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Stories from Texas are written for and recorded for the Texas Standard radio program. They're written by W.F Strong and edited for broadcast by Texas Standard producers.
Texas Standard airs Monday through Friday on more than 20 public radio stations across Texas. Visit texasstandard.org/listen to find when it airs where you are. Texas Standard is hosted by David Brown, and infrequently by Laura Rice from KUT Radio in Austin, and Lauren Silverman from KERA Radio in Dallas.
- Website
- http://kutpodcasts.org/category/stories-from-texas
- Description
- KUT News Podcasts Audio Content Austin NPR
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-09 16:58
- last episode published
- 2025-01-29 18:37
- publication frequency
- 7.66 days
- Contributors
- Typewriter Rodeo
- Owner
- W.F. Strong
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 445
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Literature News History Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-29 | Steinbeck’s comments about Texas and Texans go well beyond his “Texas is a state of mind” quote. Texas Standard commentator W.F. Strong explores. The full transcript of this episode of Stories from Texas is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio websit... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Do you have a favorite W.F. Strong story? Here are our top 10 Texas Standard is celebrating its 10th birthday by looking back on 10 years of covering Texas. One way we’re going to do that is with top 10 lists. We started by counting down our top 10 Stories from Texas from commentator W.F. Strong. The full transcr... |
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| 2024-12-19 | Some of the most frustrating hours of our lives might be spent in a vehicle. After some hard times on the road, nothing can feel better than the perfect parking spot at the place you need to be. But how will you pull in? Texas Standard commentator WF S... |
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| 2024-12-04 | On the western side of the Panhandle, right on the Texas/New Mexico border are two towns that were established just a few years apart in the late 1800s. They were separated by a line as thin as a goal line. They both still exist today — with population... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
How some donated land became a bounty for a small town’s students Texas Standard commentator WF Strong says the Gruver Farm Scholarship Foundation has already made a multi-generational impact. The full transcript of this episode of Stories from Texas is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript i... |
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| 2024-11-07 | A strongman politician is something we’ve heard a lot about recently. This Stories From Texas is about a strongman from history and a plan to set him up anew in Texas. Texas Standard Commentator W.F. Strong dug up this story — one that you probably did... |
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| 2024-10-23 | Even though the words “Remember the Alamo” are available on t-shirts, bumper-stickers, and kitchen kitsch, the Alamo wasn’t always remembered with the reverence it is today. For a long time, the Alamo was used mostly as a warehouse. Even the church, wh... |
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| 2024-10-10 | Sometimes things happen in the world that just seem too coincidental to be coincidental. We have lots of words to describe these moments — luck, serendipity, maybe fate or destiny, perhaps a miracle? Texas Standard Commentator WF Strong remembers one o... |
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| 2024-08-28 | These five Californians, including John Wayne and Robert Duvall, have made great Texans in movies. The full transcript of this episode of Stories from Texas is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitle... |
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| 2024-08-14 | The recipe is a mainstay under the Friday night lights and has morphed – and gotten more portable – since its debut in 1949. The full transcript of this episode of Stories from Texas is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is ... |
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