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Episode 3: Keep on rollin'
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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Richard and his grandson Sam sing old favorites together while daughter Erika explores her father’s influence on Sam.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2020
  • Length: 10:03
In North Nashville, Line Dancing Becomes A Lifeline Out Of Isolation For Senior Citizens
From: David Condos
Caption: The Hadley Park Line Dancers in action, Credit: David Condos
Before the pandemic, a group of older Nashvillians founded a free line dancing class at the Hadley Park Community Center. The bonds they’ve formed ...

Bought by iPondr


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: On pulsars, wavelengths, and beating hearts
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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Richard and his daughter Johanna explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes of our existence while exercising on Zoom.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 08:47
The Hadley Park Line Dancers
From: David Condos
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Meet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Comm...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
Building Community One (Dance) Step at a Time
From: David Condos
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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
Sandra Claus
From: David Leins
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Getting ready for the holidays can be a stressful time. But for one metro Detroit woman...they provide a chance to share her unique collection with...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
A Man Named Checkers and His Drums
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Checkers Barker has obsessed over drums and drumming for more than 50 years. In one year – 1979 – he founded a music shop, joined a successful cove...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:17
LIVES WELL LIVED -- Sky Bergman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Sky Bergman talks wise words, forgotten history, and living life to the limit.

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 17:42
By Changing Role, Landmark Theatre Stays on Center Stage
From: Matt Mitchell
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The sound-rich journey of an opulent movie palace's transition from working class fantasy land to revered community asset.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 07:00
LUCKY -- John Carroll Lynch Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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John Carroll Lynch talks souls, the five longevities, and the special light that Harry Dean Stanton radiated.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 17:45
Frannie and Steve
From: Justine Yan
Caption: Frannie and Steve sitting on the front lawn, Spring 2017., Credit: Photo by Justine Yan
Steve Plant was many other things before he became a caregiver for 96-year-old Frannie Cahoon. Now they spend the afternoons together. This is the ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 1
MAX ROSE -- Daniel Noah Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Daniel Noah talks Cannes, grief, and being sound-centric.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 19:35
The Karaoke Singer
From: Sophie McKibben
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Meet Jstar, the sexagenarian karaoke singer. After raising 7 kids, surviving abuse, and overcoming alcoholism, Jstar (aka Joyce Korsak) became a re...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
What Minnie Mouse Knows
From: Katie Klocksin
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Debby Wurster is having a ball at her new home in a retirement community. She's got a full calendar of activities, she's making new friends, and......

Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Gay Talese and Bob Walsh
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Gay Talese interviews Bob Walsh, one of the ironworkers who built the the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge,...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Darius Clark Monroe and David Ned
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Seventeen years after Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank at gunpoint, he came to StoryCorps...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
India's kite makers and kite fighters
From: Adi Narayan
Caption: Kite maker Abdul Rauf (center) with Dilip Kapadia (right) flying a kite on a Mumbai rooftop, Credit: Adi Narayan
A profile of two old men who've bonded over the last three decades by their love for kites. One lovingly makes them, while the other flies them in ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Next Year, Once Again
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The widows of Vrindavan
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga. Something many of them ha...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
88 Years of Harmonica-izing
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Jack Hopkins, left, and Frank Jamison, right, jam together at weekly meetings of the Capital Harmonica Club, which Jack founded in 1991., Credit: Eric Shimelonis
Jack Hopkins got his first harmonica at age 7, and nearly 90 years later, he is still going strong.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Modern-Day Homesteaders
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
All the Time in the World
From: Traveling 219
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In the shop of Doyle Oliver Kisner, clockmaker.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
The Tail of A Stone Carver's Dream
From: Lori Ann Brass
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Tim Dibble has waited his whole life to work full-time as a sculptor. Now, at 65, he's finally doing what he wants. In his rustic workshop on Cape ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
Restful, Shady Places
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The authors of "Trailer Ahoy!" and "Trees as Good Citizens" enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing Into Death
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Rodolfo Akel in the kitchen at West Hartford Town Hall during a dance., Credit: Courtesy of Sheila Browne
None of us knows when our heart will beat its last beat. For Rodolfo Akel that last beat came on the dance floor. Friends in the Cajun and Zydeco d...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:25
Lou, the Crossing Guide
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Lou takes a break., Credit: photograph by David Foster
Portrait of Lou Alexander, a crossing guide in Portland, Maine

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:56