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StoryCorps: Joel Healy and Kelli Healy Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Aubry Edwards Versus Jay Thunderbolt
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Professional photographer, Aubry Edwards goes on the photo shoot from hell when Jay Thunderbolt locks her into the "private strip club" in his Detr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: America's Army
Interactive, realistic, pro-war video games have become part of American culture. But protestors and artists are finding ways to turn the virtual ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Changing on the Inside
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 2
Religious Suits
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The Catholic Church has paved the path for other religious organizations to sue the government. God bless the USA.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
Sounds Familiar #5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror.
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life After War
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
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Refugees coming to the US have just a few months to find a job and a place to live. And they are 10 times as likely as the general population to su...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
Taking Mom to the Movies
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
Caption: Dave White
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.

Bought by WCNY, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 3
The Hypnotist
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young man has eyes which engage those of others. He is a natural hypnotist and a natural sociopath.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2012
  • Length: 10:19
Riders of the Desert
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This rather grisly tale is about the revenge enacted on a Spanish trader who took advantage of an Indian brave's wife and drove her mad.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Old Lodger
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman who is a landlady and something of a skinflint strikes an agreement with a pious old lodger that, if it's possible, the one to die first wi...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:18
A Scary Home Companion
From: Doug Gordon
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What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
Transforming the Trauma: Soldiers Stories
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Two generations of veterans cope with PTSD—looking to heal themselves and heal the world. Featuring S. Brian Wilson, author of “Blood on the Tracks”

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, WMPG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Last Revel At Printz Hall
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A fiddler taunts the Quaker owner of a haunted mansion of his fear to occupy the place. In front of a bunch of tavern regulars the owner offers the...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:32
The Last Shot At Germantown
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
War brings on tales of predictive dreams and wondrous signs.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:22
Dolph Heylinger
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A New Amsterdam doctor has bought some property way out of town (roughly 23rd St.) and the locals claim it's haunted. Dolph, an adventurous young m...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:58
A Child's View of Domestic Violence by Valencia McMurray of MPR News
From: YouthCast
Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Party From Gibbet Island
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Before it was Ellis Island it was Gibbet Island as that was the location of the gallows used for pirates and mutineers. This is a tale of the dead ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
True Vampires of New Haven
From: Eric Molinsky
Caption: One of several vampire safe-houses in New Haven.
Real vampires are nothing like the ones we see depicted in Twilight or True Blood. Most of them are just trying to get by. (NOTE: This is a radio d...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dunderberg
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A tale of the imps, goblins, and other demons said to reside on Thunder Mountain and raise squalls on the waters below.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:40
Storm Ship On The Hudson
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A tale of ghost ships sailing up the Hudson or seen just before a storm.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
Warning Signs
From: Sarah Lilley
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Nuclear waste will be with us for thousands of years. But the signs we use to warn people about its location will likely have to change.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
The Library of Dust
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Library of Dust, Canister 1454, Credit: David Maisel, photographer
Photographer David Maisel's project "Library of Dust" proves there is life after death, in vivid color.

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Jon Brock and Glenny Brock
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jon Brock tells his daughter Glenny Brock about being committed to Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest psychiatric facility, in 1965.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
"You're Not Getting Older, You're Gettting ......"
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This "newsical" program is an informal survey of pop culture myths and popular music misconceptions about getting older...by a veteran of Pacifica ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 54:53
  • Purchases: 1