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A Roman Catholic Sister in her 80s who wrote “The Grace to Race, “ she’s the oldest person ever (man or woman) to finish an Ironman Triathlon. This...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 09:40
- Purchases: 2
Collin Smith (23), who became quadriplegic after a car accident in high school, talks with Ernest Greene (72) who volunteered to go to college with...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
The year was 1959. Alaska and Hawaii officially became U.S. states. Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba. And the White Oak Duckpin Lanes opened in t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
Anne Abernathy is a woman who’s been defying the odds her whole life. After graduating from college, Abernathy became a professional singer and pe...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
If you read your history books, you might think that America’s involvement in the war against Japan began with the attack on Pearl Harbor on Decemb...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:12
Dean Smith, who spent 40 years as a stunt double for Hollywood Westerns, talks with his wife, Debby, and son, Finis.
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 01:51
- Purchases: 2
Already a few weeks into the year, it might feel too late to make (or keep) resolutions—eat less sugar, watch less TV, or maybe, start running. Rep...
Bought by KENW, KSKA, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 3
Lots of us know about China Camp State Park--there’s good hiking and mountain biking, and the beaches along San Pablo Bay are peaceful. But before ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 10:16
Dennis Hale tells his wife, Barbara, about being the sole survivor of the Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck on Lake Huron in 1966.
Bought by WEZU, KMUD, WTJU, and Radio Newark
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 4
It’s time for the sixty-sixth iteration of the The Mikie Show! Note that’s iterable not irritable, there’s a diff. Yes, join us for a sweet visit w...
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 28:02
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...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 12:50
- Purchases: 1
On a wide street full of work spaces, lined with cars and no trees in sight is the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center. It’s the one building on the ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:30
Elizabeth Olson and her colleagues at the Veterans Crisis Line, the only national suicide prevention hotline for service members, talk about helpin...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Sep 18, 2013
- Length: 03:42
- Purchases: 3
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 54:59
From: Deborah Van Fleet
Nine middle-school girls from Council Bluffs, IA, the "Nerd Herd," invented an award-winning walker-wheelchair combination. Each won a $500 engine...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 09:25
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:22
Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:30
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
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors are much more likely than their straight counterparts to be alone and isolated as they age. Housing ...
Bought by Wild Planet Radio and WXDU
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:52
Longtime New Yorkers recall a bygone era of NYC when eating out was a rare luxury, and eateries that vanished long ago -- automats, Nedick's (hot d...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:13
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
