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Interview with Dave Isay, Founder of StoryCorps

Dave Isay, founder and president of StoryCorps, sat down with POV in 2010 to discuss StoryCorps' purpose and goals. Isay describes how his own background as a radio documentarian led to the StoryCorps project and how the organization helps people remember that they matter and "won't be forgotten."

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