Stories from Texas are written for and recorded for the Texas Standard radio program. They’re written by W.F Strong and edited for broadcast by Texas Standard producers.
How the Texas Hill Country inspired NYC’s Central Park
4 mins; March 18, 2026
Wealth on Your Shelf
6 mins; March 04, 2026
‘He didn’t take on an iconic role, he made the role iconic’: W.F. Strong on Robert Duvall
0 secs; February 18, 2026
Sandra Cisneros, a Texas literary rock star
7 mins; February 04, 2026
LBJ’s Humor (re-run)
4 mins; January 22, 2026
Traces of Texas – A priceless gift for all Texans
6 mins; January 07, 2026
How Three Gifts To UT Gave All Texans A Fourth: The Gift Of The Stars (re-run)
5 mins; December 17, 2025
Mix up your holiday entertainment with a history of Texas’ lawless influence on Old West
4 mins; December 03, 2025
George Foreman’s resilience: A two-time rags-to-riches story
4 mins; November 19, 2025
The two men who rescued Shiner Beer
4 mins; October 22, 2025
They called her ‘Babe’
4 mins; October 08, 2025
Belle and Lea
5 mins; September 24, 2025
Cowboy Time
4 mins; September 11, 2025
The sky welcomes you home
3 mins; August 13, 2025
The hat that made the cowboy
4 mins; July 16, 2025
Creative smuggling when Texas was a republic
3 mins; July 02, 2025
The Comanche Moon
4 mins; May 21, 2025
New York aids Texas Revolution
0 secs; April 23, 2025
Whistling while you work
0 secs; April 02, 2025
The 100th meridian
6 mins; March 12, 2025
John Steinbeck (and Charley) on Texas
5 mins; January 29, 2025
Do you have a favorite W.F. Strong story? Here are our top 10
49 mins; December 31, 2024
Fronters and backers
4 mins; December 19, 2024
A tale of a stolen town
4 mins; December 04, 2024
How some donated land became a bounty for a small town’s students
5 mins; November 20, 2024
Could Napoleon have ruled over Texas?
4 mins; November 07, 2024
A second siege of the Alamo
2 mins; October 23, 2024
My brush with fate or serendipity
5 mins; October 10, 2024
Some of the best Texans have been Californians – on film
6 mins; August 28, 2024
Frito pie is a Texas original
5 mins; August 14, 2024
The craziest race you’ve never heard of happened on Padre Island
4 mins; June 19, 2024
An AI Experiment
4 mins; May 08, 2024
Counting Cattle With the Fathers
5 mins; April 10, 2024
The Other Hill Country
5 mins; March 13, 2024
The mystery of the Texas box
4 mins; February 28, 2024
Bonnie and Clyde: Star-synced lovers
5 mins; February 14, 2024
New Year’s Eve on Houston Street
5 mins; January 03, 2024
The Gift of the Tidelands
5 mins; December 20, 2023
La Pitada
6 mins; December 06, 2023
Found in Translation
5 mins; November 09, 2023
On Censorship
4 mins; October 25, 2023
The Legend of La Llorona
4 mins; October 11, 2023
‘The Killers of the Flower Moon’ is an Oklahoma story with Texas ties
5 mins; September 27, 2023
Texas is God’s Country
4 mins; September 13, 2023
How the railroad saved Fort Worth
4 mins; August 16, 2023
The Historical Accuracy of Lonesome Dove
6 mins; August 03, 2023
Texas Spelling Bee
4 mins; July 19, 2023
The Second Sacking of San Antonio
7 mins; July 05, 2023
The 50th anniversary of ‘The Time It Never Rained’
5 mins; June 22, 2023
Farmer Logic
4 mins; May 24, 2023
Things Redneck Dave said to me on the drive across Texas
5 mins; May 10, 2023
What a Handshake is Worth
6 mins; April 26, 2023
Sancho
5 mins; April 12, 2023
It’s My Turn
5 mins; March 29, 2023
Quinta Mazatlan
4 mins; March 01, 2023
My Valentine
5 mins; February 16, 2023
Tom Hoskins and his Thousand Points of Light
6 mins; February 01, 2023
We Might Oughtta Praise Texas Grammar
3 mins; January 18, 2023
The Port Mansfield Cut and the treasure discovered there
7 mins; January 04, 2023
Jesse H. Jones was a model philanthropist
5 mins; January 02, 2023
‘Three red marbles’ is a story fit for Thanksgiving
4 mins; November 24, 2022
La Llorona
4 mins; October 26, 2022
Yonderings
4 mins; October 12, 2022
How Texas Saved the Buffalo
3 mins; September 28, 2022
Wright Bacon: A Texas Original
4 mins; September 14, 2022
Remembering Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Texas
4 mins; September 09, 2022
Flying to school on my Western Flyer
4 mins; August 24, 2022
Falcon Lake
6 mins; July 27, 2022
Remembering the Uvalde 21
6 mins; June 01, 2022
What happened to Toadsuck, Texas?
3 mins; May 04, 2022
The Pessimistic Farmer
2 mins; March 23, 2022
How The Railroad Help Built Texas
5 mins; March 09, 2022
Wordle For Texas
4 mins; February 23, 2022
LBJ’s Humor
4 mins; January 26, 2022
A Little Test Of Texas’ Official Symbols
4 mins; January 12, 2022
How Ranchers Used Barbed Wire To Make Phone Calls
5 mins; December 29, 2021
Texas Ice Fishing
4 mins; December 15, 2021
The Most Generous Texan Of Yore?
6 mins; December 01, 2021
Texas Navigator App
3 mins; November 17, 2021
Peregrine Falcons
4 mins; October 20, 2021
The Young Lieutenant Who Crossed the Wild Horse Desert
4 mins; October 06, 2021
Texas And The Art Of Understatement
5 mins; September 22, 2021
Words That Migrated
4 mins; September 08, 2021
The Texas Olympics
4 mins; August 12, 2021
Miles And Miles Of Texas
5 mins; July 14, 2021
Long Before Elon Musk, A Different Man Had A Plan To Develop Boca Chica
4 mins; June 30, 2021
There’s Something About A Person Named Tex
5 mins; June 16, 2021
Watermelon Season
4 mins; June 02, 2021
The Story of C.H. Guenther
4 mins; May 19, 2021
Don Pedrito: Healer of Los Olmos
6 mins; April 21, 2021
Larry McMurtry and the Lonesome Dove Quadrilogy
4 mins; April 07, 2021
High Security and Low Security Texas
3 mins; March 24, 2021
What’s In A Name? For These Famous Texans, Everything.
4 mins; March 10, 2021
Artist Tom Lea’s ‘Sarah In The Summertime’
4 mins; February 10, 2021
Lyndon Johnson’s Gifts To Texas
4 mins; January 27, 2021
In Praise Of Vultures
5 mins; January 13, 2021
A Letter from Texas
4 mins; December 16, 2020
The Texas Connection To Colorado’s Royal Gorge Bridge
