StoryCorps Shorts: Then and Now
Sisters Janaki Symon and Melissa Wilbur grew up in New York and settled across the country from each other as adults. The StoryCorps MobileBooth was in town when Melissa was visiting her sister, and Janaki invited her to sit down and talk about their relationship.
Extras + Features
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Lesson Plan Clip 4 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 19s
Nunu exclaims, “Lets not be rude because we are all friends!”.
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Lesson Plan Clip 7 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 2m 17s
This clip starts with children doing an art project and one shares, “When I started out in day care I didn’t like it”.
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Lesson Plan Clip 2 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 1m 17s
This clip starts with a telephone pole and wires in front of a dusk sky and ends with two children helping Nunu by cleaning the floor.
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Lesson Plan Clip 5 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 1m 14s
This clip starts with a parent straightening her daughter's hair as she shares "I’ve been working seven days for almost 2 months” and ends with her at work expressing “If I didn't have Nunu, I don't know what I would do”.
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Lesson Plan Clip 8 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 2m 37s
This clip starts with children happily playing piggyback and ends with a child closing the window to an outdoor playhouse with frustration.
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Trailer | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 2m 20s
Through the Night is a vérité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a childcare provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York. Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival. A co-production of POV and ITVS in association with Black Public Media and Latino Public Broadcasting.
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Lesson Plan Clip 3 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 1m 39s
Nu cooking as she explains “I have been doing this for 22 years…”
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Lesson Plan Clip 6 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 1m 23s
Nunu is walking in the Thanksgiving Day Parade, saying that she “worries about [her] mothers all the time”.
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Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Through The Night
S33 E14 - 25s
A quote from Hisham Mater and The Return stating : “I suppose that is what we want from our mothers, to maintain the world”.
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Lesson Plan Clip 1 | The Mole Agent
S33 E13 - 5m 6s
“Man needed. Between 80 and 90 years old.”
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Lesson Plan Clip 4 | The Mole Agent
S33 E13 - 4m 5s
“Marta is very quick at taking things…but it's hard to get angry at her.”
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Lesson Plan Clip 2 | The Mole Agent
S33 E13 - 3m 25s
“It's like I'm beginning to feel like the person I used to be.”
Schedule
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POV
Fire Through Dry Grass
Saturday
Apr 27
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown. -
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Fire Through Dry Grass
Sunday
Apr 28
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown. -
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POV
Liquor Store Dreams
Wednesday
May 1
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles. -
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POV
Liquor Store Dreams
Thursday
May 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles. -
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POV
Liquor Store Dreams
Thursday
May 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles. -
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POV
Wuhan Wuhan
Thursday
May 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Exploring the early days of COVID-19 when Chinese citizens and frontline health care workers in Wuhan grappled with a mysterious virus. -
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POV
Liquor Store Dreams
Saturday
May 4
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles. -
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American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Tuesday
May 7
1 Hour 30 Minutes
The life of Grace Lee Boggs, a 98-year-old Chinese-American philosopher, writer and activist.
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