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When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
Packed in one car, Elaine Manis, her six siblings, and her mother set out on a trip from the small town of Forgan, Oklahoma, to the seaside town of...
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 01:24
Every week, Cracker Barrel provides 4 million Americans with a studied version of down-home Southern food and hospitality. The dumplins and the chi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 2
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about making up a...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 27:43
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
The child of two Longhorn Band veterans digs into the unseen world of the band's strangest traditions, from "hupping" to the secret "10 til 2" saying.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 05:06
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 28:53
A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
A teenager writes her diary to her recently deceased grandfather -- only to share with him every graphic detail about her love life.
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 21:46
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
**This piece cannot be aired prior to December 25, 2015.**
On Saturday night, Dec 5, 2015 inmates, returning inmates, volunteers, officers, and s...
Bought by KUER, KQED, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KWMR
- Added: Dec 19, 2015
- Length: 56:41
- Purchases: 5
This radio play is a family romp at Christmas during the 50's in the Midwest.
- Added: Dec 08, 2015
- Length: 40:45
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
Lise Saffran explores her son Jonah’s decision to embark on a Jewish rite of passage, despite the fact that he comes from a secular home.
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 06:58
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
“When I was incarcerated, I had no intention of falling in love. I wasn’t looking for it...Then one day our hands touched.”
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 08:56
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 20:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Being a soccer mom is harder than it looks.
- Added: Jul 05, 2015
- Length: 24:26
- Purchases: 2
Victor Figueroa looks the part of a Hispanic, but some call him a "fake Puerto Rican," since he doesn't speak Spanish and knows few customs. Here,...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
The most important meal of the day - breakfast - is no longer a priority among teenagers. Why can't they find the time for golden waffles doused in...
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 01:33
