“Lives of the Great Depression”

Date: July 23rd, 2020 URL: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893672249/lives-of-the-great-depression

This was a podcast about the Great Depression which included real accounts from three different people.

This podcast used oral histories from three different accounts of the Great Depression, an Asian American living in San Francisco’s China town, a college aged women who escaped her small town to go to New York City for college, and a traveling man who describes himself as a “hobo”.

The podcast uses bleak piano music as a backdrop which was a perfect addition to set the scene of the oral histories being used.

In addition to using the oral histories of the three individuals the podcast uses other real audio clips from the time as well as a narrator to describe what this time period was like for men and women.

This podcast did an incredible job of painting a picture of not only the Great Depression but also the real accounts of the three very different individuals and their experiences with the Great Depression.

I felt the podcast could of also included the life of a family, a child, a mother.. these experiences were missing and I felt it could of made the podcast even more elaborate.

Overall, I enjoyed listening to the real life accounts of the three individuals and learning a little more about the history and the government’s involvement with the Great Depression.