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Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 13:57
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Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
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All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
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In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from the Sierra Nevada. The final postcard of Season 1 of Postcards from The Wind. (Start with earliest)

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Tijuana, Mexico.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Lake Titicaca, Peru.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Poughkeepsie, New York.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What were you willing to share in your class-assigned journal?  What's too much to share with your authority figures?  Hear tales of teenagers who ...

  • Added: May 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:34
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Don't tell me what to do!!  Tales of strong-willed kids whose need for independence was unstoppable.  With special guests Alex Kapranos and Paul Th...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:31
Caption: Cocoa Farmers
Philip Armand ruins a cup of hot cocoa and realizes his mad, sweaty, sloppy rushing is no longer working.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: Einstein's Mistakes, Credit: Cynthia Bogart
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:54
Caption: Freedom Fighter
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
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After more than 20 albums (including Live from the Big Top) and more than three decades of performing, this co-founder of the influential indie roo...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, WTIP, WRNC-LP, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:21
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Tent Show Radio
Tent Show Radio is pleased to welcome back to the Big Top stage Bayfield’s very own blues, folk, rock musician Corey Carlson and his Big City Band....

Bought by KALH, KMSU, KSRQ, WDSE, WUMB and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
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A ten-year-old on deep space, death, and Revolutionary War reenactments.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 1
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A short story about kids and piano practice and parental rage.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
"We had a final discussion early in our marriage. ... He said, 'Are you sure?' I said, 'I am, my dear.' And we've never looked back." -Beverly, 72,...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:21
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A story that Zack didn't get to tell at the Moth, live in Chicago: The summer Zack was thirteen he got up the courage to talk to the girl across th...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:27
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City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.

Bought by American Voices


  • Added: Dec 02, 2012
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 1
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It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
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A true story. When my best friend broke up with me, I wished her dead. Then she had a brain hemorrhage.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 3
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When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 1
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This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
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An empty truck and an abandoned house gave storyteller Catherine Conant the fright of her life.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1