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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
Syniya
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Lasting Letters: Leaving a legacy behind
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Jeremy Jue with his dad, Robert, Credit: Jeremy Jue
“Lasting Letters: Leaving a legacy behind” reports on legacy letters and how they are helping people prepare for death, say goodbye, and grieve lov...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 17:46
The Working Tapes: Press Agent
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Eddie Jaffee, Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Piano Player
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Gravedigger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 4
Sangre Y Tierra: What Blood What Earth
From: Josh Landes
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"What Blood, What Earth", is a documentary on the life of Puerto Rican black metal artist MQ. His story leads the listener on a journey from pre-co...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:20
For World AIDS Day Steve Moore, Tears of a Clown, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Steve Moore
He left the East Coast for the West Coast to become an actor. Instead he became a comedian. And just as his career was taking off, he was diagnosed...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:34
Pilgrims & Indians
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Will Rogers remarks on the meeting of pilgrims and indians... Mark Twain's later years...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:16
A Fire in the Head
From: Ryan Sweikert
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For years, Michael Page has struggled to work out his troubles through art, creating a catalog of dark and strange music.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Melody in Isolation
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
Slipping Away: An Alzheimer's Story, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Triptych photo illustration, Credit: Doug Dobey.
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Full Circle
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: r wilde
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
The Sign
From: Greg Barron
Caption: In one word, its message spoke of a thousand stories, stories of sadness and joy. Short stories and epic tomes.
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 19:55
Pompey, Wenceslaus and Iran
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Pompey is assassinated... Wenceslaus is murdered... and the President of Iran would speak before the UN...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:35:31
An Unofficial Embassy for Displaced Kurds
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar., Credit: Taylor Haney
Luqman Barwari abandoned his career to open a Kurdish restaurant in the U.S., a meeting place where immigrant Kurds can keep memories of home alive.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Triggers
From: Justine Thieriot
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This piece investigates the particular difficulties of struggling with addiction as a mother.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Art and Transition
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Samaj examines his painting. It is part of his new series, called Entry/Dropline.
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
The Ghosts of Fire Island
From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
Georgetown Palace Theatre
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
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A Hill Country Treasure, the Georgetown Palace Theatre-from the Depression through today, a radio profile of a town’s beloved venue.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:58
Eric Jones, Custodian
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
End of the DIal
From: Garth Mullins
Caption: Banner , Credit: Garth Mullins
Radio is dead. Or so we are told. Video was supposed to have killed the radio star. Is the internet going to finish It off? International broadcast...

Bought by KQED, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and global24radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Ben Westlie - "The Road"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. He's published three chapbooks of poet...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
AIDS Survivor Steve Moore: Tears of a Clown
From: Charles McGuigan
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Host Lede for Steve Moore Steve Moore had hit his stride as a comedian back in the late 1980s. He was working all over Hollywood as a warm up comic...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:53
  • Purchases: 1