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Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 43:00
Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY a...
- Added: Jan 02, 2016
- Length: 28:51
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 05:13
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
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
On the 35th Anniversary of Alien, "The Icy Winds of Lovecraft" looks at how Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing were both influenced by the strang...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: :58
The story of the Fruchters, an orthodox Jewish family who lived above Elvis Presley’s family in a house in Memphis. They would often call on teenag...
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 3
Stephanie has had a stutter for sixteen years. In those sixteen years, she never identified with her stutter. That is, until she finally learned to...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 10:19
Wonder Woman first hit the comic book page over 70 years ago. We look at how she's changed at what she means today.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 39:32
- Purchases: 1
Questions for Insecurity — the US Department of Homeland Security’s Application For Naturalization
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 08:32
In which the theme of "February" is explored and heightened.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 17:50
In this humorous piece, Nick, a music teacher, tells the story of two Celine Dion songs and how they have helped him understand the value of music ...
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 06:38
In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
Alta Blue Skies contributor Catherine Breese offers a brief look at Canada's version of Punxsutawney Phil and the town that created him, Wiarton, O...
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:05
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2014
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
Happy Halloween to a Lost Soul
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 07:07
As a kid, Tom Llewellyn fought gentrification with his beloved Thunder Bombs.
- Added: Sep 24, 2013
- Length: 14:52
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 05:02
Julie Sabatier tells the story of her worm composting bin that turned out to be a stinky, DIY disaster.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 09:52
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 09, 2013
- Length: 05:25
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on discrimination at Muirfield, the golf club hosting the 2013 British Open.
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 05:51
Some listeners take our pleas for support quite literally!
- Added: May 11, 2013
- Length: 02:23
The Instinctive Artist and Superintendent of Existence
- Added: Apr 05, 2013
- Length: 06:40
