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A Blues Unlimited Special: In Their Own Words - A Conversation with the Blues

From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited

In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

Added: Mar 15, 2013
Length: 59:00

Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Well Yes We Have No Bananas Today!" -- Food Shopping in Old New York

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.

Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

Added: Mar 07, 2013
Length: 01:14

The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town

From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala

Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes

Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Feb 14, 2013
Length: 05:56
Purchases: 2

Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.

Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 01:56
Purchases: 1

Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.

Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: :48
Purchases: 1

Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Ortiz started cooki...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 01:28
Purchases: 1

Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.

Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 02:04
Purchases: 1

Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.

Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 02:08
Purchases: 1

Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 02:01
Purchases: 2

Forgotten Foods of NYC: Automat Baked Beans and Childs' Chocolate Syrup

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Caption: Hilda Baumol., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.

Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 01:56
Purchases: 2

Forgotten Foods of NYC: Soda Fountain Memories

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Caption: Monte Malach. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.

Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 01:07
Purchases: 1

They Always Pay, in the End

From: Traveling 219

During the Great Depression, Ken Hardesty's grandfather was the de-facto bank for the townspeople of Aurora, West Virginia.

Added: Jan 14, 2013
Length: 03:54

A Goose for Christmas

From: Traveling 219

A Christmas tale for the holidays

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KISU, and WMPG

Added: Jan 14, 2013
Length: 04:06
Purchases: 3

Back to War

From: Traveling 219

A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 14, 2013
Length: 06:04
Purchases: 1

The Artichoke King

From: Emily Gadek
Series: Footnote Podcast

Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...

Added: Jan 10, 2013
Length: 09:56

The Trick That Turned Skateboarding Upside Down

From: Andrew Norton

Caption: The February 1985 cover featuring McGill unveiling the McTwist, Credit: Transworld Skateboarding

After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Dec 28, 2012
Length: 05:25
Purchases: 1

The Conscience of Chester A. Arthur

From: Emily Gadek
Series: Footnote Podcast

In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...

Added: Dec 19, 2012
Length: 15:33

Lost Landmarks: Time traveling in San Francisco's Tenderloin district

From: KALW

The Uptown Tenderloin Historic District is trying to preserve its history with funding from SF Grants for the Arts and the city’s Neighborhood Arts...

Added: Aug 31, 2012
Length: 08:51

KUT's Views and Brews: Miles Davis and the Making of Kind of Blue

From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix

As part of KUT’s Views and Brews series we engaged in a spirited discussion about Miles, his music, his relationships with his musicians, and the g...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM

Added: Aug 15, 2012
Length: 01:58:04
Purchases: 1

Red, White, and Bruised

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories

Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix

Added: Jul 24, 2012
Length: 02:57
Purchases: 3

Revivalist Radio...on Stage

From: Daniel Gross

It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix