The Art of Storytelling

By Joseph Cooper,

Published August 28, 2017 at 3:04 PM EDT

(8-28-2017) Do you have time to hear a story? Today’s Topical Currents is dedicated to this traditional art.

Miraculous digital tools are constantly at our fingertips, but the ancient convention of oral connection and stories is now perhaps even more potent.

We visit with writers and spoken-word devotees Nicholas Garnett and Andrea Askowitz, and hear storytellers Allison Langer and Josephine Phoenix.

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Joseph Cooper

WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.

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Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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Polly Landess

Polly works as a producer with The Sunshine Economy. She has previously worked with DoubleTake Documentary Institute and Magazine, The Sally Jessy Raphael Show and ABC Talk Radio Networks.

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