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Working in Prudhoe Bay
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two weeks on, two weeks off.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2015
  • Length: 03:39
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown - "Try New Things"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
Lyal Corliss: 81 and still shoeing horses
From: Japhet Weeks
Caption: Lyal Corliss pulls a horse shoe off a horse's hoof., Credit: Yuli Weeks
In Northern California's Humboldt County, one octogenarian just won't quit working.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 04:20
Hot Summer, Broken Air Conditioner
From: Rene Gutel
Caption: Russ Wichterman, an air conditioner service technician in Gilbert, Arizona on the rounds., Credit: Rene Gutel
It's 115 degrees and your air conditioner is busted. Who do you call?

Bought by KVMR and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
On the Job
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Two pictures of jobs: from the outside In and in the Imagination

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:45