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Haley begins her career in the working world at her local NPR radio station, but this new job doesn’t exactly turn out the way she had hoped. It be...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Thrift shops are much more than second-hand junk shops, they’re often treasure troves, chock full of goods, ready for the taking. They run the gamu...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 28:34
Shermin de Silva was an elephant researcher looking for a sign. Then she met a king.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRZA
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 18:52
- Purchases: 2
Host Rick Brewer learns the details of a family secret. The story of how his parents met.
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 17:28
Joann Jones co-founded a community dance class that helps senior citizens fight inactivity and isolation. But as she gets older, Joann has to fight...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 1
Monty Hudson wanted his daughter, Siena, to have a good time on her first backpacking trip. But things didn’t go according to plan.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 17:27
- Purchases: 1
Kids read to shelter dogs.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Sharon and Cansu are from enemy countries and have no common language. They also happen to be in love. A story of a relationship in the age of Goog...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 2
An Ultra-Orthodox couple seems to have a fairy-tale love until one of them begins studies at a secular university. Exposure to the outside world st...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 22:17
Laura Ann Singh, as her very name suggests, seemed destined to sing. In the Kingsport, Tennessee home where she grew up music was ever-present. Her...
- Added: Jun 30, 2018
- Length: 26:21
When Paul Steklenski got his pilot’s license, he didn’t just want to fly to lunch. Instead, he flew to the pound.
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 16:46
- Purchases: 2
Host Lede
(Over a sound bed of In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry)
0:15
Summer is a time of rituals. Grilling out. Camping trips. Beach excursions...
- Added: May 19, 2018
- Length: 04:56
"Parks And Scandinavian Recreation"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Linda McGurk wanted her children to love the outdoors, just...
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Maggie had it all: a fine house, a loving family, and a big yard. But she threw it all away for adventure. And when things got bad, she had to use ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 15:49
- Purchases: 3
Ten years ago, more than 50 pit bulls were discovered at a dogfighting ring in Virginia. Most people thought they weren’t savable. But their storie...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 25:17
- Purchases: 1
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and performed by Amber Lyon
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:49
Today’s show is called Prelude to Summer. We end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and lo...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 22:10
As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 24, 2016
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
What happens when the person you love doesn't love what you do?
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 14:07
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
I dropped by the National Anthem tryouts for the local minor league baseball team. Looking for a story about people singing and why. And then I hea...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 01:42
Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:33
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
It's something a lot of young couples face when they graduate from high school. Should they split up as they go off to new adventures? Or should th...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 29, 2013
- Length: 13:37
- Purchases: 1
