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Are you heated about healthcare? In a rage about racism? Are you perturbed about pumpkin spice, or salty about speaker phones in public? It’s impor...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 50:01
Staff have six hours to move one first family out and a new First Family in, and it has to be seamless.
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 07:55
Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
Fiction writer Charles Baxter reveals some of his motivations for writing short stories and novels. In this interview in front of an audience at th...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: New Letters on the Air
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WNJR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Today we are talking to Tom and Joe, two retired firemen with the FDNY who will share some unusual encounters and a practical- jokes that
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 25:26
With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 32:22
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica g...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:54
40 years in one of the UK's finest orchestras. Mark Robinson has stories!
- Added: Feb 07, 2020
- Length: 51:21
The legendary Mellotron story from the team who carry on the work that started in the 60s with Streetly Electronics in the UK.
- Added: Oct 24, 2019
- Length: 34:17
Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
There is nothing Richard “Racehorse” Haynes wouldn’t do to win a case. He once held a cattle prod against his skin. He cross examined an empty chai...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 27:54
- Purchases: 1
Mark Roberts has attended almost every major sporting event in the world. And he’s been escorted off the field almost every time.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:20
Many StoryCorps conversations touch on love, work, and death. But when Lynne Houston and her husband, Greg, sat down for their interview, they cove...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 2
When bee season in New York City begins in early spring, that means retired police detective (and unofficial NYPD beekeeper) Anthony “Tony Bees” Pl...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
Host Bob Kustra talks with Shawn Vestal about his debut novel.
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 30:31
We discuss Valentine’s Day from a Food & Wine Industry Insider's Perspective. Expect to be Amazed and Wowed! An informational & mirthful show for a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 59:42
When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...
- Added: Jul 02, 2016
- Length: 17:13
Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Dr Chay Allen is an art historian who paid his way through his phD by working as an extra on shows including 24 and Downton Abbey.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 12:54
Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 6
