In our pilot episode, we discuss silence and power in oral history. Can oral history teach us to be better listeners? Can we learn how to pay attention--not just to what is being said, but to what isn't? We'll talk with Southern Oral History Program founding Director Jacquelyn Dowd Hall about a 1974 interview with Katherine DuPre Lumpkin that is shot through with silences; you'll get tips on how to handle it a question you ask leads to a long silence; and we'll hear clips from our collection in which three different women talk about the relationship between silence and their own activism.