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How do you sleep when so much of life is unsettled?
In this episode that comes to us from the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place, we talk abo...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 26:15
- Scent number 20: Chanel No. 5 Perfume -
Walker brings us back to her startup days when the coveted perfume Chanel No. 5 helped her close many bu...
- Added: Jan 15, 2021
- Length: 02:54
In this special hour-long episode, host Ashley McMullen and executive producer Kimberly Manning discuss the making of the series Black Voices in He...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 01:03:44
The story of our Black hair speaks volumes about our lives. So much love and care is wrapped up in our curls. Alongside so much vulnerability and p...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 33:10
It takes surprisingly little for the human psyche to come undone. We know that the virus can’t survive when we isolate ourselves, the question is, ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 30:47
Over the past few weeks, there have been so many news articles about healthcare workers as heroes, or soldiers fighting the battle of coronavirus. ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 31:40
What is it like to be a healthcare worker forced to stand on the sidelines during a global pandemic? This week, you’ll hear from diarists from Cali...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 26:29
This week, we continue with audio diaries from healthcare workers around the country who speak about ventilator hacks, breathing tubes, search and ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 30:55
In this episode of The Nocturnists: Stories from a Pandemic, you will hear diary entries from healthcare workers from New York, California, Massach...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 31:10
Introducing the podcast - here's the e-mail I wrote to my friends on my 37th birthday about my pronoun change.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 06:03
Need relief from all the juvenile antics of campaign season? From PRX's Radiotopia, "MORTIFIED'S TOTALLY JUVENILE ELECTION SPECIAL" is your antidot...
Bought by KPIK-LP, WUTC, KJZZ, Troy Public Radio, KALW and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 26
Philip Armand becomes enamored with Campari while on vacation in Milan, then discovers the geography of the past and future.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:17
Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 05:43
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
Stuff always falls apart while traveling. Plans change, health declines. Items disintegrate… Relationships fade… It doesn’t always happen, but it’s...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 14:44
Stories from disaster relief workers Ian Burgess and LN Lurie
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 14:54
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
Storyteller Graham Shelby is thinking about the WWII veterans in his family when he serves as guest of honor at an unusual Christmas party - one he...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 12:29
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
Elna Baker, Michele Carlo, Christine, Steve Spatucci and Scott Whitehair share true tales of the Yuletide.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, KUNM and more
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 51:56
- Purchases: 17
Steve Spatucci tells of his childhood quest to find Santa Claus
Bought by KRZA, KMXT, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
What is it like to be homeless in the city that never sleeps? Reporter Kristie Brigandi takes us to lower Manhattan, and introduces us to some of t...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 09:17
Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 15:02
- Purchases: 1
A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 07:35
In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
