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On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. – ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Have you ever found yourself looking around in a meeting or a class only to realize that you are the only one? Standing out in the crowd can be har...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 34:53
In the first month of lockdown during the global pandemic, I made this short poem/prayer. The music in this piece is Falling to Pieces Again, by t...
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 01:46
Normally, Rachel Gemara is an oncology nurse at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. But back in March, she was one of a handful of nurses tr...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 06:35
Tania Chairez is a social entrepreneur and educator who grew up undocumented under the threat of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. In this episode, Ta...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 12:40
"All we want to do is leave." Anietra and Ian basically went into survival mode to find a way out of India. As the first episode mirrored a scen...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 24:00
Marcus Bullock is the founder of the tech app Flikshop—which allows families to communicate digitally with their loved ones in prison. In this clip...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 05:56
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 15:13
- Purchases: 8
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
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
We celebrate National Poetry Month with Mark Doty as he discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 Nati...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 1
Leonard Slatkin talks about the DSO
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 05:22
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
From a Bach fugue to Princess Diana's funeral to Truman's wall, this technique is the music of finality.
- Added: Nov 16, 2019
- Length: 12:05
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
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
Episode 31
Two years ago on July 28th, Houda’s family stepped off a plane into the intense Tucson heat. They weren’t sure what was in store for the...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:38
A series of random events in Nepal bring an Israeli reporter and a nepalese teenager to grow an unlikely bond.
- Added: Dec 06, 2018
- Length: 23:57
This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.
- Added: Nov 03, 2018
- Length: 03:13
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
After we finished recording this episode over coffee at Safaa and Sedra’s apartment, Houda said that it was the most important episode we have reco...
- Added: Aug 17, 2018
- Length: 04:30
Current Mood: Desperate. Mortified pays tribute to the kids who grew up in an era right before Myspace and Facebook and pioneered the idea of goin...
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 27:04
