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Storytelling's surprising digital age revival

11/21/2024 • 18 min

Trading stories is an ancient and deeply human experience. But today, most of the stories we consume come to us through a digital screen. So it might surprise you to find out that we're in the midst of a revival of the old school style of storytelling. Turns out, sitting in a crowded room with other people, sharing funny and tragic and unbelievable stories live … Play episode

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A Day in the Life: The artist
The weirdest and wildest political stories
Why it's so hard to find a good couch
Bonus episode: Let's go to the fair!
Is it becoming too hot to work?
Hurricanes, helicopters and how we help
The art and alarming science of political ads
The gravestone grudge that changed cemetery law
The Latino South
How y'all conquered the world (Revisited)
Is this the death of DEI?
The new Southern Hollywood
How the Greensboro Six changed golf forever
What happens after a hate crime
Pro wrestling climbs back to the top rope
Love found while ‘chasing the light’
How beach music taught Southerners to 'dance sexy'
Bigfoot is from North Carolina
Can we bring red wolves back from the brink (again)?
The other Declaration of Independence
The surprising cricket capital of the South
The science behind saving an island
Craft beer’s emerging Southern flavor (Revisited)
Charlotte the stingray's tangled web
The hunt for a long-lost musical masterpiece
Billy Graham’s statue and the legacy of ‘America’s Pastor’
NASCAR's racing simulator revolution (Revisited)
Our trash lives next to this community
How many dollar stores are too many? (Revisited)
Zombie deer and our looming conservation crisis
Can we save the banana from extinction?
Breaking Southern baseball's color barrier
The toxic spill that left a legacy of change
Teachers challenge the nation's toughest union ban
Women's basketball is having its moment
Tornado Alley is moving to the South
Why cola became king
Robert F. Williams' bold history lesson
Purple, teal and the rise of basketball fashion
More power poles, more problems
Craft beer’s emerging Southern flavor
How one business built Black Wall Street
NASCAR's racing simulator revolution
Place, Erased: Environmental ghost towns
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