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State of the Human, a podcast of the Stanford Storytelling Project, shares stories that deepen our understanding of single, common human experiences—belonging, giving, lying, forgiveness—all...
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On a school trip re-enacting the past, Coco tries to find themselves in the magic beyond who they are supposed to be. In this episode, Autho...
After an accident left Becca with a skull fracture and concussion, she turned to an unlikely form of play to pick up the pieces. Interview w...
After years of discipline and structure, Adesuwa takes a day off from productivity to remember how to have fun. Producer: Adesuwa Agbonile H...
As a pediatric neuro-oncologist, Dr. Paul Fisher works with children fighting brain cancer. In this episode, he shares how invisible skills...
Viva Donohoe always saw her grandmother as the archetype of a sophisticated woman, modeled in the spirit of iconic country singer Patsy Clin...
In today’s episode, Sarah Lewis reads “Willies on West 79th,” a strangely moving tale about love, body dysmorphia, and why a rat ballet comp...
In today’s episode, Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams reads his surreal story “Mousetraps,” where a simple errand spirals into a disorien...
As an added bonus to our Invisibility series, we’re including conversations with the creators who made them to give you a behind-the-scenes...
Langston Buddenhagen takes us to Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa in order to explore how neighborhoods change and what that change me...
We all know what it's like to sense something unspoken in a conversation—the hesitation, the sharpness, the softness. It's not the words, bu...
Alana Esposito and Alex Strong to discuss the process behind how A Foot in Both Worlds came to be. Producers: Alana Esposito, Alex Strong
Paul Calvo has always been ambitious, but he hasn't always been on the right side of the tracks. This is his story. Producer: Alex Strong. M...
Paul Calvo has always been ambitious, but he hasn't always been on the right side of the tracks. This is his story. Producer: Alex Strong. M...
A group of Stanford alumni recall their time in undergrad climbing buildings on campus – and the way it permanently altered their lives. Pro...
When a group of students stumbles upon a mysterious plaque hidden beneath an oak tree, a late-night discovery turns into a real-time detecti...
What would you do for the sake of a story? In this live story, recorded at the 2024 Senior Story Slam, Alina Wilson shares the story that sp...
Growing up with Indian immigrant parents in a Wyoming college town, Aru was used to the tension of what her parents expected her to be and t...
Being naked–or seeing others naked–can evoke a firestorm of emotions . . . everything from freedom to vulnerability to sensuality to shame....
Destiny Cunningham learned shame early. The comments that teachers, church leaders, and other kids made about her body led her to wear cloth...
“Back to the Garden” tells the story of an organic farming couple, Jose and Rich, who are committed to sustaining the environment . . . and...
Max Du is so obsessed with whales that his childhood friends call him Orca Boy. But when a SeaWorld trainer named Dawn is killed by an orca...
In this story about connection outside the bounds of physical space, time, and life experience, an unlikely friendship buds during uncertain...
Carolyn Stein grew up with music like Avril Lavigne and The Marianas Trench – classic, trashy pop punk. But she never considered herself muc...
Whether you have a tattoo or not, we are all familiar with the stigmas that are commonly held against tattoos. Where does this aversion come...
Alina Wilson and Alex Strong sit down with Kaitlyn Auth and Charlie Darracott for a story craft conversation about the story behind creating...
In the spring of 2020, Stanford University made the decision to cut 11 of their varsity teams due to financial issues and lack of success. T...
As an added bonus to our Reclaiming series, we’re including conversations with the creators who made them to give you a behind-the-scenes lo...
In this episode, the 2nd in our Reclaiming What's Been Lost series, Aru Nair goes on a journey to India to understand how oral tradition pre...
Little Tokyo is a small neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. Since 1905, it has been home to generations of Japanese Americans. Today, gent...
Eating is one of life’s great pleasures, but what about the pleasures that come with sharing your food with others? In this episode, we’re l...
What do we gain from gathering? In this episode, we’re thinking about how coming together can change us. We’ll hear about a citizen-led clea...
This episode investigates the act of preserving, a decision made in the present, regarding the past, looking towards the future. What can we...
We visit five places on campus where future doctors are learning how to practice medicine. We’re going to real classrooms: anatomy lab and w...
What ideas exist behind material objects? In this episode, we’re going to look at stuff—things we can see or hear or touch—to try to underst...
In this episode, we’re going to think about death. All things must come to an end, but that does not mean death is all ending. We ask -- wha...
In this episode, we search for myths in the modern world. We ask-- where are monsters hiding, and who created them? What do the myths we cir...
Stories about being alone, wanting to be alone, or feeling alone. What is that place we go to to protect ourselves? How and why achieve secl...
Description: In this episode we ride the radio waves. We listen closely, digging deep in the static to hear stories of people following radi...
We name people, places, and things out of necessity, but the labels we choose take on the weight of history, culture, and identity. In this...
Sometimes you have to keep your head down to stay alive. This is a show about playing the cello in the darkest hour, and returning to the si...
What can we know about the future? And where do we look? We plan ahead by speculating. We can’t imagine not imagining the next hour, the nex...
How do we take care of the past after it turns to ash? We visit with families digging through the rubble of their homes in Sonoma after the...
We hear a lot about immigrants. In this episode, we hear from immigrants – not as statistics, but as individual human beings crossing border...
Immigrating is a conversation that happens across borders, generations, and versions of oneself. Grace and Justin talk across political diff...
Sometimes, marching steadily through the steps of life—we crash right into something entirely unexpected. In one instant, the entire world c...
Ants navigate to and from food using pheromone trails; the stronger the pheromone trail, the more ants following it, like some kind of highw...
Breath and spirit have been closely related in human thought—for millennia. In a lot of human languages, we use the same word to mean both t...
In this episode, we explore inheritances’ many forms and unexpected outcomes. “You’ll hear the forgotten tales of hand-me down clothing, sto...
As a society, we still maintain many ancient traditions and practices relating to the care of our dead. We invest tremendous resources and e...
The mind’s ability to envision more than what is physically present in the world is an astounding fact of life. We’re always imagining, thin...
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