One Woman's Take On TV News - a podcast by WNYC Studios

“Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project” tells the story of a Philadelphia woman who recorded television non-stop accumulating 70,000 VHS tapes. Director Matt Wolf explores Stokes’ complex life. She had communist sympathies, but came into immense wealth that supported her quixotic archival mission.

— Raphaela Neihausen and Thom Powers 

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