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Off-Ramp Presents: Another Fake Holiday War - Canadian v American Thanksgiving
From: john rabe
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Off-Ramp contributor Collin Friesen takes a humorour look at the differences between Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:38
Elvis Was Our Shabbos Goy
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: Elvis with a cousin and two of the Fruchter children in Memphis, Credit: Harold Fruchter
The story of the Fruchters, an orthodox Jewish family who lived above Elvis Presley’s family in a house in Memphis. They would often call on teenag...

Bought by KFCF FM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 3
My Identity by Alex Thibodeau
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2
Ray Brown: Black and Radical in Vietnam
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 23:59
Storyville: "Finding It In The Sun"
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans baseball team; Shoeless Joe Jackson is #12.
This piece by Eric Millman is about moving to New Orleans from California hoping to join a baseball community, and drowning in the unavoidable Sain...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:31
Going plastic free (almost)
From: Veronica Simmonds
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My sincere but silly attempt to live without plastic for a week.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:36
Brown Bag
From: American Student Radio
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Beep, beep, beep. Welcome Valued Customer. A college student profiles late-night grocery shopping in a college town, and what she finds is unexpected.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:05
What Twilight Didn't Teach Me About Love
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
To Date or Not To Date? That is the Chinese Immigrant Teenager's Question
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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Philly Youth Radio’s Yingci Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She's noticed that Chinese immigrant parents often don't want their kids ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
Gaming museum warps players through time
From: KALW
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Lots of people talk about how addicted we are to our screens. We spend our days staring at smartphones, tablets, and computers. But the first digit...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Shakeout Street: the Great California Earthquake Drill, 2012 edition
From: Sean Dillman
Caption: setup for TV crews onsite at Union Station
New to California, the narrator experiences his first earthquake drill: online, and at LA's Union Station

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
Sounds Familiar #2: Bad Translations
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among othe...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 11:35
The Stress Test: Or another piece of my heart now, baby
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A reflective piece about a middle aged man's visit to the cardiologist for his annual stress test.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:58
The Other Way - Rachel Mars
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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A true story told live in London. Rachel heads to New York to find 'her inner Jew', but ends up having a sexual awakening.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Bransonland - David Thomas
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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A true story told live in London. As a child, David visits the home of British millionaire Richard Branson. Which happens to be on an island. Despi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:39
My Transistor Radio mtr-013
From: Chuck Ayers
Series: My Transistor Radio
Caption: My Transistor Radio, Credit: Web file photo
My Transistor Radio is a retrospective spotlighting “Dance and Romance” teen music from 1950s and 60s A-M Radio. MTR is attempting to examine why ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Taking on the Flying Trapeze by Katherine Sims of Weekday High
From: YouthCast
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You’re probably hearing a whole bunch of back to school nonsense right now: features about homeschooling, tracking, uniforms, extended school hours...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:50
Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2007 Third Coast ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
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Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
'Til Death: Love, Marriage and Valentine Sweethearts
From: Rosemary Langford
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Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
The Love Boat
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
Caption: Gigi at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London
A true love story for those who have loved, lost and then gone on a cruise to forget... if only she hadn't picked the same cruise as her ex.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 2
21. France Was Years Ahead
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry
Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks
In 1962 France was years ahead of the U.S. in ecological awareness and energy conservation, before the word "ecology" was even used in either count...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
Sonari is Mixed
From: Ayana Contreras
Caption: sonari, as a child.
What is "The Black Experience"?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 3
Scared
From: John Biewen
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A (very) short story of love and anxiety. A child grows to age 13 in three minutes while a father muses on parental fears.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 16
End of World in 2012?
From: Merle Kessler
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The Mayans said that the world will end in 2012. Maybe.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:26