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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
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:00
Hospitals advertise their birth centers with soft focus photos of dewy-eyed newborns and kindly nurses, but the reality of giving birth is somethin...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 14:31
Your baby is almost here – her siblings are excited, and you’ve been through this two times before… but what if things don’t go as planned?
- Added: Oct 16, 2013
- Length: 05:27
We kick off our Season 8 with writer, actor, and director Mark Landon Smith on our monthly Tin Roof Project reading a story about a family secret. ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 30:00
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
This piece was recorded live on June 5, 2012 at the Pauger House and later produced by Natalie Yahr. The theme of the evening was "Undercover," and...
- Added: Oct 14, 2012
- Length: 05:23
A personal narrative about a traumatizing experience I had in elementary school in Egypt.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 05:22
This week, our stories are all about turning points, as our writers move from innocence to knowledge, their lives forever changed. Stories by Sarah...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Here they are, the winners of annual Telling Tales Contest, in conjunction with the Arkansas Literary Festival. Stories by Eric Van Meter, Sarah Mi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week it's our 6th Annual Mothers Show, celebrating the awesome power of motherhood. Stories by May Griebel, Jan Hamlett, and Mike Noland. All ...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
What Fred Flaxman learned about life from his childhood dog, Buster.
- Added: Feb 25, 2012
- Length: 03:00
This week's stories are about the impact of special people in our lives, whether they are central to our lives, on their way to the other side, or ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
True stories by Southerners in front of a live audience. This week's stories show us the innocence, imagination, and skewed logic of a child's mind...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Annual Mothers Show: Amy Manning Burns is in the very first stages of becoming a mother, Ardee Eichelmann's newborn son cries in pain as the pain o...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Stories about children and the fine line between reality and fantasy, myth, and even truth. Told in front of a live audience each week at Starving ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Hank Godwin, Chuck Butkus, and Daniel Koehler share about childhood mistakes. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
I struggle to teach my boys to be cautious around strangers, and trust the world.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:27
"The Elephant Who Liked To Smash Small Cars" enthralled me as a kid. As an adult, trying to track down a copy of the book took me across the country.
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 15:00
- Purchases: 2
The author reminds her loved ones that the valentines keep coming all year long.
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 04:00
She's only 12, but Macklin Levine is already old enough to appreciate—and believe in—The Beatles.
Bought by WEZU, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: May 07, 2009
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 8
Claude Knobler believes life should be more ridiculous. And he has the gorilla suits to prove it.
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 2
