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Just as Sam is starting to feel like he's getting the hang of this whole cab driving thing, he becomes ensnared in the nefarious clutches of 31st S...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 08:35
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
A true story. When my best friend broke up with me, I wished her dead. Then she had a brain hemorrhage.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 3
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
There are many aid workers on the ground in Haiti. Some were there before the earthquake last January. Many others have flown in over the last te...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:37
Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
On my 21st birthday my father said to me: "Happy birthday, you're not covered on my insurance anymore ... so do me a favor, don't wear a seatbelt. ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and KUOW
- Added: May 22, 2010
- Length: 07:32
- Purchases: 3
Reporter Laura Spero lives in New York City, but she travels to Nepal every year. There, a single winding road connects Nepal’s capital, Katmandu,...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
There’s a new form of traveling inexpensively that’s emerged in recent years. Any adventurous tourist can “couch-surf.” It gives travelers the ch...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Food shipments may end soon to Haiti where hundreds of thousands of people still live in tents after January’s earthquake. What happens next depen...
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 03:37
Afghanistan in winter can be brutal. If you really want to get warm, the place to go is the local hamam or bath house. In a country where most ho...
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 03:04
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised an extensive package of relief supplies and equipment to earthquake ravaged Chile. The temblo...
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 02:26
In India recently, a large gathering of women welcomed reporter Will Everett to a special celebration. But Will wasn’t happy about it. In fact, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 1
Author William Powers lived in Liberia for two years. He was an aid worker directing relief programs during the civil war there. When Powers retu...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Reporter Amelia de Sousa sends another letter from earthquake ravaged Haiti before leaving for the U.S.
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 04:44
Reporters in the field rely to a great extent on self-reliance. But when the chips are down, sometimes you just need a helping hand, as Will Evere...
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 03:24
Amelia de Sousa was working in the UN building in Haiti when it collapsed. She managed to crawl out alive. But she lost many colleagues and frien...
- Added: Jan 29, 2010
- Length: 04:19
Grant Fuller spent nearly two years living in West Africa. While he was there, he traveled around using every means available -- taxi, bus, boat, ...
- Added: Jan 29, 2010
- Length: 01:34
Five suicide bombers and a protracted gun battle between police and Taliban insurgents rocked Kabul, Afghanistan this past week. Reporter Will Eve...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 02:20
Taking a first job at an inner city non-profit can be horrifying. But there's a lot of perks too ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
There are some stories that change a reporter’s life. In this reporter’s notebook, Michelle Betz tells us about one story that not only changed he...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 1
Author William Powers spent two years in Liberia during that country’s civil war. He directed relief programs for an aid group operating there. P...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 03:03
Thousands of children in Haiti’s capitol city, Port au Prince, beg on the streets to survive. Most street kids are invisible to those passing by. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Conservationist Bill Powers worked for five years protecting the rain forest in the Amazon.
He saw first hand how global economic conditions affec...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 03:37
In some places around the world, it’s not access to food that’s the issue. It’s the taste of that food. Reporter Will Everett was recently in Sen...
- Added: Nov 20, 2009
- Length: 02:56
