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“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...
- Added: Mar 13, 2021
- Length: 27:43
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 26:59
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 17:12
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 22:09
- Purchases: 1
A hundred years before Frank Kapra ever dreamed up a wonderful life, Charles Dickens had already penned the seminal Christmas classic. For the past...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:49
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 08:19
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 35:36
The myths and legend surrounding AMC's oldest trail crew, the TFC, aka Trail F*cking Crew.
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:00
A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 19:41
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:37
A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 30:20
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
This episode of ARRVLS chronicles one woman's journey to find solace and happiness in the wake of tragedy. A story about faith and the legacy of su...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 30:04
Corporal Scott Foster of the Hillsborough, NC Police Department worked closely with his K-9 partner, Talon, for many years. They located weapons an...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 21:35
- Purchases: 1
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 5
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 6
This story takes us to Washington state's border with Canada, where the Border Patrol arrests hundreds of people each year. Producer Jessica Partno...
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:40
Non-narrated stories of urban nomads contemplating staying or leaving.
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 04, 2006
- Length: 11:05
- Purchases: 2
