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A post- post-9/11 podcast. Part 1 of a series examining 9/11 memorials.
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 15:37
Ben Weisz discovers the vibrant street tradition of Candombe drumming, and explores its origins among Montevideo's Afro-Uruguayan community.
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 08:28
In high school, Josh Cutler documented his life with Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary v...
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 40:08
Monsters? Attempted suicide? The "second hand smoke" of insanity? Bob will be the 1st to admit that clinical psychology requires a bit of a split-...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 05:53
Reporter and producer Christopher Johnson describes his frustrating year-and-a-half-long struggle to diagnose his chronic and sometimes painful diz...
Bought by XRAY.fm, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
It's a dreamlike visit to the U.S. Postal Service mail recovery center. Producer Samara Freemark finds her way there after she loses a package in t...
Bought by WCNY, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 14:06
- Purchases: 3
A charity basketball game pitting a team of little people against a team of law enforcement officers goes very wrong.
Bought by WCNY and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 15:24
- Purchases: 2
The New Year came riding in on a wind storm, killing old and young trees.
The crew comes in to work their music and magic
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KWMR
- Added: Jan 13, 2012
- Length: 09:11
- Purchases: 2
Bhutan is a land of prayer flags and happiness. But people are people, and human suffering, including domestic violence, is as prevalent here as i...
Bought by KUER, KZYX, KQED, KFOK-LPFM, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 24:36
- Purchases: 5
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 2
Eastern Tennessee to Tucson, Arizona. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey a...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 24:22
- Purchases: 4
Dover, Delaware to Highway 129, North Carolina. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 27:46
- Purchases: 4
Keene Valley, New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's moto...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 5
Chicago, Illinois to Lake Oneida, New York. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle jou...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 26:06
- Purchases: 5
From Kanab, Utah to Portland, Oregon. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey a...
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 33:11
- Purchases: 6
From San Francisco, California to Kanab, Utah by way of the Salton Sea.
Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the stor...
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 30:20
- Purchases: 6
How does a lifelong passion for books transform itself into an acute fear?
- Added: Jan 18, 2010
- Length: 06:30
Graciously receiving a present can be as great a gift as giving one.
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 06:29
We found our castle in Spain -- and celebrated Thanksgiving there.
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 02:54
It was 20 years ago this month the Berlin Wall finally fell. But I still recall the incredibly intense atmosphere I witnessed in the days just afte...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 03:50
A masterful songster recorded by two folklorists, fifty years apart.
Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTIP, and WAMU
- Added: Sep 16, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 5
Hear the haunting voices of the loon on a summer day with host Richard Nelson
Bought by KCHU, KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT, WMNF and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 6
