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A License to Drive
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license! Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:15
Neal and Joe
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Laughter is the key to everything. You can give yourself an orgasm, but you can’t tickle yourself.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Guitarist, Pat Metheny
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Metheny grew up in a musical family, starting on trumpet at the age of eight and switching to guitar a few years later. By age 15 he was mentored b...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 6: What Are We Going To Do
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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"People wanted to put him up for sainthood because he married me, like he'd made the ultimate sacrifice."

Bought by PRX Remix and KALW


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 19:54
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5: A Private Life
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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Nino and Drew kept their relationship a secret for more than 40 years. And then, they decided to do something that forced them into the spotlight.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, PRX Remix, and HowSound


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 22:50
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 4: Eight Thousand Miles
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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A story about finding your way home.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:33
Episode 3: Always Tomorrow
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:49
Episode 1: The Run
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about wha...

Bought by American Voices and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 2
Tongue Terror
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
Episode 70: The Procedure
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a pho...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:33
  • Purchases: 1
Ramona lived in our neighborhood
From: amy handler
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Second Grade students from Portland, Oregon's Beverly Cleary Elementary School tour us around one of the sites from the famed author's childhood ho...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 10:19
Together then Alone
From: Lee Romney
Caption: Bob Henry in his Wellfleet studio, Credit: Lee Romney
Bob Henry and Selina Trieff came to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to paint in the 1950s. For six decades, they thrived in love and art. Bob’s work has al...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
Ep 02. Dust - Sue and Greg
From: Kismet Podcast
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Greg, a New York City cop, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia 11 years after being covered in dust and debris at the World Trade Center atta...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 16:20
  • Purchases: 1
Riding the Bus with a Disability
From: Julia Caulfield
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Dana Woodward has been riding the bus for 32 years. Due to a cognitive disability, she does not drive, so riding the bus is her only means of trans...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Will Webb - William V. Specht
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Will Webb
Will Webb as written and performed by William V. Specht

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:15
Lizzie Webb Guptill-Amber Lyon
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Lizzie Webb Guptill
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and performed by Amber Lyon

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:49
George Harrison The Vinyl Collection: All Access
From: Dan Neer
Series: All Access World Premieres
Caption: George Harrison - The Vinyl Collection
The Harrison Family is releasing all 12 of George's solo studio albums plus the "Live in Japan" record together in a beautiful box set for the firs...

Bought by KGLT and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:50
  • Purchases: 2
85 Celebrity Obsession pt2: Dear Mr. Belvedere
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Was your best friend is a fictional person? Our Unlikely Celebrity Obsession series continues with the story of a boy who wrote letters to an 80's ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2017
  • Length: 19:44
Episode 49: The Editor
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Correctional Institution. In prison, Robin found ...

Bought by WFAE


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
84 Celebrity Obsession pt1: Fan Letters
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Ever write a fan letter you regret? Part 1 of Unlikely Celebrity Obsessions features some truly misguided fan mail and a special appearance by Garf...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:10
I Do (Again)
From: Nora Ritchie
Caption: Lynne and Gary Brennan at a college winter formal in 1974. This photo was taken a few days after they were engaged.
In sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live. We’ve all heard wedding vows before. They are the promise that we will commit to our spou...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 1
Girls Rock NC
From: Hillary Rea
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Girls Rock NC is a summer music camp that doesn't hide being a feminist organization that embraces all gender identities. Ninety-five teens and twe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
A Man of the Wind
From: Stephen Rickard
Caption: Randy and Stephen on Catalina Island.
A fisherman tells his stories of adjusting to the ever changing, natural world.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 04:25
Reflections on Charmstrings
From: Mark Head
Caption: Prince Charming Arrives with the 108th Button, Credit: Edward L. Ott 1896 sketch, with Illustrator Overlay
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:24
A Change of Tune
From: Ellery Lamm
Caption: Sarah Swain, Credit: Organic Photography
Sarah Swain was about to make it big in LA…playing music she didn’t like. So she quit. It wasn’t until she came to Cape Cod that she really found h...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1

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