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Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
In Key West, Florida,a neighborhood rooster's cries awaken a woman mourning her mother's recent death.
- Added: May 06, 2012
- Length: 02:59
On April 27th, 2012, I stood on the banks of the Hudson River in NYC.. and watched Space Shuttle Enterprise make a fly-by, strapped to the back of...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 57:37
A reflective piece about a middle aged man's visit to the cardiologist for his annual stress test.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 04:58
On this episode, a pair of car accidents are just the beginning for two stories about life, death and perception....
Bought by WCNY, XRAY.fm, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 6
This week on Tales from the South, stories about lessons: some learned from a parent, some from a stranger, and some from a child. Stories by Murra...
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Bemidji area resident Susan Carol Hauser's most recent book is a nonfiction chronicle of an 18 day journey down the Mississippi. Susan joins Maggie...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 18:25
- Purchases: 1
Between You and Me is our weekly mix of conversation and music.
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 04:14
After twenty years of doing it, Mark Munger conveys this writer's "personification of pattern" as he recites this recent essay about his morning wr...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 09:28
- Purchases: 1
Radio 101 student Denita Wade remembers her father, a man she did not know very well.
- Added: Sep 19, 2011
- Length: 04:19
Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A man-sized teenager believes joining the football team will help him feel big on the inside.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
Fishing expert Jerry McKinnis on a special edition of Tales from the South. The owner of B.A.S.S. and host of ESPN's "The Fishin' Hole" tells of a ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Signs and omens--words, items, and incidents that give us pause, give us a funny feeling that something is just not right. Buck Marsh has a bad fee...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Freelance writer Jay Jennings, on a special edition of "Tales from the South", takes us along as he sits in the bleachers of an old Little Rock, Ar...
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Pat remembers his step-mother, Barbara Jean, from the first time they met, to the last time he saw her. Though the 11 years in between were sometim...
- Added: Jun 28, 2011
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 2
This month on Open Mind, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, a Buddhist nun and author, joins us once again to talk about our sense of self?—?what’s healthy, wh...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 06:57
Award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier returns to his childhood hometown only to find it has changed as much as he has. Southern-style storytelling ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Homo sapien, human being. Homo mustus, human doing. How much of my life is defined by my doing rather than my being?
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:31
I know my mother and my children, literally, from the inside out.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:20
On May Day, the first day of summer in the Celtic calendar, I celebrate the music of Turlough O'Carolan, the last great Irish composer and harpist.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 06:02
A reflection on earlier ranch life in winter.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Hank Godwin, Chuck Butkus, and Daniel Koehler share about childhood mistakes. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:26
Sleeping in a cave along Australia's West coast, I could hear, but not join, an ancient corroboree.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:28