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Early Boarding schools
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
Caption: Elaine Fleming
Early boarding Schools

  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 09:50
Listen to Your Heart - Monologue by Tania Chairez and Kirsten Wilson
From: Motus Theater Boulder
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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
1206: Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food, 7/31/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: David Chang, Credit: Jason Falchook
A special live edition of The Moth at Cooper Union in NYC, "Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food". Best-selling author Adam Gopnik and his wife have an o...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCB 104.9, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 38
1208: Language, Coins and a Proposal, 7/10/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Richard Kind, Credit: Sarah Stacke
Novelist Walter Mosley examines the power of language to break and form bonds; an artist connects with her father when he sends her coins he finds ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WYSO, KCLU, KCRW and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 34
171111 Community Radio Versus Top Down Radio Models
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We can fall deeply, madly in love with late-night radio. This doesn't happen with any of the visual mediums. Never with a screen. Thing is, radi...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:50:05
1205: Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah, 4/5/2016
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Elif Shafak, Credit: Sarah Stacke
A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground; three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco; and a novelist decides th...

Bought by Vermont Public, Michigan Radio, PRX Remix, KCPW Salt Lake City, KOSU and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 48
Joking
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human we’re investigating how people use joking to create new realities for themselves and the people around them.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:18
  • Purchases: 2
Julian's Dinosaurs
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How does a family function when living out of a hospital during a young child's illness?

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 14:26
Education Equity:My Experience
From: KUNM
Caption: Lucia Martinez, Credit: Generaton Justice
What is Education Equity?

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 07:15
Polar Explorer Will Steger on Climate Change
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On Tuesday November 13th, in front of a packed audience, polar explorer Will Steger and Fresh Energy’s J. Drake Hamilton gave a presentation at WSU...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 24:39
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown - "Try New Things"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
Culturology: Erika Kooda on the Forthcoming End of an Era
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda shares a short essay on some monumental changes she faces in 2013. From graduating high school and entering Columbia College in Chicago...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1: The Second Thought
From: Sam Dingman
Series: The Taxi Tapes
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A complex set of circumstances results in Sam awakening at 4:30am on a frigid January morning for his first day as a New York City cab driver.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 037: Delta Music Show
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
Caption: Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett, and Steve Azar, Credit: Shutter That! Photography
In conjunction with the Little Rock Film Festival, our Delta Music Show features Arkansas blues musician Jim Mize, Mississippi native and Ride Reco...

Bought by WMMT and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fame Monster Pt. 1: Dumb It Down
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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Those who pursue a life in the spotlight have a lot of tough decisions to make about the things they choose to participate in. At the end of the da...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1