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Saving Stories
Hosted by Alan Lytle, WUKY · EN
Doug Boyd, director of the UK Libraries' Nunn Center for Oral History shares stories.
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What's a kidney among old friends? A timely story of a life-saving gift
Apr 2700:04:59Tap to summarizeApril is National Donate Life month and WUKY's Saving Stories observes the occasion with this highly personal, fresh episode. Nunn Center Director Dr. Doug Boyd introduces us to two of his high school friends. But as you'll soon find out, this is a rather extraordinary reunion story.
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Saving Stories: First director of Peace Corps reflects on legacy, impact of international effort
Mar 3100:05:00Tap to summarizeMarch 2026 marks the 65th anniversary of the start of the Peace Corps and in this latest edition of WUKY's Saving Stories, Doug Boyd with the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from an interview with Sargent Shriver, the diplomat tabbed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to lead the independent government agency that sends American volunteers to partner countries for two-year terms to work on grassroots projects in education, health, agriculture, and other sectors. Shriver told the interviewer why he thought they only had one chance to make it work.
Transcribe →Saving Stories: Peace Corps @ 65, Kentuckians remember joining JFK's 'New Frontier' initiative
Mar 1800:05:00Tap to summarizeMarch 2026 marks the 65th anniversary of the start of the Peace Corps and in this latest edition of WUKY's Saving Stories, Doug Boyd with the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from a Kentuckian who was one of the program's earliest participants. Angene Hopkins Wilson and her eventual husband Jack Wilson got accepted into the program and in 1962 were sent to Liberia. Angene talks about what happened next.
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Saving Stories recalls a time when compromise wasn't such a taboo word in politics
Feb 2600:04:59Tap to summarizeCompromise has always been critical to the success of our political system yet its sorely lacking in the lexicon today. Nunn Center Director Dr. Doug Boyd shares interviews from two former Kentucky politicians who describe a time when members of both political parties got along and even socialized together.
Transcribe →Saving Stories remembers Stranger with a Camera's Elizabeth Barret, lasting legacy of Appalshop
Feb 1900:05:00Tap to summarizeIn this edition of WUKY's Saving Stories we remember pioneering filmmaker Elizabeth Barret who recently passed away. Nunn Center Director Dr. Doug Boyd highlights an interview with former Appalshop fundraiser, co-producer and researcher Judi Jennings, who helped get the Stranger with a Camera project off the ground. She also talks about the pivotal decision to have Barret serve as the film's narrator.
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Saving Stories: Mayor Gorton reflects on planning, implementation and impact of 250Lex
Jan 1500:05:00Tap to summarizeDoug Boyd, director of the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from a recent interview with Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton reflecting on the years-long team effort to celebrate the city's 250th anniversary.
Transcribe →Saving Stories: The unlikely resurrection of Lexington's Lyric Theatre
Oct 3100:04:59Tap to summarizeOctober 28, the Lyric Theatre in Lexington's East End neighborhood celebrated 15 years of rebirth. The current iteration of the arts and cultural center was officially reopened in 2010. In a 2015 UK Nunn Center oral history interview local activist Tom Tolliver talks about the effort to revitalize the Lyric, which had been shuttered since 1963; a result of the end of city-wide desegregation of public spaces. At first Tolliver was not on board with the idea and he describes what actions changed his mind.
Transcribe →Saving Stories remembers WUKY's first broadcast day
Oct 1700:05:00Tap to summarizeOctober 17 is an important day in the history of WUKY. The station formerly known as WBKY signed on for the first time on October 17, 1940. To mark the station's 85th anniversary, this special edition of Saving Stories with Dr. Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries, features an interview with Ruth Foxx Newborg, the first program director of the Beattyville, KY radio station.
Transcribe →Saving Stories: Lexington native Bobby Flynn on making history with the Hustlers
Sep 1900:05:00Tap to summarizeSaving Stories returns with a fresh episode on the integration of baseball. Not the Jackie Robinson story but another event that happened right here in Lexington. Nunn Center director Dr. Doug Boyd shares audio from an oral history interview with Lexington native Bobby Flynn, who in 1947 helped the Lexington Hustlers become the first integrated baseball team in the South. Flynn was white but had been rejected by the white teams because he was small. In the interview Bobby Flynn tells the story of being asked by manager John 'Scoop' Brown to join the Negro League team, and the reaction from members of the local white community.
Transcribe →Saving Stories: Kentucky middle school student gets a bourbon history lesson from Jim Beam's Booker Noe
Sep 1200:04:58Tap to summarizeWUKY's Saving Stories celebrates Bourbon Heritage Month with this special episode. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Director Dr. Doug Boyd shares this 1991 interview with Frederick Booker Noe II, who discusses the bourbon industry and the history of Jim Beam. The Nunn Center has conducted more than one hundred bourbon-related interviews spanning generations of famous personalities, but it wasn't until recently that Boyd and staff discovered this rare conversation between Noe and a Kentucky middle school student. The interviews were part of an educational media project under the direction of Henderson County North Middle School teacher Roy Pullam.
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