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No one expected this year to look the way it did. The coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives. Racial injustices continue to fill us with outrage and shame. Presidential politics are testing the strength of our democracy.  

But in 2020 we also saw the resilience of essential workers, the resourcefulness of communities, the power of technology to keep us connected. The election turned out more voters than ever before, and a new generation of protesters confronted systematic racism.  It was an extraordinary year full of stories that we'll tell for the rest of our lives, and to make sure we don't forget, we're putting together a 2020 Time Capsule that we'll pry open in 2030 and revisit those stories and lessons. In this rebroadcast of our Sunday evening special, we talk to WNYC voices who played a role in telling those stories on the air, and hear stories from listeners about how they navigated this consequential year. 

- Zoe Azulay and Amina Srna, producers at the Brian Lehrer Show who have been taking your calls all year, reflect on what it's been like to talk to listeners. Zoe wrote a piece about how your voices helped her through 2020, and put together a montage of calls that paint a picture of the year.

- Brooke Gladstone, co-host of WNYC's On The Media, talks about how the news covered the pandemic, the election, and the intersection of the two.

- WNYC's Gwynne Hogan and Kai Wright, discuss the big ideas about racial justice sparked by the police killing of George Floyd and the groundswell of protests against police violence that moved the conversation.

- Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater, talks about what's next for the performing arts, an industry among the hardest hit by the pandemic.