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An intro to the show. Also my mom and I reminisce on an embarrassing phase from my past.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:33
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Debby Wurster is having a ball at her new home in a retirement community. She's got a full calendar of activities, she's making new friends, and......

Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
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The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 20:17
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Sometimes words can become your worst enemy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alex Valentine’s headshot outside Highfield Hall during the production of “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.” Alex played the role of Bert Bratt. - May 2015, Credit: Mark Bramhill
It hurts when you know you missed an opportunity. One actor from Dartmouth, Massachusetts knows that feeling. But he just landed the lead role in a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...

Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Close up of "Loop Tattoo" mural
The exuberant mural "Loop Tattoo" in downtown Chicago is now obscured by new buildings rising up around it. From Michigan Avenue and Lake Street, t...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
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Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:09
Caption:  We can see that neurons fire when people complain of central pain, but still no one knows why. , Credit: Gerd Altmann
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Which cat is this?, Credit: Kellie Hamilton
How a cat travels from Texas to North Carolina to the Great Beyond. And then maybe back to North Carolina.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2014
  • Length: 13:06
Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
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Eleanor Warren talks about her song, "Coming Home."

Bought by WCSU-FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Toby Hawkins
This piece was produced for the 2nd Annual KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race, by Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling. It made it to the top ten finalists out of ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
Caption: Stephanie Izard
The James Beard Foundation Awards are widely regarded as the “Oscars” of the culinary industry. In May of 2015, the “Beards” will be presented at ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2014
  • Length: 06:59
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Street Roots is a non-profit news outlet that has been addressing homelessness and poverty in Portland, Oregon since 1998.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:27
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The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Journalist Sean Kelley, Credit: Tanner Latham
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
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As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2014
  • Length: 14:07
Caption: Kari in front of the Joe Strummer mural, Niagara Bar, East Village, NYC, Summer 2013
Spending the summer in California while her mother convalesces from a grave illness, a 12 year-old finds herself suddenly alone at a rock concert o...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 17:49
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Episode 12 - Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 51:58
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From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
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Halifax based artist Will Robinson is trying to play a library like a record.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
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From salt-crystal lamps to popping wheelies artist Kate Walchuk waxes nostalgic.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:36