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Cesar Irizarry
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
Angel Garcia
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
Noah Creshevsky
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:41
THE 2023 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Part 2 of music special producer Paul Ingles' thoughtful, heart-felt, year-end music mix program that allows us all to honor many of the music grea...

Bought by WORT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSJE, KFSK, KRVS and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 55
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about managing death.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 32
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about people finding stability when things feel out of control.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Memoriam 2022
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look at the musicians we lost in 2022.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:03
2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - (OPTIONAL) HOUR 2
From: Paul Ingles
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More names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this optional second hour long special hosted by music historian and docume...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
THE 2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - HOUR 1 (with an optional HOUR 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Christine McVie, Coolio, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn
Some of the top names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this hour long special hosted by music historian and documentari...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCU Public Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 18
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The fifth chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #14: Sacred Self
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
Just A Normal Day
From: Glen Lasley
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This Is A Sound Walk In Colombia

Bought by PRX Remix and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tell Saki - Part I
From: Israel Story
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In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 52:51
Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
Stories From My Grandma
From: Elias Schutzman
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My Grandma Jody, who recently passed away, sharing her life story...

  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 22:23
Primal Surprise
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 21: Pain, Pain, Go Away
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Rapper P.O.S, Credit: Erin Cahanes
For some artists, sickness can fuel their creativity. But for others, illness can drain the inspiration right out of them. In this episode, musicia...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 17:21
On the Detention Centers at the Border - Vanessa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
What is Color?
From: Lauren Gramley
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Can you describe color without using words linked to your sense of sight?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
Frogs In Bishop Ca.
From: Glen Lasley
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10 pm. In Bishop Ca Listening To Frogs

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #42
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.

Bought by KFSK, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
Patapsco Mart
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I smile, even when it hurts.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Ocean;
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018
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I was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, also known as Clinical Depression, in February of 2018. My story describes what’s it like to have d...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 11:42
Bottom of the Curve
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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A story about mid-life crises and how three people climbed out of them.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 37:05
  • Purchases: 1