Donors & Recipients: A Kidney Transplant Among Friends
In this episode of The Wisdom Project, host Doug Boyd explores the life-changing journey of kidney donation and transplantation through the...
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The Wisdom Project Podcast
The Wisdom Project podcast is produced by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the University of Kentucky Libraries. The podcast features stories drawn from oral history interviews a...
Episodes
17 episodes
No Longer Pretend: An Interview with Actor Steve Zahn
In this episode of The Wisdom Project Podcast, host Doug Boyd interviews acclaimed actor Steve Zahn for a deeply personal and unexpected con...
Proof of Progress: The Women in Bourbon Oral History Project
In early 2021, the Nunn Center and Dr. Janice Fernheimer partnered to launch the Women in Bourbon Oral History Project . This oral history p...
By the Power Vested in Me: Marriage Equality, Kentucky, and the US Supreme Court
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same sex marriage. This episode explores the stories of two Kentucky coup...
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Remembering Thomas Merton
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was interviewed in Louisville, KY in 2013 for filmmaker Morgan C. Atkinson's documentary "The Many Storeys...
Dancing with Princesses: Englishman, Sailor, Priest, Kentuckian
This episode features an interview with Mark Lyon Thornewill, interviewed on January 23, 2018. In addition to telling a story about dancing...
Local Spirits: Ghosts at the Wild Turkey Distillery
This episode explores ghost stories about ghosts at the Wild Turkey Distillery. The ghost stories are from an oral history interview conduct...
Remembering 9/11, A Flight Attendant's Perspective
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this episode features a powerful oral history interview conducted on September 11, 200...
Freedom Singer: Civil Rights Activist Charles Neblett
This episode explores the personal story of civil rights activist Charles Neblett who was a member of the Freedom Singers. Neblett was inter...
Moonshiners and Revenuers
This episode explores the story of moonshine in Wayne County, Kentucky. Interviews are part of the Moonshiners and Revenuers Oral History Pr...
Trial by Fire: Looking back at the Heaven Hill Distillery Fire
On November 7, 1996, the Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky experienced one of the most devastating distillery fires of all time....
The Writing on the Wall: An American Soldier in Italy
Episode #006 of the Wisdom Project tells a story of archival discovery, linking Marshall Webb, a World War II veteran from Campbellsville, K...
Take Her Out to the Ballgame: Effa Manley and Negro League Baseball
Episode #005 features an oral history interview with Effa Manley, the first African American woman to own a professional baseball team. She...
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Robert Penn Warren
Episode #004 utilizes two oral history interviews conducted by poet/author Robert Penn Warren in 1964 with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ma...
Veterans' Stories: Remembering the D-Day Invasion
In honor of Veterans Day, episode #003 of the Wisdom Project focuses attention on the stories of two World War II veterans who both particip...
Colonel Sanders and KFC , An Original Recipe for a Kentucky Startup
Episode #002 features an oral history interview with Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and explores the foundation...
Interviewing Jackie O
This episode explores an oral history interview with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from 1981. The interview was conducted by Terry Birdwhistell...