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At the very end of Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, there’s a repair shop for film cameras – one of the last of its kind, like a fossil of a different e...
- Added: Jul 03, 2022
- Length: 12:56
On the afternoon of August 15, 2021, the hills of Jerusalem were covered in smoke. It was, it would turn out after the fire was quelled five days l...
- Added: Jun 29, 2022
- Length: 12:05
A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 24:24
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Philip Armand misses an opportunity to share cake with Sir Terence Conran because he has his head up his A@%.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:13
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:13
When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 29:02
The Minnesota Hooved Animal Rescue Foundation may have one of the most unique benefactors around. KFAI producer Susan Budig introduces us to Roswel...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 57:44
When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 05:42
Moving into an apartment in Camden, Canadian Craig Taylor can't help but feel the past coming to get him...
- Added: Jul 26, 2010
- Length: 07:57
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.
Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2009
- Length: 13:48
- Purchases: 6
Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 30, 2007
- Length: 08:42
- Purchases: 7
Dave Kerpen keeps creating fame for himself- first as a vendor with an unusual flare, then on TV, and now with an outrageous wedding
- Added: Sep 28, 2006
- Length: 06:53
Discovering the the dangerous trials and tribulations of the modern knife thrower
- Added: Sep 28, 2006
- Length: 09:34
- Purchases: 3
Two elderly sisters, who are not twins, dress exactly the same, eat all the same food, and go everywhere together.
Bought by WJCT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more
- Added: Nov 05, 2003
- Length: 10:24
- Purchases: 9
A music-filled, sound-rich tour of some of the quirky, idealistic and informal democracies that play a significant but understated role in American...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPBS, KCLU, WBAA and more
- Added: Sep 18, 2003
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
