'This I Believe'

"Unless one wants to lead a stunningly boring life, one ought to be on good terms with one's darker side and one's darker energies." — Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist and author, in an essay she read last week on National Public Radio's "This I Believe."

In 1951 radio pioneer Edward R. Murrow asked Americans from all walks of life to write essays about their most fundamental and closely held beliefs.

Every week NPR broadcasts an essay read by the individual who wrote it.

Among those whose essays have been heard since April of this year: Brian Greene, Charles S. Johnson, John Updike, Errol Morris, Dave Brubeck, Norman Corwin, and many "ordinary" people whose essays were so striking NPR asked their authors to read them as part of the series.

This website offers the essays in written form along with their original broadcasts on NPR.

There is much of interest here.