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Steig Larsson's Stockholm
From: Jake Warga
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A walking tour of the famous, infamous, Millennium mystery series. Local guide walks us through the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hotspots in Stockho...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
My Funeral, Your Trial
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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Unreasonable demands from BEYOND THE GRAVE!

Bought by WCBE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 2
The Electrician I Thought I Killed
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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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
The Power Of Negative Thinking
From: WFMU
Series: Too Much Information
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Barbara Ehrenreich says NO WAY to "Smile or Die", Peter Choyce tries out Couchsurfing, Zig Ziglar Tweets, Jeet Heer 'splains Little Orphan Annie, H...

Bought by KALW, WRIR, KXOT Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
Insects, Frogs, and Women
From: Walker Mettling
Series: the sparkle*
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Darker stories of love and coming of age by Providence's most exciting new writers.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 18:26
Commentator Guido on Brushes with the Law
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Don't take away Guido's plastic cap-gun or he'll just use a hammer and then go to a peace march...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:07
Aaron Kelly's Bones
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Wednesday's African Child: Goth Tales of My Black People
Caption: Imakhu, from her show, "Wednesday's African Child"
Storyteller Imakhu's popular African American version of this classic comical folktale about a hateful man who will not die. From Imakhu's one-woma...

Bought by KUT and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Space Ash (or Sending your ashes into space)
From: Cooper St. James
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For the man or women that HAD everything...send your ashes into space when you die. I found a company that can handle this service for you.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 1
Raymond Carver Reads What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
Caption: Cover, Times Book Review 11/22/09, Credit: Ruth Gwili
The 2015 Best Picture has drawn from Raymond Carver's WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, his most famous story; he reads it in his own voi...

Bought by WRGY, KRCB 104.9, KUER, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
The Notebook
From: Walker Mettling
Series: the sparkle*
Caption: pitbull skull, Credit: wiki commons
Episode 1 of The Sparkle. I found this awesome notebook full of stories on the bus.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Tale Spinning Terrors!
From: Jerry Kenney
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Frighten up your holidays with 'edge of your seat' storytelling and holiday music in this 'Tale Spinning' hour of Terror from WYSO Public Radio and...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Let's Celebrate The Rain!
From: Walker Mettling
Series: The Telephone Story Chain
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Jeremy describes a nearly naked run in with men with steel pipes on Elysian Fields one stormy afternoon in New Orleans.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
11 Central Ave #113. The final episode, the family gets poor and gets God.
From: 800 lb. Productions
Series: 11 Central Ave
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This week's installment of the radio comic strip.

Bought by WUGA (part of GPB)


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Calling Purgatory
From: Warren Black
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Getting stuck on hold can feel like hell.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2007
  • Length: 01:29
Do You Like the Curtains?
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: The Best of Queen Mother Imakhu
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Queen Mother Imakhu gives homage to African American southern "hant" tales in this original, humorous, and eerie rendition of a true urban story.

Bought by KUT, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3
Foley's Folly
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mark Foley: Clinton's fault?

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Phantom of Crestwood
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A recounting of a partly imagined, partly remembered cinematic thriller.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: :41
Swimming
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A cautionary swimming lesson that covers many of the risks and none of the pleasures.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Blood on the Pulpit
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The information derived from a prescient ability is not always welcome.

Bought by Hearing Voices and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Wedding
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Wanting to make mother happy.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:02
Will's Question
From: Terin Mayer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What would you do with a pint of blood you couldn't donate?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 01:50
Tarot Temptations
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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What the Tarot means to one former fundamentalist.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost Stories and Personal Narrative
From: Michael Kraskin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
All about ghost stories with a spooky score

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KALW, KUNC & The Colorado Sound, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 8
If I were president?
From: Patricia Priest
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Semi-serious rumination by a vegetarian spoofing the Bush Administration.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2004
  • Length: 03:32
A Cook's Notebook: Hallow Beets
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Augustus gets ready for the trick-or-treaters.

Bought by Public Interactive, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Oct 25, 2004
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 3

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