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To Be Dr. Seuss's Son by Christian Palacios
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Christian Palacios
Poet Christian Palacios, 17, is a junior at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. This is the second year he has represented his school at Louder Th...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
To Save a Monster by Whitney Young HS Slam Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Whitney Young HS Slam Poetry Team
To Save a Monster is a team piece performed by the poets of the Whitney M. Young Magnet High School Slam Poetry Team: seniors Essie Linzy, 18, and ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:02
Truth by CeeJay "Shock Therapy" Hannah
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: CeeJay "Shock Therapy" Hannah
Poet CeeJay "Shock Therapy" Hannah, 18, is a senior at Percy L. Julian High School. This is the first year the school has participated in Louder T...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
A Dog's Life
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry
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What Fred Flaxman learned about life from his childhood dog, Buster.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Tales from the South 068: Lasting Impacts
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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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
Home (Movies) For The Holidays
From: Radio K
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Spending the holidays with the family can be the highlight of winter for those who live far from home. But when a family member dies, returning hom...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
What are you?
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Love and Snakes
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Elementary school teacher, Sarah Baumeister [bomb-mice-stir], tells us of the love that can only exist between a boy and his snake.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 1
Dressing the Part
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Felix Angelini-Hurll, Credit: Walter Murch
Sometimes we need help when dressing for a special occasion. In England Moss Bros. will 'give only the best service.'

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 13:53
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 48: Through the Eyes of a Child
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
Caption: Montgomery Trucking playing at Tales
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
Tales from the South 047
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Encore Presentation: Tales from the South 002 with Grif Stockley
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 044
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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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
Tales from the South 030: Arkansas Literary Festival
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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 35
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Roadtrip! Our writers take us on various adventures, beginning with Jackie Manning in a European railway station. Phillip Taylor travels across the...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 027
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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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
Tales from the South 031: The Greatest Generation I
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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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
Tales from the South 38: Summer Season 2011 Kickoff
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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This kickoff show is steeped in Southern heat as the writers take us back to childhood summers. Sarah Mattingly takes a vacation to meet family, Sa...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Was Left Behind
From: Eric Winick
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Arriving at her family's storage space in Syracuse, NY, a Brooklyn-based writer and mom is surprised to find the contents far more plentiful and si...

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 15:20
  • Purchases: 3
Sounds of summer - skateboard
From: Veronique LaCapra
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A personal essay about my memory of skateboarding around my neighborhood as a kid. This aired as part of the first installment of NPR's 2011 series...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:21
Tales from the South 022
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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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
Tales from the South 019
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
Caption: Sharolyn Jones-Taylor telling her tale
Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience. This week's true stories are about beginnings and endings, starting with "I do" and endin...

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


  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 018
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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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
Tales from the South 014
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Encounter strange characters with Ann Bittick, Mary Beck, and Sheila Keever. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:58