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The Story was produced at North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC and was heard on over 100 stations.Visit The Story web site to listen to this program and for more details, archives, show highlights and more podcasts. UPDATE 1.13.2020: The Story web site has been decommissioned and is in the process of being archived. It may return at a later date.

The Fastest Electric Car In The World

Photo of the Buckeye Bullet
The Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research

Here's what's on the latest program from The Story

Start Your Engines

Building a car, a battery powered car that can go up to 400 miles per hour. It's under way at Ohio State University and the racing team, the Buckeye Bullets, plan to race their car at the Bonneville Salt Flats this summer. Dick speaks to professor Giorgio Rizzoni and David Cooke, one of the students who work 40 to 80 hours a week on the project.

Searching for the Spitfires: An Update

We call David Cundall in Burma to check in on his attempt to dig up old World War II era planes - Spitfires. He says he's close to finding them and is himself a patient man when it comes to this quest. Hear a previous conversation with David.
 
Picture a Box

A story from Nate DiMeo about a slave who hides in a wooden box and sends himself to freedom.

To listen to this show, visit The Story's website.

Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.
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