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“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...
- Added: Mar 13, 2021
- Length: 27:43
Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 1
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
Jim Henson would have been 80 years old on September 24, 2016. Learn the story of his career and short life.
- Added: Sep 25, 2016
- Length: 09:00
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
Live Art, sponsored by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kind in the country. It’s th...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 25:38
Live Art,sponsored the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, is the only program of its kind in the country, or the world for t...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 24:21
Live Art is the only program of its kind in the country, if not the world. It’s the brainchild of Erin Thomas Foley and what it manages to do is as...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 25:59
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 28:20
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together.
Rol...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 25:30
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
Michael Powell is a train driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He captivated me for years with his chatty speeches over the train's speakers. ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 03:05
- Purchases: 1
A box of sound effects from the Captain Kangaroo show opens the door to a bygone era of live television production. Interviews with key players on ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 09:50
- Purchases: 1
Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
Children have their own kind of oral history in the form of rhymes and handclapping games that are passed down from generation to generation. What ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
A guy muses on the fears associated with a loved one's body.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 07:52
When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:18
Portrait of Lou Alexander, a crossing guide in Portland, Maine
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 06:56
A girl with disabilities receives emotional and physical therapy through horse-riding.
Bought by KGUA and WRVO Public Media
- Added: May 01, 2010
- Length: 05:08
- Purchases: 2
Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:42
- Purchases: 3
Steven Cornish loves magic. He goes by “The Great Stephan,” and he performs as a magician in Lewiston, Maine.
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 1
Spend a day with a school-portrait photographer at an elementary school in the Washington, DC.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2009
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 3
What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...
- Added: Mar 05, 2009
- Length: 04:30
A family in Falmouth, Maine fights for their right to keep chickens.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 07:29
