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The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
BLEEP loved the city of his birth, the pearl of the west, Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico. He wandered its streets as a boy visited the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 28:07
- Purchases: 1
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 16:10
- Purchases: 1
British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...
- Added: Sep 25, 2014
- Length: 04:58
Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Amy Brooks serves Jewish favorites (matzoh ball soup, pastrami, you name it) in a historic LA deli.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
Every day, Teodoro Cuevas dresses in his black flared pants with silver buttons down the side. He sits against a tree across from the bustling sub...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 1
Willie Sanchez sells flowers in bulk in downtown LA.
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 01:58
A stripper nicknamed "Venus" dances during the breakfast shift in Downtown Los Angeles.
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:27
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 16:18
- Purchases: 3
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:08
Many people love beer, but few really know what goes into making the stuff. Matt Hall - a brewer at Yards Brewery in Philadelphia, PA - dispels a ...
Bought by KLCC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 3
A comedic piece giving advice on how to follow up after your first interview.
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 07:59
