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A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...
- Added: Jan 09, 2016
- Length: 06:50
In this episode, we ask how Colorado Springs' evangelical Christian community has changed in the decade since former New Life Church Pastor Ted Hag...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 58:59
Story about the 23rd and Cherry Fellowship Hall in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. The story follows Nick, a recovering drug addict, on hi...
- Added: Dec 12, 2015
- Length: 05:08
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
Even if you grow up in a hip hop hotspot like New York or LA, it’s not easy to make it as a rapper. It’s even harder if you’re from a small town li...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
What do you do when you realize that in order to be true to yourself, you have to shatter everything around you, including the lives of those you l...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 40:52
Like the JFK assassination, everyone remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. For Aliza Goren, that isn’t so hard – she was one of ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 09:56
In the early 90s, Bruce Saunders started a movie night at the Eric Martin Pavilion, the psychiatric ward of the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria....
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 31:49
An immigrant's dream in Kansas City.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 19:59
A story about war and hairdressing.
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 31:50
In this installment of CARGOLAND, Lu Olkowski meets one man who embodies the spirit of the fast-fading waterfront. Morning sunlight streams through...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 30:26
- Purchases: 3
Debby Wurster is having a ball at her new home in a retirement community. She's got a full calendar of activities, she's making new friends, and......
Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
Gloria Rhoden hails from Saint Mary, Jamaica. She has traveled the United States, up and down the East Coast for years. She knew Bob Marley and san...
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 24:17
Goes2Eleven starts its run with a tribute to the jazz giant Joe Pass (1929-1994). We take a look at the guitarist’s early years in Johnstown, PA, h...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 54:06
Daphne Shaed talks about what it's like to be a woman with a penis.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 11:49
A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 20:02
- Purchases: 1
Bill Kirchen is a showman and a storyteller. Mainly though he’s a singer and a songwriter and a player of the world’s most versatile Telecaster. Th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 27:32
Margarita Monsalve operates a sewing circle in Torrance, California, where unaccompanied migrant girls from Central America find a strong community...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 1
Native Tongvan woman Cindi Alvitre lives on her ancestors' land in the Los Angeles basin, but in a completely different world. So she follows a viv...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:12
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
Host, Richard Hadlock investigates performances by some of Jazz's greatest dramatic players while connecting their performances with that of the Gr...
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 57:55
The Great American Songbook was largely derived from Broadway Shows produced at the turn of the Century. However, as the Great Depression began in ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 01:00:12
Students from the alternative education and positive youth development program ¡YouthWorks! share their perspective on immigration through intervie...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jun 19, 2015
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 1
Pianist, Art Tatum was an amazing soloist who often sounded like two players at once. His unaccompanied work has been well-documented and celebrate...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 01:00:50
- Purchases: 1
Host, Richard Hadlock explores the players of yesteryear who showed immense talent as teenagers. Musicians, Jabbo Smith, Mary Lou Williams and Gene...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 59:43