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Marcus the Magician
From: Tobin Low
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.

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
The mysterious roots of a homegrown language
From: Liz Pfeffer
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Boontling is a dialect spoken in the tiny town of Boonville, Calif. While every word of the homegrown language tells a story, how and why it emerge...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 12:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps 10th Anniversary: Priya Morganstern and Bhavani Jaroff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Priya Morganstern (L) and Bhavani Jaroff (R)
For StoryCorps' 10th anniversary, we're revisiting some favorite stories. In 2006, Priya Morganstern and her sister, Bhavani Jaroff, interviewed th...

Bought by KALW, WEZU, Prairie Public, American Voices, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 5
I Love You Box
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Lunchbox Poster, Credit: Lunchbox the movie
Sandip Roy finds love, in the new movie "The Lunchbox."

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Will Pullman Ever Be Revitalized?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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A post-industrial neighborhood considers whether to market its history ... or start a Pullman 2.0

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 1
Teacher's Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Father Bouche and class, Credit: Sandip Roy
September 5th is "Teacher's Day" in India, and Sandip Roy remembers one of his.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Lincoln Highway: The Father Road
From: WNIJ
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America's first transnational highway - the Lincoln Highway - was dedicated 100 years ago this October. In this hour, we mark the Highway's centenn...

Bought by WVPE, Wyoming Public Radio, NPR Illinois, Iowa Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Louisville, Kentucky Re-Embraces its Bourbon Roots
From: Rick Howlett
Caption: The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience will be located close to the Louisville site where Williams established Kentucky's first commercial whiskey still in the late 1700s, Credit: Heaven Hill Distilleries
For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Louisville was the marketing center for one of Kentucky’s signature products, bourbon whiskey. Doze...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:44
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Saundhi Mitti (Monsoons)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Flooded Streets, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy experiences some nostalgia for the monsoons of his childhood.

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Behind a Viral Video
From: Alexander Ward
Caption: Isaac Lamb steps forward to propose
In 2012, my friend Isaac performed an elaborate and ingenious proposal to his girlfriend Amy. I filmed the whole thing, and a week later, it was vi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 2
iPod Granddaddy -- a Transistor Radio Prototype -- Goes to the Smithsonian
From: A. Randall Wenner
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The device that inspired a generation-- a prototype of one of the first portable transistor radios -- has just been accepted into the Smithsonian's...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:43
Liberace & His Spectacular Crystal Closet
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: One of Liberace's incredible feather capes, Credit: Glen Rutter
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...

Bought by WORT, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 3
Love the French Way 17 - Why Are You Looking at the Moon?
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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A woman worries because her lover is staring at the moon with sadness in his heart. Is he about to leave her? Will he accept her invitation to walk...

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:55
Veteran Repays Near-Half-Century Debt
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Cliff Brody looks at an old photo of his deceased friend/sergeant, Joe Blakely, who changed Cliff’s life during the Vietnam War., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 3
20: Voicemail Memories
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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There's a private number you can call where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Rowena Gore-Simmons and Kenya Gore
From: StoryCorps
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Rowena Gore-Simmons speaks with her daughter, Kenya Gore, about the year Rowena spent in prison.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
18: Soundwalk
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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In 5 different countries there are audio tours available, which take you to places you don't want to go while getting you lost. And that's the point.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 21:55
Italian Artisans: Shuttered Workshops in the Renaissance’s Birthplace
From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now
Caption: Italian Negar Azhar Azari makes a ring by hand in the centuries-old Florentine tradition. , Credit: Maurizio Rufino
Italian artisans craft exquisite objects with their hands, particularly in Florence. Yet aging artisans crippled by Italy’s bureaucracy aren’t abl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Sharon Harris - "Will You Stay"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:39
The Beat : Marsh Muirhead - "Thin Ice"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat : Julie Gard - "Kalevala"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "Limoncello"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:50
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1

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