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As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
- Purchases: 1
How does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Does it end in a bang, or just fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is far from over.
In today...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 12, 2020
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
Snapshots of life during the pandemic from voices all over the world. In this piece, among other things, we hear about the Easter Bunny visiting on...
Bought by KGUA
- Added: Apr 30, 2020
- Length: 12:38
- Purchases: 1
Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 38:13
- Purchases: 2
An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 21:47
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 24:49
Interdisciplinary artist Karen Krolak tells us about the t-shirt she hand-stitched for her father and why it's so important that she hold on to it.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 29, 2019
- Length: 15:38
- Purchases: 1
Yes, Beethoven composed while he was deaf. But more astonishing is the fact that he changed the course of Western music in the process.
- Added: Nov 02, 2019
- Length: 24:10
Melissa Dueñas’ dad went in-and-out of jail and prison her whole life. Whenever he was locked up, they would keep in touch by writing letters. She ...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 16:19
- Purchases: 1
National Park Rangers Karl Rand and Russ Taylor share their views on the most distinctive part of their uniform.
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Natalie Bader’s passion for music has been around for as long as she can remember. Unfortunately, so have her debilitating panic attacks. For most ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 08:42
A limited series podcast produced by graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Calif...
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 01:15
One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Blaire, a DACA a student at Humboldt State University and a long-time resident, speaks of her frustration of not having the same privileges as her ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
Yolanda is a DACA student at HSU; she worries about being able to finish her schooling. She also went to Washington DC to lobby with Scholars Witho...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Not all comedy shows go great. Sometimes you wind up with a handful of very bad comment cards. Jan had this happen early on in her career. . .it wa...
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Oprah’s show could boost your comedy career, and Jan had her crack at it! Hear how it turned out!
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Comedy club accommodations usually ain’t that great, though if you work at it long enough, comedy comes full-circle! But sometimes you have to leav...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:38
The Jay Leno Comedy Challenge launched many wannabe comedians into their comedy careers, and Jan is one of them. It was a nationwide search to put ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:46
Comedians don’t always have good shows, and they know that. But all bombing is not equal. . . sometimes it’s a little worse that others. Here’s a s...
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 04:21
This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.
- Added: Nov 03, 2018
- Length: 03:13
This episode, two stories from the U.S. borders. The first, from Javier Zamora, who crossed into the U.S. without his parents when he was nine year...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 36:40
Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 24, 2018
- Length: 59:45
- Purchases: 1
