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Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:20
In his Song Story, Rod Clarance reminds everyone born in Montreal something we all intuitively know. You can leave Montreal, but Montreal will neve...
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 06:06
Sandy Senyk remembers his bad drinking days and hearing, for the first time, "some girl called Bonnie Raitt ..." It's "one of the best when night'...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 03:51
Here's a Song Story from the Maritimes (Canada's easternmost provinces) and it features Charlotte Britten and Great Big Sea.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 03:09
Artist and medical technician Deb Mueller Peate take us to her youth and back in a Song Story that covers four decades of memory.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 06:42
“I'll always have this wonderful memory of my father who loved to dance with his daughter, and still does to this day.”
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Here's a Song Story guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 03:41
Some people police their yards. Some people police their streets. And some people get together to police their neighborhoods. If you've ever been p...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 10:04
Christine navigates love and romance as she grows up.
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 07:08
“I crawled through the underbrush, then I popped out into a beautiful, green clearing in the middle of the city. And in the center of it, about 20 ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 12:00
I hate high fives and have only tried to high five one person as an adult. It was Denzel Washington. He wasn't really into it.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:16
“He told me she had stolen about 40 thousand dollars from people. Then he told me I should lawyer up."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 12:32
- Purchases: 1
An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
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- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"
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- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 1
If you like Tim McGraw, you probably know Jason White’s music—he’s a songwriter and singer in Nashville with a pretty impressive track record. What...
Bought by American Voices and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 15:28
- Purchases: 2
It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
Mina, a high school freshman, has always been bored by love. This year she found an identity that seemed to fit: aromantic. Mina interviews her mom...
- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 04:05
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 08:48
- Purchases: 1
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
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- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 1
For some bears, weird spring weather was a wake-up call. For humans, not so much.
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 08:47
Pickers and neighbors from the South, Minnesota that is, Pert Near Sandstone.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
For Sandip Roy, after growing up in India America was a culture shock. After 20 years in America living in India was its own culture shock. Everyth...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk.
Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:59
Keeping Me Humble is a podcast about the tough things in life...the stuff that keeps us humble.
Today...stories of failure.
Host Steven Chua on why...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 16:19
