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Today’s show is called Prelude to Summer. We end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and lo...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 22:10
How a more personal approach to ending homelessness may also be more effective.
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 03:32
Live Art,
sponsored for the past three years by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kin...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 27:38
Listeners escape with Michelle Valentine to a quaint, historical Florida waterside bed & breakfast. Learn about the history of the hotel and take a...
Bought by KXCR
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 27:50
- Purchases: 1
As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 24, 2016
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
Hi-5 Sports was founded in Clifton Park, N.Y. by Jim Fitzgerald to give children with physical and developmental disabilities the chance to play si...
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 03:30
Erin Byrnes is a 13 year- old middle school student who won a car in a raffle event, then gave it back. Now, she is working to collect toys to dona...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 2
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 the...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 25:54
Black-eyed peas and collards. Fried chicken and peach cobbler. Customers at Delicious Southern Cuisine in Los Angeles come for these soul food sta...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 27:08
- Purchases: 2
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
Sophie discovered a cassette tape with her name on it when she was 10 years old. Her mother said that a close family friend had taken her to get he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
This installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota has gone to the dogs. This past weekend in Wilson Park, the Tri County Humane Society ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 30:12
What does *not* eating meat say about you? In one young biracial man’s family, his dietary change was construed as white, elite, even feminine. In ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 24:40
- Purchases: 3
"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 23:30
- Purchases: 1
A vignette of children’s perspectives on fireworks.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:04
Vietnam veteran and widower Don Thomas needed a kidney. Hooters waitress Mariana Villarreal had an extra.
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 18:25
In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 25:20
For years, Carla Bley has been a prolific composer, original arranger, and boundary-pushing pianist. Now, she's a 2015 NEA Jazz Master. In this bat...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 13
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 04:01
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:26
Melvin McCosh was a poet, musician and bookstore owner who sold out of his home, and later in Dinkytown and the West Bank. KFAI producer Britt Aamo...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
Fathers and Children is about a man named Melvin Major who became father to hundreds of young people. But he has no offspring.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 27:40
