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For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 48:42
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
200 W Saratoga: One block. Everybody's story.
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 48:30
When Abby was born, her mother knew she couldn’t keep her. Luckily for Abby, a loving family had been looking for a child just like her. Julia Hitz...
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 03:13
This hour-long special is about the courage of teenagers who come out at a time in life when it is hardest to be different. So many of the legal an...
Bought by WGTE Public Media, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WFAE, KMUN and more
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 23
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
Packed in one car, Elaine Manis, her six siblings, and her mother set out on a trip from the small town of Forgan, Oklahoma, to the seaside town of...
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 01:24
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
Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 23:29
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
Today, Americans seem to lack any type of silence in their lives. Silence should be a source of solace, but the modern mind is often discontent whe...
Bought by KUER and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 2
Yip Harburg is remembered mostly for his lyrics to Harold Arlen's music in "The Wizard of Oz". But lets not forget "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" ...
Bought by KMUW, KUPR low power FM, WVTF, and WRR
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 4
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 3
Within Taylor's 16 years, she has lived in eight places all over the country. Taylor explains the impact moving has had on her life and how each pl...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 03:03
The summer before her sophomore year of high school, Audrey’s parents filed for a divorce. This momentous change affected her views on family, marr...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
Listen to Philippine hits from the last thirty years of the last millenium...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 02:35:32
6300 Reisterstown Road: One Block. Everybody's story.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
This is a story about a terrible crime and everything that followed. It’s an intensely personal documentary, but it extends into public life and in...
Bought by HowSound, WGBH Radio Boston, KTSW 89.9, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WHYY and more
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 19
A tool lending library builds confidence and community.
- Added: Feb 11, 2016
- Length: 15:28
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
Jay Ipson is a survivor of the first magnitude. He learned his survival skills under the most harrowing conditions known to man. As a young boy, he...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 26:41
Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 27:43
New to Los Angeles, Ann was excited to start a new job and experience the Southern California lifestyle. However, she ran into some trouble when sh...
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 01:48
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 28:53
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
