All Told

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  • Engaging stories, important issues, new perspectives. All Told is about people -- about the struggles and triumphs of those living inside some of the biggest issues facing our country, about those whose stories rarely get told, and about what it means to be human in today's world. In 2020, All Told shared a special series of firsthand stories from Americans living through the coronavirus pandemic.
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Episodes
  • Behind the story: ‘The test of their lives’

    Behind the story: ‘The test of their lives’
    Jul 22 2020
    Because of the covid-19 pandemic, 2020 became the first year ever that high-school students across the United States had to take — and prepare for — the AP exam online from their homes rather than in a classroom setting.This posed unique challenges for schools like Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, where more than two-thirds of the students come from low-income families. Eirik Nielsen, an AP history teacher there, let Washington Post education reporter Laura Meckler follow the ups and downs of his teaching life from March through May 2020, as he worked around the clock to remotely support his sophomore students — many of whom have difficult home lives, health issues and limited access to technology and the Internet.Out of this reporting, Meckler wrote the piece “The test of their lives,” which chronicles the challenges Nielsen and his students faced as the AP exam approached. In this audio episode, listeners can follow her months-long reporting journey for that story. The podcast features interviews with the teacher and several of his students, a look at the process of finding and chronicling their tale, and even the parallel challenge Meckler faced of helping her own two sons with their remote classes while working on this piece.As schools across the country wrestle with the question of how to best return to teaching in the fall, the story of Nielsen’s class gives us a window into the highs and lows, successes and struggles, that distance learning brings with it.Share your thoughts about this show and other Washington Post podcasts:washingtonpost.com/podcastsurveyGet vital coronavirus news from The Post for free: Sign up for the newsletter: washingtonpost.com/virusnewsletterRead the latest coverage: washingtonpost.com/coronavirusSubscribe to our daily news podcasts: washingtonpost.com/podcastsInterested in hearing other intimate stories about how the pandemic has reshaped people’s lives? The Washington Post produced a special audio series for the “All Told” podcast, which features first-person accounts from around the country as Americans grapple in different ways with life during the coronavirus. Listen to the episodes here:'Good luck, everybody'‘You never signed up for this’‘I cannot hold it all’'For me, it’s all the blues''First thing's first, I gotta beat this game'‘It is a pretty significant hole in the system’‘We grew up in agriculture — we’ve had a lot of experience of going without’‘I’ll be getting my degree in the mail, but that has me feeling hollow’‘Midland is trending on Twitter, and Donald Trump is tweeting about us’‘We just had one of our many talks about being a black boy in America’‘There’s no end in sight to this’Explore more first-person accounts of the pandemic:A multimedia oral history of the virus's impact 
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    30 mins
  • 'There's no end in sight to this'

    'There's no end in sight to this'
    Jun 12 2020
    This is the 11th and last episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week has brought listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergencyroom worker, NBA player, blues guitarist, rancher, minister, librarian, high school graduate and dentist.
    For this final episode, we turn not just to someone whose life has been affected by the pandemic, but to someone whose work will help determine its future course. Timothy Sheahan is a 43-year-old virologist, who has been studying ways to stop coronaviruses for 11 years. Now, he's racing to develop drugs for this current version of the virus that's swept across the world. As the global infection rate mounts, his job as a researcher has never been more urgent. It’s a rewarding but also difficult situation for this father of two young girls. Sheahan worries he’s falling short of giving both the public and his family everything they need of him.
    Listen to a week in his life, in his own words.
    Previous episodes:
    • 'Good luck, everybody'
    • 'You never signed up for this’
    • ‘I cannot hold it all’
    • 'For me, it’s all the blues'
    • 'First thing's first, I gotta beat this game'
    • ‘It is a pretty significant hole in the system’
    • ‘We grew up in agriculture—we’ve had a lot of experience of going without’
    • ‘I’ll be getting my degree in the mail, but that has me feeling hollow’
    • ‘Midland is trending on Twitter, and Donald Trump is tweeting about us’
    • ‘We just had one of our many talks about being a black boy in America’

    Get vital coronavirus news from The Post for free: 
    • Sign up for the newsletter: washingtonpost.com/virusnewsletter
    • Read the latest coverage: washingtonpost.com/coronavirus
    • Subscribe to our daily news podcasts: washingtonpost.com/podcasts

    Explore more first-person accounts of the pandemic:A multimedia oral history of the virus's impact 
    Show more Show less
    22 mins
  • ‘We just had one of our many talks about being a black boy in America’

    ‘We just had one of our many talks about being a black boy in America’
    Jun 5 2020
    This is the tenth episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergency room worker, an NBA player, a blues guitarist, a rancher, a minister, a librarian, a city council member and a recent college graduate.
    In this episode, we peer inside the life of Dr. Yetunde Patrick, a 35-year-old dentist who runs her own practice in Washington, DC. After having to close her office for several months because of the Coronavirus, she recently reopened for elective procedures — the same week that nation-wide protests over police brutality and racial injustice spread across the country. In Washington, the protests literally came to Dr. Yetunde Patrick’s front door — it was broken into amid the chaos.
    Listen to this tumultuous week in her life, in her own words.

    Share your storyTell us how your life has changed due to the coronavirus outbreak, and help us share first-person accounts of life during the pandemic.
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    Previous episodes:
    • 'Good luck, everybody'
    • 'You never signed up for this’
    • ‘I cannot hold it all’
    • 'For me, it’s all the blues'
    • 'First thing's first, I gotta beat this game'
    • ‘It is a pretty significant hole in the system’
    • ‘We grew up in agriculture—we’ve had a lot of experience of going without’
    • ‘I’ll be getting my degree in the mail, but that has me feeling hollow’
    • ‘Midland is trending on Twitter, and Donald Trump is tweeting about us’

    Get vital coronavirus news from The Post for free: 
    • Sign up for the newsletter: washingtonpost.com/virusnewsletter
    • Read the latest coverage: washingtonpost.com/coronavirus
    • Subscribe to our daily news podcasts: washingtonpost.com/podcasts

    Explore more first-person accounts of the pandemic:A multimedia oral history of the virus's impact 
    Show more Show less
    24 mins

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