WNYC's 2020 Time Capsule

Specials | Dec 1, 2020

The web version of the Time Capsule has been sealed and taken down, and will not be available again until 2030. Check back with WNYC in March of 2030 to revisit what will then be, our challenging pandemic year in hindsight

 

Hear us place the Time Capsule at the top of the Empire State Building:

What's in the Time Capsule?

ALL TOLD:

  • 249 Audio Files, ~24h53m
  • 718 Images
  • 6.2 gigabytes

Including:

  • [10m, 1 file] A 2020 Timeline In Brian Lehrer Show Callers
  • [5h6m, 225 files] Listener Submissions - Personal windows on a year of personal upheavals
  • [718 Photos] Listeners' Most 2020 Photos - What did NYC’s pandemic year look like?
  • [38m, 2 files] Those We Lost - Call-in memorials to loved ones
  • [2h, 1 file] Reading Their Names - A Community Memorial
  • [3h35m, 8 files] Call-in Check-ins - The many angels of COVID
  • Special Coverage of 2020’s Other National Reckonings
  • ------ [4h41m, 5 files] Racial Justice
  • ------ [8h43m, 7 files] Election 2020

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