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My Identity by Alex Thibodeau
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Sweet Science
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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The story of one woman's improbable journey from the gym to the boxing ring.

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 16:05
Building a Family - A Foreign Adoption Story
From: Homefront Chronicles
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Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:35
RISK! True Stories for the Holidays
From: RISK! Storytelling Podcast
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Elna Baker, Michele Carlo, Christine, Steve Spatucci and Scott Whitehair share true tales of the Yuletide.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, KUNM and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 51:56
  • Purchases: 17
RISK! True Holiday Story Segment: Taking It To the Man
From: RISK! Storytelling Podcast
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Steve Spatucci tells of his childhood quest to find Santa Claus

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Two Dads & Two Sh***y Babies Show
From: Megan Sukys
Series: Drunken Telegraph
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Two stay-at-home dads don't find friendship, but they do learn the opposite of lonliness.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 10:14
Tree Disaster
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Sometimes DIY isn't the best way to go...and it can lead to disaster.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:59
To Date or Not To Date? That is the Chinese Immigrant Teenager's Question
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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Philly Youth Radio’s Yingci Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She's noticed that Chinese immigrant parents often don't want their kids ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
The 113th Annual Army-Navy Pageant
From: War News Radio
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The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:40
Kathleen Hanna: from Bikini Kill to Le Tigre
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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Original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna remembers the DIY feminist punk scene she catalyzed in 1992 with Bikini Kill. (The band's first EP was re-releas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WORT, KVNF, KFAI Minneapolis, WABE and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 8
UnFictional: My So Called Guru
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about healers and teachers who do not have the best interests of their students in mind.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Dingmantics #14: Sandra From Avenue Z (Live)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
The Taxi Tapes, Episode 12: Pac-Man
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Lambs to the Slaughter - Radcliffe Royds
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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A true story told live in London. Radcliffe lost his home, his job and his wife in 24 hours. An uplifting tale on drug addiction and redemption, fr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:42
  • Purchases: 1
What are you?
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
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Loren Anderson questions why he didn't know the answer to "What are you?" Trying to understand why his cultural identity wasn't a part of his life.

Bought by KRUA and KUT


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 2
Typewriter's Broken
From: Jeanne Burns
Caption: Period, Credit: Benjamin Earwicker, http://garrisonphoto.org/
One menopausal woman's search for the meaning of thong menstrual pads.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
Tales from the South 025
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 41
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Church holds unexpected surprises. George S. Smith challenges his Sunday school teacher, Marvin Schwartz witnesses a resurrection, and Wetzel LaGro...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Trumpet Man
From: jeff resnick
Series: Stories in Sound
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I am a documentarian, chronicling the lives of performing musicians. As a writer, I am obligated to put their words to paper. As a story-teller, I ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 42:23
  • Purchases: 1
Shower of Love- A Valentine's Day Story
From: Jill Marcus
Caption: Newlyweds & cat - circa 1977
Valentine's Day, 1977 was our first together as a young couple. We thought we were soul mates, but how well did we really know each other? The gift...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 05:16
Wood Cutting Trip
From: Laura Spero
Caption: Women and Girls gathering wood in Kaskikot, Nepal, Credit: Laura Spero
An American gal accompanies a raucous group of neighbors down the mountain to cut firewood in rural Nepal.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:05
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
Bridget Ramasodi (South Africa's Promise)
From: My Lens Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24
Encounters Mosquito
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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The summer drone of doom.... the mighty mosquito has a long history in the north country.

Bought by KCHU, KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8