by her son Thomas, shares her story of coming from war-torn Finland to the U.S.

Chiq Spencer brought her husband John into the StoryCorps booth to tell us how his military career began unexpectedly — with pingpong balls.

Stephanie Sorenson and Lila Geddes came into the StoryCorps booth with a tale of an under-aged Cache Valley joyride made uniquely possible by rural life.

For A.J. Anderson, participating in StoryCorps was a chance to hear stories from his grandpa John Waters.