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Cynthia Weston (64) has a conversation with her good friend Margot Peters (88) about writing, love, and family.

Peter Singh (16) talks with his grandmother, Mercedes Luz (70) about her childhood and growing up in the Philippines. Mercedes discusses her time in Iran during the Iran Iraq war as a nurse in a military hospital. She traveled across...

Dinah Mathews Sours (87) shares memories with her son, Christopher Sours (63), about her childhood experiences and journey from England to the United States during World War II.

Ashleigh Gill (29) talks to her boyfriend, Christopher Lee Clark (35), about her childhood home, going to London for a writing contest, and the influence West Virginia has had on booth of their creative work.

Former spouses and longtime friends Claire Byrne (65) and Wes Andrews (66) reminisce on their personal history, their migration to the United States and its impact on their family, and the role that Innisfree Village has played in their lives.

One Small Step conversation partners Mark Samuel (62) and Paula Veldhuis (62) discuss the generational approaches to racism in the US, assumptions people make about them, and their troubles with the current presidential candidates.

Jennifer Beard (54) talks with her colleague Susie Foster (68) about her global health career. Susie reflects on her time in the Peace Corps and the round-about way that she made her way to the World Bank, the World Health...

Mother and daughter Madge "Jackie" King (88) and Jennifer King (51) discuss Jackie's childhood during the Blitz and her experiences sharing her story.

Nadine Lutz (48) speaks with her mother, Rola Jbeily (69), about the stations of her life.

Kurt McCoy (47) and Elizabeth Gibbs (45) compare and contrast their upbringings (hers near London and his in South Carolina) with raising their own children today in the Southern United States.

Nadine Lutz (49) talks with her husband John Lutz (52) about her experience coming to the United States from Lebanon and the challenges she faced.

Spouses, Trinh Jones (59) and Tim Jones (58), talk about their contrasting childhoods in Saigon, Vietnam and Troy, Missouri, as well as the shared values that bring them together. They also reminisce about their early relationship, raising their two sons,...

Katie Blackledge (39) talks with her dad and fellow veteran, Robert "Bob" O'Donnell [no age given], about some of his most memorable military experiences.

Pierrick Dutertre (72) talks with his wife, artist collaborator and business partner, Cathy Dutertre (62) about being working artists, as photographers, mentoring other artists, teaching, serving others through art and their grandchildren.

Daniel Malakowsky (36) speaks to his close friend and colleague, Hanna Zack Miley (88). Hanna survived the holocaust by escaping to England at the age of 7-years-old. She shares her experience and path to forgiveness in the autobiography, A Garland...

Harriet Weber (65) interviews her friend Beryl Goto (75) about her journey to the United States from London, her life and time in Quincy, Washington, and her experiences as a flight attendant and hospice therapist.

Clint McGuire (56) continues his conversation with his former professor and long-time friend Jack Benjamin (71) about Jack's years building and running a theatre department at the University of South Carolina Aiken. This conversation mainly covers the years 2002-2006.

Dorothy Whitfield Chisholm (98) speaks with her son, Graham Chisholm (62) about her experience joining the British Army at age 18 in 1941, and then transferring over to the US Army in Great Britain in 1942, being wounded by a...

A chance encounter with Freemasons hall while visiting London in his youth led to a lifelong involvement with Freemasonry. Johnny Royal has had a passion for years about telling the story of Freemasonry and after several years he is now...

Theresa sat with her children Rachel and Joel and talk about Theresa's late cousin Paul who died from COVID-19 in December of 2020. They also discuss the health inequities within the Black and minority communities and did it have an...

Henry McCoy (59) sits down with his mother-in-law, Margaret Black (85), to ask about her and her sisters' adventures in "show biz."

Yana Lee-Fong (62) talks with her friend Marvin Lim (39) about their community and their experiences.

This interview was of my dad talking about a defining incident in his life and which really shaped him as a child. We then went on to talk about supernatural activity and rationalism. I found this quite interesting, scientifically, because...

Michael Jackson (71) is interviewed by StoryCorps staff Andre Perez (26) about coming out and what his experiences in life have been like as a gay man.

Ellen Piekalkiewicz (58) interviews her father, Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz (95), about his experiences as a World War II refugee and a member of the Polish unit of the British Armed Forces. They also talk about their home in Lawrence, Kansas, where...