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Episode 30: Cheers
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 25:11
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 152: The Clearwater Monster
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Episode 147: Kids on the Case
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Searching For Our Future Selves
From: Arlie Adlington
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jess and Arlie cycle through the London night to see if they can find their future selves... A piece about imagining queer futures!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Doreen Bazile: Living in the Present
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Doreen Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Wishes - Doreen Bazile is a social worker. She sees many different patients with distinct needs and issues, regarding spirituality and religion, fa...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
Cryptozoology
From: Gabriela Yadegari
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Folklore, myths, and magic -- what can we learn from alternative truths? The professionals weight in.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 10:10
Neal and Joe
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Laughter is the key to everything. You can give yourself an orgasm, but you can’t tickle yourself.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3: Always Tomorrow
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:49
Tongue Terror
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
The Amazing Amazon
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Sunset in Manaus, Credit: Lorena Daou Paixao e Silva, 2016
With the Summer Olympics around the corner, the eyes of the world will turn to Brazil. But Brazil is not only about Rio and Sao Paulo. What about t...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
Tri County Humane Society’s 27th Annual Woofstock Companion Walk
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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This installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota has gone to the dogs. This past weekend in Wilson Park, the Tri County Humane Society ...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 30:12
Art in the Sky
From: Talena Sanders
Series: On Summer (Creative Pulse 2015)
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A vignette of children’s perspectives on fireworks.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:04
Chanukah, 1992
From: Dennis Funk
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A night of recollections, moments and new memories.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 1
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Five-time Emmy Award winner Fran Brill, the first woman hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street (seen here with Zoe) is retiring after 42 years , Credit: Jim Henson Legacy
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe is a sound rich special that includes original interviews, clips, music, and new skits with many of the orig...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 55:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Parcel
From: Daniel Wanschura
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A family living in Idaho during the early 20th Century test the limits of the Postal Service, when they send a very special parcel through the Post.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
Union Graze, Baltimore's Newest Farmer's Market
From: Mark Gunnery
Series: Sound Bites on Delmarva
Caption: Denzel Mitchell of Five Seeds Farm and Apiary
Sound Bites on Delmarva producer Mark Gunnery visits Baltimore's newest farmer's market, Union Graze, and catches up with a farmer, a farm intern, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 2
When Elvis Met Nixon
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
Caption: Richard Nixon, Sonny West, Jerry Schilling and Elvis Presley, Credit: Photo courtesy of Jerry Schilling
The story of Elvis Presley's visit to the Nixon White House in 1970, told by a man who was there, Elvis' confidante Jerry Schilling.

Bought by PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
  • Purchases: 4
A Basement in Queens
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Caption: Arkadiy Aronov., Credit: Photo courtesy of Spartak Sports Club, Rego Park, Queens.
Judo olympians train in humble surroundings at Spartak Sport Club in Rego Park, Queens.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Automat Baked Beans and Childs' Chocolate Syrup
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Hilda Baumol., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 2
Las Hermanitas Garza
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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The story of one family and many generations of women in Conjunto music. Produced by Stories Summer Institute youth reporters Arlette Flores, Jenni...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KALW, PRX Remix, and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 4
Tiny Dancers
From: Christopher Williams
Caption: Tiny Dancer
Join us at the 'Irish In Birmingham Activity Centre' in England as we grab an insight into how one group of 'Yeehaa Grandmas' plan to cause a stir ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:16
Pride of the Lady Cubs
From: Eric Winick
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With his comedy career stalled, 30 year-old Scott Schultz enrolls as a Freshman at down-and-out L.A. City College, and is named Sports Editor of th...

Bought by KMUZ and KUT


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 18:08
  • Purchases: 2
Handclapping Games
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Children have their own kind of oral history in the form of rhymes and handclapping games that are passed down from generation to generation. What ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1