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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sara Etgen-Baker reads
The full-hour version of our Annual Holiday Show. Also available in 2 29-minute segments.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: The meeting of two rivers, Credit: Lesley Nase
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 12:26
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A fire truck in the driveway, 20 at the table for meals and buying by the dozens (the better for sharing) my father believed in being Santa Claus y...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Senator David Pryor
This month's Tin Roof Project, featuring Senator David Pryor reading his story "Nine Miles to Mustin Lake," followed by Q&A. True stories told by t...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 42:38
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This week, our stories are all about the power of friendship. Stories by George McLeod, Pat Gillum, and Susan Elder. True stories told by the South...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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On this week's show, our writers all grapple with expectations of others or themselves. Stories by Martin Ferguson, Anne Owings Wilson, and Richard...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Our 6th Annual Fathers' Show, celebrating the many different facets of fatherhood. Stories by James Seawel, Sandra Spotts Hamilton, and Phillip Tay...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Lawrence Hamilton
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
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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
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Special Breast Cancer Survivors Show: Kristi Moody decides to not take her doctor's advice, Penny Burkhalter is shopping for maternity clothes when...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Helen Austin watches the law of the jungle in her own backyard, Paul Guerin creates his own name twice, Melanie Baden travels to Gulf Shores, and J...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
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"For most of my adult life, I’ve had my hands on the wheel. With lists on my mind and places to be and things to do. I’ve worked hard and tried to ...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:30