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This week it's our monthly Tin Roof Project, featuring award-winning designer Tobi Fairley. True stories told by the Southerners who lived them.
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 29:00
WNPR producer Chion ("khy-own") Wolf visited Solair Family Nudist Resort in Woodstock, Connecticut to fully experience, for the first time, life as...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 14:44
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
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
On this week's episode, our writers take us back in time to the angst of the teen years. Stories by Jill Bayles, Deana Nall, and Leslie Hitt. True ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Stori Sojourner weaves music, memories and ideas together as well as reveals a long time secret of her own. Guest on the show, Jessica Stephens, sh...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Apr 07, 2012
- Length: 30:33
- Purchases: 1
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bom...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Poet Kush Thompson, 17, is a senior at Orr Academy High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. This is her ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 03:14
Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 11:12
Hear what happens when good intentions are met with unanticipated outcomes, if not down right lessons in what not to do the next time. This show fe...
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 2
Misogyny is alive and well in 2012. No surprise ( After all,as you'll hear in this program, even the music of the "peace and love" sixties was fill...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 56:50
In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 15:07
- Added: Dec 31, 2011
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
Intimate acoustic set by Rosanne Cash and her husband, John Leventhal in their living room (aka Zone C). Includes exclusive live recordings of son...
Bought by KPSQ-LP, KOSU, NPR Illinois, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
Elk visit the ranch. Jessie and Pops sneak in for a close look.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 03:23
Youth producer Gracia Manzanares' touching interview with her mother about immigrating to the United States and the differences between women in Me...
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 03:07
Author Suzi Parker confronts Duran Duran on a special encore presentation of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stor...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
One menopausal woman's search for the meaning of thong menstrual pads.
- Added: Aug 21, 2011
- Length: 08:00
This week is about finding strength and confidence in big moments and in small. Darinda Sharp makes a famous correction, Holly Patton is shown kind...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Actress Natalie Canerday humorously remembers her first film role. A special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their ow...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Author, Suzi Parker confronts Duran Duran on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
