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Who or what is in your own past right now that you need to face, but aren’t facing—and why not? Carvell Wallace has a theory that maybe this whole ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 57:02
In a time when women couldn't even vote, she wielded incredible power, blazing her own trail to unrivaled fame and fortune. So why don't we remembe...
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 14:33
What is a raptor?
Naturalist Ken Burton offers up some details on these amazing birds, including addressing the concept of convergent evolution.
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Yasmeen Elagha attends her first presidential rally, a speech by Donald Trump in Chicago. "I am a Muslim woman, I wear the hijab and I was going to...
- Added: Jan 05, 2018
- Length: 05:14
The setup: Halloween night 2016. My studio has a window that opens onto the front porch, adjacent to the front door. I put a small guitar amplif...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 05:39
He's a familiar face around Boston. Now hear what this mystery man has to say about music, race, street violence and bringing joy to the city he lo...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 10:04
When you look into the eyes of someone who’s Bi-Polar, it’s like looking at a hurricane from space. You can see the swirling mass, but the real ho...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, The Story, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 5
In “Palm Treo”, Brittany and Eric talk about the secret parties that the RA’s at Howard University were throwing in 2005. Their podcast “For Colore...
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 23:32
Short form audio fiction. In the tranquil environment of a luxury SPA, the inner thoughts of a woman trying very, VERY hard to relax.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 03:31
Sometimes it takes leaving home to see it whole. Short form audio fiction, finalist in The Sarahs Very Very Short Short Stories contest 2016.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 02:20
Short form audio fiction about a man and his TV crime drama-induced phobia. One of 8 finalists in the Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, 2016.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 02:40
“A Time for Heroes”
As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...
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- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 31:54
- Purchases: 1
“Down the Rabbit Hole”
This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 30:40
If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 21:26
'The Hayride' Program 56 (2 Hours)
- Added: Dec 04, 2016
- Length: 02:00:01
- Purchases: 3
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bill Frisell was heavily influenced by surf rock and space travel. Hear him in his own words tell you his origin story. Lots of great music in this...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 12:15
What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradict one another? Josh Tranen lived with this contradiction for years. Ev...
- Added: Oct 06, 2016
- Length: 17:43
Completed in 1887, Science Hall stands like a gothic red brick fortress, guarding the University of Wisconsin / Madison campus. Over the years, it'...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 1
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Preyas Roy has performed in famous venues like the Jazz Showcase. But he makes his living on a downtown Chicago street corner — despite the unwield...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 02:56
What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, he awoke from a fa...
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- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 32:40
- Purchases: 1
An ancient and misunderstood bean gets put to good use.
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: 05:08
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 11:33
