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.
Latest episodes
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30 min
Behind the story: ‘The test of their lives’
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 h…
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22 min
'There's no end in sight to this'
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 e…
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24 min
‘We just had one of our many talks about being a black boy in America’
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…
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31 min
‘Midland is trending on Twitter, and Donald Trump is tweeting about us’
This is the ninth 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…
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18 min
‘I'll be getting my degree in the mail, but that has me feeling hollow’
This is the eighth 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…
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20 min
'We grew up in agriculture--we've had a lot of experience of going without'
This is the seventh episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes hav…
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20 min
‘It is a pretty significant hole in the system’
This is the sixth 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…
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20 min
'First thing's first, I gotta beat this game'
This is the fifth 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…
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17 min
'For me, it’s all the blues'
Marquise Knox, a blues musician in St. Louis, was set to release a new album and tour with ZZ Top this spring. Now, he’s self-isolated, playing music on Facebook Live, and feeling…
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24 min
‘I cannot hold it all’
Share your story:Tell us how your life has changed due to the coronavirus outbreak, and help us share first person accounts of life during the pandemic.Submit a voice recording(des…
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22 min
'You never signed up for this'
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.Submit a voice recording (des…
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22 min
'Good luck, everybody'
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.Submit a voice recording (des…
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39 min
Altamont part 2: Re-creating a day of chaos and violence
Recordings from the 1969 concert and interviews with those who were there reveal how the festival became a scene of chaos, violence and death. Episode 2 brings you inside the conce…
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25 min
Altamont part 1: How the ’60s most disastrous concert came to be
50 years ago the Rolling Stones headlined a free concert that ended in chaos, with a young man killed feet from the stage as the Stones played. Episode 1 (of 2) explores the decisi…
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26 min
The other Frankfurt: an East German city grapples with identity
4 years ago, Germany kept its borders open to a surge of refugees. Many of them settled in Frankfurt Oder, a city in eastern Germany. Now, longtime residents and new arrivals are g…
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23 min
$1,000 a month, no strings attached
In Jackson, Miss., 20 low-income women are a part of one of the first universal basic income pilot programs in the country, assessing a seemingly simple solution to end poverty: gi…
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22 min
A boxer’s new fight
In 2015, Prichard Colon suffered a major brain injury after a boxing match gone wrong. Specialists predicted he’d spend the rest of his life in a vegetative state. He can’t walk or…
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21 min
The Stay Here Center
In Guatemala the U.S.-funded Centro Quédate — the Stay Here Center — teaches young people job skills in hopes of dissuading them from migrating to the United States. Whether it hel…
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21 min
The front line of school security
In the two decades since the shooting at Columbine High School, the school district has led the way in finding threats before they go too far. Much of that has come down to one man…
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59 sec
Introducing 'All Told'
A new podcast from The Washington Post exploring stories of what it means to be human in today’s world.