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In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:52
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
While one guy tries make his mark as a man, another tries to erase the mark that represents a life of mistakes and regret, most of it spent in prison.
Bought by KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
this week’s episode contains two parts. The first act is called Weather or Not. Act Two is titled Life Among The Immortals. They’re about my two s...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 28:11
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 3
Excerpts from the anonymous blog "What to Expect When You Are Aborting."
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:51
A personal narrative about a traumatizing experience I had in elementary school in Egypt.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 05:22
This Story was told on July 10th, 2012 at Aubrey's Place in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Here, Elizabeth Steeby reminisces on the horrify...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
A Generation Putin *extra*: Audio postcard from a military jeep ride in the former Soviet stronghold of Balaklava, Ukraine.
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 3
American Graduate: A poetry program in Durham is using rhythm and rhyme to keep kids from making the choice to drop out of school.
Bought by WCSU-FM and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 2
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by KZYX and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 2
A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 07:35
The oldest and most revered piece of hardware in professional sports has arrived in Los Angeles for the first time. So, how will the Los Angeles Ki...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 08:02
An experimental narrative music piece for Radiolab/Longshot Radio's project exploring creativity, failure and revision.
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 03:32
After his mother has a massive stroke, writer Dave White describes the quick thinking and problem solving necessary for a simple trip to the movies.
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 3
In 2008, double bassist and founder of the Musical Art Quintet, Sascha Jacobsen regularly attended the Sunday night chamber music jams at Cafe Revo...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 09:57
Producer Shannon Geis deals with moving out of her childhood home in Nebraska for good and the memories of her father that still haunt the property.
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 20:22
The annual Christmas Bird Count involves birders all over the Americas as citizen scientists tracking population and environmental changes. Miami, ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 02:55
My buddy Sean and I decided to embark on a challenge: the ROYGBIV diet - spending a week eating only one color of food per day, according to the co...
Bought by KUT, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 08:34
- Purchases: 3
San Francisco musician Meklit Hadero has quite an impressive resume: she was born in Ethiopia, and lived all over the map until she landed in San F...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 1
Maya Elena Scott-Chung married her partner MeiBeck in 2004’s Winter of Love. They married again in 2008 after courts annulled their first union. As...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
An audio postcard from a meditation center in the Himalayas. Several foreign tourists who've just completed an introductory course and talk about w...
- Added: Jan 03, 2011
- Length: 08:16
Danae wanted to get Margaret something very, very special for her golden birthday. So she planned an elaborate surprise for her. But Margaret doesn...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 2
August, 16, 2010 is the 33rd anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. "He's Alive!" follows the formative years of a young lady growing up in the...
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 07:19
