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Born on the Bayou 2 - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission. Eddie Ramirez remembers a cruising in the newest car he'd ever owned, black, all pow...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2016
  • Length: 05:34
Day Four 22:00 (September 14, 2001)
From: Erika McGinty
Caption: Ludlow Street, NYC
Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 09:20
Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Jake Harper, 29, is Side Effects Public Media's resident hypochondriac. His newest health anxiety stems from the human papillomavirus, or HPV., Credit: Brian Paul/Side Effects
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
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
Life of the Law #89: Live Law Philadelphia - Beyond the Walls: Prison Positive
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Odessa Summers
For 22 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted an entire month of free workshops, trainings, and outreach about HIV and AIDS. This year, Life of the L...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:58
Life of the Law #85: Live Law New Orleans - A Scholar's Life
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Host Osagie Obasogie, Credit: Riverview Photography
This week we take you to New Orleans, for stories told by legal scholars about what life's like as a legal scholar.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:41
Life of the Law #80: Live Law - Nashville
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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This week we take you to Nashville for BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS: stories about the blues, jazz, songwriting and a cabin in the woods.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Game night at Accidentally Cool Games in Bemidji
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Ariel, checking out the selection at Accidentally Cool Games.
Game night has become a popular way to spend an evening, an alternative to being online or plugged in, for young and old alike. We’re not just talk...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 09:01
Teodora Schipper (b.1944 in the Philippines)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Hannah, Carsten and Garrett of Winchester Thur...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Former steelworker Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania reflects on her life based on this 2015 interview by Propel Homestead m...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Wohleber (b. 1916 on Pittsburgh's North Side)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Mary Wohleber (b. 1916 on Pittsburgh's Northside) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Hironda and Jesse of Manchester ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 11:39
  • Purchases: 1
Lena Cammarata (b. 1912, Yatesboro)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Lena Cammarata (b. 1912 in Yatesboro) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Morgan and Brisha of Manchester Academic Cha...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Mat, JP and Lily of Winchester Thurston School in P...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria) reflects on her life based on this 2011 interview by 5th graders Anatea, Ellis and Jackson of Winchester Thurston S...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Hermila Perez, Dominican Republic native who came to the U.S. in 1951
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Hermila Perez reflects on her life before and after coming to the United States in 1951 based on interviews by Clarence and Jevon, teens participat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
The 1st Northwoods Pond Hockey Championship on McKinney Lake in Grand Rapids, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Close to Home
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Producer Grant Frashier attends the 1st Northwoods Pond Hockey Championship on McKinney Lake in Grand Rapids, MN. Will the weather cooperate?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 10:44
Increasing Your Income
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Smart Daily Tips from One of the Top Global Investment Advisors

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WETD, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Maritime Medley - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2016
  • Length: 06:50
Our Top Stories - Episode 4
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Our Top Stories
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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 ar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:45
Our Top Stories - Episode 3
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Our Top Stories
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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 ar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
Our Top Stories - Episode 1
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Our Top Stories
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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: 28:38
Butterbird Christmas
From: Meg DeMakas
Caption: Butterbird Christmas Radio Play Presentation in Gary, IN 12-4-14, Credit: Family Folklore Foundation, Inc.
This radio play is a family romp at Christmas during the 50's in the Midwest.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 40:45
The Refugee (fiction)
From: LN Lurie
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While hitch-hiking through Serbia, I met a refugee.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
Mutual Support: We do it Together
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Al Sasser
We hear about systems of mutual support; where peers coping with similar struggles like HIV, mental health issues and surviving prison step into th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2