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Summer Dream, Crooked Rain
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Bad Mistakes Make Good Stories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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In this episode of the FEHLER podcast, Sylvia Cunningham, deputy editor at our partner radio station KCRW Berlin, compiles five stories that show j...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 50:35
Ooo Ahh Point
From: KXCI
Series: Southwestern Trails
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How did Ooo Ahh Point on the South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon get it’s name?

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:03
Water For The Birds
From: KXCI
Series: Southwestern Trails
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During our drought many animals are in need of reliable water supply. Attract birds to you with a simple water feature.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
101 Bren: My Best Friends are Movies of the Week
From: The Mortified Podcast
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The story of girl who copes with feeling like a misfit by inventing imaginary pen pal relationships with Movie of the Week characters. The Mortifie...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 24:06
Bring Out Your Dead
From: Trevor Keaton Pogue
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What It Is Like Working at a Funeral Home

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 27:40
  • Purchases: 1
Learning to Stutter by Stephanie Shacter
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Stephanie has had a stutter for sixteen years. In those sixteen years, she never identified with her stutter. That is, until she finally learned to...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:19
Dizzy
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Reporter and producer Christopher Johnson describes his frustrating year-and-a-half-long struggle to diagnose his chronic and sometimes painful diz...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Becky and Costumes
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sexy Kittens, Sexy Nurses, Sexy versions of normal looking things and people are generally what goes for Halloween Costumes for women. Becky tells...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Hate the Player
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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A charity basketball game pitting a team of little people against a team of law enforcement officers goes very wrong.

Bought by WCNY and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 15:24
  • Purchases: 2
JR Comes to Town - Joanna Coffey
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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Another true story told live in London. Joanna LOVES Dallas, so when Larry Hagman (JR) visits a nearby TV studio, Jo does everything in her power t...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2