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Nearing 70, I’ve kept a large amount unsaid about my family. I felt it was time to let this out once and for all. There is much more to my story, b...
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 23:11
As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place.
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 01:00
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
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
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
An Israeli writer was invited by text message to the funeral of a woman she never knew. She attends out of curiosity and finds over seventy people ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2018
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 1
“Lasting Letters: Leaving a legacy behind” reports on legacy letters and how they are helping people prepare for death, say goodbye, and grieve lov...
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 17:46
Learn About the History of Grog! Also Go Behind the Scenes of a Wine Party Cruise with Captain Jerry! The Wine Fellers is an upbeat, good chemist...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 03:32
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 19:55
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 10:25
Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy believes that Nelson Mandela has yet one more lesson to teach the world.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In this ess...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:40
With over 50 professions in his life Marcel, now homeless, lives with a camera, a dog and a passion for cars.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 06:31
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. In "Christmas In A Swamp" Sinykin recounts...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 1
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 03:22
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 11, 2012
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
A girl is walking down the street late at night when a car stops right next to her...
- Added: Oct 28, 2012
- Length: 01:58
