Soundings
Soundings is the sandbox for all student work from the Stanford Storytelling Project (SSP). SSP is an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories and how we can use them to change our lives. Our mission is to promote the transformative nature of traditional and modern oral storytelling, from Lakota tales to Radiolab, and empower students to create and perform their own stories. The project sponsors courses, workshops, live events, and grants, along with its radio show State of the Human.
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Episodes
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Producer: Elena Press
In the summer of 2019, I took off on a cross-country road trip to discover my father’s mysterious hippie past. Though I grew up with a dad who worked as an accounting professor, all throughout my childhood I heard stories of my dad building log cabins in Washington Woodlands, running a granola coop and my half-sister born on the kitchen table. Join me as I travel across time and space to uncover the truth of it all and learn from “the reality teacher.”
Music: Unthunk
Monplaisir
An Eagle in Your Mind
Les Hayden
Lobo Loco
Kathleen Martin
Mutherpluckin
Silicon Transmitter
Latch Swing
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
100 billion servings of instant noodles are sold every year. What does their journey across the world tell us?
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
On February 13, 2019 the famed rover Opportunity, which explored the Martian surface for 14 years, was declared dead. But what does it mean for Opportunity to have died? There’s something in its name that induces both grief and inspiration. In fact, there something similar that happens with all names.
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
El Camino Real is a California icon, but its history is often confused with the one the auto industry used to sell cars in the early 1900s. What really happened on this historic street?