WPRN Public Radio
Series produced by Adam Scull
WPRN Public Radio is an independent platform to inform and entertain, bringing off-beat stories to life.
WPRN Public Radio is an independent platform to inform and entertain, bringing off-beat stories to life. Our interests encompass exploration of the simplistic, evoking smiles and fond memories, including contemporary stories. Crisscrossing the country, taking in the local color and bringing it to life. Everyone has a story to tell. This is America at her finest, reintroducing America to our listeners.
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The Leesburg Bike Fest roars to life during the last full weekend in April. “Welcome bikers”, the sign reads upon entering the rally. The annual Ga...
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 04:55
Before I get into why I wanted to do this, I just want to point out something I’d never really thought about before I started working on this story...
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 04:52
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
Too hot, too cold, just right. Americans may differ on where to set the dial, but they agree air conditioning is integral to modern life, a phenome...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 04:34
Reported by Celine Teo-Blockey. Originally produced 11/18/2021
Australian indie rocker Courtney Barnett’s latest album Things Take Time, Take Time...
- Added: May 28, 2022
- Length: 53:44
Tooth be told, it’s the symphony you don’t want to hear. Ever.
All too often, we take our modern lives for granted. Is the air conditioning broken...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 07:38
Reported by Celine Teo-Blockey, originally produced 5-8-2021
On this episode, musician Ezra Furman talks about what led her to come out as a trans...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 14:42
Divisional Chief Roberts informs Detective Sergeant Michael D'laska that he is to investigate the shooting of a Mafia henchman by an off-duty polic...
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 18:34
D’laska has Calabrese’s former partner, Officer Gino Guzzetta from Street Crime, ride with him to Montecillo, where Calabrese and his family are st...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 18:56
Episode Five – When you are used to more, you seldom settle for less.
D’laska, tell’s McConnell that Calabrese has lied in the past and believes h...
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 16:32
Nearing 70, I’ve kept a large amount unsaid about my family. I felt it was time to let this out once and for all. There is much more to my story, b...
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 23:11
Kindness seems to have taken a backset to rampant racism, abruptness and violence.
It's being selfless, caring, compassionate, and unconditionally...
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 03:52
45 years ago it was 1977, I look back at my photography career, thinking about all that I'd seen and photographed as I began my career as a photogr...
- Added: Jul 16, 2022
- Length: 03:58
Julia Sullivan started working on Bone Necklace more than twenty years ago, after visiting the Big Hole Battlefield in Wisdom, Montana. Julia first...
- Added: Jul 23, 2022
- Length: 16:43
I lost time to a steady rhythmic swing and clicking of cars traveling over rails. Passing scenery like a thief with no passion for roots, just a tr...
- Added: Jul 23, 2022
- Length: 07:49
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The Last Professional by Ed Davis
A four-lane highway passed over the Sparks yard at its eastern limit....
- Added: Jul 24, 2022
- Length: 11:35
I've done many interviews with authors, but only a few of them wearing two hats, that of being an editor, as well as an author. It was time for me ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 20:21
Episode Fourteen – I feel like a sack of broken glass.
D’laska and Ainsworth question Andre Gabriel at his apartment. It is not “official.” Agains...
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 14:27
Tom Gallagher sat in his favorite coffee shop in a town two thousand miles away from where he grew up, a widower, father of two out of the nest. At...
- Added: Jul 30, 2022
- Length: 30:19
Studio 54 first opened
in April 1977 and became the most famous
nightclub of all time. Its quick ascent was confounding because creators
Steve R...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 18:45
