Listening is an Act of Love Audio CD

A shared celebration of humanity as told by everyday people!

Play this CD for your group to just create discussions and promote reflection on the American experience or become a part of the StoryCorp project by recording and submitting your residents' experiences. Included with the audio disc is the Listening Is an Act of Love discussion guide and do-it-yourself instructions for conducting your own interviews. Get a group together and conduct interviews on each other, conduct interviews yourself, or just chat. It's an exciting opportunity to get people involved in activities and their communities.

From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps-the largest oral history project in the nation's history-presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love.

StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans and preserving them for future generations. In New York City and in mobile recording booths traveling the country-from small towns to big cities, at Native American reservations and an Army post-StoryCorps is collecting the memories of Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life. The project represents a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity, capturing for posterity the stories that define us and bind us together.

In Listening Is an Act of Love, StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects some of the most remarkable stories from the already vast collection and arranges them thematically into a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives-to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds.