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Caption: The late Rev. Farrell Duncombe (left) spoke with his friend Howard Robinson for a StoryCorps conversation in 2010 about how his role models helped shape him as a leader in his Alabama community.
Rev. Farrell Duncombe talks about growing up in Montgomery, AL, and the role models who shaped him, including his Sunday school teacher, Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 03:15
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Mary Mills talks with her mother, Joyce Carter Mills, about growing up in the 1960s and why all the neighborhood kids wanted to be at their house.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour of stories all about growing up, and learning lessons from family members.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:03
Caption: Bob and Ethan on their Boat
The unlikely, childless Bob Mailloux signs up to be a Big Brother and is changed forever. Mashpee, Massachusetts, September, 2019.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
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4th graders in Austin, Texas discuss what their hopes and dreams mean to them.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:49

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:35
Caption: Dom and Marissa Madonna, Credit: (c) Marissa Madonna
With the mental pressure and rubber balls getting fired at you from all angles, playing goalie is not the ideal position in lacrosse. But, it is wh...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: Ronald Clark and Jamilah Clark
During the 1940s, custodians who worked for the New York Public Library often lived inside the buildings they tended. In exchange for cleaning and ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:11
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Music about being 16 years old. Not 15 or 17 or any other age. Just 16 years old. A segment from the 170527 broadcasts.

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 39:12
Caption: Lorena Kanzki, Syracuse Sophomore and First Gen Student, Credit: Lorena Kanzki
Today 50% of all college students are the first of their families to go to college. They carry the hopes and dreams of there families in their back...

Bought by KRZA and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Informational pamphlets at the In My Father's Kitchen office.
How a more personal approach to ending homelessness may also be more effective.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
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China Smith and her students share their perspectives on the dance world, and describe how they created their own world in Ballet Afrique.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 04:42
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This piece looks at the stereotypes and realities of the state of Vermont, as told by citizens and outsiders.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 03:25
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Rachel Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin’s little sister, isn’t so little anymore. Rachel, 91, reminisces about her childhood with her older brother who she rem...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:16
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The full first episode of the new podcast Last Best Stories. It's Montana-made radio that's not technically on the radio.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:48
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A pair of lovers get ready to welcome a new addition to their movie marathon dates.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
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What would college students say to their mothers on Mother's Day, since many students can't be with her?

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
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It's been a year, but we're back online with a new crop of high school students. Join us as we hear voices from our seven interns as well as managi...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
Caption: Marcus the Magician teaches a classic trick to one of his students, Credit: Tobin Low
This story is about Paul Marcus Earle, who for many years had a day job in Pathology, but on nights and weekends became Marcus the Magician.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mario Study with his service dog, Zen., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
An Ohio program recruits prison inmates to train dogs to work with special needs children.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
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Shayla Torres is a senior at Community Academy in Philadelphia and is going to college next year. But first, she’ll have to leave her grandparents ...

Bought by KSFR and WHYY


  • Added: May 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
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PRODUCIDO EN ESPANOL. Las productoras juveniles Anai Fuentes y Carla Roman describen el proceso de la boda Mexicana entrevistando a sus madres. P...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:27
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For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mackenton Louis reads to a group of kids at Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture in Port-au-Prince, Credit: Judith Scherr/Learning Matters
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
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Nithya Thiru tells us about a Catholic Social Services program for refugees who are making Alaska their home.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2009
  • Length: 06:58