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What if an influential teacher set you on your life's path? What would that teacher say if she met you today?
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 19:07
What happens when someone does something to their house that stands out in the neighborhood? Lucia Duncan, from Somerville, Massachusetts, went to ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 05:18
“I crawled through the underbrush, then I popped out into a beautiful, green clearing in the middle of the city. And in the center of it, about 20 ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 12:00
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
I hate high fives and have only tried to high five one person as an adult. It was Denzel Washington. He wasn't really into it.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
Are you ever concerned that your pajamas are not seasonally appropriate? Fret no more. Ellery Stritzinger speaks to a professional about staying cu...
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 01:21
After accidentally joining a traveling circus, writer Jonathan Argyle recounts his discovery of the meaning of the word "home" from the point of vi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 11:19
- Purchases: 1
This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 10:13
- Purchases: 1
Pickers and neighbors from the South, Minnesota that is, Pert Near Sandstone.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
What happens when two gluttons push each other to the limits... of food.
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 08:04
“You know, you can only paint a painting once. But a song, you can replay, re-envision, re-imagine virtually an infinite number of times,” says Mat...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 07:31
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk.
Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:59
Keeping Me Humble is a podcast about the tough things in life...the stuff that keeps us humble.
Today...stories of failure.
Host Steven Chua on why...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 16:19
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Grisham Middle School 2014-15
Series: Grisham Middle School 2014-15
A family in Texas deals with, and raises, all sorts of reptilian creatures. Produced by students at Grisham Middle School for Stories from Deep in ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Yonder Mountain String Band has always played music by its own set of rules. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other influences, Yonder has pi...
- Added: Feb 01, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 10:03
- Purchases: 1
The end of year issues all over magazine stands in India all carry photo spreads of the icons we lost. Famous people from the world of politics and...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Off-Ramp contributor Collin Friesen takes a humorour look at the differences between Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 04:38
Michael Kelly's humorous look back at childhood Thanksgiving celebrations from long ago and the first turkey day he will spend far and away in Shan...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WTIP, WHRV, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 5
This story was told live on September 17th at 915 N. Dupre. The theme of the evening was "Worth the Wait?" Eve Abrams tells of her attempts to inco...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 06:12
The story of the Fruchters, an orthodox Jewish family who lived above Elvis Presley’s family in a house in Memphis. They would often call on teenag...
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 3
Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 2
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
