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Parts of Speech
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He works as reporter in Maine and churns out seven, sometimes eight, articles a week. Doug is a born com...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 4
STORIES WE TELL -- Sarah Polley Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sarah Polley, San Francisco, CA 4/30/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sarah Polley talks relative truth, the privilege being quiet, and narrative as a tonic for bewilderment.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:48
Missing Kim
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES -- Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Alice Englert and Alden Eherenreich, San Francisco, CA 1/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Co-stars Alice Englert and Alden Ehernreich talk the pitfalls of fanaticism, the subtleties of accent, and subverting the cliché.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:50
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
FRIENDS WITH KIDS -- Filmmaker/Actor Jennifer Westfeldt
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jennifer Westfeldt, San Francisco, CA 2/23/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jennifer Westfeldt talks romance, paradigms, and co-star Adam Scott's hair.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 10:09
StoryCorps: Dennis and Buelah Apple
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dennis and Buelah Apple
Dennis Apple and his wife, Buelah, remember their son Denny, who died when he was a teenager.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Moving Out/On
From: Shannon Geis
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Producer Shannon Geis deals with moving out of her childhood home in Nebraska for good and the memories of her father that still haunt the property.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 20:22
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE -- Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE -- Writer/director Sean Durkin and actor Elizabeth Olsen on identity, family, and honesty.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:02
StoryCorps Griot: Ellaraino and Baki AnNur
From: StoryCorps
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72-year-old Ellaraino tells her friend Baki AnNur about meeting her great-grandmother for the first time.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Howell Graham and Nan Graham
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Howell Graham, one of the longest-surviving double-lung transplant patients, tells his mother, Nan, about the days after his surgery.

Bought by WHQR, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KGLT, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Julian Walker and Julia Walker Jewell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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75-year-old Julian Walker tells his daughter, Julia Walker Jewell, about an accident his father had as a young boy.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
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
StoryCorps: Erin Ryan
From: StoryCorps
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Erin Ryan remembers her father, Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated in 1978 while on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 14, 2011
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 3
Little Black Train
From: Nora Harrington
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Five Conversations on Death

  • Added: Dec 09, 2007
  • Length: 26:22
21-year-old Katrina survivor signing up for U.S. Army
From: BSR Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stephen Stearns and his father survived Katrina in his family home. His mother did not. Now he's living out her last wish.

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jul 18, 2006
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 2
What The Dickens?
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Local Seattle Theater Interpretations of Dickens' Christmas Classic

  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 08:35
Home Planet:I Sang a Song for Her
From: Spokane Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An old bluegrass standard, "Who will sing for me?" brings back memories of a life on the road.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 04:59
Outside the Dying
From: Conrad Bishop
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Dramatization of a journal of a woman whose husband is dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), and the aftermath.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 21:23
  • Purchases: 1